Average rent 2 bed hours Batley approx 600 per Month
Average rent 2 bed house Wimbledon approx 600 per WEEK

Not sure how your square that circle being part time in London

Yep. One assumes he will be on part time at Batley - £15-18k? if he has to pay rent that won’t go far even if the cost of a pint is less. Rent will be much less but and I’m guessing here maybe he lives at home or shares rent with some pals who I assume won’t be making the journey to outskirts of Leeds.

Maybe, as Victor infers, he was surplus to requirements at the New Broncos and/ or he hasn’t been able to work out a pt career that would fit around RL and fancies a change. There again maybe he thinks we’ll be relegated and doesn’t fancy it much. It’s either a bold or a desperate move. Time will tell.

Shocking isn’t it! Having said that what little I have heard about Batley as a place I doubt he would live there. More likely nearer Leeds city and I suspect the rent are a little higher.

Students who have student accommodation, or local players who already own a house and whose partner works are the only talent we will be able to attract to play PT in London. We won't be getting PT players from the north moving down, they won't be able to afford it

And that’s before they go to a pub and try to buy a drink. And imagine if they have to get a cab home. That would blow their minds.

This is a guess but could James have become a mature student up north? He would clearly have had to reconsider his options with Broncos going PT and he'll have been aware of a few others who moved north as students and played RL

I will be surprised if all the squad live down south next year. We'll know more shortly it seems.

Here’s hoping we learn more before they ask us to buy STs because so far it’s more than one player lost for every one retained and no new blood.

Sam Davis gone to York

Excellent. I was worried we weren’t going to announce any outgoings today. That’s that sorted. Looking forward to tomorrow. Jordan Williams to Swinton perhaps.

Quite surprised by Sam leaving. It was a shame that we did not see much of him last season due to his injury,
York is probably a good place to go. I wish him well.

Looks like tomorrow’s (non) announcement won’t be Williams to Swinton but Jones to Leigh. I knew Leigh would start sweeping up players eventually.

I like how they're drip feeding the exits, day by day, in much the same way a normal club would drip feed the new signings.

They know who's leaving, just put out a list. They don't need to name their destination, just say that they're off.

I’m not even sure they are doing that. Some they do announce, some they don’t. Meadows has definitely gone and has announced it himself, Sid may be a done deal but Trinity want to announce it so we are keeping quiet. Who knows. Either way Meadows has been at the club a long time so an “ all the best” doesn’t seem to be wildly inappropriate from the club. I assume they are embarrassed by the in/ out balance at the moment and don’t think it would look good. On that they are absolutely correct.

This is a quote from Mustard's interview part 2.

"Our staff have already begun trying to ensure there are job options for the new players coming in and most of the lads I have retained are already working and enjoying their new careers.”

Unless he has only retained 2 there are more there to reveal, so get on with it Broncos!!

Very true but IIRC we didn’t actually ever get round to announcing the players we retained last season. I don’t think we ever said we’d kept Boafo and Williams they just appeared in the squad list and they only mentioned Ogden’s retention via some story about his hopes to get into Jamaica (I think) World Cup squad.