Which is true, however if you replace 'discuss' with 'whine like little girls about...' it would stand more true

True.

Oh....how I agree with you!
Alas, the "my dad says you bring nothing to rugby league" brigade still have access to a keyboard.


I mean it when I say good luck for this year and beyond, as you as a club and fan base are a credit to the game.
Us Broncos fans will never forget the work you did for the Matt King fund.......great club, even better fans

I completly resent your remark, but respect your right to have an opinion.

If you read any of the past debates / threads you will see that I believed that we are not ready for Superleague and think if we had got a franchise it would have been bad for Halifax.

That said I do believe that for Celtics to get a Superleague place over the likes of Widnes was a compelte and utter discgrace and would have happened whatever rules the RFL put in place, because it is part of their expansion plans.

I also firmly believe the the Catalans should not be in Superleague as they bring nothing to the table, bringing a handfull of fans to every away game.

So dont call me a knuckle dragger for just having an opinion.

SORRY....


Simply put, if RL remains in the M62 Corridor it dies as a UK sport. Whilst our taxi, the vespa load from france and the occassional sheep worrier from wales don't trouble the turnstiles at Northern grounds, we do spread the word and as such, bring a lot to the table.
Flatearth believing, knucledragging, Flatcapped pigeon fancying whippet breaders are the stereotype that the BBC compound for RL fans.....not us cockneys. I know you are all good folk (even the ones from Hull

) but when these attendance threads pop up from time to time (yeah....every 2 minutes), I do get slightly defensive..........it comes with the territory

If we played away in France every other week, how many Fans would we take ?

Note the stand out point in this post -

10 YEARS + to prove it while a club from 'knuckledraggers land' would get how long my friend???

You contradict yourself with 'get our application in 2011' - so how are we going to get in with the 'expansion clubs' nailed on to stay in I have to ask???

I hate this positive discrimination towards the expansion clubs, thats what I resent.
Nobody goes on about the real success story of Hull KR do they???

Very offensive comments - GO AWAY

Who is steroetyping now then eh?????

Gaelic Football survives very well in Ireland does not give a jot about expanding, I wish RL could but sadly I don't think it ever will.
Is that okay with you is it?

This is simply not true. I'd even argue the attempt to expand the sport when the RFL cannot fully finance it is much more likely to result in the death of the game. As Fax4Life says, Gaelic games survives quite happily and the only expansion is due to Irish emigres.

I have nothing against expansion per se and more to the point, used to watch Fulham as a student and my brother comes to watch Quins when he can.


But licensing was the wrong way forward and will result in nasty financial mishaps and could set back the development of our sport whilst all the best youngsters end up in RU (which has just strengthened its second tier and INCREASED P&R possibilities.

Opinions are fine - but base them on facts, not fiction.

I do wear a flat cap occasionally but the real hiome of pigeon fancying is actually Wolverhampton.

But the simple fact is London has failed to increase attendances and unless Quins do, your business model is unsustainable. Now that is a fact.

Even so, I do wish we would all stop bleating about what attendances there are at other clubs. Sniping at them won't bring Fax or Widnes closer to our common goal of SL.

Cool. Could you send me our most recent set of accounts, because I'd love to see how we fail to operate with £600k of gate receipts, £1,200,000 of SKY cash and all the other little bits and bobs like sponsorship money, replica shirts, beer and food sales etc........
1,276........that was the lowest crowd in SL in 2003 and only 2,088 turned up to see your last ever game in SL.....you really did bring a lot to SL that year with your average gates of 2,976.....
When I get another response that tries to dismiss London or any other expansion club, I will yet again return with more FACTS to p155 on your bonfire. That is of course if manxviking doesn't suddenly produce this season profit and loss account from TW2



Oh. by the way, if you didn't play GAA football or Hurling in Ireland, chance are you were English. There was a ban in place up until 1971 on GAA members even watching an English game, let alone playing one, so I would have thought that the current decline in GAA membership may well be down to the growth of those English games. I should know......I was the first pupil at my Rugby Union playing school to play county football (wicklow...so not that good) in 150 years of the schools history.

Er a team that loses 27 out of 28 is not very likely to get good support is it???
I dread to think how many you would get on such a season when you struggle to get 3K with a decent team this season?
Remember you are in London which has over 6 million people which includes thousands of Aussies living over here who love RL!
As for Sky money you sure its that much???
I aint, i am damn sure its less than that, especially as there are more clubs in SL this season so that will p%ss on your bonfire matey.

Smart ar$e

Now now......that's not very nice. Especially as we gave you the only 2 points you got that season before you had them removed for breaking the rules.



If we were to get a 27/28 loss record in a season, then I too would worry.....but we didn't, you did, so it's irrelevant. Supposition is not fact BTW



I am well aware that we are based in Middlesex, on the SW borders of Greater London, population just short of 8,500,000 and that there are loads of Anzacs in this city. Problem is, we also compete with a lot more for their attention. Also, when you say they love RL.......I would check your so called FACTS before blurting this out. AFL rules in London when it comes to the Australians. The Biggest Walkabout Pub sponsors 0 RL teams, but 1 Auzzie Rules team. Further proof of the apathy shown to RL by these so called RL Loving chaps whould be the total lack of turn out to meet and greet Manly Sea Eagles in Shepherds Bush......about 20 turned up. These are again, FACTS that can be checked, not sweeping statements about our target audience....HTH



As for SKY..........you may well be right, but until manxviking produces this years accounts from TW2, it is irrelevant. The fact is, the RFL monitor our finances all the time to ensure that we don't do what Branson did and effectively run the club into the ground. Good job we didn't break any existing rules when that happened eh



...so in short, my bonfire is alight and keeping me and my smart bum warm thank you very much.