Re: 2019 : Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:09 am  

A fans forum - where fans interact, share gossip and rumour and comment on latest news from their club. Certainly not a place for different factions to air their dirty washing, score points off each other and play “I know something you don’t know”.

Getting tired of it now to be fair

Re: 2019 : Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:14 am  

ok back on topic and won't be a popular view but i think we have taken the easy option and re-signed too many of last years squad.

Re: 2019 : Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:41 am  

Beaujangles wrote:

ok back on topic and won't be a popular view but i think we have taken the easy option and re-signed too many of last years squad.

That’s the truth of the matter with Tangata, Heaton out and Kavanagh, Robinson in nothing significant has changed so far.
Still hoping for that extra bit of class to be added but not with any real expectancy as time ticks by.

Re: 2019 : Fri Nov 02, 2018 11:02 am  

Beaujangles wrote:

ok back on topic and won't be a popular view but i think we have taken the easy option and re-signed too many of last years squad.

I agree. All top teams invest/improve whilst on the up. The question is, do we want to be a top team or are we happy to be top four in the 2nd division for ever more?

Re: 2019 : Fri Nov 02, 2018 11:47 am  

Have you heard Bradford have put a bid in for the summer bash....

Re: Player recruitment 2019 : Fri Nov 02, 2018 4:52 pm  

We need a decent scrum-half and a centre before early bird season ticket offer ends, otherwise sales will be shocking. Time for LS28 to pull an ace from up their sleeve?

Re: 2019 : Sat Nov 03, 2018 8:49 am  

Hudd-Shay wrote:

I agree. All top teams invest/improve whilst on the up. The question is, do we want to be a top team or are we happy to be top four in the 2nd division for ever more?

Where is the money coming from?

Re: 2019 : Sat Nov 03, 2018 11:16 am  

Leon Ashton wrote:

Where is the money coming from?

To repeat myself Leon, we've had 3 out of 4 top four finishes..and the brass that goes with it. If we hadn't made the four in those season's would we have done a bulls and gone bust? If not and the club was ,as we believe and trust being run well, there should be a bit of money left to bring in a bit of quality to take the team into the next level. If not we plod along....

Re: 2019 : Sat Nov 03, 2018 11:38 am  

Hudd-Shay wrote:

To repeat myself Leon, we've had 3 out of 4 top four finishes..and the brass that goes with it. If we hadn't made the four in those season's would we have done a bulls and gone bust? If not and the club was ,as we believe and trust being run well, there should be a bit of money left to bring in a bit of quality to take the team into the next level. If not we plod along....

One of those seasons the players took a pay cut. Then at the end of the season the top four brass was used to reinstate the pay foregone.

And no doubt the money from the other two was used to keep the squad together. Too many clubs burn and bust.

Read Robert Crampton`s column in the Times Magazine this week. Ok, it`s football but summarises the life of a supporter of a club that that reaches the holy grail then falls again.( He supports Hull City in case you wondered)

Re: 2019 : Sat Nov 03, 2018 12:18 pm  

cowfax wrote:

One of those seasons the players took a pay cut. Then at the end of the season the top four brass was used to reinstate the pay foregone.

And no doubt the money from the other two was used to keep the squad together. Too many clubs burn and bust.

Read Robert Crampton`s column in the Times Magazine this week. Ok, it`s football but summarises the life of a supporter of a club that that reaches the holy grail then falls again.( He supports Hull City in case you wondered)

I appreciate and agree with what you say but surely we're not unable to splash out, even a little bit. You've got to speculate to accumulate.