Re: Home Grounds where London have played : Wed Mar 20, 2019 8:32 am  

I think Dennis Moran and Jimmy Dymock made their debuts at Crawley?

Re: Home Grounds where London have played : Wed Mar 20, 2019 12:21 pm  

The first time we played in Perpignan was at different stadium to where Catalans play, I can not remember the name of it but I can still remember the banquet they provided afterwards and the wine tour the next day.

Re: Home Grounds where London have played : Wed Mar 20, 2019 1:12 pm  

PC Plum wrote:

Does Crawley Town FC ring a bell for anyone else ?

Yes, I was there. A grey and damp day.

It was a Challenge Cup game versus Batley.

Re: Home Grounds where London have played : Wed Mar 20, 2019 1:19 pm  

I've seen the Broncos at Brentford, Charlton, The Stoop, Crawley Town FC and Kingstonian.
Oh and Wembley too!

Don't think I've missed any.
I never did quite get to Hendon on those wet winter Sundays when we were London Crusaders.

Re: Home Grounds where London have played : Sat Mar 30, 2019 8:47 am  

wantawin wrote:

The first time we played in Perpignan was at different stadium to where Catalans play, I can not remember the name of it but I can still remember the banquet they provided afterwards and the wine tour the next day.

The Dragons started playing at the RU's club's ground ( Admiral Giral?) while Brutus was being upgraded, so it may have been there. There was also the 'on the road' match in Carcassone mentioned by another poster above when your boys beat the Wire: notable debutant for us that day was Ben Westwood.

Re: Home Grounds where London have played : Tue Apr 02, 2019 1:48 am  

[quote="brian2"]yes, we playeda couple of early season Challenge
I went to the CC Game at Kingstonian

You won against us ( Salford) My Lasting memory is Martin Offiah nearly breaking his legs after scoring for you Due to the Barrier being less than 5 feet away from the In goal area. I'm Certain You only played there Once.

Re: Home Grounds where London have played : Tue Apr 02, 2019 1:56 am  

Asgardian13 wrote:

The Dragons started playing at the RU's club's ground ( Admiral Giral?)
while Brutus was being upgraded, so it may have been there. There was also the 'on the road' match in Carcassone mentioned by another poster above when your boys beat the Wire: notable debutant for us that day was Ben Westwood.

Correct there first Season in Superleague was 2006 As stated they played at USA Perpignan RU For there inaugural season and Due to the Odd number of teams in the Superleague We (Salford) played them three times Once at home ,There first ever away game on a Freezing cold Friday night at the Willows in the middle of February twice in France .
Won at home and the first game in
March then got stuffed in 29c-85f heat in july in Narbonne.

STADE AIMÉ GIRAL STADIUM

[brian2]

Re: Home Grounds where London have played : Wed Apr 03, 2019 2:26 pm  

We played Dragons in a pre-season game the year they joined SL it was a a local RL ground a few miles from Perpignan. Saint-Esteve I think?

Re: Home Grounds where London have played : Tue Apr 09, 2019 12:43 am  

[quote="ANTWERP RED"]


We played at Kingstonian twice.
I've certainly seen the Broncos there twice. Cup games I'm sure.
Salford and Wath Brow Hornets.

Re: Home Grounds where London have played : Tue Apr 09, 2019 9:20 am  

Deadcowboys1 wrote:

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.

The Widnes games were season 82/83, against Swinton and Huddersfield on 12th. and 14th. April, we also played our last game of the season against Cardiff on Cup Final eve at Stamford Bridge. The problem was the appalling state of the pitch at Craven Cottage which turned out to be due to the drain carrying the water off the pitch into the river having collapsed. In 84/85 we played three games at Wealdstone F.C.'s old ground - seen RL played in some interesting places in my time!