No Michael... That would be stupid. Coventry is £10 advance return by rail and 1 hour.......like reading and the exiles.

It's true that Union has improved the administration of its club game no end, while we've had various fat idiots sat in Red Hall assuming that the garden is rosy just because the bit they can see either side of them along the M62 looks OK.
But spinning the move of Wasps to Coventry as a positive is taking it a bit far.

I think the fact that Saracens spent 16 years playing in Watford, 'London' Irish play in Reading, 'London' Welsh play in Oxford, and 'London' Wasps will be playing in Coventry is symptomatic of something else. It suggests to me that for the large part they've given up trying to promote club rugby in London (I discount the double header, that's their version of the Magic Weekend).

Thing is, given how we've moved around and couldn't market water in the desert, is it any surprise that we've had even less success promoting club rugby in London?

Why is Coventry like reading? Please expand.

So what we have established here then as far as you are concerned as long as we own our own ground it does not matter where we are as long as its no more than a tenner on the train? Not sure how far you are looking to book ahead but I can't find yr tenner tickets

Just in case you missed it, it's London Broncos

Why is Coventry like reading? Please expand.

So what we have established here then as far as you are concerned as long as we own our own ground it does not matter where we are as long as its no more than a tenner on the train? Not sure how far you are looking to book ahead but I can't find yr tenner tickets

Just in case you missed it, it's London Broncos

As you love yr facts and figures so much, cov 1 hr ish by train then bus to the stadium 45 mins. We have people moan about 10 min walk from tube station
It's near enough 100 miles from London btw

Michael. I appreciate you will applaud anything the club does as a positive, but the harsh reality is that under the current owners stewardship we have lost out identity our fans and our SL status. We are actually Fulham crusader bronco harlequin broncos....we've played at more grounds than you've had hot dinners and until the said owner departs we will be stymied by his narrow mindedness. I have not said I want the club to move to Coventry by the way.....I simply said that it would be better to own our ground there than to roam like s being moved along and as welcome as herpes

GF - the said owner nearly departed at the end of the 2013 season. You're a well-informed bloke - could you tell me how long the queue was to take over from him?

please explain how London Rugby League club owning their own ground in Coventry would be better off!!! They would not be a London rugby league team if they played in Coventry. They would be Coventry Rugby league starting from scratch.
Who says I applaud everything the club does! get it in to that daft head of yours WE ALL KNOW ITS BEEN POOP, but we are still in existence and in all honesty that's thanks to DH not despite him.
So what is the answer to Andover Boys question?

Nobody wanted to. If he had walkwalked the rfl would have had to have stepped in and we'd have been relegated and folded last month. Instead, Hughes gets to feel leas guilty and foolish for his utter insane mismanagement of the club.
Thanking an idiot for keeping your club alive so he could further destroy it is not a pastime I'll ever do........and that is what some on here are actually encouraging

We would not have folded last month at all, quite simple we had no staff and no players so the rfl would have done nothing we would not have played any games this season.

Utter crap. Ak was bribed with a hand out/marketing budget....sky had told the rfl to ensure all went well in 2014 and they did.....are you really that naive michael?

Coventry is an additional hour, not an hour, and an additional £10, not £10.
Playing in Coventry is an unknown, what is known is that they'd be playing in front of two less supporters.

Another thread that has evolved into the same thread as 100 times before.

It must be the off season with not much to talk about.

Anyone see Wes N performance for Penrith in the weekends State Final ? Hope he gets his catching mojo back before he arrives over here !

'Degenerated' is the word I think you're looking for Plum.

It seems to have escaped some people's attention that there will be a Coventry side in the Championship next season. As for Wasps, this could be construed as a retreat to the heartlands, as RU as a spectator sport only gets decent attendances in the East Midlands and the South West (not stirring it, honest, guv

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Its a retreat to their own stadium......seems that they, like sarries see the benefit of staying put and putting Down roots......
As for the stir.....lol....harlequins seem to do OK....saries full most games....sale do better than Salford......you'll need a bigger boat

Discussing our home in a thread about our home.....my bad.

Interesting including sale in yr comment gutters thought you were talking about clubs that own their own grounds.
You honestly think the rfl would have put the money in and built a team now I know yr deluded and spouting drivel

Actually I heard whisper from a normally reliable source that was one options under consideration if we didn't start 2014. The RFL had contracts with Sky and Manchester City that meant 14 teams were needed that season. Worst case a badly funded shell of a club hobbling through the season may well have been supported by the other clubs as the least worst alterative compared to running a 13 team league. The team would have been set up to fulfill fixtures and doomed to relegation. Clearly David sticking around was always the preferred option, hence the marketing money.

The other option was to promote Fev who were offering to go up. I think there were probably concerns about that. Obviously the main man behind the offer walked during the season suggesting the shell London club may have been a least worst option there too, as opposed to trashing Fev a club with a good future if well run.

So just throwing in a question here!!! apaprently according to certain scources on here, someone at the club was bribed by the RFL with a marketing budget! Not going to mention any names as I believe without any facts comments liek that can come back and bight you!
But if thats the case! then what is the difference between that and Mr Hughes walking and RFL supporting the club through the season as was being suggested might have happened. We played in 2014, was going to say competed but that would be stretching it.
Mr Hughes in his wisdom decided to continue to support the club, and believe he still intends to! The RFL did not step in to run the club, or replace us with Fev/Leigh.
IF we were assisted by the RFL with a markettign budget so what???? was that not a better option than being fully funded by the RFL and then wound up this year as was the suggested would have happened?
Pressure from SKY was nothing to do with London!!! it was to do with "Magic Weekend"

the marketing budget was a bribe to the landlord.....I really dont see how even as naive as you cant see thias Michael. The RFL had been asked for years to help us out with promoting the game, but they only deemed OUR LANDLORD WORTHY when it was obvios we were going down. Are you truly that blind that you think that AK was given this money to promote us, rather than to grease the wheels and ensure we fulfilled our fixtures?
SKY wanted 14 teams in 2014....AK receieved all the income from our games AND A BRIBE/SWEETENER TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN......this is not conspiracy, the bloke stood up at the fans forum and said as much.

So what would you have preferred in reality their were 3 options 1 we folded and played no games. 2 we were fully bailed out by the rfl fulfilling out fixtures this year then wound up. 3 we did what we did I refuse to stoop to making libelous comments as you choose to do.
By the way option 1 and 2 would have made next season irrelevant

I don't use the word bribe. It was a sweetener, hardly unknown in business deals.

The difference is that David's presence meant less RFL/ central funding was needed than if they had ended up propping us up for one season. ( Your comment later in the thread it would only have been one season is cotrrect.)

I believe Leigh had no interest in going up, sensibly believing they would be better off building for the return of promotion rather than being a sacrificial lamb in Superleague.

To the best of my knowledge there was no direct pressure from either Sky or MCFC for Broncos to play last season. The contracts said 14 teams and Fev would have met that criteria.

Also to clarify, there were some voices in the sport arguing for 13 teams if we didn't start. Largely from other clubs as they fancied a 13th if our central funding.

Other folk used the word bribe!
as for 14 teams, that's what I said, it was nothing to do with it being London just the requirement to have 7 games at magic as suggested

Michael. the marketing budget was a bribe...pure and simple.
with regard to 2015 we have yet to hear exactly what the relationship is between us and the hive.