Re: I won't be renewing my season ticket next season : Mon Jul 29, 2013 5:12 pm  

Mickyb I was born in Wigan and watched them fail to win a major trophy for the first17 years I followed them,and saw them get relegated . I have followed London around the capital since i moved here in 1982, including doing a coaching course with the Crusaders in the 1990s. Your suggestion that some of us are glory hunters is getting as tedious as it is inaccurate.

Re: I won't be renewing my season ticket next season : Mon Jul 29, 2013 5:39 pm  

Euclid wrote:

Mickyb I was born in Wigan and watched them fail to win a major trophy for the first17 years I followed them,and saw them get relegated . I have followed London around the capital since i moved here in 1982, including doing a coaching course with the Crusaders in the 1990s. Your suggestion that some of us are glory hunters is getting as tedious as it is inaccurate.

Re: I won't be renewing my season ticket next season : Mon Jul 29, 2013 7:49 pm  

mickyb1234 wrote:

Euclid! Enjoy the chargers next year mate. will just throw in the question, if they get spanked every week, you going to switch to a winning team? it is a generic comment, if you feel its directed at you personally then hey ho, it was a general statement to the majority on here.
Just a thought though without the London Broncos would the chargers even be in existence? would Skolars exist?
LODON rugby league NEEDS representation in the top flight or somewhere near the top flight, walking away is not gonna help

Rugby league clubs in London existed before Broncos, they even exist in places like Coventry, Birmingham, Bristol etc that have no SL side and never have had.

Re: I won't be renewing my season ticket next season : Mon Jul 29, 2013 8:18 pm  

Hedgehog King wrote:

Rugby league clubs in London existed before Broncos, they even exist in places like Coventry, Birmingham, Bristol etc that have no SL side and never have had.

Indeed they did mostly no more than a pub team with no development structure. The conference and Student RL have developed the game no end. However in the areas you state how close are any of them to entering the pro/semi pro ranks. And how many players over the years from these areas has gone on into professional rugby league ie before SL?

By the way Coventry had a RL team in the Northern Rugby League between 1910 and 1912.

Re: I won't be renewing my season ticket next season : Mon Jul 29, 2013 8:57 pm  

Swindon no more Bath no more! reading? no more.

Re: I won't be renewing my season ticket next season : Mon Jul 29, 2013 9:36 pm  

I wonder my blood
Will you ever return
To help us kick the life back
To a dying mutual friend

Re: I won't be renewing my season ticket next season : Tue Jul 30, 2013 11:16 am  

We've had good squads and good attendances (occasionally) in the past. This squad is god-awful, but there's no reason we cant turn it round with (another) fresh start. This is all getting a bit melodramatic, we were always going to get well and truly smashed by Wigan. We only beat one pro team on the way to the semi FFS!

I think DH has put his faith in people who should have done a better job of recruitment. TR isn't one of these people and deserves a chance to build.

Re: I won't be renewing my season ticket next season : Tue Jul 30, 2013 11:48 am  

Tre Cool wrote:

We've had good squads and good attendances (occasionally) in the past. This squad is god-awful, but there's no reason we cant turn it round with (another) fresh start. This is all getting a bit melodramatic, we were always going to get well and truly smashed by Wigan. We only beat one pro team on the way to the semi FFS!

I think DH has put his faith in people who should have done a better job of recruitment. TR isn't one of these people and deserves a chance to build.

I would add that telling players at the start of the season their contract would not be renewed plus the uncetainty of whether we would be continuing past this season has probably contributed to the underperforming of this squad.

Re: I won't be renewing my season ticket next season : Tue Jul 30, 2013 11:56 am  

Snoopy wrote:

I would add that telling players at the start of the season their contract would not be renewed plus the uncetainty of whether we would be continuing past this season has probably contributed to the underperforming of this squad.

Maybe, but they weren't performing before either so I cant see it made any real difference. The experienced players like Melling and Dorn have looked like amateurs this year and you cant just blame the club for that. Get rid, start again.

Re: I won't be renewing my season ticket next season : Tue Jul 30, 2013 1:36 pm  

Not sure you can have a pop at Curtis - always seemed to give 110% and I was pretty sad not to see him out there on Saturday instead of a fairly anonymous loanee called Fairbank