no idea, not at the game, will need for somebody who is there for the breakdown

Looks like we're in need of a fitness coach! 4 tries conceded in the last 13 minutes including 2 in the last minute!

Attendance 551, and lost 34-8 with no points in 2nd half, playing our strongest lineup this season. Coach is out of his depth, you could argue apart from 1 or 2 thats our full strength team, and another hammering, and another 2nd half with 0 points.

Its a long way to the Dewsbury game in May to wait for our first potential win

My predictions at the seasons start.

2017 cup tie v Toronto 750 fans
2020 cup tie v York 541 fans
2022 cup tie v Bradford 511 fans

Yep.....Wimbledon is the mutts nuts for London.
A handful of shirts in the shop, no kids zone, 95% empty stadium and a spanking ......that'll have them flocking in next weekend.

And you would expect Bradford to bring more down that York as well, which makes the 2020 to 2022 comparison even more embarassing

What is telling is the Twitter feed couldn't/wouldn't post a picture of the crowd...... and I've still not seen pictures of corporates in the lounge.......the club is a shambles and posting "limited spaces" in the lounge when it's empty does them no favours.

It's time to cut the mustard.

I should think almost half the crowd was from Bradford. I fear for your future but wish you the best of luck.

For 65 minutes that was a really interesting and competitive match. Walker, Albert and Ferreira didn't make the final 17.

At 0-12 a looked like only one winner. But two unconverted tries made it 8-12 at half time. Early second half and London had a chance to lead. Macani (possibly) crossed the line on the far side but was called back for an infringement. A teasing grubber kick pinned Bradford behind their own goal line.

With less than fifteen minutes to go Bradford scored and the Broncos basically capitulated conceding a further three trys. The game opened up as Bradford spread the ball and the Broncos looked exhausted as the solid tackling earlier in the game became non-existent.

Personally I though they played significantly better than in the Whitehaven match against what looked like better opposition. After three matches I'm still yet to see a Broncos kick clear the cross bar!

Bienek (from what I've seen) and Albert (from my expectations) would have helped a lot. The addition of Walker and Ferreira in the backs also. Half Backs seemed to do okay but still an area that could do with an upgrade.

Gahan played Hooker and was very involved. With my Union hat on (apologies) he played like a scrum half on offence.

Was surprised to see Pallumbo at Centre. And playing a Hooker (Parata) at Loose Forward, is that unusual?

I want to see a competitive match and I felt today was. Yes the last 15 minutes was incredibly one side; and it truly was, but I enjoyed that match far more than the first two.

MyPie was back, but I wonder how many London fans bought a pie (or were even aware of them). I'd expect their best business would have come from the Bradford fans due to being behind the South Stand.

Here's an interesting one. Less than an hour before the match (and before we bought our tickets) over 600 tickets had been sold (or at least showed as unavailable) which was more than the announced attendance. 194 were "sold" in the South Stand. Not sure there were quite that many Bradford fans present.

If I'm not mistaken, there were no Rugby League lines in the middle of the pitch. This is almost certainly due to the Women's League Cup Final which is being shown live on BBC2 next Saturday.

Still nobody has made a comment about the members lounge. This was a key area that was cited in the reasons for moving.
If, as has been claimed, Bradford brought close to 200, then the club will be lucky to get close to 1,000 for York.

[iWas surprised to see Pallumbo at Centre. And playing a Hooker (Parata) at Loose Forward, is that unusual?[/i.

Thats is not normal, unless you
a) have a lot of Injuries so you have to play folks out of position or
b) have a coach who is out of his depth

I'll let the good folks of the forum draw the conclusions on which of the above are applicable

Re option b, I'm totally out of my depth to comment on that!

From the 21 man squad, three backs didn't make the 17, so I guess that was the reason (I'm assuming Pallumbo doesn't play that position unless in emergencies). As I learnt with Lovell, Centre and Second Row aren't entirely unrelated. I'm trying to imagine Bill Beaumont moving to Centre in Union!

I'm interested in the best way to use Parata and Gahan together. The latter looked fairly physical today, so I wonder if it makes sense to stick him out next to the winger when defending. I think both need to play, but where is the question.

Nah......
Loose forward/second rows in league, slot nicely into the 12 shirt in union (Burgess/Farrell). Other than that, it was mainly backs who crossed the divide either way, with Roger Tuivasa-Sheck jumping from FB at league to 12 in Union
The exception to the rule was the greatest cross coder of all time, Brad Thorn.......lock/2nd row in both codes and he has World Cup medals in both to prove it.