Has top flight RL in London gone for ever? : Sun Mar 15, 2015 7:14 pm  

Discuss.

Re: Has top flight RL in London gone for ever? : Sun Mar 15, 2015 7:48 pm  

Paddock Punter wrote:

Discuss.

Under the current system, I'd say yes.
Once it's failed (if it does) and it's one up/one down, then it depends on who owns the club and how much they are prepared to spend. The current owner has been very generous but equally naive in his decision making. I suspect that the hard core will soldier on this year and we'll end up winning the bottom 8 comp, David Hughes will give it 1 more year and then we will be left to our own devices.

Re: Has top flight RL in London gone for ever? : Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:04 pm  

The club must be placed in close proximity to its junior stronghold, you need a top class coach and a director of RL who knows how things work in this country - might take 3 years but you will be back

Re: Has top flight RL in London gone for ever? : Mon Mar 16, 2015 12:07 am  

Invest in a Mike McGuire type coach and it can come back

Forget Grima, Henderson, Powell, Rae- get a top notch coach in who will stiffen the club up

Re: Has top flight RL in London gone for ever? : Mon Mar 16, 2015 9:24 am  

Yes. Because the powers that be, despite making lots of noise about having a top flight club in London, left the implementation of that vision to our generous but misguided chairman.

Re: Has top flight RL in London gone for ever? : Mon Mar 16, 2015 9:58 am  

Maybe not forever, but I suspect for a very long time. As things stand at the moment (both on and off the pitch) we're basically a mid-table Championship side and likely to remain so.

Re: Has top flight RL in London gone for ever? : Mon Mar 16, 2015 10:20 am  

If your talking about a team down here, then probably that's it. However the CC Final still happens each year and Wigan are planning to play a game down here annually so the RFL will say all is good in the RL world.

Re: Has top flight RL in London gone for ever? : Mon Mar 16, 2015 4:15 pm  

You have to live in hope or theres no point being a fan.

Maybe Marwan will get bored of Manchester,

Or, Ambramovich wants a summer hobby....

Never say never!

Re: Has top flight RL in London gone for ever? : Mon Mar 16, 2015 5:27 pm  

CrusaderPete wrote:

You have to live in hope or theres no point being a fan.

Maybe Marwan will get bored of Manchester,

Or, Ambramovich wants a summer hobby....

Never say never!

Agreed. Though either of those would be a miracle. Maybe there's another one hiding round a corner. Hope so because that's what we need to get back where London belongs.

Re: Has top flight RL in London gone for ever? : Mon Mar 16, 2015 6:22 pm  

We certainly won't get back to the top flight while DH is in charge.