I've never been someone who comes on here and slates London for their crowds or questions whether they are taking the place of a more deserving team.

However this performance is shameful, their biggest game in years against a Wigan side who haven't done anything out of the ordinary themselves and they serve up this.

Throw in the empty ground and this is just showing up our sport on national TV.

Pathetic.

It's awful. Bring back Rob Powell. Same style and cheaper. Featherstone would be a better opposition. Really feel for the Broncos fans, you at least expect effort from your side.

I'm not too worried by the ground, it's London's performance that is the biggest problem. A good, competitive game and no-one notices the empty seats.
No pro team should be being beaten 34-0 at half time of a Challenge Cup Semi-Final. Especially with the lack of fire and effort from London.

It's a shame, because I think a London club is important, but they just look like a dying club waiting for someone to finally put them out of their misery and switch the life support off.

Agreed. Rather sad really.

As much as I'm enjoying us cutting loose (we're far too uptight when we're ahead normally imo), this is pretty sad. Hard to enjoy it...

I think the Broncos need to go full time to compete with the more professional clubs.

Am I right in thinking they are paying full cap?? Wow if so. Could a change of coach do any better. Thornley in. This is doing the game as a whole no good. Somebody pull the plug to stop transmission!

Yep, surely the time has come - they are in a cup semi final which should be a huge incentive and occasion for them but their players dont look in the slightest bit interested and havent from the 1st whistle, maybe they already know and have accepted any fate which is surely coming their way now.

It's not an excuse but a full cap goes further elsewhere than SW London. House prices are so much higher wages must surely need to be.

I'm embarrassed by some of our play so far to be honest still.

they do get a higher amount due to London's living costs

Think they have a higher cap due to that reason

If only they did but as I understand it there's no weighting allowance.

its a shame because I like London's fans who are very enthusiastic, but I cannot see what can be done to improve their situation.

as for the game today, yes wigan are miles better, but the effort from London has been abysmal and I feel for their hundred or so fans that have travelled.

It's not often I actually switch off

As a Cas fan I still can't believe we lost & drew to London this season



For the sake of our sport Sundays semi final needs to be a belter to make up for todays game.

London get an extra 10% on the salary cap, it's in the Operational Rules.

If London did get chucked out of SL I hope somebody goes in for their coneman.

Didnt realise that, thanks for the info.

Watch for coach Tony Rea's post-match comments.

I like the previous one when he followed up a thrashing by some other club, and predicted that a London win was just around the corner.

N.B. Rea was fired as coach by the then majority owner of London Ian Lenagan in 2006. At that time Rea had proven himself an utter mediocrity as coach. He has not got better with age. But with Lenagan gone to ownership of Wigan, Rea was invited back by former minority owner, now majority owner of London, David Hughes, only to prove just how far that the former mediocrity Tony Rea had deteriorated.

I hope the London club are prepared to refund their fans' expenses after the woeful display today.
If they can't show more passion than that, then the sooner they're gone the better.

Ours is not a game you can play half heartedly. Stuff going on at London we're not being told about imo.

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The cynic in me is wondering whether that performance was some kind of planned protest by the Broncos players, making a point over something by embarrasing the club on national tv ?- surely no top flight team can actually be that bad !!

There's something seriously wrong at the Broncos. Whoever rehired Rea should be shot - the guy hadn't even been around league for the best part of a year. It's a poorly run, poorly coached team full of average aussie journeymen and kids who were never going to make it for their home teams and who see a life in London as a bit of a larf. The whole place stinks and needs rebuilding from scratch...