Re: Home Grounds where London have played : Mon Mar 18, 2019 6:57 pm  

We played Widnes at Aberavon, Port Talbot. We also played at Newport. The academy played a number of games at the Military stadium, Aldershot.

Re: Home Grounds where London have played : Mon Mar 18, 2019 7:24 pm  

I think I recall Reading and was Kingston mentioned. I've been to all those and didn't realise how well I travelled in the past

Re: Home Grounds where London have played : Mon Mar 18, 2019 9:34 pm  

Do not forget we played Bradford Bulls at Tynecastle, Edinburgh in 1998. It was part of the "On the road" fixtures, when our host clubs carried out maintenance on their pitch.

Re: Home Grounds where London have played : Mon Mar 18, 2019 10:00 pm  

Hendon FC - my first ever live game of RL, and the first under the Broncos name v Keighley Cougars.

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Re: Home Grounds where London have played : Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:02 am  

Did we play a cup game at Kingstonians ground?

yes, we playeda couple of early season Challenge Cup games?

Re: Home Grounds where London have played : Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:46 am  

Bostwick wrote:

We played Warrington in Carcassonne in 2002. I also remember we played at Crawley once and at Leyton Orient too.

Remember a game at the Orient - bloody vertigo at the top of their main stand!!

Re: Home Grounds where London have played : Tue Mar 19, 2019 2:09 pm  

What a great weekend in Carcassonne that was. Only bettered perhaps by Les Chevaux dangereux de Londres V Leeds Rhinos as the Perpignan club advertised it. The year of the Leeds Elvis look alike fans. Haven't seen French Gendarmes as perplexed since.
We can add the HAC to the list & of course Wealdstone FC where we played quite a lot of games. I'm beginning to think it might be easier to list where we haven't called home!

I have a feeling that at some stage between 1980 & 1984, due to a bad winter with many games postponed, we played 1 or 2 home games in the north to save the team coming down. Widnes would be logical because of Reggie or maybe Swinton. There was also a Lancashire Cup game V Warrington held at Wigan but don't remember the circumstances around that.

Re: Home Grounds where London have played : Tue Mar 19, 2019 4:57 pm  

Does Crawley Town FC ring a bell for anyone else ?

Also, I am sure that some venues mentioned were 'on the road' games which all clubs had to do, so probably wouldn't be classed as home ?

Re: Home Grounds where London have played : Tue Mar 19, 2019 5:12 pm  

Legendary Supporter wrote:

I've been and watched London 1st Team, Reserves and Academy at the following grounds:-
Craven Cottage
The Stoop
The Valley, Charlton
Griffin Park, Brentford
Barnet (The Hive)
Bridgend
Henley RUFC
Gillingham
Harlequins RUFC
St. Mary's College, Roehampton

What other grounds have they played on?

Has any rugby league club had more home grounds?
I think that’s one record you may hold.

Re: Home Grounds where London have played : Tue Mar 19, 2019 8:01 pm  

PC Plum wrote:

Does Crawley Town FC ring a bell for anyone else ?

Yes I recall walking to the ground from the station. If I remember correctly, it was in 2001 when we were playing at Charlton and we were drawn at home in the Challenge Cup the same weekend as Charlton were playing at home.