More on Gower and next season, right at the end of this long article. www.smh.com.au/sport/ibrahim-say ... 1i5c0.html

More on Gower and next season, right at the end of this long article. www.smh.com.au/sport/ibrahim-say ... 1i5c0.html

It's not a fixation at all. But they do have some decent players, certainly better than a lot of the makeweights in our squad. The ones I listed earlier, in my opinion, are better than what we've currently got. That has to be progress.

But whatever the club does, it needs to get on with it sharpish. At the minute we're looking like dead certs for 14th next year. Re-brand all you like, but getting stuffed every week means this club has just three years left before losing the licence.

Someone has updated Chris Armit's wiki page to say he's joining Quins for 2012. Prop forward, played for Scotland in the 2008 RLWC. No idea if it's true or not.

it's largely believed in hull that matt cook and liam colbon are coming your way next year, both out of contract

no it isn't!

You cannot market crap and get away with for ever. At the end of the day the team needs to be able to compete.

Matt Cook was with us before and got all home sick!! Has he got over his cold feet now??

Yes it is.

Perhaps Cook as a squad player, although we have a lot of those already. Colbon is crap, that would be a real sign of intent!

Chicken and egg. We need better players so that the crowds brought along by the new marketing plan keep coming. There is no point in getting a full house and then getting flogged, but equally there is no point in getting a world beating side playing in an empty stadium. My dears you are both right.

Hear ye, think it is Matt James you are referring to not Cook. (Brian Mac said James was the only player he had known who didn't love playing down here).

Aye, Matt Cook is from Bedford so wouldn't have thought moving down here would be a problem.

Oh...my bad.

Only Bailey is definitely quota. Not sure whether Dracula Howell got in before the new regulations but the others are all off quota, they have been here years and before the regs were tightened

It's not chicken and egg at all. People have better things to do in London than watch a sub standard team. We will never get decent crowds with a sub standard team. However, we would have a reasonable chance of getting decent crowds with a world beating team.