Very quickly, unless someone can assure the players who wish to stay that a) there's an offer they will accept and b) there will be a club to honour it. If not, the players will soon be signing elsewhere, both RU and RL. Once that happens the club is doomed. Unless someone "investor" comes in with stupid money to drag free agents in from all over the shop. Which wouldn't exactly be a very sustainable start. That's the realistic deadline

If it was football the legal deadline would be the AGM of the club's league, as membership is confirmed there. I'd expect that to be next month some time.

Having been in at its birth, It has only been the last few years that I seriously thought i'd be in at its death.

Hope nobody has the idea of getting a coffin & walking it around all the grounds we've played a home game. We'd be walking for months!!

Lengthy Article in the Guardian adds some more detail in the complete absence of anything fr9m the club. Parata retired- in absence of anything formal from the club: thanks for all your efforts for the club. He really stood up when we were decidedly average and it’s a shame he picked up head knocks this year but he can say he made it to the top in the game. All the best to him for the future.
Basset is going back to Australia.
The interesting bits were around Bienek, who is one of 7 who have a contract for 2025, and Campo who handed in the lease on his flat and has gone on holiday hoping something will come up. Bottom line how I read it they knew things were problematic but there was no certainty that the club was basically folding and they were simply left to guess with people like Meadows getting things sorted and others hoping for the best and now swinging in the breeze.
Without Mr H no club but with him this kind of shenanigans. Not great.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/no-he ... gby-league Here’s the piece BigTime is referring to. More info - none of it good sadly…….

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/no-he ... gby-league Here’s the piece BigTime is referring to. More info - none of it good sadly…….

Thinking about this some more, unless something is quite advanced with a new owner, there just isn’t time to get through the gears. We have 7 players signed, potentially no training or back office staff, no ground, no funds. No sponsors, nobody running the website. At best we cobble together a 13 and agree to host some matches at Roslyn park and anywhere else that will have us. That is a recipe for tiny crowds, poor performances and a slow death. Yikes!

While not expecting it, I wouldn't entirely rule out a Hughes volte-face. Can't see how he can sell the club if the RFL exclude us & we are not a going concern.

I’m not expecting it either but there was the time he said he’d pull the plug when we left the Stoop - and ended up at Barnet.

https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/im ... comparison IMG break their silence......

https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/im ... comparison IMG break their silence......

I'm not confident Lobster will sort anything out in the time available. Hughes has basically taken his ball and gone home.

Ain't that the truth.

Most rugby league clubs and their fans don't give a monkey's about the the game overall. Success of their hometown team is all that matters. Reduce it to three clubs? Cool. We finished in the top three.

And before someone accuses me of hypocrisy....

I'm not from London and have never lived in London. I moved south in my early twenties, always loved rugby league, missed going to live games. So drifted into watching my new "local" team, 60+ miles away. (When my car got written off it was an all day trip!)

Hooked. Hometown team immediately despised (they're easy to despise).

Luckily (or not) for me, this was the Tank Gordon team.

Still, if we do disappear, '96 and '97 were amazing!

They were indeed Benny & will never be forgotten. Nor Tank's wonderful side either.

How can they centrally fund London when the Super League organisation does not have a pot to in. IMG does have millions but it looks like they are putting no money in.In fact it looks like they have taken the clubs for a ride. https://www.totalrl.com/talking-rugby-l ... questions/ I said years ago, the club should have approached the NRL, offered to take 2 up and coming players from each club in the NRL and put them into the London side.Then hit the ex pat market hard. During the days at the stoop the amount of expats sat in the crowd was huge but then we had a good side with well known Australian players. You had a successful team full of aussies and the crowds would have come but the northerners didnt like that and said it was unfair. You dont get chelsea fans moaning saying there are not enough Londoners in the Chelsea team. But dont forget a lot of the RFL money has gone on bankrolling Bradford over the last few years.

How can they centrally fund London when the Super League organisation does not have a pot to in. IMG does have millions but it looks like they are putting no money in.In fact it looks like they have taken the clubs for a ride. https://www.totalrl.com/talking-rugby-l ... questions/ I said years ago, the club should have approached the NRL, offered to take 2 up and coming players from each club in the NRL and put them into the London side.Then hit the ex pat market hard. During the days at the stoop the amount of expats sat in the crowd was huge but then we had a good side with well known Australian players. You had a successful team full of aussies and the crowds would have come but the northerners didnt like that and said it was unfair. You dont get chelsea fans moaning saying there are not enough Londoners in the Chelsea team. But dont forget a lot of the RFL money has gone on bankrolling Bradford over the last few years.

Toulouse working hard to keep Broncos legacy alive by signing Butler to add to their list of ex Broncos. Wouldn’t be surprised to see Campo there and a couple of others. We appear to be to Toulouse what Leigh are to Hull.

Londres Olympique ?