It just seems like a club being run down! there is not the heart or spirit in it currently, we have knock backs, we have had many previous moves, all which I blame the RFL for is they were willing to buy Odsal to Save Bradford, then back when we first left Fulham why did the not put in some investment, looked for grants which were around then and purchased land and built a RL Community Stadium?

We should have realised that the Rugby Football League could never take expansion serious, look what they did to Gateshead to ensure that Hull could survive? and then the same with Sheffield to do the same for Huddersfield with their licence? and how far have Huddersfield progressed? they have found success on the pitch bit off it attendance have dropped! to think this is the home of rugby league? Sheffield Eagles are now attracting attendance much better than many well established Northern Clubs and those in Cumbria.

If we are kicked out of Super League, then it is the end, it will be then interesting to see what happens to the Skolars and Hemel sadly I'm not that convinced it will work.

Rugby League can then go back to being a Northern sport with just an handful of clubs that break the 10,000 mark and the rest forever struggling, which major sponsors will they attract then? will it be the same attraction for TV? how long will they put up with Catalan, it will be moans about the travel. Next with lack of money it will force clubs to perhaps return to semi professional except a few?

What a sad state of affairs, I never rated Maurice Lindsay but I totally Respected his vision for the game, his enthusiasm which he was able to sell to Murdock, but after he and Rathbone once interviewed me for a post I knew he did not have what was needed to carry it off completely, its the same now with Wood, though many say he was not good as then a club secretary at Halifax.

I'm afraid your'e being too pie-in-the-sky here. The RFL have never owned a stadium in their history so why should they have started in the 1980s with Fulham?
I'm a big supporter of London RL having watched Fulham from the start during the 19 years I lived in the city. However, the RFL have tried hard to support the London club, although never actually putting cash in ( even though many die-hard Northern fans remain convinced they have 'poured millions' into London ). Catalans will work but is arguably not an 'expansion club' at all: that part of France has always been 'Treiziste'. The frequent ground moves for London have not helped at all. It's sad that at a time that the club is finally producing a good crop of youngsters it coincides with a feeling of total drift, with no clear future.Playing performances like Saturday's are even understandable given that none of the players can have any idea what the future holds.

The RFL bought Odsal - apparently to help the Bulls - and rented it back.

Sad to say I have to agree, felt like coming away from a funeral on Saturday and after the Wigan game. In fact I've come away from funerals in a more cheerful frame of mind than I have from Broncos games lately. Funnily enough I bought a new dark suit recently, looks like I'll have a chance to wear it soon!

Think you may have hit on an idea for the last home game. Men (and women) in black! Or at least mourning suits.

The poster was talking about funding a 'community stadium' in the 198os. Forgive the shorthand but the Odsal 'leaseback' was an entirely different matter concerning an existing RL stadium.

a clear strategy? - the Broncos? - surely sum mishtake!

The RFL but exactly the same comment applies!

In answer to the op. i think not. I think Al-Jazeera will buy the Broncos. The following article shows their interest in rugby league. www.theroar.com.au/2012/02/12/al ... by-league/ No brainer for me, a TV company who are investing in rugby league, buying a team in LONDON.

In answer to the op. i think not. I think Al-Jazeera will buy the Broncos. The following article shows their interest in rugby league. www.theroar.com.au/2012/02/12/al ... by-league/ No brainer for me, a TV company who are investing in rugby league, buying a team in LONDON.

There has been.....the current CEO has butchered the club and a few northern clubs will plough in to pick the best meat off the bones, leaving the scraps for the Skolars and lower division clubs.

I am very angry, because I still say with a lot of hard work it could have been oh so different. The RFL are equally to blame for not letting IL keep his shareholding in the club in 2007/08.....the ARL had no issues with News Limited owning majority shareholdings in expansion clubs outside NSW.
Very very short sighted of them.....because IL would never have stood for any of the dross dished up by Blanchard or Gus and he would never have promoted Powell!

As a Londoner who has moved up north it really pains me to see what has become of the Broncos. I don't have the answers but two things which would make sense to me if it's not too late are (a) to reach out and try and get a groundshare arrangement with Saracens RFU (which might or might not be tricky given their Wigan links) and (b) revert to the red/blue/yellow kit of the late 90's. Obviously the kit only means so much but as much as London has a RL heritage to go "retro" on that was its best time and it could rekindle some of the memories of supporters from that time. The groundshare would make sense to me for several reasons - geographically it's in a populated part of London not all that far from both Hemel Hempstead and London Skolars, it's an all-weather pitch not otherwise being used for much of the summer and the Saracens ethos is less stuffy and old school rugby union than Harlequins or elsewhere in south west London - indeed it was modelled by Peter Deakin.