I gave up on the broncos/quins London a couple of years ago was a season ticket holder, now pop along once or 2 a season!
For me the real fun in supporting left with Mark McLinden, the rise of LMS was fun but false dawn!
The real issue for me and I don’t think anyone important, really got to the bottom of question of how important is London to the game. I think it’s been debate to death but never had a properly thought out plan! Plenty have come and gone given it great lip service but there’s never been a great plan for getting for the London team to get more people in. There seems to be an odd attitude to the whole thing, it’s a great game the people will just come.
Sorry that been a tosh argument for 30 years and why Super league in London is where it is today (I don’t want to have a pop at all the good grass roots work that has been done and I only visited the site today on the back of Phil Jones departure- and that to me is the end of London!)
Well clearly Londoners are too stupid to realise its a great game and it not worked. Sorry I forgot the other brilliant reasons for failure ‘well its always been in posh west London if only we’d been working class east London!’ and ‘ Its the wrong name’ FFS
But sadly those that run the game seem to think that acceptable we tried in London but it didn’t work oh well
Surely if you’re try a parachute product into new area I would have thought it has to be a great product and in sport that’s a winning team! London have never had that long enough and consistently enough. So for me I would tear up the rulebook just give London a winning team. Other thing that appears to be missing is the money to do this and that where the thing falls down for me.
Fair play to Gutterfax I agree lots of thing he says and marketing team/ department that seem hell bent on shooting itself in the foot at every given opportunity doesn’t help. But the team has not been good enough in last 5 years to get new people in.
I understand that that a hollow victory just buying it but it happens in other sports! It strikes me those opposing that are a bit like those people who sit in an empty boozer and complain when the landlord tries to change anything new 12 months later your pubs gone!
30 years on TOP FLIGHT RUGBY LEAGUE IS DEAD IN LONDON!