Can't really begrudge the guy if he thinks he can still do it a higher level/wants to be in a full time environment. Not sure I see many SL teams wanting to use up a quota spot, but I guess we will see. https://www.totalrl.com/ex-catalans-dra ... -for-2024/

Can't really begrudge the guy if he thinks he can still do it a higher level/wants to be in a full time environment. Not sure I see many SL teams wanting to use up a quota spot, but I guess we will see. https://www.totalrl.com/ex-catalans-dra ... -for-2024/

Who knows, my assumption would be we have offered a deal, however he may feel he can get something better elsewhere. He would walk into the Toulouse or Wakey starting 17. The tone of the article seems to be he is on the look out for something else, so he might have already told the club he's going. Probably his last big contract so I guess it makes sense on his end.

As I said I don't see a SL team coming in for him. Not that he hasn't got the ability, but most teams will have probably already firmed up their squads for next season, even if the signings haven't been announced.

If we could convince Corey to stay by throwing a bit of Dean's money at him, I would take it as a win tbh.

Yes I agree with all of that.
I see we have re- signed Macani. I hadn’t seen that going any other way but with his upturn in form it is decent news none the less. A good team player I think.

Yeah I'm glad for him and he definitely deserves it. I was critical of him earlier in the season, but he has hit some really good form and found a process that seems to work best to his strengths. Having Dean on his edge has been a bonus and opposing teams seem to have stopped solely targeting him.

The other point I've only just been thinking about is the relative age of the squad. If you are looking at our UK born players and those we have brought through our academy, then Dalton is the oldest (33). The next oldest is Will (30). The core of the team we could have moving forward still has a lot of time on it's side.

Apart from the fact that anyone showing promise ends up at the outer regions of the universe. See Hodson at 26 has ended up at Cas. There is little evidence we will fight that hard to keep them.

We’ve done our first bit of recruitment with Robbie Storey from Keighley a promising young centre.

Fairly happy with that, looks a decent prospect. Keighley's top try and points scorer this season and bagged their "Rising Star Award".

I guess a centre is definitely headed out the door.

https://treizemondial.fr/dean-whare-a-l ... pour-2024/ Dean heading back to France with Pia once our season is completed according this article. Might be something lost in translation, but Pia referring to it as an "extension" on their part.

https://treizemondial.fr/dean-whare-a-l ... pour-2024/ Dean heading back to France with Pia once our season is completed according this article. Might be something lost in translation, but Pia referring to it as an "extension" on their part.

Depends if he wants a break between seasons, he could play the winter in pia, then look for a UK contract. Looks like he has an agreement to go back to them, could work well for us, bring him.back next year

Does playing for Carcassonne mean he is exempted from the Northern Mummy's Boy test? He doesn't seem to stay anywhere for long unless all 1 year contracts though.

Well, if we play next week like we did at fev, recruitment issue ramps up. Promotion is a double edge sword, majority of our squad is P/T how many could step up to SL standard, how many would want to or be able to commit full time!? Majority of current squad could be playing themselves out of contention for next year

You would think it would be something the club had planned and made consideration for, no matter how unlikely it may have seemed at the season start.

Perhaps the answer would be some sort of hybrid model, with a small core of full timers supplemented by those who can't make the move into a full-time environment. Bradford did something similar not too long ago, as did Toulouse before they went full-time across the board.

I think the broader issue would be more on incoming recruitment than our existing playing group. It would be difficult to make top flight quality pickups at this time of year, so I guess we would be reliant on SL loans/dual reg and players from the lower grades down under.

Ultimately, it's an issue I would quite like to be worrying about after 80 minutes on Sunday!

Something the club planned and made provision for hmmmmmm you do know this is london broncos we are talking about. If, and I have a funny feeling in my water, we win the game next week, then we will but shouldn't be heading up into SL half cooked.