Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Mon Oct 23, 2023 9:56 pm  

karetaker wrote:

As it stands I’d fancy you have more chance of staying in SL than Castleford, they have done nothing since the last time we had licensing

Castleford are a real success story. Seem to get pretty much everyone In the town turning up to their games and played decent rugby for a number of years. However, it is difficult to believe that many of their fans would be overly excited about the upcoming season. A cynic would conclude from the squad they have compiled that they intend to drift next year, spend some money on their set up and bank on their meeting the IMG criteria more effectively than London. It is what it is. Hopefully we’ll be able to give them a game.

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Mon Oct 23, 2023 10:04 pm  

Knocker_White wrote:

Yeah I wasn't quite sure who Mike was alluding to when he said that. Rhys is a free agent and might be interested in a year long deal, probably wouldn't cost us a huge amount in terms of a contract.
I liked Richards when he played for us, but he always seemed to be injured. Battye I think is all but signed up for Sheffield and I'm not sure Pitts would really bring us anything we don't already have. I certainly wouldn't want to see him signed at the expense of Natoli or Waine being extended if it came down to that.

I'd like to see Silva return, I thought he really added something when he came back as did Jones. Hopefully our new status makes us a more attractive proposition for our dual-reg partner.
Matt Davis not getting much of a look in at Leigh, maybe an option to bring him back in for the season and would certainly add something.

Yes. I can see Silva and Jones coming back. However whilst decent, not been regulars for their current SL teams so would need to step up and, whilst I might be maligning them from a misunderstanding of the loan system, they both seemed to do one from our squad ASAP to TO and Widnes? respectively which didn’t suggest to me a burning desire for a ‘homecoming’.

Davis would be excellent. If I was him though I think I’d stay at Leigh. He may not be a regular starter but he is a regular in the match day squad and it’s a squad that’s on the up so may want to stick around for the ride. Possibly mid season loan might be where it’s at if game time is in short supply.

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Mon Oct 23, 2023 10:12 pm  

karetaker wrote: As it stands I’d fancy you have more chance of staying in SL than Castleford, they have done nothing since the last time we had licensing Unfair, Sir. Every year since they have issued indistinct mumblings of ground improvements without anything coming to fruition - not even seeded! The great, big fly in the ointment in the IMG grading proposals though is "Primacy of Tenure". When RU clubs started to go belly up, The Rugby Union dreamt up their own version of franchising proposals. One of them was "PoT". On research they found it to be in contravention of UK Competition Law. This game we play is only a northern bastardisation in the eyes of the Establishment but, should a thus slighted club decide to pull in the legal blood-suckers, what a that would be for IMG. London do not have "PoT" - hence the mid-season wanderings. Leigh ditto. Do Wigan? If not, this criterion will quietly disappear. Here is some music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga1kMdJCc_Q

karetaker wrote: As it stands I’d fancy you have more chance of staying in SL than Castleford, they have done nothing since the last time we had licensing Unfair, Sir. Every year since they have issued indistinct mumblings of ground improvements without anything coming to fruition - not even seeded! The great, big fly in the ointment in the IMG grading proposals though is "Primacy of Tenure". When RU clubs started to go belly up, The Rugby Union dreamt up their own version of franchising proposals. One of them was "PoT". On research they found it to be in contravention of UK Competition Law. This game we play is only a northern bastardisation in the eyes of the Establishment but, should a thus slighted club decide to pull in the legal blood-suckers, what a that would be for IMG. London do not have "PoT" - hence the mid-season wanderings. Leigh ditto. Do Wigan? If not, this criterion will quietly disappear. Here is some music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga1kMdJCc_Q

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Mon Oct 23, 2023 11:35 pm  

Hi all, Warrington fan here, just wanted to say welcome back to Super League. Always enjoyed London in the comp and looking forward to seeing you play. All the best for next year

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Thu Oct 26, 2023 4:34 pm  

Ethan locked in for next season, great stuff!

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Fri Oct 27, 2023 3:07 pm  

Knocker_White wrote:

Ethan locked in for next season, great stuff!

Pleased as he’s been very consistent.
I see Matthew Shaw pointing to Adebiyi coming back. No real surprise the write up of our match against Cougars was the tell. He’s popular and has done well for us but picked up a lot of injuries and will need to show he is SL standard.

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Fri Oct 27, 2023 3:12 pm  

https://londonbroncosrl.com/2023/10/27/adebiyi-is-back/ Sid’s return- Confirmed

https://londonbroncosrl.com/2023/10/27/adebiyi-is-back/ Sid’s return- Confirmed

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Fri Oct 27, 2023 3:32 pm  

If Sid can stay injury free, it will be good to see him back. But if he has signed a 2 year deal, is that full time, part time or 1 year full time & 1 year part time. The mind boggles.

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Mon Oct 30, 2023 9:48 am  

Deadcowboys1 wrote:

If Sid can stay injury free, it will be good to see him back. But if he has signed a 2 year deal, is that full time, part time or 1 year full time & 1 year part time. The mind boggles.

You would assume anybody signing a full time deal for next season or longer would have some sort of clause in it about reverting to part-time in the event of demotion (are we calling it relegation still!?)

Or the club has an eye to carrying the hybrid full time/part time model further than just next season. Sure would be good if the club shed a bit of light on it.....

Good to see Sid back, a solid pick-up if he can stay injury free and proven at Championship level when/if we drop back down.

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Thu Nov 02, 2023 9:25 am  

Slow on the recruitment and retention front currently, but a bit of insight from Mike here. Potentially nine heading out the door, but good to hear we are trying to keep the core together. https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/exclusiv ... son-84346/

Slow on the recruitment and retention front currently, but a bit of insight from Mike here. Potentially nine heading out the door, but good to hear we are trying to keep the core together. https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/exclusiv ... son-84346/