London Broncos • Re: Wire at home.
Smithers99 wrote:
Three of the six starting forwards were short term loans. Announced as initial, but taken at face value, Jones and Butterworth's expire mid week and Rogers the week after. Even if we extend are their Challenge Cup Tie rules and if so would the loaning clubs let them play against Warrington next week?
And if we extend next league match is Huddersfield. Presumably Rogers couldn't play.
Week after Hull KR. Presumably Butterworth couldn't play.
So what exactly is the strategy? The fact we are relying on loanees from our competitors (by definition meaning they aren't currently good enough for those clubs) suggests the strategy is slightly flawed. I'll caveat that as an AFC Wimbledon supporter who's best loans this season have come from the same division, whilst those from the Premier League are a mixed bag.
I was working on the assumption neither Butterworth or Rogers would play for us in the cup. Jones I suspect might be with us for the season one way or another. For those two we swap in Davis and Stock with perhaps Davies and Hughes on the bench. I think Butler needs and perhaps Lovell too, a rest, both important players and it’s pretty obvious we have kissed off the cup so that would bring in Williams and ? Perhaps one of the young kids.Then there is Boafo I think he could add something. Perhaps best to give Kershaw a rest as he’s also an important player for us. Basically our squad’s too small- which we all knew before season started. Not at all clear what our aim is. We need to improve our home form or bleed support and to do that we need new players. I can see why they weren’t keen to do it but losing by 40 every week will negatively impact on any fixing up we’ve done with respect to our off field activities and we’ll never get out of the Championship and I agree with others that being inSL is a draw for occasional supporters where the Championship seems to eb of no interest at all.
Statistics: Posted by BigTime — Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:28 pm