After yesterdays win, next weekends cup game against Featherstone will not be easy, but this is a winnable game.
We owe them for beating us in the tea cup last season, but I do not think that they are the team they were.
Home advantage should pay, cut out the errors and we should go through to the next round. Then who knows?
Anyone fancy a nice trip to France ? Anyway bring it on.

Will be good to me Mr Eliab getting a run out too!

They're another bogey team

Hope eliab gets a run out, a win is a win in the cup but let's be honest, we are going to win the cup so I see the league fixture he following week as a lot more important.

Sure the Bradford game will be a good measure of where we are as a team. Odsal is a difficult place to go, but winning can be a habit and we have it at the moment, we need to keep it up.

Bostwick, you have it right their, once the team gets the mental set right then it works for them, a winning mentality and habit is always worth a couple of points in a game, when they go behind then heads don't drop as easy. When you are constantly losing very quickly you see that "here we go again" body language. So true we ain't going to Wembley but a win against fev would be good and it keeps the momentum, then next round actually nit really to bothered as as long as we avoid a 60/70 point drubbing.
Might even try and get up too Bradford, I think we could do with a good performance up at odsal to shake off the away fixture catalan comparison.

We have Mr Ansell as our referee for our cup match this weekend. We had him a couple of weeks ago when we played Halifax.

hi all, sorry if this has been done to death already (but I cant see it if so) but how limited is the parking at Trailfinders? If I turn up at 19:45 on Saturday am I likely to be turned away and if so where else is there to park? I havent made it down to the new ground yet and public transport isnt an option for me for this one. Also I presume just chipping up and buying a ticket at that time will mean standing by the side of the pitch?

You should be fine. Even when Halifax came with a reasonable support there was plenty of capacity - plus there is the adjoining residential area where I park, saving a fiver !

cheers. Didnt want to find myself pushed back out onto the A40 with no idea where to go next. As long as there is parking in the area that'll do nicely. Cmon the Broncos!

Toulouse

Catalan don't join the competition until the 6th round.

Good to see Israel in the 19 for this Cup Tie, no Wes & no Cunningham. www.londonbroncosrl.com/news/hen ... -cup-side/

Good to see Israel in the 19 for this Cup Tie, no Wes & no Cunningham. www.londonbroncosrl.com/news/hen ... -cup-side/

Quote ="Torbreck"Good to see Israel in the 19 for this Cup Tie, no Wes & no Cunningham. www.londonbroncosrl.com/news/hen ... -cup-side/'" Ioane & Slyney also rested, and I'm assuming Keyes has been dropped? Judging by Hendo's assessment of his performance last week!

Quote ="Torbreck"Good to see Israel in the 19 for this Cup Tie, no Wes & no Cunningham. www.londonbroncosrl.com/news/hen ... -cup-side/'" Ioane & Slyney also rested, and I'm assuming Keyes has been dropped? Judging by Hendo's assessment of his performance last week!

It is more important to beat Fev in the League than in the Cup, but even with players rested this 19 can do the job! Hats off to Hendo for getting such a solid squad. (and that is without Stapleton and Lovegrove)

Atomic, I was not suggesting we would get a fixture against Catalan.

It was suggested by the press at another club that London Broncos suffered from Catalan Dragons syndrome in that we did not travel well

On a Featherstone site, they feel that we will be a pushover, with Wes out, Slyney and Ioane not included, we have no kicker and no props.
Let them under estimate us. Do they not understand we have a squad for this very reason.
Be nice to see Israel getting his debut, let us hope he has a winning start.

On a London site, they feel that we (Fev) are "not the team we were".
Let them under estimate us.

May the best side win! Izzy Wizzy let's get busy!

What will be interesting is to see how many Featherstone fans the game attracts.
It being a late kick off and having a league fixture the week after and a live feed to the clubhouse will conspire to reduce the away support.
Still it will be nice for us to be able to bring out the old chestnut for once. DID YOU ALL COME IN THE SAME CAR !!!!!!!!!!!

Which London site? I don't think anyone on here is assuming anything. Our performances have not been brilliant so far, we have had to grind out the wins. I would not suggest that Hendo or the club did not have as much focus on the CC but with the 2 games over easter coming up it might be safe to say that may have had an effect on selection.

Exactly. Should be an interesting game, both teams look to be without 3 or 4 regulars (Briggs, Ellis, Wildie & Snitch the absentees for Fev, not sure if our captain Tim Spears will still be out), but both teams still look strong. One thing that often seems to happen in our league is that what happens one week is often no guide to what will happen later between the same two teams (look at the home & away games between our two clubs last year), so whatever Saturday's result the League game might be a different matter.

This one, and this thread! The original poster in this thread made the comment about this being a winnable game & Fev not being the team they were, then the same poster mentioned posts from our forum suggesting London would be a pushover (nobody used that word incidentally). It's a tough game to call, for me.

Yes, because of the Featherstone Lions game the travelling support from Fev for this specific game will probably be the smallest in recent history - we actually took more over to Catalans last year for the Cup game than we are likely to bring on Saturday, the Lions are a very important part of the rugby league fabric in the town.

And yes, AFAIK there isn't a supporters' coach coming down, so feel free to use the taxi jibe!

London has the patent for the 'taxi Jibe'

think of your own!!!

Bostwick,

Devil's Advocate here, why shouldn't Fev be confident since all they are playing against is a team that has won 5 games against sides that are in the bottom 6 of our league and had one "good" loss against the league leaders from last year during a period in which they (Leigh) were in turmoil?

Maybe you should temper your expectations?



Sits back down by the pond (or should that be taxi) and gets the fishing net out.