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Last Man Standing (almost). www.londonbroncosrl.com/theclub/lbrl/staff.php Apart from the chairman, most or all of the rest have departed.

Last Man Standing (almost). www.londonbroncosrl.com/theclub/lbrl/staff.php Apart from the chairman, most or all of the rest have departed.

Unless we have new management I can't see myself being interested.

it is my understanding that all the decisions are pretty much out of our hands at this stage and we will be a bargaining chip used in the shenanigans that will follow the RLWC Final.

Feeder club for Wigan?

Nope.

My speculative take on the situation, based on the bits I have been drip fed, are that the club has identified and negotiated with new investor(s) but these people were looking for clarification regarding Licencing/Franchising/Relegation matters. In addition, the club were also after dispensation on the overseas players issue.
Given Licencing was designed in part to ensure clubs produced their own talent, then it could be argued that the removal of licencing could also see the limit on overseas talent being removed too.

No assurances will be given to any club as to "survival" or protection from relegation UNLESS the investors are locked in with a substantial sum of money, a set period of time in which to spend it and a clear and manageable business plan (not forecasts on fans and sponsors). This all comes down to the "importance" of London....there are those clubs that don't see the benefit and those that do.....I would suggest that the IL led group are on our side, whilst the rest of SL and the Championship clubs are not. Leeds are the only concern I have with regard to the second group.....a club that used to be a strong ally is now cool on us and that is a concern!

Doubt we will hear anything concrete now until December, by which stage we will be 1 month behind pre-season training and looking down both barrels. I can see the RFL giving in to a number of demands from the "rebel" clubs, but London not being one of them.....left with no assurances of protection from relegation, the investors will walk and if we do start 2014, it will be at the Hive on DH's cheque book and with a Championship standard team......and the only thing that would save us from the drop then is if 2 other teams go bust next year.

This sad but ultimately avoidable mess is 100% of our own creation now.....we've had years to sort things out since IL was made walk and all we've done is shovel more money down the drain!

Pity we didn't start looking for them.

Interesting we once had the 6th richest person in the country on board look at where that went, Caribbean anybody?

And he came to the conclusion that there was no market for top level RL in London, was going to let Leigh have our SL place and provide the money to establish a lower division side in the capital. Personally, I think he was right.

Strangely for him, he did little in the way of marketing and promotion, had a players wife as marketing manager when I first approached the club and, like many before and after when it comes to sports marketing, thought all he had to do was stick posts in the ground and announce a KO time
He may, or may not be right, but the RFL had access to 21,000 London based RL fans who attended the 2011 double header, SKY has between 50,000 and 80,000 London based SL viewers and yet, neither of these organisations have offered/been asked for this data.

For me, if this data exists it will be a decent mix of Ex-pat northerners and transient bar staff....we know the bar staff aren't interested, so it's the ex-pat northerners we need to engage...even if it's for only one game a year when "their home team" are in town.

Sweeping statement that there's no interest in Top level RL in the capital don't paint a true picture.....18 years of inactivity on the marketing front is the main reason we have few fans.....inability to engage the ones we had is the reason we've had fewer and fewer over the last 7 years.

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good god is that a signing??