Excuse me for pointing out but my club 'Cas' got bigger crowds in the championship than London will ever get in Superleague.

London's poor crowds are relatively recent. There's been many a crowd over 6k, quite a few over 8k and even a few 10ks over the years. I was there on Friday and I also think that London are not being given enough credit for a fine performance. Maybe Wire were not 100% ( even for the side that took the field ) but London did not give them time to play. I also caught the Under 20s and it was nice to see some good performances from Broncos lads with clear London accents.

selective memory there..
1 over 10k...1 reported at over 12k which was a double header and there was nearer 2k watching the League match....2 x 9k attendances and 3 x 8k and 6 x 6k......that's from 122 home games

.......since we moved back to the stoop, here are the averages....
4,917
3,428
3,909
3,436
3,380
3,124
2,832
....44% down over 7 seasons. The club is being run by idiots...the move to another ground will change nothing.

London RL (not Bronco's )needs to be based in some area in the capital where there is little or no RU influence , forget Twickenham or other leafy suburbs...

The Skolars have worked their s off over the years establishing Youth RL in the Wood Green /Tottenham area successfully ,have still kept viable through the tough times and are now producing local grown talent that are no longer the whipping boys of Championship One ..

Why does the RFL not centre its efforts in London on the Skolars , put the costly overseas guys into local schools/clubs /community in their neck of the woods and give them all the support /backing that Broncos get the moment .....perfect opportunity for RL expansion , but hey its in a working class area so we dont want to know ..

So your idea for RL expansion is to ditch one London team completely and focus on a smaller London team which are as you say running quite successfully as they are? I fail to see how going from 2 teams to 1 can be seen as expansion.

For the last time, Twickenham is no more a Rugby Union heartland than Wembley is a soccer one...




The vast majority of the Skolars top players have come through the London Broncos/Harlequins RL pipeline.....


Are you for real? The RFL gives London Broncos nothing over and above what it gives the other 13 SL clubs......the players visit schools around the area...you'll see one of these local schools competing for a national trophy at Wembley in a few days......as for the working class quip, you're 'avin' a larf mate......we spent 4 years in Brentford...across the road from an 'orrible council estate.......RL is a northern sport and it's the 1 million + ex-pat northerners that the club need to attract.....not a bunch of kids from a high rise estate in north London.
Skolars are to be applauded for all that they have achieved and they will get where they want to be under their own steam........Superleague in maybe another 10 or 15 years maybe.

In your opinion GF, how do they attract those 1m people and where is the best place for the club to setup home?

I presume that the people living around the Twickenham area are Quins RU fans?

How long have you got? First up, about 22k of the 44k people at the double header were from London/SE...or so the RFL tell us. Mail every single one of them with 2 free tickets that can be redeemed for any game of the season.....simply by going on-line and entering the ticket number and what game they'd like to attend.
Once thay have done this, write to them again the week before their game, offering another 2 tickets for the price of 1, giving them some tips on visiting the stadium and a couple of money off vouchers for the shop/bar.

After they've been, CALL THEM and ask what they thought...ask them if they'd like to come back......it's not brain surgery and neither is it cheap, but EVERYTHING else they have tried (which in reality is nothing) has failed miserably....
I've written war and Peace on this topic.....the club say they want to attract fans, but then try silly gimmicks like travel card holders handed out at Canary wharf...or viral videos in Aussie bars......money down the drain. When that fails, they call grab one or Group on and finally give tickets away to anyone who wants them, which is normally away fans

.....they don't have a friggin clue


You presume wrong then...Quins are considerd the flash harry's of the Aviva...the club draws a great deal of its fan base from the City............although I am sure they have picked up some locals.

Ah right.

Some good ideas there with the free tickets though.

Sickening for the fans if true.

If we do, it'll be the death of the club for a lot of the previously unwavering support.

No consultation, no survey, just up sticks and move to somewhere completely impractical for the hardcore majority.

All over for me if true, will go to Skolars.

Not at all. The London club was started in 1981 and I was referring to crowds prior to the move to The Stoop. I agree that swopping grounds for the sake of it won't necessarily help, but some fans on here would have you believe that London have had crowds of 2k forever, which is simply untrue.