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| My friend who is now a former employee of London Broncos sent me this yesterday
" No i am no longer with Broncos. The club has informally liquidated. Which means they will move forward as London Broncos but will move to North London (Barnet) under a new owner. Players (other than handful of academy products and matt cook, who was also an LB academy product),performance staff and admin staff will all move on. The club have managed or are in the process of paying off redundancies with David Hughes' millions. The RFL will take on the academy which costs around £300'000. The only 2 people to move forward with the club are the two people at the very source of London Broncos failings..Tony Rea and Angus Mackay."
to which i put how can they be in super league next season with no players
"Well the club is currently in advanced and crucial stages of meeting at the minute with the rfl and the owner of barnet fc. I have been lead to believe that the club will move forward on a small budget next year (under a mill) and play mostly young kids and a as many aussies as they can get. Tony Rea is currently asking for exemption of aussies like 'the old days' so the club can be competitive. He has also asked for exemption from relegation for the 'foreseeable' future to entice the barnet chairman to invest. You are not in a time warp, i did just say that and Tony Rea is seriously asking those questions. It is actually a joke.
The former head of youth Phil Jones has been there 15yrs and has grown the sport to a level you wouldn't believe. The amount of schools and kids in general playing it is phenomenal. And this crop of kids coming through now like McMeeken, Dixon, Sarginson, Krasnqi etc are the first group who have grown uo with rugby league and are actual fans of the game; not just 'Athletes' who have been transformed into rugby league players. Howver the clubs insistence to keep employing Tony Rea in various roles who has never put one long term plan in place throughout his 15yr allegiance with the club has killed it. Along with the current CEO who has no former rugby league experience or even interest and has been sacked from sussex cc and surrey cc in similar roles. As it stands, Phil Jones is returning to Warrington and the two clowns are moving forward. Sad to see. Again, wrong people in the wrong positions."
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| Seems it's been quoted on the London forum anyway.
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| Sorry to say that the time has come for London to step aside and let some other club to have a go ie Leigh ,how many times does a super league club have to go bankrupt before the rfl say enough is enough or is the rfl keeping it a closed shop and allowing clubs to go against all the franchise rules come on rfl play fair if you know what that means
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| On a serious note it makes no sense for London Broncos to be kept in Non Relegation League with their suggested line up as they would just get hammered in every game next season and their fans must know that as surely must everyone else
The dilemna for the game is what league Broncos would they start in next season and wether there is a current Championship team ready to replace them.
Well quite frankly I would expect the current Non Relagation league to go with 13 teams and Broncos to go in Championship 1 because currently I don't think there is any Championship club who could afford to go full time next season given the fact that their season tickets have already gone on sale.
Broncos share of the TV money for next season should be shared out between teams outside non Relegation league including them.
I can't see any other resolution to this but some may disagree.
Btw the sharing of the TV money might also save Swinton who seem to be in big trouble.
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| It is all true, he told me the same thing last weekend.
Nothing surprises me anymore with RL and the RFL.
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