Having read the HC statement says we were beaten by the whether and conditions, is this some kind of joke? Sounds more like the team were under prepared.

I think there probably is some truth in the conditions statement. Would have been a new experience to most of the players (and one they will need to get used too this season). Also lets not forget this is a new team, it will take time to gel. In a perverse way this could turn out to be a good result for London. Any complacency (from players and fans) will be gone and I expect us to come out all guns blazing for the first game.

I just think people might be overreacting a teensy bit.

We are unlikely to win the league, we are probably aiming for top 3.....I dunno. It's probably a marker of how far my expectations have fallen in the past couple of years but I'm struggling to get too worked up. Did we all seriously expect it was going to click immediately?

I "pounced" when Grima was appointed. I asked who he was and what experience he had as a first team coach.....I was told/assured he was a good guy. Well good guys finish last. I don't want a good guy coaching the team I follow, I want a mongrel who will infect the players with a steel....an iron will to win.

His is a damp squib of a coach who thinks smiling and spitting out soundbites is enough.....and given Hughes's recruitment record, he's probably right! Hughes is like the old grandad with dementia that you keep asking for money from and he keeps giving it because he doesn't remember previous hand-outs. This time around he's hired a coach who immediately started recruiting his mates.......surely I'm not alone in being very concerned



We were beaten by the conditions? Players weren't ready?

Fuck me sideways.....bring back TR

I thought that adding Andrew Henderson to the coaching staff was a smart move because he's had plenty of experience of championship RL and that he'd be able to ensure that the players knew what to expect and how to deal with the different environment. Yesterday's result seems to show that he hasn't done that.

So, lots to be fixed over the next two weeks. Let's see ...

Back to reality, I just hope Crown Flatt is a fortress this season giving the Rams an outside chance of top four themselves, otherwise, we are in deep, deep, like, Mariana Trench deep doo doo!!!

Lets come back to this conversation at the end of March.

Why?
As I said, I asked about the coach when he was appointed and I have seen and heard nothing that makes me think he's not out of his depth. He's recruited badly for a competition that we must win to stand any chance of getting back up. He's recruited mates...including one bloke who had retired from first grade footie.

By the end of March we will have played Donny, Sheffield, Leigh, Workington, Whitehaven and Halifax.....If we aren't on 10 points minimum he should be fired, but no doubt Hughes will offer him a pay rise!

Penguin how much needs to click for a FT team to beat a PT team?

I genuinely thought (foolishly) we would hammer them! Conditions, pitch .... Is a poor response. The tries conceded says a lot.

I thought it was a typo when I first saw the score.

Is Gutterfax really Rupe 1?

He sounds like him.