Loved the Moby d1ck comment

I, for one, am glad to see someone different in the top 4 at the moment. Whether they will be at the end of the season or not, who knows. TBH Cas don't have a brilliant squad (only carney, huby and Clark stand out for me), but they do have brilliant coach who has got them playing some fantastic rugby.

If Powell's time at fev is anything to go by then cas will do great all season until they get to a final and choke

Sky have always based their TV games on last seasons results, London beat Leeds and draw with Cas that's why they choose those two games.

I can't see why they don't just persist with playing Mikey Bishay and Woodburn-Hall, signing rubbish like Drinkwater and Farrer is making things even worse.

Don't worry, we will have a whole mini-league of these types of games next year to look forward to.

Sky usually schedule the games before the season even starts. They would have looked at the fixtures and picked out London and Cas playing in March to be an early relegation mouth waterer. How wrong they were. The only predictable thing about the opening 5 or 10 games of Super League are their unpredictability.

Not really a surprise. Tony has done some good things as coach, albeit not for a while. However he made no real effort to build up youth development down here in his first spell. Brian Mac did that. Tony has always preferred to ship someone in tbh. I watched several Broncos youth games at Aldershot last season but didn't notice Tony there, I saw Rob Powell there once when coach. Brian Mac did turn up last season to watch London v Leeds. Very different approaches.

In his defence Tony is aware if the damage that can be done to youngsters pushed in too often, particularly in awful teams. He has referred to Olu Iowefenu and Josef Sozi as examples. I'm not sure that defence works re Mikey mind, he's not 18 any more.

The biggest worry is that games like last night do little to quieten the expansion disenters.

"Rugby League in London" is very different to "London Broncos", yet people regularly (deliberately?) confuse the two.

There is no denying that the London Broncos are extremely badly run, but don't let that hide the fact that some amazing work has been done in the capital and SE. It would be a tragedy to lose this on the basis of the cock-ups by Gus Mackay and David Hughes.

Sadly RL down here is not in a good place. The development officers have largely gone. Few amateur teams are stable. The oldest amateur team in London is only 2 or 3 years old believe it or not. Few have a good junior set up, this has definitely declined in recent years. Largely due to the loss of South London who were strong here. Broncos managed to lose Phil Jones, who did an outstanding job.

There are bright spots - outside London but Medway are an admirable club. Oxford are working on a youth set up whilst Hemel continue to build quietly and financially soundly both on and off pitch.

Truth be told my concern is that the Broncos fiasco is distracting attention from the fact RL is wobbling at all levels in London.

The RFL face some huge calls. The talent exists down here. Whether the sport has the desire and / or money to develop it remains to be seen.

Why not. Donny v Fev on Sunday was ten times better than that dross last night.

Im the same as one of the previous posters , I gave it till half time then off it went.

It's not just a London issue but one that is at the root of RL expansion.

Try to think of who was last "new" professional/semi pro RL team in the UK that achieved a credible amount of success on/off field whilst attracting regular crowds of 5k, and then ask why the game hasn't expanded (at pro level)beyond its traditional borders ?