. . . load up the gun and lets be done with this ridiculous on/off death throes.
Put the horses out of their too long drawn out misery.
Ready Aim Fire!

Let's just wait and see what happens

Maybe Hughsey is putting a gun to SL head honchos heads and telling them to grow the sport outside of the M62.

This may benefit the whole game going forward.

Naaaaaaay. The Horses will be WYLD STALLYNS Come on you Broncos!You can do it!FIGHT STRONG TO SURVIVE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7532GXPnO8

Naaaaaaay. The Horses will be WYLD STALLYNS Come on you Broncos!You can do it!FIGHT STRONG TO SURVIVE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7532GXPnO8

I actually want the game to contract to a single mining pit in Pontefract, with 8 teams playing out of the same cart.

Thats where its going!! Fatty and co just dont seem to see it.

One way or another the clock is now ticking and i assume that another extension is not a 'given'. May as well let them do their thing because we are already in the last chance saloon and i dont think we will come back from this if we fail now.

It's not as if the deadline is today, but it is getting closer.

London Broncos - the longest running farce in the capital.

Can't wait for the season to start next month -

Come on you Skolars!

Why is it the fault of the RFL? Curious, that's all.

Basically, IF London were a SKY TV requirement back in 1996 then SKY TV or the RFL or a combination of both should have bankrolled the club. Moving forward, at every stage when London has changed ownership, name, grounds and underwear, the RFL had a responsibility to ensure that London either received the support they needed or to simply let us fold.
In 2005, Lewis stood up and told the assembled clubs that if they booted us out, commercially the game as a whole would suffer. We stayed in and the future was looking better than it had since 1996....
In 2007 IL bought Wigan and was told that he had to get rid of his interest in London...the RFL cut our throats that day and since then, DH has argued (correctly IMHO) that the RFL should contribute to the promotion and expansion of THEIR sport in the South East.

I don't lay 100% of the blame for the farce that has unfolded over 18 seasons squarely at the feet of the RFL.....but I do blame them in association with others.

A quick glance at the funding and promotional model of Melbourne Storm as an expansion team in the NRL would seem to back up my point of view, but if you need further proof, Knock down Nigel has bought the leases on a couple of Iconic grounds and found a backer for Salford, but has done little if anything to assist us with our latest issues. He pulled the plug for the duration of the RLWC when in reality he could have (and should have) been busting his considerable gut doing everything in his power to sort out the mess.

As it stands, we could well fold before the 2014 season starts....and believe me, you'll see media coverage of RL when that happens.

Indeed, the state of the club is largely down to its own incompetence.

I've not got a lot of time for the RFL but you simply can't blame them for London's problems.

Every club is and should be responsible for it's own management and London (along with a few others) has been badly managed.

I honestly hope your club pulls through and would genuinely like to see a London team challenging for honours

Surprisingly, for you, that is a relatively cogent and well-argued summary. I'm not sure I entirely agree that London should be given such privileges over and above other clubs but I kinda see where you are coming from on that one, that as London is different from other clubs, in that it is not in a ready made rugby league hotbed, it should be given extra help to turn it into one.

I think one difficulty over and above everything is that people haven't turned out to see them, and that is the fundamental problem, but I think there is a broad truth in your post.

Now if you could just go back to your usual nonsensical vitriol the world will begin to make sense again.

The expansion of RL has been appallingly handled from start to finish by RFL. their is a very long list of failures - Bridgend, Kent, Sheffield (OK they won the cup), Gateshead etc etc. Gutterfax makes a good point in 2006 there was a general acceptance that a presence in London was essential. Between them the club and the RFL have completely messed up since. The Club have to accept most of the blame, but the RFL must take some of the blame

IMO any other club would rightly have been thrown out of SL if they had tried to pull a stunt like we have mid licence period.