If you’ve got to have a strong suit, making loads of cash is a great one to have! Agreed though this year’ planning and decision making has been all over the place...like a cheap suit.

David Hughes is a medium sized fish in a very small pond ...the talent he does have is the ability to make very good money with a minimal amount of work, a scenario he has been in now for over 30 years. Luckily for him, his industry is insulated against most external factors....in fact, he's probably in a better position now with Ukraine and all the other stuff going on.
He lacks business acumen. He has no concept of revenue generation other than buying something for A and selling it for A+15% and he believes that it is the public's fault for not wanting to watch Rugby League...and it's now the fault of lapsed fans for not flocking to yet another white elephant if a ground.
He has lost 4,000 fans off the gate and he rewards the remaining few hundred by cutting the funding for the team?
He's the problem.....he wasn't always, but he assuredly is now.

No, he was barely given a chance. After one bad game where he dropped a couple of kicks near the corner and the opposition scored, we signed Krisnan Inu and he hasn't played for us since. Been loaned out to Rochdale & Widnes, but (thanks google) has only played 9 games this season in total (for all 3 clubs). Tough game for us on Sunday, hopefully a Leigh win, I'll go for London 16 Leigh 30.

You don't like Hughes.....



.....everyone sussed that and heard you the first million or so times. This thread, was bravely introduced by Big Time and. IBRC, was about the visit of Leigh. Let's maybe screw back onto that thread.

Dixon is not in the Leigh 21:

1. Caleb Aekins
3. Keanan Brand
4. Nene Macdonald
5. Tom Nisbet
7. Joe Mellor
8. Adam Sidlow
9. Aaron Smith
10. Mark Ioane
11. Joe Wardle
12. Sam Stone
13. Tom Amone
16. Ed Chamberlain
17. Jacob Jones
18. John Asiata
21. Edwin Ipape
23. Krisnan Inu
24. Kai O’Donnell
25. Ben Nakubuwai
26. Blake Ferguson
27. Josh Charnley
30. Lachlan Lam

Can't see Dixon ever playing for Leigh again - or at least not this season!

Nor is it likely that Leigh will nil you by 64 this time, London are a much improved team and it may well be the visitors that ease their foot (feet?) off the gas. Who knows?

It may, or may not interest Londoners to know that Leigh’s first ever game under floodlights was at the White City Stadium in 1934. The home side, London Highfield won 25-8.

Some toff had seen an RL match and decided to buy a northern club and transfer them lock, stock and barrel to London. He also agreed to pay visiting teams’ expenses - shades of the now defunct Toronto there (furthermore he was Canadian!)

6,000 opening gate, later 10,500 in a warm-up for the Ozzies’ tour. The club made a loss in its only season and moved back up north.

There is one thing about this cautionary tale of RL expansionism that will vindicate Dead Cowboys’ grouses; London Highfield played in royal blue jerseys with yellow hoops! A certain late Londoner, Amy Winehouse, would be thinking, “Back to Black”.

It would be insincere to wish you luck this coming weekend. The pressure is off you, all the pressure is on the Shield winners for the idiotic play-offs.

May the best team win!

Cheers Budgie. He is(was?) an X factor player, slightly lightweight in defence sometimes but a definite asset. I think he moved(back) North for personal rather than work related reasons and it doesn’t seem to have worked out (on the pitch). I’d be happy to have him back but who knows.
Your estimate of the result is a little kind to us. You have a very fine side this year. I assume you’ll rest a few and the it depends where our team’s collective head is at. I hope we put a few on the score sheet but suspect you’ll get into the high 30s- mid 40s. All the best.

Crikey that’s not a bad squad there Bongser. I think the result is a foregone conclusion but I hope that London give it a go and create some opportunities. Season in slight danger of fizzling out for us. For you I suspect it’s about avoiding injuries and just keeping ticking over and not losing focus. Play offs seem a long way away for Broncos at present but you never know.

O/T

Big Time, you interacted with Budge earlier and it summoned something from Bongser's fevered memory palace:

BT ran a series of adverts back in the 70s/80s with a muscly budgie called Buzby(?)

Cheers BT & Budge, Bongser just reclaimed a little of his life!

Voiced by Bernard Cribbins IIRC.

Dixon was up for a 12 game ban for using unacceptable language (grade f) not sure what happened.

That won’t help. I was always pleased to see him in our team ....except when he occasionally did that step hard to the right as the attacker brushes past his left shoulder and over the line to score move.
I also thought he seemed a good guy off the pitch so I hope if he does pick up a ban it’s not too long.