Dear all,

Its been a while hasn't it.

I well remember the magical night in 1997 when we beat the Brisbane Broncos with an incredible team and an amazing coach. I can recall many messages I wrote along the lines that if only the club had the vision to again employ a coach with the charisma of a Tony Currie and players with the skill and heart of Gill, Edwards, Bawden, Beasley et al then a vibrant Superleague club was possible.

Instead we had to suffer the likes of Tony Rea, Jon Wells, Steve Hall et al. I well remember the dogs abuse I received on here when I posted that the London Broncos would end up playing in front of sub 2000 crowds.

Well here we all are in the Championship playing in front of sub 1000 crowds. Here we are with a full time professional club losing to Whitehaven and other part time outfits! Its almost beyond a joke now. Yet did any of you who went to Whitehaven turn around and question any of the directors and management there or did you still clap the players off?

I well remember the dogs abuse I received when I wrote that it was you the fans fault for tolerating the utter detritus dished up on the field year after year. I could not understand why people would for example clap Jon Wells off the field game after game despite him going the whole of the 2009 season without scoring a try!. There were other players just as bad yet they were clapped off no matter what.

If people had stood with me and condemned the woeful players and management then this wouldn't have happened. Unconditional support is not support but cheerleading.

Call me all the names under the sun but -

I told you so.

I was right.

Welcome back Rupey

I seem to remember you saying the link up with quins would be the death of us. It wasn't!
So no, you didn't tell us so and you weren't right!
Welcome back BTW...

Rupe, were you at worky game?
Basically what yr suggesting in a roundabout way is as a sports fan you should only support a team that's winning

I think what he is saying is a successful team would have offered a better chance of the club succeeding.

Championship mediocrity doesn't promote the sport that well in the capital given its a 'new sport' to the most people. Beating Wigan even in London is a bigger sell than Workington, would you not agree.

He has a point and the problem starts right at the top.

Must admit I reckoned it would be the end of us....and although it wasn't quite, it turned out to be the time when the nails in the coffin really started going in!

No, don't agree.
For me the nails started going in when the players didn't come in the bar after the game anymore and the fans started to be treated as if we were a bit of a nuisance.
I thought Jon Wells was a good player who was very badly coached by a team boss who only believed in one-up football.

Not sure why Jon Wells is being singled out. Always did a shift and is a nice guy! Plenty of over-rated Antipodeans could be sited. Anyway for me it is not the players fault but those who are in charge of them and he owner of the club.

Spud Caroll came in during the glory years with a big rep and what a pudding he was. It doesn't always work out

We've been lucky with some of our better signings, Moran, Dorn, Tommy, Hoppo plus others came from reserves grade and developed at the Broncos.

Wellsy was a journeyman before he came. He was never going to set the world alight. Didn't he go a season without scoring one year? Its not often a winger has to lap the pitch with his pecker out on mad Monday!!!

The one up football coach (Mac I'm assuming) hasn't done to bad since leaving.

As for players not coming into the bar I suspect Paddock will give us his take on the genius behind that one......Gus

Not withstanding the majority of rupe's guff, I can confirm a merry band of applauders/handshakers still very much exist.

The world has changed. Union is now a professional monster with the top 1,000 rugby players in France, the next 1,000 in England, followed by next 500 in Australian Rugby League, and the next 500 in Northern clubs in SuperLeague (ignoring NZ, S Africa, Argentina and....) . Even when we were in SuperLeague it did not make any sense for us to have any world rugby players in the top 3,000.

I don't think the owner or management (or the colour of the shirt) has had much say in this. I do think Rugby League is the best spectator sport in the world and I will be applauding the team if they play above their potential win or lose. I wasn't clapping when the team looked disinterested as they did much of 2 years ago.

Fully understand why the decline would keep people away, but shouting at the captain of the boat to change the way the tide is going won't help.

Yawn!

Can't all the "Soopah Leegers" just accept that London were pushed into the top flight 10 years too early and move on!!

Rude, you still going to games