Its time to stop quoting population figures with regards to London. The club need to be run like a local club. For instance Hull KR with their Pride of East Hull tag. A community team with community loyalty. You will not grow when you look at the entire area of Greater London. It can take me hours to get across London on a good day and thats without rail replacement services etc which often blight the capital.



The problems with the current set up at Twickenham is that they are not attracting the local community. Be it because its a RU stronghold (I don't buy that, look at the clubs that have moved out of London since RU became professional, especially in the Richmond Twickers Putney area) or simply because the club have not targeted them and the opportunity is now lost. Look on their forum at what the genuine London faithful think.



The "they bring nothing to SL" need to look at the grassroots work that is taking place in London. I suspect there is a far greater number of kids playing the game in the SE now than ever before or ever likely to have been without the Broncos. Look at the Hull leagues and you will I am certain notice that players are being lost to the game at junior level. That is not the case in the SE at the moment. Would you argue that the Hull clubs bring nothing to SL? Or does that measure simply go down to the number of supporters a club has that pays to attend a game?



What London needs is an owner that is not pouring the cash down the drain and a team that can compete despite paying the full cap. The worst thing that happened was Powell being installed as coach and Lennigan (sp?) having to relinquish his control of the club.



If the club is relegated (they have yet to finish bottom of SL) it would signal the death of the game in the SE. Do we really want that given its a major area of growth for the sport?



I could go on but work is calling.

Think the view expressed in the article is a sensible one, provided some actions follow. There are many issues with London but just walking away right now would not be a good move IMO. The trouble is I've no confidence that anyone involved can come up with and implement a plan to change things.

keep london, i like the swill that goes with the big smoke!!

Super League needs to reduce the number of teams in it, thats whats been called for and clear for a while, the London club proves this



They've been given longer than Crusaders and Catalans to have a go. out of the three its been the club that is in an area which there is an interest in rugby league that has become a solid-strong club.

If we go to promotion relegation i can't see london being in super league for long they need investment and a fan base wandering around like nomads does them no favours.

I think that is a REALLY good point. People come out with the glib statement of "a 6 million catchment area", but it isn't ! London is effectively a conglomeration of communities with little travel between them. Hence there being no "London AFC" soccer team, but strong teams based in local communities.

The effective catchment area of the Broncos is probably about the size of Widnes, but without the tradition and history.

No it doesn't.



The 14 clubs in Superleague need to accept the fact that 14 is the number they wanted and agreed by a free vote. They then need to spend more time and money in developing enough young, home-grown players to be able to compete, not just in Superleague but also on the international stage.

Catalan are not an expansion team. RL was popular in that region for years before Catalan Dragons.

I'm leaning the other way, I think there should be another London club. Both should have fixed homes and the building blocks in place for community clubs. Positioned closely, but not too closely together. RL, if done properly, could be massive in London. We have an amazing product.

get rid, there have had more money thrown at them down the years than most teams, they bring nothing to the table, poor support etc etc, would rather see the likes of leigh, halifax,featherstone etc helped along

By whom?

There is another london club the london Skolars based in Tottenham 15 miles from the Broncos.