2016 season : Tue Mar 17, 2015 8:17 pm  

At what stage do the club accept that the dream of bouncing straight back in 2015 is gone and start building for 2016?

Personally, I can't see us doing any better than 4th this year and would much rather we started recruiting for 2016 now, if we have the owner prepared to back us. We accepted relegation long before it was official last year and started to recruit (badly it would seem) so when does Hendo find he's got the job for a couple of years and knows his budget for 2016?

I'm not saying the 2015 season is over by the way and there's still plenty to play for, but the reality is that top spot or 2nd offered the only realistic route the end of year game.

Re: 2016 season : Tue Mar 17, 2015 8:29 pm  

When it's mathmatically impossible.

Re: 2016 season : Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:01 pm  

Does gutterfax take something prior to posting as his new alias? He is remarkably calm and measured.

Re: 2016 season : Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:29 pm  

Dave Lister wrote:

Does gutterfax take something prior to posting as his new alias? He is remarkably calm and measured.

Re: 2016 season : Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:54 pm  

For someone who claims to be a marketing professional who is absolutely coining it in in New Zealand, it's amusing he can't even master the act of masking his new forum alias that is witnessed by a handful of internet folk.

Re: 2016 season : Tue Mar 17, 2015 10:45 pm  

Dave Lister wrote:

For someone who claims to be a marketing professional who is absolutely coining it in in New Zealand, it's amusing he can't even master the act of masking his new forum alias that is witnessed by a handful of internet folk.

Come on Dave.

I know you and I have never seen eye to eye on this forum but surely you can accept that more than one person is utterly fed up of the London Broncos.

Re: 2016 season : Wed Mar 18, 2015 9:14 am  

Dave Lister wrote:

For someone who claims to be a marketing professional who is absolutely coining it in in New Zealand, it's amusing he can't even master the act of masking his new forum alias that is witnessed by a handful of internet folk.

Interested to see that he reads Robert Rankin's chronicles of Brentford.

Re: 2016 season : Wed Mar 18, 2015 6:48 pm  

The Chronicler of Chiswic wrote: Interested to see that he reads Robert Rankin's chronicles of Brentford. I own the complete works of Mr Rankin. If you've not read any of his stuff, I highly recommend The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse which is reviewed here http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49603.The_Hollow_Chocolate_Bunnies_of_the_Apocalypse Back to the topic in hand. I notice that a number of posters are happily saying they told us this would happen back in 1994. I'm all for remembering the past and learning from our mistakes, but the question remains, when do we start planning and recruiting for 2016 having conceded that 2015 is a non starter in regards to making and being competitive in the middle 8?

The Chronicler of Chiswic wrote: Interested to see that he reads Robert Rankin's chronicles of Brentford. I own the complete works of Mr Rankin. If you've not read any of his stuff, I highly recommend The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse which is reviewed here http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49603.The_Hollow_Chocolate_Bunnies_of_the_Apocalypse Back to the topic in hand. I notice that a number of posters are happily saying they told us this would happen back in 1994. I'm all for remembering the past and learning from our mistakes, but the question remains, when do we start planning and recruiting for 2016 having conceded that 2015 is a non starter in regards to making and being competitive in the middle 8?

Re: 2016 season : Wed Mar 18, 2015 7:03 pm  

I think we should be on the lookout for 2016 now. we will not get promoted this year (famous last words). The only team in our division who has a chance is Leigh. Its not throwing in the towel but we should always be actively looking a few steps ahead

Re: 2016 season : Wed Mar 18, 2015 7:28 pm  

Honkytonk wrote:

I think we should be on the lookout for 2016 now. we will not get promoted this year (famous last words). The only team in our division who has a chance is Leigh. Its not throwing in the towel but we should always be actively looking a few steps ahead

Careful now, that smacks of a Plan B!