crashmon

as a Broncos fan, it would be nice to have some players to interview

I'd take the 2012 season. The 2015 Season is the one I fear will hapen again. Still shudder from some of those games,. Hunslet anyone

This Three gold member season ticket holders for 20 years at London, are now 3 regulars at Guildford Flames Ice Hockey (actually 4 as my american wife comes to the hockey). I don't see us going back to RL now, we have found our sunday sporting fix. And I cannot remember the last SL game I watched on sky. I think it was England v Tonga third test was the last game I watched on TV

He could have made the announcment at the start of the season. As for a while it looked like Hull would finish bottom, and by now we might have investors. Although tbh I doubt it

Everyday that goes past just shows more and more the stupidty of playing all of thse games in the same places year on year.

seriously just play Aus at LSV, Odsal and at York. Oh wait York is more than 20 miles from M62, LSV, Odsal and Doncaster

Sorry catching up on this thread. Wigan RL capacity is about 25K correct? So we cannot even sell out a 25K stadium in the "Heartlands", and are reduced to free tickets?

This very unlikely I will go to any games next year, (if there are any games), but might buy a membership just to donate the money to the club. I've spent money on more stupid things in my life.

I'd argue they would be better the Hull FC was based on last year

I remember having words with a certain "Man of Kent" that moving from Ealing to Wimbledon and going PT at the same time was insanity beyond madness. And was told I was a doommonger (amongst other things). Not seem Him for a couple of years, maybe he has a couple of Million in Dons shares he could sell and fund the broncos

Now if Russell Crowe decided to donate 200K to help save the London broncos I would imagine that would get column inches in the Daily Mail (and god forbid maybe even the Times and Torygraph). But probably more chance of Elvis popping up out of the grave / alongisde Jim Morrison and Jimmy Hoffa and all combining to buy out the Las Vegas NFL franchise

Fully agree with you but like it or loath it, if you want attention an a national level, you need a presence in London. So until RL realises this, you not going to change anything. this is not defending the DM. I would not use that paper for fuel on a bonfire if I was freezing, as I would not want to smell the stench it would release as it burned as its that full of s**** this is also not wanting the broncos to have special treatment either. Is a simple fact. The only way you change this is with having a presence and having RL things happening in London

Also are the playing at Wimbledon next year? I was not sure if that was still the plan, assuming by some miracle they have enough players to actually put out a side. There is no Skolars side they can gut this time

Also I don't see how you solve this either. Even though I think the superleague as an organisation is a Joke, the top 5 or 6 clubs in superleague can match the Aussie club teams IMHO. On the field the gap is not that big (if you exclude Hull FC), off the field its the size of the Pacific

The bottom line is that for the NRL, the pinnacle of the club game is winning the grand final. Thats it. For the SuperLeague the WCC is seen as the pinnacle game, as thne your world champions For the NRL is just a pre-season warm up game. Sums up how the NRL and the Aussies see SL. Yes we might beat them every year, but that does not change the perception that the NRL has of the NH and superleague in general. And you need to change that perception somehow if you want Penrith et al to treat the WCC seriously

I fully agree with you in principle but When the Wendyball teams like United, City, Real Madrid etc go and tour in singapore \ china etc, how many local teams to they play. What do they do to boost the local clubs and get people to go and watch local teams. I was at a cricket game in South Afroca a few years ago (SA vs England), I was chatting to a bunch of SA fans who where huge fans of the Premier League, kept in touch with everything happening etc. When I asked them which local team they supported (eg sundowns, Pirates etc), just a blank look Why would they ever want to go see a local team. Again, it all comes down to what is the purpose of the NRL here. What is the end goal of the NRL. If its to grow interest in the NRL and NRL teams, why would they link themselves to a league which is tiny when you look at it from a commercial standpoint. A league which cannot even afford to have the national team play in the capital. Commerically why would you ever want to link yourselves to that? Are the NRL looking to grow interest in the NRL, or in Rugby League. As those two things are not the same

This 100% Having moved down saaarth in 2000, its astonishing to see how much UK RL has retreated to a small enclave in the M62, while in the same period the NRL in Aus has grown from strength to strength.

Club union is also on its ######. Its also irrelvant. Its a bit like the whole levelling up agenda by the buffoon. When he told northerns that they would have parity with the South, they assumed it meant that they would get more money, more facilites etc. What they did not realise was what he actually meant was he would lower the south to the same state as the north. Union not taking games on the road is Union's loss. Just because Union does not do it, does not mean we should not in League either

Yes so was I. What was the follow up? When will the next game be. If I'm just going to get 1 game every 10 years, I might as well wait for the next World cup when we might get a ENgland Semi final

TBF thats exactly how the European soccer teams treat the club world cup vs South American teams

Now having a few SL games on the Road in London I actually think would be a good idea. Lots of northerners who have moved down saarth like me over the years would probably go if it was costed correctly seeing we don't get any form of RL down here any more, other than at the community level. Of course this being outside of the M62 means the Superleague would never agree to it. But again if you did this correct and marketed corrrectly there is no reason it would not be a success. But this thread is about the NRL playing games in the UK, not the superM62league playing games outside the M62

To those banging the SOO bandwagon, it depends on what the goal would be in for the NRL playing this in London. One of the big problems with RL in the south, is that it happens so rarely. Like I had folks interested after the WC semi in wanting to see more England games, but ofc now they are lost for good owing to the UK RL deciding that they want to be Roses RL and not UK RL. You only have 3 SOO games a year. Then its over for 12 months? Its a poor mans international (for those who are not die in the wool Aussie RL fans from those 2 states). People here would see it like an England probables vs England Possibles. You would need to have more states, and more than 3 games a year if you wanted this to be getting UK people watching the NRL. I could be wrong, I'm not an Aussie so I could be missing the point here.

Yes, your a RL fan coming from the RL heartlands, which the small regional oversaturated market I was referring to you in my first post. After living in the South for 25 years, and spending countless months / years trying to get my peers down here interested in RL (both club and country) I can tell you that 95% of people in the south have Never heard of the Huddersfield Giants (or any other RL club maybe apart from Wigan). TBF they could not probalbly name a RU club either (maybe apart from Quins, Bath or Leicester). People in the north think that the folks in the south are anti-league, and try and put it down in favour or the "other" rugby code. That is not the case. To be anti-something and to put it down you have to first be aware that the sport actually exists. For most people down here Rugby means the 6 nations. Thats it. England playing at Twickers. Thats what rugby is. I would love to have a conversation with blokes in the pub about how League is better than Union, and go over the pros and cons. But what I get instead is Rugby League, whats that? Is it an E-sport?. Is it played indoors, etc etc. I wish it was different but its not. The only way to change this is an England test every year in London. And even that probably wont be enough.

If they are going to play over here, needs to be a club game. SOO is meaningless to people in the UK. You would struggle to sell the concept. But a club game can make sense, as they people can tie themselves to a club

Also NBA tried and failed. They play the OTR games now in Paris. And the jury is out on the MLB games TBH.