The whole part-time rugby league in the South issue is a tough one. It takes a certain kind of resilience for players to balance it all, especially when the pay doesn’t always reflect the effort.

[quote="BigTime":37hpoiu5]Ahh lefty. I made that school boy error as well a couple of years ago. I believe such luminaries as Kieron Dixon are still waiting for an ‘all the best’, Curran as well and Matt Davies has come and gone twice without the club mentioning it and then there was the classic 2022 season when we didn’t not just acknowledge players leaving but didn’t bother to mention they’d joined (although on reflection that probably was justified). It is, I believe, know as ‘the Broncos way’.[/quote:37hpoiu5] Dalton Grant too. Really classless.

[quote="the-bearded-lefty":f5yrn7zm]Dalton Grant too. Really classless.[/quote:f5yrn7zm] While you might level that at Hughes & maybe Lobster, not something I would expect from Cakeman. Don't think even the great villain Ernie Clay treated players with such indifference.

[quote="Deadcowboys1":367v2bwv]While you might level that at Hughes & maybe Lobster, not something I would expect from Cakeman. Don't think even the great villain Ernie Clay treated players with such indifference.[/quote:367v2bwv] Me too DC definitely times under Mr H when the silence on a departure denoted irritation that wages had been paid, performance poor and then F off up North at earliest opportunity. Reflecting on this on the face of it the silence on Grant was a bit odd if they’d known he was retiring. However I can see in some circumstances when noting a litany of departures and no incomings looks bad - happened quite a lot in recent seasons, and it may be the feeling is let sleeping dogs lie where no obvious onward journey for the departing player. Look at Horsman, at the club for donkeys years and left, and I suspect the game, without even a thanks for service. Maybe it’s not incompetence or malice, maybe it’s just felt sometime best to leave it.

Some people just do not want a fuss being made.