Tre Cool wrote:
Our franchise started with Broncos when SL started.
Yes, but we had been around as a London RL Club before that and Ernie Clay was a rugby league enthusiast, it was just not a football club thinking of having a rugby league side. It was not just franchise time, lets have a London Club.
As Hedgehog King states Crusaders had their own ground as well at the start, give them credit they seem to hold their own in The Championship like Sheffield Eagles and have attendances which are better than many Northern championship clubs.
For some reason the sport does not seem to work big outside of that M62 corridor, however development area sides seem to try, that is why if the Broncos went down to The Championship, unless there is big money will they ever develop. London Skolars have been semi professional now 10 years and so much hard work goes in, but how far have they developed as far as attendances go?
I agree clubs should have their own grounds, that is their roots then and you build from that base, I just wish Wigan had their own stadium still.