Difficult to work out. Was in the starting line-up at home to Wigan but dropped out just before kick-off. A week later he played the full 80 against Warrington. Then hasn't been named in the 21 for the last three matches; Warrington Cup, Huddersfield or Hull KR.

Considering the shortage of fit players (and the Broncos including unfit players in the 21), has the hall marks of somebody no longer employed by the club.

I've been pretty unimpressed by what I've seen of him (which is primarily trying to hit the moon with his long kicks) and Oli has looked a step up in taking over his role. Fenton Rogers is second on my list; so don't miss him.

Campagnolo is probably the only Bronco who hasn't impressed me this season. Pretty much everybody else I can't fault individually; just as a collective they can't compete. If they are looking at a Super League opportunity next season, then an awful lot of the squad have at least put themselves into consideration; bearing in mind the need to have a squad to cover injuries. The team we have put on the pitch this season has exceeded my expectations. The fault of the lack of competitiveness doesn't lie with the players or coaching staff. In my short time following the team, I've rarely seen in any sport such poor levels of off-season recruiting. Almost is if each year the recruitment was based on playing a division lower than they were in.

That's easy. They should have signed SL quality players regardless. We won the championship because we had brought in some top quality players part way through the season. Before that we were pretty average.

I seem to recall we have been here before, apparently spending to the cap with a very under performing team. To quote Orangeman, somebody is stealing a living if that figure is true.

Perhaps Hughes is paying his son a big amount

I will say that when IMG binned us off, I was the first to knee-jerk and say that we should move straight back to Trailfinders or even go all in at RiskyPArk, turn up get hammered every week with an amateur squad and pocket the 1.8 million for spending over the next 5 years in the lower tier. I was joking of course, but it would seem that other than Wimbledon FC and expats fans of SL sides who live on London, nobody else is benefitting from our surprise SL status this year.
I'd hazzard a guess that the brewery are paying 2 tenths of bugger all for the shirt whilst the London Irish charity was a simple "mates call" as the corp guy has worked there before....it's really a shambles AGAIN with free tickets being handed out as confetti but achieving nothing more than a bemused locals watching us get mullered week in week out, declining fan numbers and Hughes sitting in the gold lounge surrounded by 40-80 hardcore fans thinking everything's fine.