Quote: gardener "How can they centrally fund London when the Super League organisation does not have a pot to mickey in.
I said years ago, the club should have approached the NRL, offered to take 2 up and coming players from each club in the NRL and put them into the London side.Then hit the ex pat market hard. During the days at the stoop the amount of expats sat in the crowd was huge but then we had a good side with well known Australian players. You had a successful team full of aussies and the crowds would have come but the northerners didnt like that and said it was unfair.
You dont get chelsea fans moaning saying there are not enough Londoners in the Chelsea team.
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I'm sure Gardiner, you will recall that Fulham/Crusader/Broncos were most northern fans 2nd favourite team until probably 96 when we finished 4th & 97 finishing 2nd. Once we started beating them, is when they got the hump & said we had too many Aussies (or was it just too many good players?)
Interesting I see at the start of this season Dragons had 14 non French players in their 35 man squad but rarely do they get the criticism London did.