I thought we played okay today, Leigh are a full time professional side and are probably paying twice as much on salaries as London. They have a squad packed with solid pro's, the kind you find filling the rosters in the lower half of SL; so they just overpowered us with brute force and general competence. But, I didn't find them to be especially skilful and I think they lack the sort of speed needed for SL. I can see Leigh coming straight back down, especially when you consider how many overseas players they are going to have to trim.

I think we can take down Barrow in the final game, and if we hold this side together we can crack the upper half of the table next season.

I’ll always prioritise the Gold Lounge, as all know, but I do wonder if an extremely slow and sedentary being might be better placed as head of recruitment and retention. Looking forward to the announcement that Eccles and Thurman are taking over and then perhaps we could get cracking on recruitment rather than like last year have to put up with a deluge of departure announcement before we say we’ve retained a couple of kids and some L1 prospects, who we subsequently don’t play much. @the broncosway

Am I alone in thinking this tease of news to come is just a tad childish. They have done this several times & has mostly been a damp squib. If they can release the news (whatever it is) tomorrow you can bet they could do it today. Just get on with it Hughes/Lobster.

Probably playful more than childish but the speed point is important. Whilst we are fannying around telling everyone what they already know, other teams are recruiting.

It was most probably Hughes himself!

And yet here you are....sigh
FWIW I defended Hughes from attacks on these very forums and applauded his stance against the RFL and SL clubs mandate that Lenegan be forced to relinquish his Quins shareholding. I felt that it was shortsighted for the other clubs to pull 80% of our fiscal support without fully understanding the impact it would have on us and I don't envy Hughes having to fork out £1,500,000 + a year...........
......but here we are, 15 years later and he has undoubtedly shown he was out if his depth and the RFL and SL leaders bear some responsibility for that I am afraid.