If you read RLW, the RFL seem to have little to do with the marketing of the Bristol game, in fact, them making Joe Cacheside redundant almost scuppered the whole thing as the council were interested in "legacy".

Now the whole event was a huge success but that was largely down to Bristol Council being pro-active in promoting the game.

I think you're crediting the people who run our club with more savvy than they deserve

Slaughtering Hughes?

Yes he's pumped his millions in but for God's sake you have to admit he's made some spectacularly rubbish appointments and then compounded things by stubbornly refusing to move them on when it's become apparent they were crap!

I would imagine the debts are mainly to Hughes, IIRC it was Hughes and HMRC who actually lost out last time we folded too.

Someone thinks we will be saved (northern RL journo) on twitter:



Trevor Hunt ‏@TheTrevorHunt 2h
London won't go into administration but will be saved mark my words- at least for 2014.

All speculation. If he's wrong no one will remember and throw bricks at his window. Same with HKR owner who said the same a few weeks ago!?

London Broncos as we all knew it died in 2005........this version isn't even a pale comparison of that club and as much as I will defend it from the northern Hordes and flat earthers, I really see no benefit in dragging it on much further.

67,500+ people at Wembley and the RFL will have us believe that 50% of them are southerners......yet we struggle to get 6% of them to games







Development of players is a luxury...self sufficiency through attendances, sponsorship and corporates should have been key.....the cart before the horse is one way of putting it.

Unfortunately most people in Leigh, where TH is from, have little faith in anything the bloke writes. Hope he's right on this occassion though.

You don't need to imagine. Broncos financial return (London Rugby League Limited) up to end November 2012 published last week, signed off by D. Hughes on Nov. 12, show total liabilities just over £13m, of which £12,294,283 is down to subordinated loans from Hughes (£10,202,076) and Lenegan (£2,092,097). Lenegan's loan dates from the setting up of Harlequins RL. DH's increased from £7,707,275 during 2012, an increase just short of £2.5 m. Loss for 2012 is £2,289,975.

Financial results for 2013 are surely even worse given our dwindling attendances, so DH would have needed to pump in probably about another £3m. this year to keep the operation afloat. Little wonder that he's had enough.

He agreed to bankroll a 3 year licence period application......he has carried out 2/3rds of this and the reason he is "wavering" is because the people he employed to run the club and the team have failed catastrophically....he was warned on multiple occasions that financial stability would be delivered through increased attendances yet he blindly ignored these warnings and has driven the club to the edge.
£3,000,000 a year of £30,000,000 a year...he stood in front of the fans and told us he was backing us for 3 more years......his failings and those of his key staff have resulted in us being flogging boys in 2014 at best......or a dead club at worst.
I still say that if we survive and somehow eventually own our own ground, then name a stand after the man, but make no mistake, he is more than partly responsible for this farce........

Gus should also be recognised.

I propose a urinal named in his honour.