Not wishing to turn this into a RU bashing thread, but RU has serious issues now, look at Worcester. They may still be way ahead of RL financially, but they've had to cut their salary cap, and a lot of pro RU clubs are treading water right now. If SL was restricted to genuinely viable professional clubs, those in reasonably modern stadiums with decent support, there'd probably only be 6 teams in the competition.

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.