Re: Any News?? : Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:04 pm  

so we move to the Hive, and the RFL pay for the rent/purchase and then we run a championship level club from there funded by money handed out by SKY/RFL share. Sounds sensible to me if my wild speculation is correct.

Fingers crossed.

Re: Any News?? : Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:05 pm  

Tre Cool wrote:

so we move to the Hive, and the RFL pay for the rent/purchase and then we run a championship level club from there funded by money handed out by SKY/RFL share. Sounds sensible to me if my wild speculation is correct.

Fingers crossed.

And crowds will dwindle even further as people will be even less inclined to watch a substantially lower standard of Rugby League.

Fantastic decision.

: Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:24 pm  

Agree Dave, crowds will drop to 500 or less, without money to get back to Super League, I see the club just fading.

Re: Any News?? : Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:29 pm  

Dave Lister wrote:

And crowds will dwindle even further as people will be even less inclined to watch a substantially lower standard of Rugby League.

Fantastic decision.

southern teams in Champ 1 get 500 crowds. Id like to think we can draw 1000 in Champ.

Re: Any News?? : Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:31 pm  

Tigerade wrote:

It was also mooted that LB would be spending a fraction of the SC next year with a view to saving some on the Sky income towards 2015 in SL2 to push towards a return to SL1 in 2016. Don't know if this was factual or pure speculation but it would certainly add up when you look at LB's lack of team rebuilding for next year.

I'm sorry I don't understand this. Why would we spend bugger all on the salary cap next year but remain in super league? Why would we intentionally make ourselves less competetive than we already are? If the idea is we drop down then come back up, drop down now and don't waste another season serving up below standard rugby.

Re: Any News?? : Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:33 pm  

The Penguin wrote:

I'm sorry I don't understand this. Why would we spend bugger all on the salary cap next year but remain in super league? Why would we intentionally make ourselves less competetive than we already are? If the idea is we drop down then come back up, drop down now and don't waste another season serving up below standard rugby.

Quite so, but this is London Broncos...

Re: Any News?? : Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:40 pm  

The Penguin wrote:

I'm sorry I don't understand this. Why would we spend bugger all on the salary cap next year but remain in super league? Why would we intentionally make ourselves less competetive than we already are? If the idea is we drop down then come back up, drop down now and don't waste another season serving up below standard rugby.

We aren't a SL club, let's face it. If we're honouring our commitments before
accepting our actual status within our abilities surely that's a good thing?

Re: Any News?? : Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:40 pm  

Tre Cool wrote:

southern teams in Champ 1 get 500 crowds. Id like to think we can draw 1000 in Champ.

So what?

Re: Any News?? : Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:43 pm  

Tre Cool wrote:

We aren't a SL club, let's face it. If we're honouring our commitments before
accepting our actual status within our abilities surely that's a good thing?

This ^^^

One word - Honour.

Re: Any News?? : Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:45 pm  

Tre Cool wrote:

We aren't a SL club, let's face it. If we're honouring our commitments before
accepting our actual status within our abilities surely that's a good thing?

We are an SL club that has completely lost its direction only in recent years owing to a handful of extremely poor decisions. I maintain that with the right leadership and structure going forward, then this club can grow. This clearly is not in place at present but the idea of dropping to the Championship is on par with the recent idea of a supporters buy-out in terms of realism/sustainability (nil).