I'm not sure how much I buy the location line from Smith, Rovers have recruited JWH, Tom Davies, May, Kenny Dowell, Hiku,.Opaic amongst other quality signings in recent years, if a club is ambitious enough and pays enough I'd say location isn't a massive factor in deciding where to sign. Catalan aside, the clubs aren't too geographically dispersed.

There was a rackful of Pele 10 t-shirts in the stadium shop on Saturday so I guess they'll be going to landfill.

Looked an interesting signing at the time but he's proved to be another dud right from the start.

Fair play to Myler who is certainly shaking things up in getting rid of poor performers. Whether the incoming players are an improvement remains to be seen of course.

Club overhyped him giving him the no.10 shirt and all the Pele marketing, if he was to be a project player, build him up as that , not as Taylor/Sataes replacement, as the pressure is immediately on when he doesn't perform

It's true that domestic players (and coaches) do seem to get homesick crossing the pennines and that's a challenge but for overseas players I fail to see how it's an issue, Britain is tiny compared to Australia driving the M62 would seem a short trip to them.

Tony also contradicted himself in the interview by saying SKD joined Rovers for lower salary than he was worth..so wages were low, location poor, club in the Championship a couple of years earlier but he still convinced him to join?? What was the problem convincing people to come to FC then?

Spot on Dave. Been told that Sao tried to take him under his wing early on and get him in for extras on days off etc but he would never turn up.

Spot on Dave. Been told that Sao tried to take him under his wing early on and get him in for extras on days off etc but he would never turn up.

Spot on Dave. Been told that Sao tried to take him under his wing early on and get him in for extras on days off etc but he would never turn up.

So to sum up our recruiment for 2022-2024

2022
Darnell McIntosh - released early
Kane Evans - released early
Joe Lovodua - signed an extension for 2023 but then released
Luke Gale - not retained after a one year deal

2023
Jake Clifford - asked for a release a year early
Tex Hoy - released early
Brad Dwyer - not retained after a one year deal
Liam Sutcliffe - to be released early
Jake Trueman - still at the club, has played 20 out of 44 games

2024
Liam Tindall - only played three games
Fa'amanu Brown - left after eight games
Jayden Okunbor - only played eight games, out on loan
Herman Ese'ese - regular starter
Franklin Pele - only played eight games, released early
Jack Ashworth - regular first teamer
Morgan Smith - regular first teamer
Jack Walker - only played seven games, playing reserve grade
Damel Diakhate - left without playing for the first team

You can't argue that TS recruitment for this season has been very good
And to think he wanted more time

Morgan Smith is also not good enough for SL even for bottom feeders like us.
The scatter gun approach has only presented Ese Ese and Ashworth.

Still think Walker our best FB. Had one bad game and not been seen since where as others just get picked regardless. Maybe more behind the scenes than we know

Think the writing was on the wall for Walker after we declared our interest in the quota full back whose contract we terminated, with the emergence of Moy, and the signing of Hardaker, it’s possibly a quota fullback we will be looking at.

Smith was just making things up hoping no one would realise he was worse than useless.

I hope he gets a job somewhere else in sl and it will be one less team we have to worry about

We haven't had a great off season since 2017 (where we added Albert, Connor and Griffin to an already strong lineup) 2020 the best of a bad bunch with Mau'u, Satae and Sao (but the less said about Jones and the return if Fonua the better)

If the club now has more money some investment on scouting needed, it surely doesn't cost a fortune to pay someone down under to go watch games and at least try and weed out the absolute duffers before we sign them.

I was wondering myself the other day what sort of scouting setup the club has these days. Not much of one on this evidence. It's a very valid point.

We could see if john cartwright is interested?