I seem to recall Boafo being a very decent attacking option for us in our SL season in Ealing, maybe he could repeat that sort of form given the opportunity?

To my mind our starting fixtures are no accident. Super League have set out to destroy our season and any chance that we have of drawing in and retaining new fans.
Giving us starting home fixtures against the teams that finished 2nd place Catalan, Winners Wigan and 6th place Warrington. Throw in our starting away fixture against 3rd place
St Helens, just to put us further on the back foot. Spiteful, very spiteful.
They are hoping by destroying our season, the joke IMG gradings will not become an issue for them. We finish bottom, relegation deserved. Problem solved!
I do hope our team, who last season started poorly and came charging through at the end with a wet sail, sure with some spanking additions, can do the same again in 2024.
Should we not finish bottom, it would put the powers that be in a very awkward position, I believe. To relegate us in such a situation, would show the world what a poorly run sport ours is.

Well...excellent crowd which beggars the questions:
a/How did they achieve it?
b/why the fark has it taken this long to do so?

Let's hope they have ALL the contact info of those who attended and revisit them asking for feedback and inviting people to come back.

I love a conspiracy theory, but I agree both RFL & IMG end up with huge amounts of egg on their faces if Broncos finish anywhere other than bottom & fixture manipulation is as good a way of trying to ensure that as any.

2 other things occurred to me, just how embarrassing are RL scrums? Either return to contested scrums or replace them with a PTB. Also the Referee I thought was pretty poor, guess whether a try had been scored & letting the video Ref make a decision. Nice to know being "square" at the PTB isn't always an offence.

It really has been men against boys these first 2 games with Saints & Cats being bigger, faster & stronger than us. Not helped I suppose by our 3 old boys playing well for the Cats. This is going to be a season to watch from behind the sofa & through your fingers. At least the boys stuck at it however much in vein.

Of course it would be nice to know how many of the 5k paid to attend & if as suspected, not many, as Orange said, we got everyone's details.

I went into the shop to see if, in reality, any merch is available. I couldn’t locate the Broncos stuff. Did anyone have better luck? If not my suggestion get the stuff in for the Wigan game - failing to do so for the 2 biggest gates of the season is like missing an open goal.

I have to say that despite all the rain that we have had over the last few weeks, the torrential downpour that we had in the few hours before the match. The pitch stood up well.

Agreed Vic, it looked good. Probably why they won't let us play on it for so long in the summer.

Nice that Tony Rea & Steve Magee were there handing out player shirts,

Pitch wasn’t a problem, but like last season we were poor in wet conditions

Last season we were making (many) mistakes in wet conditions. Did we make (any) mistakes on Friday that appeared weather condition related?

I thought we played okay, in fact better than that. Just appeared we were totally out classed. Came into yesterday's game concerned if we;d win a single league game this year. Now also concerned how many games we will be totally shut out on.

Thought some of our quick passing along the line in the first half was excellent and reminiscent of how Eccles turned the team around last year (prior to Warne and Norman?), The difference this year was the Catalans recovery defence meant those moves were ultimately snuffed out.

And I still can't get this. The kicks from Catalans put us under immense pressure and were a far better tactic for the Catalans than running on the sixth tackle. In contrast our kicks were caught unpressured. Looked to me in the second half that was tactical. We didn't pressure the receiver and instead positioned ourselves for the first tackle. I guess that was because the Catalans ascendancy allowed them to commit players to the ball, whereas the risk for us was leaving gaping holes if we over committed.

I believe we played three foreign players short on Friday. Two injured and one yet to be signed. Not sure how long we can do that considering our playing strength. Thought I heard that the Catalans signed three new players direct from the NRL. All three played on Friday night, but assume we fielded those three and the Catalans didn't, would the Catalans dominance have been far less?

Pity they didn’t hand out mine!

Think yours had been given to Jacob Jones cos they'd run out.

The handing out of shirts of course is quite American. I quite like the idea but do it before the first game of the season & not after they had already worn it.

Maybe they could persuade Tony to put his boots back on as we're short of a hooker or perhaps try for Stormy Daniels.