Sheffield Eagles

Gateshead before they were forced in to merging with Hull

Hardly a shining beacon of RL development given their chequered past (Shuddersfield etc) and nomadic status (not dissimilar to London), notwithstanding the tenacity and hard working efforts of individuals to keep them alive over the last 30 yrs.

My point is : show me where RL development in the UK has worked in the last 30 yrs (in terms of the professional game) and then why London has failed, against the success of any other "new" club* ?



*and if Gateshead and Sheffield are the benchmarks the I suggest that London haven't really faired any worse than those.

I have a lot of time for the Skolars, but they were absolutely crap until the London SL outfit started giving then players.....a great number of academy and reserve grade Broncos playing for the Skolars. When Hughes walks away, the production of younger players will dry up in the capital.

And soccer,union and cricket will also follow suit.
The future sport in London is snow boarding closely followed by royal tennis!

David Hughes is the architect of this disaster. He could have made his mind up to continue with the club last October and then some decent players could have been retained (Sarginson, Clubb, Dorn, Robertson, Bailey) and decent new ones purchased. Hughes could have fired the non-performing CEO Gus McKay two years ago. And he could have bought a good coach (e.g. John Kear) instead of the one he is so enamoured with.

Of course if the RFL was run by competent business administrators -- as is the case with the NRL -- the RFL would have found new investors with a business administration background to take a majority interest in London Broncos.

Insightful as ever.

When you have the oracle Insight like me you just have to go with the flow.
Lotto numbers are. ...............

They've been an embarrassment for years, becoming a pseudo RU club ffs! We will finally see this unmitigated failed experiment out of the top flight soon. Hopefully any future expansion clubs will be done much much better.

Ps apologies to those die hard RL fans in London that have stuck by the donkeys. Not nice to see your club wheezing on life support and any decent RL fan will have every empathy with you. Not your fault the club is so poorly run and has been for years.

The club has been kept afloat as a "ghost club" only, I must admit I kinda gave Rea the benefit of the doubt when he talked so positively at the beginning of the season, and I've made every allowance I can. but...................

We have been kept going to simply fulfil the fixture list.

I like Rea, I'll never ever forget he and Branson pulling the team coach over to give my disabled mum a lift up Wembley way, but he's not a coach, nor is he a great motivator, he's tactically woeful and cannot seem to spot real "talent".

Not only are we gonners, but it seems no-one ever intended this season to be anything but, I don't understand why the RFL persuaded Hughes to keep it going, promoting Fev' would have been far better for the game, at least their last minute signings and loanies would have joined an already prepared squad!

I still hanker for 9th, I know not why, but I just do! If it comes true it'll not only be the biggest mystery since the Mary Celeste, but will probably be just a stay of execution til' next year!