Re: Off Season Recruitment - By The Month : Sat Jun 03, 2023 2:12 pm  

jbuzza wrote:

There is a bit of a difference between having your squad peaking for the play offs and only realising half way through the season your squad is too poop to make them.

I think both you and WQ make good points. What I think we can agree on is the way we did business last season was unforgivable and we appear to have learned from that, although not perhaps all the lessons we should have and perhaps not quickly enough. After one and a half seasons of PT we appear now to have a reasonable sized, decent squad that should be top half of the league. Now we need to sort out fan engagement and expanding crowds.

Re: Off Season Recruitment - By The Month : Sat Jun 03, 2023 2:24 pm  

BigTime wrote:

I think both you and WQ make good points. What I think we can agree on is the way we did business last season was unforgivable and we appear to have learned from that, although not perhaps all the lessons we should have and perhaps not quickly enough. After one and a half seasons of PT we appear now to have a reasonable sized, decent squad that should be top half of the league. Now we need to sort out fan engagement and expanding crowds.

Think we might need Tom Cruise for that.

Re: Off Season Recruitment - By The Month : Sat Jun 03, 2023 2:51 pm  

northernbloke wrote:

On the negative side it means a couple of local developed players miss out.

Frankly who cares - if the local lads are good enough then they will play, if they are not ...... we are a professional (in the loosest sense) sports team.

Re: Off Season Recruitment - By The Month : Sat Jun 03, 2023 8:25 pm  

Interesting comment reboot, so would you rather we went back to the days when we had maybe one or two london players in the 17, rather than the last game where I think we had 11 out of the 17

Re: Off Season Recruitment - By The Month : Sun Jun 04, 2023 4:25 pm  

northernbloke wrote:

Interesting comment reboot, so would you rather we went back to the days when we had maybe one or two london players in the 17, rather than the last game where I think we had 11 out of the 17

I am the biggest advocate for London products playing for London but based on evidence the odd one or two are SL standard, a few more are Championship standard and a lot are League 1 standard. So it depends what our aspications are. Two points 1) if they enhance the side then get them on there 2) the London junior league is contracting year on year, so at some point the conveyor belt will become a trickle

Re: Off Season Recruitment - By The Month : Sun Jun 04, 2023 5:36 pm  

northernbloke wrote:

Interesting comment reboot, so would you rather we went back to the days when we had maybe one or two london players in the 17, rather than the last game where I think we had 11 out of the 17

I'd rather we were in SL with 17 aussies and 5k fans than in level 2 with 500 at best.
Then again, I'll drink £5 red wine because it's wet rather than £25 bottles because of the label.....it comes down to taste and seeing our decline over the Hughes years has been an exercise in pain management as a fan.

Re: Off Season Recruitment - By The Month : Mon Jun 05, 2023 6:50 am  

orangeman wrote:

I'd rather we were in SL with 17 aussies and 5k fans than in level 2 with 500 at best.
Then again, I'll drink £5 red wine because it's wet rather than £25 bottles because of the label.....it comes down to taste and seeing our decline over the Hughes years has been an exercise in pain management as a fan.

Pain management.....anger management.......!

Re: Off Season Recruitment - By The Month : Tue Jun 06, 2023 7:21 am  

https://keighleycougars.uk/brenden-sant ... ve-cougars Wouldn't mind adding to our nice little Aussie/Italian collective

https://keighleycougars.uk/brenden-sant ... ve-cougars Wouldn't mind adding to our nice little Aussie/Italian collective

Re: Off Season Recruitment - By The Month : Tue Jun 06, 2023 9:45 am  

Knocker_White wrote:

https://keighleycougars.uk/brenden-santi-to-leave-cougars

Wouldn't mind adding to our nice little Aussie/Italian collective

Sounds like he has an offer & besides you don't want to mention Broncos & stagnate in the same sentence.

Re: Off Season Recruitment - By The Month : Tue Jun 06, 2023 9:53 am  

Deadcowboys1 wrote:

Sounds like he has an offer & besides you don't want to mention Broncos & stagnate in the same sentence.

Could be wrong, but I suspect the days of the Broncos making head turning offers are behind us.