Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Fri Jan 05, 2024 2:47 pm  

jbuzza wrote:

Some sort of tax dodge ?

Fingers crossed he's better at that than he is running a rugby club.

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Fri Jan 05, 2024 4:06 pm  

Smithers99 wrote:

Is that the official announcement that Dalton Grant and Rian Horsman have departed ... or have I missed that ?

You’ve been around the Broncos set up long enough now Smithers to see how we roll!

So let’s unilaterally assist the club by thanking the very popular and likeable Dalton Grant for his contribution especially this season and to commiserate with young Rian who was always around on match days and had been with the club for a number of years and put in a number of good performances last year. He was unfortunate with injuries and ultimately we’ll never know whether he would have lived up to the hype.

As an aside we seem to have culled a few of last year’s crop of young players which is a bit of a surprise and given only Stevens a step up. I assume the other lads we saw on the training video will be reserve team players.

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Fri Jan 05, 2024 4:10 pm  

Deadcowboys1 wrote:

Fingers crossed he's better at that than he is running a rugby club.

From the training video Eccles expertise on the conditioning/diet side will undoubtedly assist here as per Miloudi.

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Fri Jan 05, 2024 4:10 pm  

I think BT i saw that you are on the Reserves roster. A good season & you could be on the bench for our first championship game of 2025.

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Fri Jan 05, 2024 4:13 pm  

Deadcowboys1 wrote:

You can feel SL quivering with fear already. In the unlikely event of Jack Hughes (Hughes Junior?) taking the pitch, would that be the first time a club owner has played in SL?

24+ JH and an academy step up. It’s nowhere near as bad as last year but we again start with a light squad. On the plus side there is competition for places in a number of positions which is a positive.

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Fri Jan 05, 2024 4:16 pm  

[quote="Deadcowboys1"]I think BT i saw that you are on the Reserves roster. A good season & you could be on the bench for our first championship game of 2025.[/quote

Better than the bench in that Roslyn Park stand. I’m still picking the splinters out of my aa##e.

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Fri Jan 05, 2024 8:29 pm  

BigTime wrote:

24+ JH and an academy step up. It’s nowhere near as bad as last year but we again start with a light squad. On the plus side there is competition for places in a number of positions which is a positive.

You do realise we are playing in Super League this year ?

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Fri Jan 05, 2024 8:47 pm  

Reboot wrote:

You do realise we are playing in Super League this year ?

I do. Our head of recruitment? Well we’ll see.

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:11 pm  

jbuzza wrote:

Some sort of tax dodge ?

Perhaps over Xmas he said to his dad" Can i play in Super League this year?" and daddy after a couple of drink said of course son.

Embarrassing really.You would expect it maybe a non league football but not in a league where every game will be shown live.

On a side note, what will the away kit be?

Re: Recruitment and retention for 2024 : Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:57 pm  

gardener wrote:

Perhaps over Xmas he said to his dad" Can i play in Super League this year?" and daddy after a couple of drink said of course son.

Embarrassing really.You would expect it maybe a non league football but not in a league where every game will be shown live.

On a side note, what will the away kit be?

Away kit. Why it will be a red t shirt with a black band on the arm I guess. But of more import are we actually going to have any sponsors. So far the answer seems to be less than previous years. Which is, you know, really quite ......disappointing. Hope I’m wrong.