you flying roofs

how can they pay players?they'll have trouble paying canteen staff with that attendance lol.

I think the 'sugar daddy' helps out occasionally..........it's just a case of when he decides to pull the plug.....

it was a sunday afternoon and we filled 115 coaches at £1 a person,it was played at the valley charlton and we filled both ends behind the posts.that was at the time when the club won club of the year and the team on the field got within 80 minutes of the grand final.

after a dull period the club is now on a sound footing and heading back to those standards.

because it applies to the Catalans also - their finances aren't exactly brilliant and if M.Guasch gets fed up with the continual lack of success or even a sniff of the play-offs he too could pull the plug or begin to lose important sponsors to USAP for example.Losing to Quins then Wakey was really bad and with HKR then the mighty Saints coming up it's looking quite serious.The littel fat general will not tolerate this situation for long and we could see an early exit from a member of the the coaching staff.
Watching M.Guasch as he strolled across the pitch to the tunnel with his face like thunder last saturday evening reminded me of the last days of KW which would be a pity cos' TR is a good coach and has the backing and respect of the players.

Arghh!! It's the same argument all the time.. but I must admit it is a very low number of fans.

London has had a pro RL team for about 30 years now....but haven't had a base or team for that long...they've been Fulham, London Crusaders, London Broncos, Harlequins RL.. they've also moved all over London, which I have to inform you (if you live in a bubble and didn't realise) is a rather large city. You can't just jump on one bus and get to the ground from all of London...nor will one train get you there. The commute to and from the game is always going to isolate half the city or more. Unless you drive (and the roads can be a nightmare) it is a long journey that lots of people can't be bothered with...especially when it's cold, hammering with rain and the opposition isn't exactly a title contender.

You then have 3 or 4 professional RU clubs in the city (which have a large fan base of people generally already converted to RU and not willing to give RL a chance), then you have 5 premiership football teams around the city who take up most of the other sport support....you aren't left with much of a willing audience.

No disrespect, but towns/cities like Leigh, Widnes, Halifax etc don't have these barriers to stop match day attendances rising...so, coupled with the long heritage of growing up with a settled team and culture of RL these teams probably do have a higher volume supporters.

RL in London is critical, maybe not everyone can see it....and I admit it is hard to accept when your team is kept out of SL because of the London team...but the number of players taking up and developing in the sport in the South East is massive, as such a pro top tier level team is crucial in order to give them a goal to aim for. In the next 5-10 years it will increase the player pool England/GB can select from and give us the possibility of beating the Aussies (as it clearly hasn't worked for some time with the current production of players of the so called big teams!!)

But, hey that's just my opinion!!

Really? I'm only aware of one