How long age were these very good crowds though, and have you seen the crowds in recent years?

Recent televised matches have been more like one man and his dog.

Their away support has been mostly the players families and girlfriends.

It's true, they have managed to produce a few players in recent seasons, but Cumbria has produced loads over the years, and what good has that done them?

The sooner they go the better in my view.

If 'Cumbria' were given a place in in SL I think there would be a fan unification BUT Whitehaven/Workington/Barrow would still exist and their fan base would still be the same, it would be a means to 'recruiting'.

The London problem won't change with a name, I think people compare it to football regards the 'having a local name' forgetting how big football is and then how many people are in London.

Union have generic names Saracens, Harlequins, not exactly connecting with the locals.

Barnet Football club actually attract less than Broncos, so being Barnet Broncos isn't going to attract people in, people talk of multi cultural London but it's just pockets of nations and religions, each one as insular as the next, extremely hard to break into, the marketing is more complicated than simply putting the word out and I think way beyond the capabilities of Gus the goon.

I seem to remember them having viynls on a few black cabs two years ago, needle in a haystack springs to mind! To be fair there was a big billboard outside Twickenham Station last year though.

Has Rhys Williams found anywhere yet? He'd get a gig at London.

Any news on if they've even got a team signed up for next year?