When you look at it we lost Adamson, Cordoba and Foran. Slyney , Mathers and Bartheua are injured. I think the only one left out of the "leadership" team is Wes (not sure about Farrar?).
This will do the young lads good, getting plenty of game time/experience. I honestly think Leigh will go up this year and the division will be a little tighter next year. I just hope that we still have the financial backing of Hughes to keep the squad together (I think we will as I get the impression we are looking long term and he is backing Hendo)

Maybe we should take the Salford approach ask for postponements till we get the injured players back

No leaders. No craft at 1, 6 and 7. At the very least, let's get Naiqama and Farrar into ball-playing positions. And I know Farrar looks anonymous at left centre but he does create tries (6 assists this year) so why not put him at 6?

As it stands, it's depressing. Made more depressing by Hendo's apparent belief that he can't do much about it.

So, to recapWe had 8 months to recruit and we got it wrong. (again)
Players smiling in the bar afterwards. Rewards for success, but no consequences for failure.......it's cancerous in any business but double so in pro-sports
Coach unable to do anything about it. Inspirational stuff

As a supporter, I want my team to succeed. I want them to be playing against the best opposition and I want them to be producing superstars of the game. I accept that they won't always win and that they will maybe spend a decent spell in the lower division in the coming years, but what I expect as a supporter is the club to be run properly, giving it a chance of success and being back in the top tier on merit.

Which team is that exactly?

Joey put together a team which I imagine he thought would be good enough to take a run at first time promotion. Of that team, one of the first choice halves hasn't played and one has gone home with the gaffer. Of the props, one went home, one hasn't played and one has been out most of the season. I thought his recruitment had chances, and as you'll have seen from the rest of the thread the weak points of the side are the very places we're short of bodies.

Players are professionals. When the game ends, (unlike me) they generally don't take the angst off the pitch - if they did, they'd be depressives. I'm sure that there's anger and disappointment in the dressing room, but they also have a part of the job to front up to the punters and sponsors, and go home to a life. I have bad days at the office, I don't stew about it, I decide what I need to do to stop it happening again. Watch any old NRL game and the players are smiling and joking on the pitch after a loss, they haven't even left the field of play.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not happy about losing to Dewsbury, even though on paper we're evenly matched, but I went to the pub and got some banter about the loss and went home looking forward to beating Hunslet.

Can only echo what everyone else has said deeply disappointing. in summary and this should please Jim Pooley/Gutterfax/any other aliases in use:
1. we need a half back/leader who can lead, ours currently add nothing - they may be good in the long term but are not ready
2. Why when you have a small pack keep playing one man run down the middle rugby? (the cricket analogy was spot on)
3. re points 1&2 we need to big grizzled props and one decwent half back
4. Stop laying on in the tackle to the point you give away penalty after penalty, and learn to catch the ball - surely a pre-requiste for a professional rugby player
5. develop a kicking game - we rarely get repeat sets, Dewsbury got at least 3

So overall a combination of lack of players/guile, appalling completion rate, and rotten tactics. Positives....................... we tackled reasonably well at times.............

Spot on! If I were David Hughes I would appoint you Hendo's mentor - you seem to know more than the present incumbent!

Not rocket science, suspect most LB regulars would come up with the same analysis. The worrying/sad point is the props/completion rate (maybe more) has been around for the past three years!

London Broncos. Not sure why you felt the need to ask that?

Probably because of your incessantly negative posts about anything and everything to do with London Broncos

London Broncos. Not sure why you felt the need to ask that?

sorry. I didn't realise that positive posting was a requirement on this forum!
London Broncos, 6 seasons ago as the "misunderstood" harlequins RL had 2,900 more fans paying 50k a game into the coffers of the club and we had the visits of Wigan, Saints and Leeds to look forward to. Forgive me for not getting moist at the thought of redemption v another bunch of part timers after another embarrassing loss to a bunch of part timers.
If you and the other apologists on here can't see that David Hughes is the problem, then god help the club.......without central funding RL in London is dead.

If you need proof of this, look at what has happened to the skolars since we stopped drip feeding them.........

Jp from what I see no positive posting is not a requirement of the forum as you well prove, however constant living in the past is pointless we are where we are that's in the doldrums, constant comments about people stealing a wage at the club achieve what? Actually is there anyone at the club you do like. As for Mr Hughes and central funding, without Mr Hughes at the moment there is no London broncos, there is no central funding the rfl would let us die.

And ain't that the truth. We all know David Hughes is a poor man manager and decision maker, but he's all we've got right now. The RFL have shown their hand, they are not interested in anywhere outside the heartlands.
It's just a shame that Mr Hughes largesse means a long slow decline rather than an instant implosion (if he'd walked away).

I am not negative just for the sake of it. I want the club to succeed but under its current ownership model, that will not happen.
As for the clubs future without Hughes, better we get used to existing without him than kidding ourselves we are ever getting back into SL.

Are you saying Broncos wont succeed with or without Hughes and that fans should accept a more successful team at a lower level.

Assuming Hughes pulled the plug and cancelled all of Broncos debts what could be reasonably expected?