Re: 10 Days to Save the Broncos! : Tue Dec 03, 2013 12:33 pm  

The biggest legacy is getting RL respect in this country. Believe me England's appearances on the BBC have had a massive impact on the general public outside the North, a huge amount of people didn't even know RL existed before the tournament and now do and like it.

Re: 10 Days to Save the Broncos! : Tue Dec 03, 2013 12:54 pm  

Sky news believes the talks are positive: http://www1.skysports.com/rugby-league/news/12212/9055286/london-broncos-in-positive-talks-as-they-battle-administration Shame we don't know what to believe

Sky news believes the talks are positive: http://www1.skysports.com/rugby-league/news/12212/9055286/london-broncos-in-positive-talks-as-they-battle-administration Shame we don't know what to believe

Re: 10 Days to Save the Broncos! : Tue Dec 03, 2013 1:01 pm  

5pm today is the deadline for administration if no deal is made.

Re: 10 Days to Save the Broncos! : Tue Dec 03, 2013 1:04 pm  

The Hive it is then

Re: 10 Days to Save the Broncos! : Tue Dec 03, 2013 1:04 pm  

The Hive it is then

Re: 10 Days to Save the Broncos! : Tue Dec 03, 2013 1:04 pm  

The countdown is on......

Re: 10 Days to Save the Broncos! : Tue Dec 03, 2013 1:10 pm  

I just wish i knew who was negotiating with who about what? What have the RFL/SL clubs agreed with us if anything. Is it just the ground that needs sorting?

Re: 10 Days to Save the Broncos! : Tue Dec 03, 2013 1:13 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

The NRL can see the benefit of a team in the capital but a few small minded owners of pit town clubs can't......and there lies the problem. If you want a prosperous NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL game, then support the break away...if you like things the way they were in the 80's, then vote for Nigel.....he'll drive the game forward and by 2016 you'll need to subscribe to Premier TV to watch Superleague......as a semi-professional HKR take on Wigan in front of 4,000 fans in the Brains Faggots Superleague!

You need to get rid of that chip on your shoulder. No one, as far as I know, wants London to fail. As I see it, people just want a level playing field instead of competing against clubs with special dispensations. It is looking like your club will get dispensations regarding the overseas quota. I've no real problem with that, but some might, and it's a fair point to make.

Why should the owner of a northern club turn round to its fans and say that they will sacrifice their chance of success so that we can all have another go at making London successful, particularly when its fans appear to regard those northern fans as just followers of "pit town clubs"? And it has to be noted that 4,000 people watching a semi-professional HKR take on Wigan would be a record crowd for you in recent years.

I hope it works in London or the south, I really do, but continual expectation of special favours or slagging of the paying northern customers does not do greatly for your cause. It isn't the fault of the RFL that not enough people turned up to the Stoop, and that's the bottom line.

Re: 10 Days to Save the Broncos! : Tue Dec 03, 2013 1:20 pm  

Slugger McBatt wrote:

You need to get rid of that chip on your shoulder. No one, as far as I know, wants London to fail. As I see it, people just want a level playing field instead of competing against clubs with special dispensations. It is looking like your club will get dispensations regarding the overseas quota. I've no real problem with that, but some might, and it's a fair point to make.

Why should the owner of a northern club turn round to its fans and say that they will sacrifice their chance of success so that we can all have another go at making London successful, particularly when its fans appear to regard those northern fans as just followers of "pit town clubs"? And it has to be noted that 4,000 people watching a semi-professional HKR take on Wigan would be a record crowd for you in recent years.

I hope it works in London or the south, I really do, but continual expectation of special favours or slagging of the paying northern customers does not do greatly for your cause. It isn't the fault of the RFL that not enough people turned up to the Stoop, and that's the bottom line.

We don't all slag off northerners and northern clubs. Some of us appreciate that the north is the life blood of our game and has a lot of heritage to be proud of.

Gutterfax doesn't even live in this hemisphere so ignore him.

Re: 10 Days to Save the Broncos! : Tue Dec 03, 2013 1:28 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

0.0027 increase in average attendance over 2008, Australia conceding 4 tries in one game and then no other 4 pointers in 5 more games, including 3 dottings and a QF, SF and final that delivered 160-2 a score-line, 89% of the players born in 5 countries with not 1 Irishman in the Ireland squad.....Don't get me wrong, 460k is fantastic and other than Limerick, the venues all pretty much delivered and the foundations for 2021 are set, but in real terms, the RLWC exceeded most peoples expectations but was hardly a "National" event that captured the GB Publics attention.

Woods etc is hardly responsible for Australia being very, very good at RL nor the Irish not playing much RL.

I don't think it fair to compare with Australia 2008 as a benchmark. Australia has RL as first or second sport and their team were favourites to win.

Fair play to the RFL. They be crap at many things but this worked very, very well. I know the argument that Woods isn't really responible for this but he picked the right person. If he had picked the wrong one then we'd blame him for that so credit to him. (But more to Sally Bolton).

Happy to be proven wrong, but a SL that involves M62 Teams and a French outpost will struggle to nail down "national" sponsors and increased TV deals......The BBC will have been pleased with their audiences for their 6 games, but they will have been just as pleased with the other sports they showed that either delivered equal or bigger audiences.......SKY didn't miss anything and Premier TV is still a niche channel that will see thousands of cancelled subscriptions across the M62 now the RLWC is over....and if you think they'll get them back for wall to wall NRL coverage next year you need your bumps felt.

It was ever thus. The thing is that RL is not considered to be a national sport by many and Broncos (or Crusaders) didn't change that. Is the Super League Show shown in London or Wales at peak times? No, it never was. Oddly enough it was and is shown in the North East.

Engage are an insurance company from Harrogate less than 20 miles drive from Red Hall. Few people have heard of them in any context other than sponsoring SL.

To be any different, we need more than just a token outpost club.