Todays Game : Sat Jul 27, 2013 8:15 pm  

This is not a negative about our Wigan cousins but that was bloody awful. I have tried to be positive about the game in London and have been to most of the away games played in the capital. That was not a team it was a selection if individuals going through the motions. The club is finished, and before any idiot comes on saying at least they made it to the semi think about the sport in a holistic way.

Re: Todays Game : Sat Jul 27, 2013 8:21 pm  

Loz wrote:

This is not a negative about our Wigan cousins but that was bloody awful. I have tried to be positive about the game in London and have been to most of the away games played in the capital. That was not a team it was a selection if individuals going through the motions. The club is finished, and before any idiot comes on saying at least they made it to the semi think about the sport in a holistic way.

I'm not sure the London club is finished. I think the team they have at present is utter garbage - it has been utter garbage for three different coaches now so it must be the team rather than the coaching staff at fault here. Whether the club lasts in Superleague beyond the end of 2014 will IMO depend on whether there is the right staff in place to fund the sacking of pretty much all their senior players, who are an embarrassment to the club's shirt, and with the ability to astutely recruit replacements. They also need the chairman to wisely select their new home as their time at the Stoop has been a disaster for their image in the capital.

Re: Todays Game : Sat Jul 27, 2013 8:29 pm  

I just don't see what London bring to super league. They are poor team and everything about the club is poor. It's not worked IMO.

The only competitive London team was when they didn't have to obey the overseas rule and had 90% of their squad from Australia.

At least they will soon have to earn the right to be in super league when promotin/relegation comes back in.

Re: Todays Game : Sat Jul 27, 2013 8:30 pm  

London know they are finished. The players have probably already been told the club is folding.

Re: Todays Game : Sat Jul 27, 2013 8:34 pm  

London being in super league 2 might be better for the game there, they'll win a lot more games, which will attract more support and then perhaps with a development of the team they can gain promotion back to sl1

Re: Todays Game : Sat Jul 27, 2013 8:43 pm  

im sure I heard somewhere they spend/use all available cap as well if that's true im shocked there must be some average at best players on outrageous money down there.

Re: Todays Game : Sat Jul 27, 2013 9:47 pm  

I think today proved that London aren't good enough and haven't got a stable future in Super League, especially if they serve up that rubbish on a weekly basis, spending up to the salary cap.

Re: Todays Game : Sat Jul 27, 2013 10:16 pm  

The game was a disgrace played in front of a half empty stadium that isn't even that big. It was an embarrassment to Rugby league and it was broadcast on national TV. The final apart the cup has lost all its magic and seems to be just wedged into the season these days. I believe the cups have a place in British RL but the RFL need to have a proper look at it. As for London , well that is doomed IMO, in its current format at least.

Re: Todays Game : Sat Jul 27, 2013 11:36 pm  

The London experiment failed miserably a good 10 years now. If a SL team in London was ever going to be anything other than a pathetic embarrassment (and it's difficult to imagine how it'll ever be anything but now) with any interest from a fanbase at all then it would have happened in the late '90s early '00s when they were at the top of the league and reaching finals. Time to try and save RL in one of it's core areas by giving the SL place they're stealing to a real RL club now.

Re: Todays Game : Sun Jul 28, 2013 7:55 am  

I'd much rather a Cumbrian team