A lot of RL clubs are struggling for cash, they bring NO away fans - well they do, in our challenge cup game last season, they brought about 10 of them. Their home support is fantastic, benefits the RFL in a small way ???
It's a geniune 'northern sport' but let's see how Northampton, Hemel Hempstead etc do shall we ?
Blackpool, Prescot, Runcorn, Bramley, Carlisle, Chorley, Huyton...RIP.

If London were bringing in gates of 25000 a week, took 10,000 fans to away games and were entirely self sufficient, there would still be "fans" on here saying they were a disgrace.
You know it, I know it, the whole sport knows it.

And Budgie - you said there was no place in London for RL, not for SL. Why would that be? Is there no place for RU clubs in Lancashire?

OK - I GIVE UP.

WE NEED RUGBY LEAGUE IN LONDON !

Well debated argument there......not one shred of evidence to back up your assertions, but hey, you're a narrow minded idiot, so I wouldn't expect anything from you anyway



Londons home attendances or lack of them are nothing to so with abyone other than the clubs owners and a few interested home fans...


Londons total lack of away fans are of interest to the chairmen and CEO's of the other 13 clubs, but if you work on the basis that 1,000 away fans is the norm, then this costs these clubs maybe 20k a year in lost revenue.........not a bad swap for the 1.3 million in TV funding they get every year from a broadcast partner who it is said, wants a team in London


London have never borrowed or received any financial assistance from the RFL......they have no debts to banks or financial institutions and have an owner who swallows all running costs......we don't even have an overdraft.




Yes....I did. For too long, w$nk3rs like you have been allowed to post unsubstantiated crap on here with the conduit, "I'm not having a go at london..really" added.....it's trolling of the worst kind


You were having a go at the club I support and with no evidence to back up your assetions that London is bad for Superleague. By all means debate with facts, but 1,800 or 180 fans at the stoop has no direct effect on any of the other clubs in SL or RL in general.....but SKY taking their money away certainly would.




1,300,000 great british pounds a year because SKY wanted a London team.......by all means have a whine, but a 20k hole for the visit of London is peanuts when you consider the funding the clubs receive from the TV money.

Clubs folding like Blackpool, Prescot, Runcorn, Bramley, Carlisle, Chorley, Huyton etc is really sad, but it has nothing to do with London (of the dirty french).......

RL is a Northern sport.......and well done you for spotting that, but in reality, if it wants to exist in another 10 years time, it will need to attract revenue from sponsors and TV partners and having a team in London opens up a NATIONAL audience.....

No they wouldn't. Why would they? On what grounds? Don't be such a drama queen.

They'd simply pick on someone else - the next crappest club in SL - Wakefield probably.

I really, really cannot see the point in London anymore.

...as a Capital City? As a centre for Government? As a condition of receiving millions in revenue from SKY TV for the rights?

Come on kids everyone's entitled to an opinion...


....they're just wrong

Exactly! And that is how clubs survive, even super league clubs. By having fans that actually care about the club. If Bradford didn't have deep roots within the community they wouldn't be a club at the end of this month.

Survival isn't all about having a rich backer. They come and go and can leave a club in a real mess. A loyal fan base is more important. Long term unless Broncos settle somewhere fast, I see more of a future in London with the Skolars.

As i said in the Catalans match report, they lack in numbers but boy do they get behind their team... I want to give London fans some praise for that rather than knock the volume of them.

I can't see any point in Castleford, hopefully they fold soon.

Come on, I'm a Broncos fan but by absolutely no means are we deserving of a SL franchise in our current state. Kick us out and bring in another French club. Until we or someone else can put in a decent business plan for a club into capital.

Shame the Cumbrians are so narrow minded, that place is ripe for a SL franchise.