Waterloo

Its encouraging to learn that the recruitment team have been busy during the close season but to lose the "core" and experienced players of Croft, Payne etc will be too big a void to fill in my opinion. A long season beckons....

I really did like cecil from the old regime.i caught a couple of second team games last year,he has developed some good boys and men.on and off the field.we should be excited to see how they and new lads fit in playing alongside the talismanic liam reeve,jack weare dan king and jon cunningham

Interesting to see that the post from Geoff Lightfoot that was copied over by LF mde no mention of Al Reed moving over to Chester. Believe the club are looking at going down the legal avenue to get compensation for Al leaving, although not quite sure what they are expecting when he wasn't being paid anything by 'loo.
I am surprised by how many people we seem to have brought in, which makes it even harder to see how we couldn't manage to get a team together for the weekend, a week before the season starts. If we are struggling now to get players out on the park how are we going to get three teams out on Saturday? When the best players at training are Blythy and Wolfie (both brilliant players in their day but past even the twilight of their careers) then I think there should be some serious questions asked. I think it could be a long hard season, really hope I am wrong and things come together and we get some of the raft of injured players back shortly. Its good news that Mark Rylance is staying at the club, hope he can get more gametime in this year as he could be a big player in this team.

All trivial as a manager of a famous football team once said "first is first,second is nowhere,we had an average pack at best with class backs bailing us out,we have retained the backs division and brought in new forwards,i cannot wait for saturday.

Collapsingmaul wrote: All trivial as a manager of a famous football team once said "first is first,second is nowhere,we had an average pack at best with class backs bailing us out,we have retained the backs division and brought in new forwards,i cannot wait for saturday.

I know Blythy would beg to differ - just think its sad that he turns up after years away from senior training (which is a travesty in itself and the club should be embarrassed that its taken them so long to get him back in the fold in any way (minis and junior coaching withstanding) and can make everyone else look like a carthorse. I know he has obviously played at a much hiher level than the majority of this squad will ever play but lets be honest he is over forty years old and he shouldn't be able to bully players the way he did in his heyday.
Just hope that he isnt going to be needed in the 1st XV this year because that would reflect on where we are since J'lo's departure that we are sending an SOS to the old guard.
Anyway as I have said, really hope I am proved wrong and we come up with the goods on Saturday against the unknown quantity that is Donny Pheonix. 

Asolutely ridiculous statemant,dave blyth would muller every player in this division and above within a grid.of course he is going to bully a group of lads many of whom hace never played close to championship rugby

How can the Al Read situation not be sorted yet.

Do we have any news on potential team for saturday