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| Ok I know that they beat us in a good second half performance and I know that our attendances are not hitting the 8k mark hoped for but yesterdays official attendance figure was......... 1,517
Having a team in London is a joke, give a decent northern team a place instead.
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| what another team from west yorkshire?? no thanks .
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| Why have a team from Salford ?
Average this year will be around 5k
Continually in the bottom 4
Not won anything of note for over 30 years.
I dont think we can really have a go at anyone
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| The London club have had investors such as Richard Branson,Ian Lenaghan and David Hughes.
Despite low attendances they keep on going and have lots of young people playing the sport.
Yorkshire owners of clubs are not very convincing and the ones in Wales who attracted the RFL were amongst the worst.
The club also signed some better than average players and supporters of other clubs seem to find the fixture down there attractive.
LMS seems to be doing okay at Saints so their production line may have started.
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| Why have ago at London. Can you tell me what we have done if anything we are just as bad as they are in the way club is run. And I am after consideration won't waste any more money on are team I reckon next year we are favarites for finishing bottom of table. So I reckon we will be lucky to get 3,000
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| Where else would your so-called fans go to get drunk, and make prats of themselves without getting slung out or a good kicking?
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| Such a bad trolling attempt by the OP, I'm surprised anyone is falling for it.
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| AGREE. I had to Endure the Group Of Reds Fans in the Wetherspoons on Twickenham high St yesterday. EMBARRASSING. men & girls in fancy dress .Chanting in a family pub about Scousers or Anybody their Punchdrunk Brains Could think of.No imagination but to Copy Football Chants..
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| In a word, expansion.
I think RLW reported there are now more kids playing RL in the South East than in the Leeds area.
Feltham, Staines, Hemel, Oxford and Skolars are slowly feeding into the Broncos team. That's unlikely if we're in the Championship. And the kids are unlikely to move to a club up north.
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| I would like to see a 3rd team outside the M62 corridor represented in the SL in the next 10 years. It would certainly give more of an argument to 'it is a northern game' isn't it?
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| I just hope no one takes yesterday's attendance as a standard. I've heard elsewhere it's the lowest ever, which is probably understandable given current circumstances (the team's performances this season, the Olympics, holidays etc).
Might also be worth pointing out that no London team has finished in the relegation spot in SL.
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| Quote ="matthewvose"I just hope no one takes yesterday's attendance as a standard. I've heard elsewhere it's the lowest ever, which is probably understandable given current circumstances (the team's performances this season, the Olympics, holidays etc).
Might also be worth pointing out that no London team has finished in the [size=150relegation spot [/sizein SL.'"
sorry, what do you mean ?
If London RL only averaged 500 speccys in SL home games, there would still be a 'positive spin' about them.
They are 'irrelevant'......END OF.
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| London's average attendance this season will be something like 2,800. Ours will be around 5,600. So, after just 30 years, they've already managed to achieve an average attendance that is around half of the figure we've taken 130 years to achieve.
There may be clubs out there whose fans can criticise London's attendances. We aren't one of them.
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| I always find it amusing that people who would no doubt call themselves traditionalists, and who claim to support promotion and relegation (as I do myself), want to throw a club out of the league because their crowds aren't high enough.
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| As much as I'd like to have a pop at London myself... I still see a reason to have them in SL despite the attendances. Just having a presence away from the heartlands I believe is important for one... but mainly... They have a very good development programme in the South. They have a good presence in a number of schools... so as long as they are in some schools and occupying some kids minds away from Union... I see a reason to keep them in. The public may not have a huge interest down there... but I've often thought they should occupy an area of London and use that name rather than use the whole city of London in the title... as it could increase attendances.
And for what it's worth.... I'd get rid of Catalans any day of the week before I'd get rid of London.
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| Quote ="Red John"London's average attendance this season will be something like 2,800. Ours will be around 5,600. So, after just 30 years, they've already managed to achieve an average attendance that is around half of the figure we've taken 130 years to achieve.
There may be clubs out there whose fans can criticise London's attendances. We aren't one of them.'"
Your 5600 average attendance figure is definitely up for argument. The attendances figures this year have been totally miscounted, with numerous corrections subtracted from the attendances first given. I find it hilarious the ijit's actually believe they've won more support than lost since the move to Barton. If there is an increase in attendances this year it totally through the vast followings of away support.
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| Why get rid of Catalans?
They seem to have more French in their squad than the average NW based team have English and the game is very popular in that region of France.
Of all the new franchise teams I'd suggest that Catalans are the most succesful by some margin and more than pay their way.
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| The short answer to this thread is, because we have an SL licence and a wealthy (and long suffering) chairman who is prepared to fund our losses every year (at least for now).
As for why we have an SL licence, because we play at a reasonable ground, and have development programmes that mean we've gone from the team full of Aussies that I started supporting to a team with quite a lot of southerners in it.
Let's face it we didn't get the licence based on our crowds.
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| Quote ="LoyalFan"...but I've often thought they should occupy an area of London and use that name rather than use the whole city of London in the title...'"
Something I've been banging on about for ages. Calling ourselves 'London' is a bit like you calling yourselves 'Greater Manchester' and thinking that people from Stockport and Bury etc. will identify with the club.
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| Quote ="Perry"Something I've been banging on about for ages. Calling ourselves 'London' is a bit like you calling yourselves 'Greater Manchester' and thinking that people from Stockport and Bury etc. will identify with the club.'"
At last, someone who understands that nomenclature has nothing to do with growing crowds. Salford and London have lots in common around the demographics that we operate in - i.e. surrounded by rich and successful premiership football teams plus top flight rugby teams (in our case RL in the shape of Wigan, Saints and Wire and one RU club and in London's case RU with Quins, London Irish, Wasps etc.) having first call on crowds sitting on our doorsteps. It's easy for fans of Wigan, Wire etc. to throw stones at us about crowds but none of them ever reply with a solution to growing crowds when facts are presented to them. In fact, if they were that bothered about our crowds in particular, then they should pop down to Barton and watch us too!
Also, it's ironic that folk suggest that you should retreat from the London name and stick to a certain town/area to grow crowds and then suggest the polar opposite for us!!
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| Quote ="Always behind the sticks"...it's ironic that folk suggest that you should retreat from the London name and stick to a certain town/area to grow crowds and then suggest the polar opposite for us!!'" I'm glad someone else has picked up on this. Personally I think renaming yourselves would be a disaster. Vague geographic identities don't generally wash with the public.
Quote ="Always behind the sticks"...surrounded by rich and successful premiership football teams plus top flight rugby teams...Quins, London Irish, Wasps etc...'" Now here it gets a bit more complicated. London is not quite the union hotbed you may think. Of the existing top flight 'London' RU teams, only one actually plays inside the Greater London Authority (GLA) area, namely Harlequins. Looking at the others...
Saracens have played at Watford for 15 years. Watford isn't London, even if it is inside the M25. Now granted they are about to move to Copthall (inside the GLA), but then again their average gate is about the same as your own.
'London' Wasps play at High Wycombe, 12 miles outside the M25 and 32 miles from the city of London.
'London' Irish play at Reading, 19 miles outside the M25 and 39 miles from the city. Think about that one for a second, 39 miles is probably most of your away games with the exception of Hull.
And the newly promoted 'London' Welsh will be playing (I kid you not) at Oxford, 50 miles from the city. And bear in mind all these distances are 'as the crow flies', which is fine if you're a crow, not so much help in a car or on the train.
So if RU clubs can't cut it in London, you do start to wonder if the the Broncos gates are crap because we couldn't organise a p***-up in a brewery, or if London just isn't intersted in rugby of any kind.
Quote ="Always behind the sticks"It's easy for fans of Wigan, Wire etc. to throw stones at us about crowds but none of them ever reply with a solution to growing crowds when facts are presented to them. In fact, if they were that bothered about our crowds in particular, then they should pop down to Barton and watch us too'" Never a truer word said. It takes me one-and-a-half to two hours [ueach way[/u to get to a home game. I don't think they realise how lucky they are to have you so close by.
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| Quote ="Michigan red"Why get rid of Catalans?
They seem to have more French in their squad than the average NW based team have English and the game is very popular in that region of France.
Of all the new franchise teams I'd suggest that Catalans are the most succesful by some margin and more than pay their way.'"
Because they are not British... Don't belong in my opinion... never have... never will. London bring more to the British game than Catalans do and I only care about the British game... not the French game. They take up a place I'd much sooner see occupied by another British team. Different country should have a different competition.
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| Quote ="LoyalFan"Different country should have a different competition.'"
They do have a competition. The problem is it's subpar.
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| Quote ="Chico"They do have a competition. The problem is it's subpar.'"
I know they do... and I know it's sub par... but personally I don't care. French teams should be in a French competition... Subpar or not. SL is subpar in comparison to the NRL... it happens... Scots Premier is sub par to the Premier League... and there has always been resistance to bring in one of the top Glasgow clubs to the English competition... why ?... because they don't belong in it.
There was a hope that having Catalans in SL it would have an impact on the French national team, but it hasn't really. They are still poor and always will be. People seem only too keen to give up on the London 'experiment'... but very quick to defend the French one... and I'm not sure why... oh I know... weekend booze-ups abroad.
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| Quote ="LoyalFan"Because they are not British... Don't belong in my opinion... never have... never will. '"
The competition is actually called the European Super League.
If we (England/GB) ever want some valid international competition in this hemisphere we can't sit around and just wait for the French comp to improve. Without valid international competition the game will continue to struggle for press coverage and keep losing players to union. Unfortunately, not all players are like Paul Newlove and some may wish to have some variety in their career beyond the M62.
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