It is reported that London Broncos are in for Brenko Lee. The Dolphins centre.
He was expected to sign for Catalan, however that fell through and he is now on our radar.

I think this makes sense. Hopefully we see the majority uptake on full-time deals. https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/ex ... per-league

I think this makes sense. Hopefully we see the majority uptake on full-time deals. https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/ex ... per-league

The Highbrid mix squad of full and part time is a risk, but good on the club for doing it. Those players that won promotion and don't want to or can't go full time deserve the chance to prove themselves. Far to easy to just buy in a squad and sack off the rest. The IMG plans will drive a lot of clubs decision making this year though

If it is true, that IMG are not changing any of their objective scoring criteria, then how on earth can Broncos earn enough points to finish high enough to remain in SL even if they won the comp. Something that was mooted by Steve Mascord yesterday I believe.

If I understand the grading then in theory if they get a B grading then they are in the mix. Nothing been said about different levels of B. Reckon there will be 5 or 6 A grade teams. Rest in SL B TOxiii B wakey B Rest just don't know

There's a lot of opinions and conjecture out there about the gradings and where London may or may not be. We may well struggle to acrue enough points to stay in SL in 2025 as it stands, but there's a long time between now and then. Let's see how it plays out and where IMG/RFL go with things. I wouldn't be counting anything in or out.

Even if we don't make the grade for 2025, we would theoretically be a high scoring Category B club for 2026.

With illustrative ratings to be published soon we will have an idea where we are but perhaps with little opportunity to change things. We should gain a B rating but I doubt we would be ranked among the top 12 A and B ranked teams.

In which areas do you see us significantly changing our ranking over the next couple of years ?

I think we would be close to scoring maximum points for performance given this season.

I see engagement increasing too. Already noticed the social media feeds with an uptick this week.

Might be my complete misreading of course. I guess we'll have a good idea when the indicative grades emerge.

Despite a Challenge Cup win, a fifth place finish and revolutionising matchday experience last season, to this noggin's reading Leigh will get a B grading. IMG weren't brought in to help the likes of us. Will leave the rest unsaid! Let's see!

From what I can see we are in strife although to say it would be a bad look if we got kicked out having preformed reasonably well, perhaps not even finished last, would be an understatement. Having said that the rules are there and they can’t work round them without any club who suffers taking legal action. To put it another way it looks bleak. However first things first: recruitment and retention. In recent interview on hybrid working as well as rightly back8ng the team that got promoted by being flexible on FT and PT he mentioned a preference for getting back players who left to get FT action. I’m struggling to think who is still available. Rhys Williams perhaps. Not RIchards who has signed for TO and Battye’s departure was messy. Pitts must want to stay with his home town team and Hankinson is with TO for another year. Would we take back Jones? Or Silva?

Not sure anyone knows what IMG are up to. Do they really have any clout? I’m beginning to think not. What they do with L1 will be interesting.

Teams are ranked 1–36 based on where they finish in the leagues and playoffs for the last three seasons. So no chance of maximum points, we'll get something like 2.5 out of 4 points.



We're probably currently around the 3rd tier of scoring on the digital criteria. If we could more than double our following and engagement it might get us an extra 0.3 points or so.

As it stands I’d fancy you have more chance of staying in SL than Castleford, they have done nothing since the last time we had licensing