Re: My London Broncos rant : Sun Jun 09, 2013 9:02 pm  

Snoopy wrote:

Exactly.

1) Northern players don't want to move South for reasons of MUCH higher cost of living for same money, and dont want to disrupt kids from school, moving house, and removing the family support network. If you live in e.g. Huddersfield you can change club and play for almost every Northern club without needing to move house.
2) Overseas players will always go North if they can because of the lower cost of living. Any players we get will be poorer players who cant get a contract anywhere else.

And next year is the last of the 3 year franchise so we can only realistically offer a 1 year deal as we're all up in the air. I see Wakefield signed Tuson from Wigan on a 2 or 3 year deal, confidence from them I guess.

Re: My London Broncos rant : Sun Jun 09, 2013 9:30 pm  

markrammond wrote:

Chris Bailey... widely believed to be joining Huddersfield... so that would free up...

Whatever we're paying for him, we're definitely getting value for Bailey. Replacing him won't be easy.

Re: My London Broncos rant : Sun Jun 09, 2013 9:38 pm  

richie166 wrote:

And next year is the last of the 3 year franchise so we can only realistically offer a 1 year deal as we're all up in the air. I see Wakefield signed Tuson from Wigan on a 2 or 3 year deal, confidence from them I guess.

Exactly, without the security of funding beyond next season I doubt we will be able to offer anything other than short term deals.

Re: My London Broncos rant : Sun Jun 09, 2013 10:34 pm  

Snoopy wrote:

Exactly.

1) Northern players don't want to move South for reasons of MUCH higher cost of living for same money, and dont want to disrupt kids from school, moving house, and removing the family support network. If you live in e.g. Huddersfield you can change club and play for almost every Northern club without needing to move house.
2) Overseas players will always go North if they can because of the lower cost of living. Any players we get will be poorer players who cant get a contract anywhere else.

Not necessarily true. Many Aussies, especially those from Sydney, would like to live in London, because it is a great city with lots going on.

Only the dour Kiwis, who come from a boring, low key country, would find northern England an interesting place to live.

Re: My London Broncos rant : Sun Jun 09, 2013 10:45 pm  

JEAN CAPDOUZE wrote:

Not necessarily true. Many Aussies, especially those from Sydney, would like to live in London, because it is a great city with lots going on.

Only the dour Kiwis, who come from a boring, low key country, would find northern England an interesting place to live.

Yeah, northern clubs (rugby or otherwise) do find it difficult to attract overseas talent...

Re: My London Broncos rant : Sun Jun 09, 2013 11:16 pm  

Hedgehog King wrote:

Yeah, northern clubs (rugby or otherwise) do find it difficult to attract overseas talent...

Arf! Arf!

Re: My London Broncos rant : Mon Jun 10, 2013 8:03 am  

Interestingly enough I was in Auckland (sorry GF I would have told ya to look at the Vulcans game on telly) for our game yesterday and had conversations with three people who were all involved with London at some point and were at the ground. 2 were players, one was in the back room staff. Interesting to note that one player and the staff member both said at different times that Rob Powell was actually a good coach. The other player was Richie Barnett who was there long before Powell.

As I said at the time, we fans can only judge coaches on the match results, without knowing how good a coach is.

Re: My London Broncos rant : Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:09 am  

Boosty...hope you can watch Monday Night with Matty Johns tonight...Craig Glower is going to be on it.

I miss The Footy Show...so bad, it was really good.

Re: My London Broncos rant : Mon Jun 10, 2013 5:46 pm  

I would think the majority of players in the Championship or those earning less than £25k on the outer fringes of top clubs would join us for a relatively modest £50k salary, especially as the club operates a portfolio of shared houses, which would be fine for a younger man and be sufficiently attractive.

The key would be to work out which players are better than what we have and unlikely to ever be a first team regular at their existing club. Keinhorst at Leeds, George Williams at Wigan and the Evans twins at Wire are all players with potential and talent.

There is always talent to be discovered and the next Rob Purdham to be found

Re: My London Broncos rant : Mon Jun 10, 2013 6:06 pm  

Not really had any luck so far, though Mark.

We've given lots of players in the lower leagues chances (which is to our credit) but sadly, few have made the grade (in fact, can only think of Purdo at the mo).

Even Andy Ellis is back in the Championship.

Bring back Jonny G and Big Mick (actually, what's happened to Mick Nanyn? Anyone know?)