Re: v Sheffield (A) : Fri Jul 12, 2013 8:46 pm  

Scrappy, error strewn but it's over - London win 29-10 and into the CC semis!

Re: v Sheffield (A) : Fri Jul 12, 2013 9:06 pm  

I thought Robertson's was a try , no clear touch from Sarginson.

Some good performances out there though, Lee at 13 seemed to work well with another hooker on.

Re: v Sheffield (A) : Fri Jul 12, 2013 9:08 pm  

The Broncos defended well, much better than usual. Yet they had so much possession in good field position in the first half and yet could only score 2 tries. One of those was from the individual brilliance of Soward.

Does anyone really think that such an attacking performance will be good enough against any of the remaining teams in the semi-final?

Re: v Sheffield (A) : Fri Jul 12, 2013 9:11 pm  

Job done in what could have been a tricky fixture. Will need to step up a few levels to have any chance of going further.

Re: v Sheffield (A) : Fri Jul 12, 2013 9:55 pm  

Well done Broncos. I'm glad you won.

I thought as the match went on the team's confidence improved and that showed on the pitch. Soward shows what a good halfback can do for a side I think. He was a class apart really. I'm glad you have him for the run in.

It would be great to see London at Wembley!

Re: v Sheffield (A) : Fri Jul 12, 2013 11:25 pm  

Against my own expectations I thought is was fairly comfortable really. Shame to see Clubby hobbling off again, looks like he might need some serious work on his knee. A few decent performances and we're into the semi-finals.

Re: v Sheffield (A) : Sat Jul 13, 2013 5:49 am  

Still carrying too many passengers, a few of whom just aren't in the right condition.

I was very disappointed in Sheffield too. They handed the ball over a ridiculous amount of times.

Though old favourite Mitch Stringer looked very good.

Wish we'd picked up Tom Armstrong for this year.

Re: v Sheffield (A) : Sat Jul 13, 2013 7:56 am  

Colly2 wrote:

Still carrying too many passengers, a few of whom just aren't in the right condition.

I was very disappointed in Sheffield too. They handed the ball over a ridiculous amount of times.

Though old favourite Mitch Stringer looked very good.

Wish we'd picked up Tom Armstrong for this year.

Think Sheffield will be kicking themselves, if they hadnt made so many errors they might have caused an upset .
Armstrong does look like he'd be able to make the step up to SL.
Just relieved we got through!

Re: v Sheffield (A) : Sat Jul 13, 2013 8:30 am  

We were always up against the odds, "Everyone Loves an Under Dog" watching the match on Sky this morning (too tired last night) the commentary team were a joke! and I worked with Bill Arthur for many years (he was good at football) they were "wetting themselves" whatever the Eagles did!

After the match so many journalists knocked us on twitter the likes of Phil Kinsella and Gareth Walker, saying how we are not producing Any of our own talented young players and what is the point of London. Yesterday I asked quite a few people how many Sheffield born players were in the Eagles side, not one response.

There is no doubt that Jamie Soward is such a Big Difference, he is Class, the way he bosses the side, why has Rea never been able to get the team hyped up in the way he does and better positioned.

We are through, had a tweet from a Castleford Fan telling me what rubbish we are, my reply are you in the semi-final?

Great to see quite a few young players there as well, even from the Under 16's.

We have got to build on last night, take some confidence out of it!

Just TRUST that The Club will soon tell us more, also make matters clearer for players, who are so unsure what is happening, this Has to be done without any more delay!

WELL DONE LONDON BRONCOS!

Re: v Sheffield (A) : Sat Jul 13, 2013 9:32 am  

For what its worth I thoght you won easily last night, despite far too many handling errors. Is that a confidence thing? It certainly looked like it. You really should have scored 3 or 4 more tries, but its the cup, a single point win is no better than a 50 point win, you are through. On the day that was absolutely deserved.

I agree about the Sky commentry, awful, it seems you ruined the story they wanted to report. They did though inadvertantly throw an accidental compliment to your lads in there though when praising the Eagles players for their unflinching effort against some of the worlds best! Not sure many would put this seasons Broncos team in that category though you are clearly a class or two above Sheffield.