Good points, if anyone can get him fit and firing it will be Mike. I like the signing. Gives us a bit of "x-factor" and SL experience.

Hakim Miloudi confirmed subject to visa.

Squad numbers announced. Thought it was 1st April when I got to the end of the list.

1. Alex Walker
3. Jarred Bassett
4. Hakim Miloudi
5. Iliess Macani
7. James Meadows
8. Rob Butler
9. Sam Davis
10. Lewis Bienek
11. Will Lovell
12. Ethan Natoli
13. Dean Parata
14. Bill Leyland
15. Marcus Stock
16. Jordan Williams
17. Sadiq Adebiyi
18. Emmanuel Waine
19. Rhys Kennedy
20. Oli Leyland
21. Robbie Storey
22. Gideon Boafo
23. Josh Rourke
24. Matt Davies
25. Harry Stevens
26. Jensen Monk
27. Dan Hoyes
28. Jack Hughes

A couple of notable gaps in the early numbers.

You can feel SL quivering with fear already. In the unlikely event of Jack Hughes (Hughes Junior?) taking the pitch, would that be the first time a club owner has played in SL?

Is that the official announcement that Dalton Grant and Rian Horsman have departed ... or have I missed that ?

Fingers crossed he's better at that than he is running a rugby club.

You’ve been around the Broncos set up long enough now Smithers to see how we roll!

So let’s unilaterally assist the club by thanking the very popular and likeable Dalton Grant for his contribution especially this season and to commiserate with young Rian who was always around on match days and had been with the club for a number of years and put in a number of good performances last year. He was unfortunate with injuries and ultimately we’ll never know whether he would have lived up to the hype.

As an aside we seem to have culled a few of last year’s crop of young players which is a bit of a surprise and given only Stevens a step up. I assume the other lads we saw on the training video will be reserve team players.

I think BT i saw that you are on the Reserves roster. A good season & you could be on the bench for our first championship game of 2025.

Better than the bench in that Roslyn Park stand. I’m still picking the splinters out of my aa##e.

You do realise we are playing in Super League this year ?

I do. Our head of recruitment? Well we’ll see.

Perhaps over Xmas he said to his dad" Can i play in Super League this year?" and daddy after a couple of drink said of course son.

Embarrassing really.You would expect it maybe a non league football but not in a league where every game will be shown live.

On a side note, what will the away kit be?

Away kit. Why it will be a red t shirt with a black band on the arm I guess. But of more import are we actually going to have any sponsors. So far the answer seems to be less than previous years. Which is, you know, really quite ......disappointing. Hope I’m wrong.