I'd absolutely love to see a successful club in London, a club with a large following, a club competing for honours, a team with local produced players flourishing.

That said, they're getting an absolute hammering against Wigan in the Semi-Final and after seeing the body language of the players at HT they look like a set of players who have little passion or enthusiasm for the game. Such a shame, but the club has been run terribly, moved around and struggled year on year.

Not that it would've made much diffetence but this should've been held in London.

A great advert for a 12 team SL, skewed slightly because they shouldn't have been in SL for a number of years.
I would gladly offer my support of a successful London side, but that has never been the case.
If today's game was the grand national and the ref a vet; they would be pulling some screens around the lame bronco and their would be a single shot!!!

Wakey 16s would have put up a better show,utter rubbish,get shut of them.

Keep them in. On that form a must to be relegated next season. Cant see the having wholesale changes next year, so one place already booked for SL2 or what ever.

Did anyone stay awake long enough to see Tony Rea thow a sneaky two fingers up on the screen, can't say i blame him and it was cleverly done.

It was a sneaky "peter kay-esque" number if I recall Al!!

my thoughts too

Quite a few Aussie has-beens are taking them for an absolute ride - Shane Rodney being a prime example; no effort, total lack of any pride in the shirt and an absolute refusal to even do the basics.

That aside, the club itself is run in a completely amateurish way - if I were David Hughes, I'd have walked out at half time and closed the bank account; it's not for me - I'm out!

Hopefully this is the death knell for what has been a painfully exploitive experiment by the RFL.
It begs the question what's been in it for these wealthy backers to throw their money down into this bottomless pit?

Hopefully just for this iteration of the club - I'd like to see a successful London team in SL.

So would I, I just don't think the level of success warrants SL just yet.

Catch 22 though because without SL will be much harder to increase crowds and any chance of sustainability.

I wonder how many new fans the game has "found" on the strength of that game.
Apart from the first 10-15 mins London were woeful and they will be doing well to muster any further SL wins.
They have managed to avoid the wooden spoon whilst in SL but, their name is already being carved into the trophy.
However, the grassroots game is growing well down there and it's important that this continues to develop, somehow.