I should also say you have to be mad to get a bus in central London but that’s another matter.

London has an underground system that works just fine when not on strike. Tooting Broadway Tube station is some 1 mile on foot away.....10 minutes stroll or 5 minutes on the 493 bus.....

Euston Station to Tooting Broadway is a 27 minute journey....25 minutes from Kings Cross, so basically, arrive from the north on the Train after a 2hr journey and 30 minutes later your in your seat.......this is one game a year and hardly a huge expeditionary force type scenario.....10 minutes planning on-line and it's done!

Whilst I appreciate it must be nice to play teams from the same postcode every week, there's a reason why SKY aren't paying us what they used to and Wigan v Wire, Saints and now Leigh potentially 9 times a year may well be the reason...of we don't want to be ignored and then forgotten, we need fans who are prepared to travel, because soccer grounds look pretty full most weekends so the global economic slowdown must be 100% league

Yes it's part of that shenanigans. There was a station in Leigh, and another in Tyldesley ("Bongs" - like Atherton, "Bent" - historically part of Leigh). A section of the disused railway cutting than ran from Leigh then through Tyldesley and Salford to Manchester is now the above-mentioned guided busway. One thing that Andy Burnham got right as MP for Leigh.

I hope and wish Leigh all the best next year, yes they are in the shadow of Saints and Pies, but do wakefield or salford offer more than Leigh? Not sure to be honest. The issue that RL will die if it cannot get out of the M62 corridor is not the sole fault of Leigh, but the fault of the majority of the chairman in the north trying to hold onto a shrinking pot, which is only going to shrink more and more unless they can somehow attract more interest from outside that area of the UK.....

Remember Sky are run by comcast now, RL is just a fringe sport to them which fills up a thursday night spot, thats all it is.

Not wishing to turn this into a RU bashing thread, but RU has serious issues now, look at Worcester. They may still be way ahead of RL financially, but they've had to cut their salary cap, and a lot of pro RU clubs are treading water right now. If SL was restricted to genuinely viable professional clubs, those in reasonably modern stadiums with decent support, there'd probably only be 6 teams in the competition.

Wasn't Gus at Worcester for a bit......................

Hostile takeover?
'Oi Hughes!! Here's a fiver - now clear off!!''

No spat offered by this party, Crashers, mate

...a bit too long for the liking of their fans.
He also had a stint at Scottish Cricket...feel free to Google how that ended




You'd be overpaying for what's left

Best post ever. His posts are soooooo dull now. It used to be such a lively forum but he's chased most of the intesresting posters away with his relentless dedication to repitition.

In fairness Raggy poster turnover is just a thing and with the bizarre way the club has behaved in recent seasons I suspect many simply became disillusioned and cut their ties, although I agree the more the merrier. Many of these threads do turn negative but you know...in fairness... difficult to see the positives sometimes. The good thing about the internet is everyone can shout loud as each other. The one positive with the way the club have been going there is always something to comment on so do chip in.

Jog on!
Most of the posters who were here and on other forums don't post anymore because they don't follow the club anymore......a FACT that is backed up by yet more statistics and data.
And you, like others are incorrect in your sweeping assessment. I am sure Hughes is a lovely bloke ...he's just ruined a club with terrible decisions and appointments. And all they've done this year is double down on bad decision after bad decision, from the move, the blue shirt, the pricing, the lack of matchday experience, no programmes, no after match bands....and now they put on an event, they want £20 for it.....but you carry on cheerleading.

Cheerleading for Hughes? Why on Earth would a Hull fan do that? Years ago when I posted on here with sporadic regularity you had a different name, but was a still a self aggrandising dullard stuck on transmit. Then at least you was a minority drowned out by a majority of genuine supporters, so I still enjoyed the vast range of topics and opinions. I don't care at all about Hughes and wouldn't recognise him in a line up. I wouldn't even know his name if you wasn't so obsessed with him. I swear if someone made a topic about the life cycle of the African ground snail you'd manage to force in a lament about David Hughes. I'm not invested either way in the rights or wrongs of the man - it's just beyond boring!

Don't read the forum then. Simple.

STOP PRESS NEWS

Barely a good up & under from Plough Lane is Tooting Market where the discerning shopper can purchase an African Land Snail for the handsome price of £6 each. Big buggers but lack a certain amount of pace. None the less they could probably get a shot at 2nd row in the current Broncos team.

Probably be too expensive to play on the pitch, but if they could help out in the bar in the gold lounge then that would be really welcome

Hear the service can be a bit slow, so they would fit right in.

While not cute like a puppy or kitten, they are certainly intriguing creatures.

Surely Bongser is a breath of fresh air anywhere , he even has been known to sing Pavorotti style to entertain the natives , his talents are endless .

Broncos Twitter feed teasing big announcement in next 24 hours and asking what people think it might be. A deal of cynicism has greeted it as expected and if I was minded to my answer would be “is it something to do with the Gold Lounge?” What would others say ?
As an aside one respondent has suggested that Brad Foster has got a Championship gig nearer to home for next year at Bradford. That may be another testing start to the season for young Brad but I wish him well. Of all of (what I perceive to be) the JC inspired signings he has been one of the few who has basically done what he was signed for. Here’s hoping we aren’t phoning Skolars at this moment to get his replacement.

could you imagine if it was "We have employed Mike Eccles, and also London will be full time next year"....

But there is more chance of Liz truss annoucing that Leigh would have a new Train station as part of HS2, than London going back to full time

I’ll always prioritise the Gold Lounge, as all know, but I do wonder if an extremely slow and sedentary being might be better placed as head of recruitment and retention. Looking forward to the announcement that Eccles and Thurman are taking over and then perhaps we could get cracking on recruitment rather than like last year have to put up with a deluge of departure announcement before we say we’ve retained a couple of kids and some L1 prospects, who we subsequently don’t play much. @the broncosway

Am I alone in thinking this tease of news to come is just a tad childish. They have done this several times & has mostly been a damp squib. If they can release the news (whatever it is) tomorrow you can bet they could do it today. Just get on with it Hughes/Lobster.

Probably playful more than childish but the speed point is important. Whilst we are fannying around telling everyone what they already know, other teams are recruiting.

It was most probably Hughes himself!

And yet here you are....sigh


FWIW I defended Hughes from attacks on these very forums and applauded his stance against the RFL and SL clubs mandate that Lenegan be forced to relinquish his Quins shareholding. I felt that it was shortsighted for the other clubs to pull 80% of our fiscal support without fully understanding the impact it would have on us and I don't envy Hughes having to fork out £1,500,000 + a year...........
......but here we are, 15 years later and he has undoubtedly shown he was out if his depth and the RFL and SL leaders bear some responsibility for that I am afraid.