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.

Ok on crowd numbers I’d say that 551 could be true. It’s difficult what’s to see on the top tier so who knows.
Bradford brought surprisingly few in my opinion. Less than last year.
From what I see it was mainly paying attendees rather than local Rl clubs etc.
My Pie was there. No takers when I went past. I wonder if £9 I is just too much. I confess to walking by and goingfor the hot dog option.
Merchandise was on sale in the club shop as I could see when I went behind the South stand but to my surprise one had to access the shop prior to or after the game. Gawd knows where the entrance is none of the stewards could assist. A sale lost. LB really aren’t making it easy for themselves.
As to the game- it’s not the fact we were yet again spanked at home in front of an exponentially decreasing crowd that is the worry it is that this is pretty close to what we can expect as our first 13 (not sure about the bench-looked weak). They tried hard and defended well ( OMs point about this catching up on them at the end of the game is well made. and Crucially they were competitive for a significant part of the match. In fact, for the 5 minutes before half time and the first 15/ 20 of the second they were the better side but did not weary the scoreboard. Clearly Coates’ reputation as a kicker has taken a potentially terminal knock but for a brief moment I thought we might win. Bradford are a very, very big side and have a couple of very good players but they aren’t unbeatable. it’s brute strength rather than flair. Ultimately we just weren’t good enough despite this being easily our best performance. Gahan, Moceidreke and Parata looked lively. Ulberg has something. Williams was our best interchange. I just don’t see where the win will come from. Other sides are better than they were. We are weaker. I think it’s reasonable to fear we may be relegated. Others will remember that Swinton gave it a good go against many teams last year but faded at the end of games and mostly lost. They were relegated. We definitely need a few Championship level players now before it’s too late. York just beat Newcastle in the Cup easily. I don’t fancy our chances much. 0-6. Some re-launch@ gettheimportantstuffright.