Re: Anyone believe we can come back? : Fri Jul 25, 2014 6:45 am  

gutterfax wrote:

Simply put.......London broncos will run on the good will of Hughes and the RFL next year......after that the club is dead in the water, no amount of romantic remaniscing will change that

Maybe you were'nt around when Fulham withdrew, (no shame, I wasn't either) but when the 2nd Fulham entity went belly-up, is when I did get involved, been there ever since and for over twenty years I've heard the doom-mongers tell me I won't have a club to support VERY soon, and the punt-monkies, toasting and cheering the news that London RL is about to dissapear....well guess what? Still here!

No Stadia to play at?? Been there!
No Money for away trips?? Been there!
Not enough players to field a team?? Been there!
No money for kit?? Been there!
Owners pulling the plug?? Been there!

Been there, BUT still here! GF' you really must get over this delusion you have that London RL is all about Mr Hughes, it REALLY isn't y'know! It's about the few hundred of us RL fanatics in the capital, some have been around from the early 80's, some like me, from the early 90's, some joined in '96 with SL and all the hooplah and we've even a few more recent noobs, who have decided to persevere.

You may not like this, but I am not about to Foxtrot Oscar at Mr Hughes' say-so, nor yours for that matter! I don't disagree with your views on how it's been run, or on the dreadful lack of marketing, PR and promotional activity, I agree that Hughes has wasted shedloads of cash and employed imbeciles, but WE can't change that. Just don't get carried away with the idea that we are gonna dissapear, it really ain't gonna happen, Hughes might, London RL won't, count on it!

Re: Anyone believe we can come back? : Fri Jul 25, 2014 7:41 am  

Dead in the waterI DON'T THINK SO. RL in the south will be supported by the RFL and quite rightly. It's great to see the structure that's developed in the south and your club must now link in to the increased activity. I'm a RL supporter from the North but spend most of my working life in the south. I have always thought that any London based team will be up against it mainly because its never acheived any kind of stability . Getting people interested ain't easy, keeping them interested needs a dedicated team with a genuine interest. The London club must now formulate a plan over a set period of time, make it achievable and keep the supporters up to date, it ain't going to happen over night. One things for sure the souths got some realy good talent , it's now up to London to develop as a club and make itself attractive. Good luck

Re: Anyone believe we can come back? : Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:06 am  

well said pete

Re: Anyone believe we can come back? : Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:11 am  

mickyb1234 wrote:

well said pete

A few hundred die hard supporters? If your happy we've become a poor version of he skolars then fair enough, but don't be stunned when London broncos fold.
As for Pete......he said we'd stay up.....he was sure of it.

Re: Anyone believe we can come back? : Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:40 am  

gutterfax wrote:

A few hundred die hard supporters? If your happy we've become a poor version of he skolars then fair enough, but don't be stunned when London broncos fold.
As for Pete......he said we'd stay up.....he was sure of it.

Gutters, I've said this before but I reckon it bears repeating - it's bad enough the club flushing itself down the khazi these past few seasons without you appearing to delight in it happening!

Re: Anyone believe we can come back? : Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:21 am  

Interesting use of words in the RFL press release. The Super 8's will "largely determine the make up of Super League and the Championship the following season."

Presumably this just recognises SL will surely have a tougher ground grading etc but......

Re: Anyone believe we can come back? : Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:36 am  

Rob from Erith wrote:

Gutters, I've said this before but I reckon it bears repeating - it's bad enough the club flushing itself down the khazi these past few seasons without you appearing to delight in it happening!

How am I delighted?
I am loving furious.....disgusted and amazed at the demise as well as the level of acceptance of some fans.....we've just signed a retired player who was average in his day and yet it's being applauded.
Hughes has allowed failure to fester at the club for too long......once the retired player/miner and his mates have bled us dry of the parachute payment, we are loved

Re: Anyone believe we can come back? : Fri Jul 25, 2014 12:12 pm  

Interesting words gutters, level of acceptance, what do you want us to do? Go jump into the fast lane of the m 1 I would have said jump off Richmond bridge but we left the stoop so hey ho.

I will make the point again, god am getting like you now, WE as fans cannot change what has happened, so believe it or not you me everyone else has to accept it, because we are not in the position to change it, apart from watch them or not watch them.

unless you have a master plan AND the way to make it happen

Re: Anyone believe we can come back? : Fri Jul 25, 2014 12:17 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

A few hundred die hard supporters? If your happy we've become a poor version of he skolars then fair enough, but don't be stunned when London broncos fold.
As for Pete......he said we'd stay up.....he was sure of it.

Sure was, it was beyond my comprehension that no-one at the club could see there wasn't enough Props to have ANY chance at all, I assumed that in fairly short order the services of two or three big old ugly props were going to be obtained and this would at least give us a platform to squeeze a few wins from.

My son is 16, and likes cricket & boxing, yet even he has grasped the basic principle that RL games are won (and lost) on the platform created by the Forwards, not enough Forwards = No bloody platform! Excuse me for believing that even the imbeciles appointed by Mr Hughes would see what a non-interested 16 year old could!

As for us "folding", get over yerself! As long as theres fans, theres a club, maybe not a very good club, but a club non the less. You do talk sense most of the time dude, and for the most part you tend to get your facts right, but you gotta get out from under that cloud and try and cheer yersel' up, smile and look on the bright side!

Re: Anyone believe we can come back? : Fri Jul 25, 2014 3:37 pm  

With London being the richest area of England, I'm still not sure how we have been unable throughout these years to find money to get a consortium of millionaires with an interest in RL to invest in the club. Now we've been relegated that is probably a much harder task... but DH can't fund us forever and we really need to be putting the feelers out for rich investors to come on board.

There must be a plot of land somewhere if we could encourage investment that we could purchase and build a stadium on.... I know, I know... it requires capital to do so and also planning consent from LA's... but stranger things have happened.

Anyway, enough dreaming.... we are where we are.....

Do I think we can come back? Yes... I do. But it won't be easy and it probably won't happen in the first year. I've said on other threads all we needed is a squad to finish in the top 4 of the league... but having thought more, the SL in the play structure will always be a massive favourite. Not only are they full time (like a number of championship clubs now are), but the quality of player and their experience will give them a huge advantage.

Playing top tier opposition every week develops the SL team at a faster rate than a championship side (both being full time)... so we'd probably just be in shock at their speed and accuracy when we play the play-off compared to what we'd of experienced throughout the regular season.

Unless we were ruthless with the players and demanded (and achieved) winning each game of the regular season by 50 points (not going to happen), we'd be sat on our backsides in the play off game.

That all said though... a one-off shock can happen and it would take immediate recruitment processes to start for any championship team that is lucky to win the game to get players to keep them in SL.

I'm going to be optimistic... we can do it and come back yes.