I came to London in1980. I was leaving Uni soon but couldn't find a job up north where i lived and prefered to be. I was interviewed on the Uni 'Milk Round' and a London firm offered me a job. I accepted but delayed moving in the hope of finding work locally but in the end had no choice. It was move or stay on the dole up north. It was expensive even then and i never thought id own a flat never mind a house. But at least i had a job. Its simple isnt it when you talk about 'other Northerners' but they arent RL players, RL players have a choice which is damned cheaper and they keep the living structures around them to keep that quality of life without HAVING to move out of their house. They can move to any club along the M62 and never move house. If London was the only place they could play RL in then they would have a tough decision to make.

That is your story but being from the North myself I don't buy it as an excuse for our situation.

Me neither. One can see why an older player with a wife and family wouldn't move to London but the younger lads would. I'm also a northerner and have lived in London on two occasions. It has a lot of attractions if you are paid a decent wage (as pro RL players are - far more than I ever made).

And which forward was it that had to move back to Leeeds as Hull was too far away?

Perhaps some of them just can't accept being a small fish in the big pond.

https://twitter.com/adam_rhinos/status/ ... 7810312192 Is Dixon the next out of the door?

https://twitter.com/adam_rhinos/status/ ... 7810312192 Is Dixon the next out of the door?

If they played their cards right and were good enough they would stick out for a four / five year contract and buy a house in the south instead of renting. Maybe the club could help a little here as part of a recloaction move like other business's do. When they return north they can have a mansion. Im from the north and as long as your children are settled into the school of your choice for uninterupted secondary education there is not much of a problem. There is a lot to do in the south and they can have a good standard of living. Believe it or not there is employment here for their wives if they want it and they can build a new circle of friends with nursery schools and work and still maintain a very heatlhy relationship with long standing friends. We are talking 300 miles distance not 3 million. However we need to be sure we do not sign players who are incapable of cutting the apron strings and have to return home due to homesickness as has happened in the past. :

Asset stripping continues!

The answer to the original question of who's left of our 2013 squad is pretty much all of them! And the ones who are left give no cause for optimism6.

Sorry, original thread title was ambiguous, so I've now changed it. "Who's remaining of our 2013 squad?"

Skolars announce the signing of Jamie O'Callaghan officially on Twitter.

I'm a bloody pedant!

Not convinced he is good enough for Skolars.