Bullseye wrote:
A lot of pro players at this level are actually inferior to their part time counterparts. We struggled versus some part time teams last year (Fax, Dewsbury, Batley etc). Mind you a lot of that was down to our lack of halfbacks and the side not responding to Lowes.
I think that's right. Like many, when we got relegated I assumed that our full-time squad would be able to easily steamroller the part-time teams. It didn't exactly work out that way did it? Now that we've been in that league for a couple of years it's become apparent that there are lots of really decent players who simply don't want to give up their lucrative careers to take a punt on a full-time career in RL.
The big problem is that the upper echelon of Championship players are already signed up with Championship teams for 2017 and - one presumes - quite happy to stay with those teams.
That leaves us with a mixture of: the unwanted people from the current squad, people not good enough for other Championship teams, and loans from SL team (i.e unwanted players)
