In fairness it was not your best DC but this guy loves a good old internet Barney. Go on give him both barrels about needing a sense of humour to live in Wakefield or some such that’ll liven things up on yet another no ‘in’s’ day. It’s all good fun.

Not your most elegant post and you’ve fallen into the trap of excess of zeal in your language
safe behind the anonymity of the internet but the points you make are right. Sid is a punt by Trinity and only someone on glue would pay a fee for players off contract. My view make the points cogently keep the bile out of it.

Doddery get' his cheque book out....

I think it’s more small change found down the back of the sofa rather than cheque book at the moment but we’ll see. We have a whole 2/3 weeks (?) to sign up some big hitters so who knows.

Some quality NSW/QLDND cup HGV drivers.....
Pick your Deck chair folks.......RMS Titanic is ready to set sail

Maybe the big annoucements are being saved for when season tickets go on sale. On the other hand....

Let's hope it doesn't sink before leaving harbour.

Read a rugby league article yesterday which showed all of the ins and outs of the championship clubs, The article stated that London had 5 new signings and 8 retained players. When you add the signings and retained together it does not come to 20. All so it was interesting to see the quality of the players Liegh and Featherstone in particular were signing they did not come from league one clubs.

Ok, I'll run with you on this one.

Two big issues,

One, I've had a number of discussions with fans on here and the misunderstanding regarding transfer fees still seems to elude them. How many times can you drag a horse (pun) to water, transfer fees are as rare as rocking horse (another pun) poop and have been since freedom of contract came in during the early 1990s.

For instance, Tom Johnstone, a truly awesome talent IMO will be out of contract this time next year. By that time he may finally be fit and of had a wow of a season, yet should he choose to leave we will get nothing for him unless a club breaks ranks and makes an early bid as Leeds did with Gareth Ellis. To rub salt into the wounds he will probably play brilliantly for his new club and never get injured, whilst for us through no fault of his own, he's spent 50% of his career on a sickbed. But we accept that, it's how it goes and tbf we have had the same good luck ourselves with certain players on occasions. Swings and roundabouts.

Two, London is supposed to be an expansion club and one of its more lofty aims was to brush away the 'Northern' stereotype, yet not for the first time one of your number chooses to actually do the opposite and stereotype other fans as 'Northerners'. I'm not a 'Northerner' not that it should matter. Counterproductive for a club that needs all the friends it can get wouldn't you say?

No not really.