There is a reason that the NRL has succeeded in expanding their game into enemy territory down in Victoria.....the same way there is a reason that the London Franchise has staggered from failure to farce.

If the Sports governing body had any ing spine, they would have told SKY that id they wanted a London team in SL, then they could pay for it!

Melbourne storm have had 15 years of backing by the sports broadcast partner and the ARL in the shape of extra cash and a fair amount of rule breaking/bending. Their team is crammed with stars and they are given the total support of the game to help the sport grow in AFL central.

Flip to London...dropped into the top league and left to fend for themselves with a paltry 10% leverage on the Cap for London Weighting. No "imaginary" payments under the table......but there bloody well should have been.

That said, I 100% blame the current mess that they find themselves in in London on the RFL and David Hughes......the RFL for not letting Lenegan stay with us as well as the pies (at one stage News Ltd owned controlling interests in Brisbane, Melbourne and North Queensland....no outcry from the NSW Mafia) and Hughes for employing complete idiots into key positions at the club.

They will drop out of SL...probably at the end of this year.

As for the players......it would seem to be the truth that the majority of them that are at the end of their contracts this year were told in February that they wouldn't be re-signed.....which would go a long way to explaining their gutless performance on Saturday!

I have supported London since 2002 and will continue to do so regardless of what division they ply their trade in, but in reality, they need to get rid of Mr Hughes, the CEO who is clueless and the coach who has lost what little ability he had 10 years ago. Play in The Championship at The Hive, build a sustainable fan base locally (east/west/north/south.....it makes little difference) and look to the future with a proper business strategy.....

Oh dear, and we wonder why fans of teams with aspirations to join SL like Fev, Fax and Leigh get so upset when we talk about pathways to the elite league.

I believe Fax and Leigh were both visitors to Superleague at some stage....2,977 was the Halifax average in their last SL season, 4,736 at Leigh. I believe that last year was the first time london's crowd dropped below that Halifax figure.......

Don't get me wrong, London will drop out either this or next year and deservedly so and I hope that a heartland team gets the chance to step up, but in reality, the demise of the only English team outside the heartlands will do nothing other than further marginalise the sport and underline the opinion of the southern bias media....that it's northern thing. A couple of years reporting that and let's see how much SKY are willing to fork out for the next TV deal....because it's only SKY reporting that they get viewers in the south that keeps the advertisers happy....god help Rupert if ad agencies actually looked into these farcical claims.......according to the RFL, 22,000 tickets to the Wembley double header were sold to Londoners......again, I doubt the sincerity and validity of that claim too.

London have done incredibly well to survive as long as they have.....the real shame is if the grass roots work is not supported by the RFL when the Broncos go, because regardless of the musings of some of the flat earth brigade up north, the game is more popular in London now than it has ever been.

Someone came up with a good idea (I think it was on the Wakey board) - why not try and get 4 or 5 clubs in similar stature to Scholars playing in NL1 and NL2 in the capital area. Surely this would stimulate attendances and maybe a few years down the line a new combined franchise for London could be looked at ? I honestly cannot see LB in SL next season let alone 2015.

That was me - in addition though, I also said that the governing body should part-fund these ventures and in turn, have some oversight of how that money is used in terms of youth development and supporter engagement. There is no doubt that there has been success in terms of the development of grassroots RL in London and SE - the way to capitalise on that though, is not to hothouse a nomadic SL team.

The market is huge - RL only needs to grab a tiny % of it to become a viable proposition.

As a London fan I can confidently say that no-one is more embarrassed about that result and performance than we are.

I can only really echo what others have said. The management of the club are squarely to blame for fostering a culture where incompetence has been richly rewarded and radical thinking is discouraged. Don't rock the boat, don't plan for tomorrow. As usual, we get to the back end of a super league campaign having no idea where we're going to play (if we are to play) next year.

It's no wonder this negative, disorganised attitude leaks onto the playing front. I think generally, our youth setup is improving all the time, and we're much more competetive at academy level than we were say five years ago. But it worries me that the players that do make it through to professional contracts still struggle with the basics. That's a coaching problem as much as anything else and when you step back, you realise that we haven't had a competent coaching setup since the early days of the McDermott regime.

I have to be honest and say that if the club is still around in two years, we don't merit an SL license and a spell in the Championship is probably all we deserve. It's very difficult to see how we as a professional entity carry on when so many fans have been alienated and the wider profile of the club is as bad as it's ever been.

In a nutshell!

I always wondered who the London fan was.

Oi cheeky! Down with that sort of thing! ( careful now)

It's me today, penguin tomorrow, Rob from Erith on Thursday, paddock punter has the club at weekends and Listy babysits on Mondays.

Hope that' stopped the wondering