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Re: Can London Broncos survive much longer? : Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:55 am  
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All it takes for London to succeed is a good coach which they haven't had since Les Kiss left. I'm tired of saying that but it's true.


Slight amendment there RB.
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Re: Can London Broncos survive much longer? : Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:14 pm  
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total waste of time and money


Aye, replace them with a successful heartland club with a history of sound financial management - like Halifax for example.

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Re: Can London Broncos survive much longer? : Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:23 pm  
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Slight amendment there RB.


Wow! Less Kiss. I'd even forgotten he'd existed lol.
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Re: Can London Broncos survive much longer? : Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:39 pm  
I have no problem with the Broncos. They have the finances to be in the League and their team isnt that bad at all. Yes they may have considerably less fans than everyone else but the fact that they are sound financially and have one of the better stadiums in the League. The best idea would be to do what the Rhinos did with the Tykes a few years back offering discounted sometimes free tickets to watch the game and try and drip some of them into coming back more often. Even reduce the prices if they show their Harlequins season pass?

League fans are catasrophically one eyed. How are we meant to market and advertise our game to potential investors if there isnt some form of representation in the wealthier south? There isnt the money in the North to keep our game solely up here, like it or not we need the South to survive. Union will dominate the South but at the end of the day we cant just give up without a fight.
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Re: Can London Broncos survive much longer? : Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:51 pm  
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Well we can argue all day as to whether London get backhanders or not but that's the problem with backhanders - hard to prove either way.
No. In the real world facts made up by you and actual facts are not given equal weighting.

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So what about 15 years of Sky money? Does this not count, could another club not have used it better? This is one of the big issues expansionists skirt around - have London justified getting a cut of this money for 15 years. This money is not London's by right or had you just assumed it was?
I'm fed up of Wakefield. This experiment has been going on for 117 years and yet they still are playing in a crappy stadium and, despite those famous local playing resources, fail consistently to prove their worth to SL on the pitch. Get rid for mine. All that money could be better used elsewhere.
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Re: Can London Broncos survive much longer? : Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:55 pm  
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Knock On Nigel wrote:
total waste of time and money


Aye, replace them with a successful heartland club with a history of sound financial management - like Halifax for example.

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Halifax went bust in 1990
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Re: Can London Broncos survive much longer? : Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:59 pm  
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The main issue is thier popularity (or lack of it)
No other club would be tollerated with gates around 2500-3000.

Really? And your evidence for this is...?
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Re: Can London Broncos survive much longer? : Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:01 pm  
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No. In the real world facts made up by you and actual facts are not given equal weighting.

I'm fed up of Wakefield. This experiment has been going on for 117 years and yet they still are playing in a crappy stadium and, despite those famous local playing resources, fail consistently to prove their worth to SL on the pitch. Get rid for mine. All that money could be better used elsewhere.


That is so poor. :SUBMISSION:
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Re: Can London Broncos survive much longer? : Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:13 pm  
It's all well and good heartlanders slagging off London but they've been to Wembley at least once in the professional era. Who else can say that?
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Re: Can London Broncos survive much longer? : Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:32 pm  
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Halifax went bust in 1990


Good old Ross Strudwick :lol:
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