Quote: Chris28 "One thing I have been saying for years is that they play in Twickenham which is a sod to get to if you live elsewhere in London, never mind anywhere else. If you play RL at school in say Tottenham, it will take the best part of an hour and a half to get to the game, then the same back and you have to factor in travelling with others (including possibly parents who may not want to take you).
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To compare, on a good day, I can get from my house in Sheffield to the KC in just over an hour.
The club isn't big enough to merit its own ground, but sharing with a team north and fairly central in London would be start, if they can get out of the current hole.'"
I always hear the location issue as the major stumbling block for the Broncos, but they did play in Barnet (North London?) for a year or two back in the early 90s and I don't remember seeing a boost in attendances at the time, although I may be wrong.
Having lived and worked in and around London for much of the 90s I always saw the main issue as a chronic lack of advertising and publicity. I'm just not sure at the time many Londoners even knew the Crusaders/Broncos even existed, but maybe that's changed now.
