Super League make London Plans : Tue Dec 23, 2014 10:39 am  

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Re: Super League make London Plans : Tue Dec 23, 2014 11:44 am  

Utter BS - the flailings of a failed organisation!

Re: Super League make London Plans : Tue Dec 23, 2014 12:46 pm  

Yea, I agree. Quins get 80,000 at Twickenham as they sell out every league match and it is very local to their support base. They also promoted it very well. Also, it's at Xmas when families are together and a good day out.

RL in London as a one off game will only be valid if they made the WCC there and gave themselves a few months of promotion.

I can't see 80,000 people showing up in London to watch Wigan v St Helens etc.

I admire their ambition... but a regular SL match won't set London alight.

Re: Super League make London Plans : Tue Dec 23, 2014 2:12 pm  

As an organisation Super League and the RFL have had 19 years to take the opportunity to create that sort of event alongside, at the start of SL, a not unreasonably competitive club. Too little, too late.

Yes you might get 80k to a Wigan v St Helens. You might find few bother then going to the CC Final

Re: Super League make London Plans : Tue Dec 23, 2014 3:14 pm  

This would indicate that they don't expect us back in SL anytime soon.

Re: Super League make London Plans : Tue Dec 23, 2014 3:20 pm  

A little bit too late to be pro active now in the capital... if they wanted to create an event, maybe they should of had a proper international each year at Wembely or even moving the grand final there (make a package deal GF and CC Final)
The biggest problem with the RFL/Super League is the lack of money and exposure. They need a visionary ( a massive shake up in mangement) like the NRLS's David Smith to change things.

Super League should have helped London find and own there own stadium by now (years ago). But instead left them in the mess that they have been in.

Re: Super League make London Plans : Tue Dec 23, 2014 4:31 pm  

The lack of money and exposure are two sides of the same coin. If you don't get out there you get neither. Retrenching to the M62 then shipping Batley v Dewsbury (it may as well be because no northern RL team has any brand recognition down here) at the Emirates will do nothing but waste money and put people off of doing the job properly.
What we need is international football. Then more international football, followed by more international football. We at the Broncos will have to sort ourselves out.

Re: Super League make London Plans : Tue Dec 23, 2014 4:38 pm  

good point

Re: Super League make London Plans : Tue Dec 23, 2014 5:42 pm  

They couldn't sell out a Aus v NZ match at The Stoop!

I wouldn't go and see Wigan play if it was in my back garden.

Re: Super League make London Plans : Tue Dec 23, 2014 7:04 pm  

Sometimes I think RFL stands for real F***ing Lunatics!