Even in the club's bleakest moments playing in the murk at Chiswick, unsure if they were going to get paid the players generally performed with more pride, courage and passion than that shower did yesterday.

This is one of the few RL showpiece games shown on the BBC and we let the game down.

Something has been going wrong with the club since we entered SL, now it doesn't feel like a club anymore, more like just a bunch of overpaid mercenaries, a kit bag and a small odd group of never say die, hairshirt wearing fans.

The problems are more recent than that. As much as David Hughes money has saved the Broncos his decisions on how to run the club are killing it.

This..........and pretty much only this!

I find it hard to have sympathy for him anymore- pumping money into a losing cause might be noble, but pumping money into a losing cause without taking steps to turn it into a winning one is idiocy.

When it looked like Wigan might be relegated their crowds actually increased. Wigan fans are very loyal, even if they don't turn out to watch dross like the Broncos

The club has never been very well run, there was a false dawn when Lenegan took over before retreating into his comfort zone and dropping DH in it. An earlier post mentioned getting someone like Branson involved but we have all been there too.

There is just something about the club now where players don't play to their potential and we end up playing a dreary boring brand of RL to the point where committed fans like myself can no longer be bothered to turn up.

We wrecked a showpiece semi final yesterday. thankfully the 2 teams on display today did a bit to restore the games credibility.

London needs a successful SL club it doesn't need another makeweight, there are enough of them around the M62!

Not long back after making a weekend of it. My thoughts on the weekend

Good points:

Leigh East v Elland
Leigh East's clubhouse
Chicken Balti pies
New York Brass Band
Beers and comradery with Broncos fans
Generosity of Leigh's board with the hotel rooms
Park Inn's breakfast
Oldham's clubhouse and the friendly Roughyed and Crusaders fans
Oldham v Crusaders

Bad points:

Cheerleaders had changed their outfits from the ones worn at the National Rail finals
Everything between 5 and 7 yesterday

Bentham was dreadful but so were London.

Wigan did the basics well - no more than that.

It is nearly August now, 10 May was the last time we kept a Super League side to below 30, since then: 64, 46, 30, 82, 46, 44, 34, 38, 70.

No he wasn't.....maybe one mistake with the high shot on Tompkins other than that we tried to slow the play down and he penalised us

That was the happy flag waver, there was a further incident when the referee called Bronco's ball, after a knock on from Wigan, again the happy flag waver on the other side, said scrum to Wigan, giving the second knock on, not the first one! again it resulted in a try. It was one of those days when nothing went wrong for Wigan, however bad we played.

Spot on there. Why pay £20+ to watch a team of no hopers from London, best to save the money for Wembley....that's exactly what happened. Not sure where London think they took 200-300 supporters to the semi, there was nowhere near that amount, now that's pathetic.
Just to put it into context
Hull v Wire = 10,621 att
Wigan v London = 6,294 att
If there were 300 London fans there (of which I doubt very much) then Wigan had took 6,000 fans to an away game(it wasn't at the DW) If you divide the attendance at the Hull v Wire game equally then they each took 5,310 supporters. Which means that over the semi final weekend, Wigan had more away support than any other of the semi finalists, you might not like it....but its fact.

Back on subject of the game itself, whilst admitting that Broncos were a complete shambles, tbf, has it been noted anywhere that we were without 6 of our first choice 17 (plus Melling)?.

Even the mighty Wigan lose games when they're missing key players.

We're back to the bad old days of relying on loanees from other clubs.

That being said, would have thought that we could have come up with a better show than we did.

Can't wait for our another flogging in front of the tv cameras.

Does that same argument not also stand for the Hull v Wire game, thus making his argument still just as valid even if the figures are slightly different? In fact, I'd have thought Hull v Wire would pick up more neutrals than Wigan v London.