It was a depressing result. But consolation in that London won the 2nd half 16-12.


For 2014:

Need to get rid of Howell and Witt.

Buy Minichiello, maybe 2 Minichiellos with Anthony as FB amd Mark as backrower.

Put Clubb into the centres, with Sarginson option as either centre or standoff.

Dorn at 6.

Find a centre of the calibre of Joel Moon. What about Jerome Ropati from NZ Warriors?



Meanwhile this year:

Put Colbon in the centre with Sarginson, and Michael Robertson on the wing.

Fire Gus McKay. Buy a professional marketing manager.

The priority is to get Witt out of the team he is Sh1t

Wot he said

Must admit that even confused me, Dixon does have a raw talent no doubt but last night he showed that he is exactly that RAW
Overall though I think there are a couple of interesting issues here.
RL at the moment as a sport seems to be in a freefall decline
Cutback in sport England funding, national body cutting its staff massively
Reduced support for community teams
All smacks of a sport in crisis
Don't get me wrong some clubs still pulling biggest crowds for years but without grass route support its stuffed in the future

well I'm glad that the consensus on here is that last night's performance was unacceptable after a fellow "fan" who was clapping off that load of rubbish felt the need to tell me off for making my opinion heard at full time and told me to go and support another team

So, after a dreadful 2012, Tony Rea imagines that the best course of action is simply to ape Rob Powell's team selections and combinations in 2013? Result is predictable.

If Witt and Randall make next week's 17, I'm switching off. Only a fool would persist with those two. Similarly, only a fool would persist with our wide left-side defence of Gower-Sarginson-Dixon.

Still, the good news is that we have converted yet another running backrower into a prop - welcome Matt Cook. Not saying that Cook was anything less than excellent but who are we expecting will offer an option slightly wider when all our forwards are trundling middle units?

I'm with you rob13. A massive problem at the Broncos is the politeness of the fans in the face of substandard efforts. Too quiet when things go well; too quiet when things go badly. Applauding this e off leads to the same e being served up next time.

Oh well, there is a silver lining to yesterdays result.
I've gone down with a flu bug for the past couple of days, so decided to give the game a miss yesterday. ( WHAT A GREAT DECISION THAT TURNED OUT TO BE !!!!!! )
It was painful enough watching it on the T.V. without having to travel 2 hours in each direction to watch the load of Poop served up on the pitch against H.K.R.
If it wasn't for the social aspect of the day & the good friends I have made during the years of follwing this club, I would seriously think about staying away each week.
Before the season began, I decided I would not make any judgements on the team & where they were likely to finish until after week 8.
Well, thats now 2 weeks away & I think I can safely say that with the team we currently have we'll be finishing in the bottom two.
Foolishly, I even had a £20 bet at 11-2, at the start of the season for us to finish in the top eight & thought I had a good chance of winning. Certainly don't think I have any chance at all now.
Somethings got to change, can't put up with this rubbish week after week !!!

Ive never booed my team off but even I did so at half time last night.
I wasnt proud of the fact but it really was that bad.
I was a big critic of RP but to be fair you do start to wonder if a
top top coach could do a job with our squad currently.
Still only 75% of what looks likely to be another nightmare season
left. Sorry to be so downbeat but we just seem to plumb further depths
as each season passes.
I cant even get to Skolars to cheer myself up.
But still, see you all at the Cat`s fixture for much of the same.

What a pitiful all round performance! all the cries to be on TV more and for viewers to see that and see 50 or so more travelling fans make the only atmosphere!

Players running around like penguins flapping attempting to tackle, one instance Hodgson clearing there line was just able to run as players waited stood still waiting for him to arrive to them! One of Brown's tries all he had to do was run to the in goal as there was not a defender in sight!

Yes blame players but also the coach takes the can at the end of the day and this was no better than RP served up, was the end of the last season under Tony just a flash in the pan? he picks the team, has a week to prepare them with tactics.

Danny Lockwood, not one of my favourite so called RL journalists, publisher of League Weekly tweeted near to the end of the game "danlocky1 if Broncos owner David Hughes keeps faith after this &Tony Rea keeps job then London RL has a charmed life"

No wonder it was said last night that the new ground will be announced as early as April/May to try and make a fresh start as this season is just a disaster, pointless using any form of marketing to get fans to come to home matches when this is served up.

For about the first time in following London I was in the car before the last try was scored, deflated and ready for the drive home.

We are going to be lucky if we survive to finish this current licence period and move!

glad to hear im not alone then. if anyone saw a little "debate" at the end of the game yesterday on whether we should applaud or not between a couple of fans, that was likely me, although there was more than one little incident

In my opinion the game changed when Witt threw that ridiculous pass that was intercepted by Welham who went under the sticks, just after we'd got it back to 8-6.
Very few positives though as a whole, thought Kaufusi had one of his better games, and Bailey, Fisher and Gower were decent. That was it!

So who else does TR pick, let's be honest this is the squad, he has to work with the tools he has spookily a bit like RP and Brian
So witty and randell should be dropped oh yes and Dixon and sargy so who else is there

We all know the answer to that. Nobody but Robertson if he ever gets fit. Why don't they tell us what the problem is and the prognosis?

We made only three close-season signings. Only one of them is (just about) worth his place in the team.

We've run out of options.