I am not convinced that LB are doing anything for RL in london

Well, the BUSINESS side is now based at Underhill and as far as I can see has no employees dedicated to spreading the game in the community. The Landlords staff will essentially try to sell RL to the 300,000 Kids who they failed to sell Barnet FC to.
The PLAYING side of the club are an embarrassment. If I was a school age kid who had a visit from a couple of players, I'd be mortified when I check the results that weekend and see another hammering being delivered. That said, I suspect the rabble that were humiliated at the weekend will be too busy on the training pitch or with their 2nd career studies' to be visiting schools.....

London Broncos 2014 keep SL nice and even for SKY TV and are the best chance the RFL have of retaining their Odsal tenants in SL for 2015.......that is pretty much the sole purpose of the clubs existence this year

I was up early in the morning and listened to it all. Just god damn depressed this morning, and I am in a bad mood after that!!

I totally agree with Mr Dalton, Widnes were definately not at full strength, they had pretty much a weakened side and they did not only beat us up, but they gave us a wedgy and stole our dinner money. It was brutal!!

the one positive of having a major case of alcoholic poisoning and sunstroke from the 9's was that I slept through the alarm......I really would have had to go out and buy a dog, just so I could kick it, if I had woken up and tuned in

Seriously, what was anyone expecting?? Widnes are a settled, well organised side. Im pleased we scored 10.

Unfortunately you cannot speed up Visa's. Im sure finding good experienced Ozzies with UK heritage is something TR will have been looking for for some time but it's not easy, and looking at the team they are joining will be very hesitant now. Other than signing asome good French players i'm not sure what the next step in recruitment at short notice is as we have to try and keep up with Bradford and Wakey until the signed players get here. Does anybody know when our new prop Slyney will be fit to play?

No, ACL unfortunately.

Danny Tickle was superb! even at 30, he and Kevin Brown will work well! Yes it was late in the day we started recruiting, but we can't afford to get left behind in points. Still no word about the Bulls situation with points reduction?

Well done to the lads, getting to the startline.
Salford next, an even tougher test, and more to follow. We have a team, Supporters, new ground, tons more positives than the prophet(s) of doom would have us think. I didn't know if London Broncos could even make the new season just a month or so back.
In life your glass has to be half full rather than the other!! Its a lot more fun.

whatever the bulls lose to the RFL they'll get 4 back against us.

Last year was embarrassing when we finished 13th purely down to a technicality....it would seem that some posters are hoping the misfortune of others will benefit us twofold this year...classy

I didn't expect Widnes to score from a tap penalty when half our players turned their backs to the play.

Just seen the highlights. Rea's teams really do love to feel sorry for themselves.

When you look at the side we put out you could note that there are some possibly stronger alternatives to come down the line e.g.

Duckworth or Solomona rather than O'Callaghan
Farrar rather than Gigot
Greenwood rather than Wicks
Slyney rather than Lovell
Dollapi rather than Kransniqi

What led to the huge margin was that the opposition were on most plays making about twice as much distance on their attacking runs, probably about 10 metres rather than 5 metres. They were starting sets near our half way line and we were bringing them down, but they were starting the last play within our 20 metre zone.

They must have chipped the ball over our line at least 5 times for tries by simply out-jumping us with defenders in reach of the ball close to the tryline and putting the ball down.

Two more tries were due to us resting after a penalty was conceded and an individual error dropping the ball within our own try area.

Several other plays were really good ones where they ran the ball and we just weren't at the races due to the high skill level of Brown; tries that were hard to defend against. Widnes have a settled team and they were good plays that we can't easily get ready for. We can't let any playmaker have so much time in future that is for sure.

They weren't running in tries from all over the field which is at least one small relief I suppose.

We look desperate for a bit more size and if not we'll need to be more expansive than sending in a medium sized man 'one up' against a bigger line if we are to compete more in the next game.

We need to also be determined to catch the ball when chipped over and to fall forward over our own tryline rather than surrendering in goal in the remaining games.

Crikey, 10 hours on the road, it seemed like a long trip that is for sure but it is nothing compared to the 8 or 9 hours one way on a Friday night I've done in the past, so I will have to get used to the trips again.

We need 'em both. They are the two best props we have - indeed two of the better props in the comp.

I've only seen the tries on Sky but some of them were awful defensively. As Mark says, chips over the top where we didn't even leave the ground to contest the ball in the air...players standing still in defence if the ptb was within 5m of the line and not even attempting a tackle. Very poor, skill is one thing that takes time to work on, but effort and fitness must be sorted very quickly or it will be a very long season.

Hard to judge anything from the highlights but what struck me was the complete lack of tackles being made by LB, lots of running around and flapping of arms but naff all else. Some of the tries were pathetically soft.