Deadcowboys1 wrote:
Must be off the banned list BT as it arrived in the early hours of this morning.
Maybe they are learning from some suggestions made on this forum in last few years!! However, bit I don't understand is they say they have signed up 20 players but have only announced a handful or so. Why the delay?
Yes I don’t either really. I can see they would want to keep their powder dry to an extent for some showpiece announcements ( in relative terms) but If it’s true then I would try and pulse out signings at the same rate as departures were announced. So yesterday they should have said congrats to Jordan on staying for another year or some such.
I like what I hear about our new signings but I am concerned that we now seem to be the top club for signing top L1 talent. It’s difficult not to be slightly apprehensive about that although these will undoubtedly be good hungry players but when you see who Leigh, Halifax and an ever increasing list of our competitors - Newcastle, York... are signing it’s difficult not to fear that if we come 8th next season that’s a pretty good outcome. If I understand correctly it’s looking like a 20 club two tier SL so we would need to come 8th at least to be in unless it’s done by licence.
PS thinking about it and our focus on youth I think many of these 20 players may be Academy prospects stepping up rather than current players being retained. I hadn’t thought of that before but that too has massive short terms challenges.
