https://www.skolarsrl.com/2022/10/04/ba ... n-broncos/

https://www.skolarsrl.com/2022/10/04/ba ... n-broncos/

Well at least as an Aussie he's unlikely to get homesick after 5 mins. Bertie Bassett might have been more fun though.

DC it worked last season let’s do it again. Big well done to all for getting this over the line. Sxxthouses!

Skolars must be getting really xxxxed off with us . Poaching their best L1 players for our side.

True BT but haven't most of them gone back as not really good enough? That should reassure them of something, what I don't know.

Very true DC but should have been pretty obvious so lose for us in the sense we spend on players not at correct level and lose for them in terms of disruption of squad. I suppose they benefit slightly more than us by showing they won’t stand in the way of players and taking them back. Also possible a loan arrangement with Broncos helps them moderately.

I know this guy has been a standout for them but.....not sure how relevant that is for us. Making the same mistakes over and over again is the definition of insanity. What next:expensive Metro campaign advertising games on the day of a rail strike? Free tickets/bring a friend along deal for the game against TO where we get
absolutely tonked and no one in their right mind comes back again? Bang on and on about the Gold Lounge and forget to open the one concession stand/bar used by the other 700 people in the ground?

In other news Kieran Dixon to Widnes-2 year deal.

Did we need a full back ? Seems like our recruitment is as ambitious as last season.

Maybe we thought we need to strike quickly before another team snapped him up regardless of whether we needed him and that the team would probably be a L1 one...hold on I’ve got myself in a muddle here. I think the answer to your question was no and certainly not untested at Champ level. As to your second point. Not a promising sign is it. Assume they are holding back the announcement to ST renewal time.

Is anyone renewing STs after last season's farce?

One man’s opinion, but if signing another L1 player doesn’t do it then I just don’t know what will!

The core 150 who don't frequent forums, but who blindly follow regardless, see themselves as the "true fans". They will buy their ST's, pay extra to sit in the same room as Hughes and massage his ego..........they are as guilty as the man himself, because they give him the impression that he's doing sterling work!

Personally, I am planning a trip to Europe in May next year and for the first time in what will be 14 years, I am not doing it to fit to a schedule where I can take in a game. I have nearly £1,500 worth of club merchandise in my wardrobe and always search for the results and highlights at the earliest opportunity, but I can say that hand on heart, if I still lived in London I'd be back at London Irish now with little interest in either the club or the sport......that's the legacy that Hughes, MacKay and Loubser have delivered.....and I am one of the 4,000 that they've lost!

As an aside DC, and to add insult to injury, the last 2 home games of the season I rocked up to find a family in my and junior’s ST seats. Bearing in mind the amount of empty seats it felt a bit small time(which you know I hate) to ask them to move but did bring into focus what on earth the added value was of having a ST. I’m already planning on giving the TO game a swerve and there is always a couple of games that circumstances dictate can’t be attended so with all the deals and with the paucity of value for my ST over the last 3 seasons I’ve got to say I may take a more fiscally sensible approach to attending next year.

I'm thinking the only game I might attend will be against TO in Toulouse. But then I'm not a real fan.

I'm thinking the only game I might attend will be against TO in Toulouse. But then I'm not a real fan.