I think you're placing a lot of unwarranted faith in the RFL- there's been no recent indications that they actually still think it's important to have a London team in the SL anymore, and if they did, surely they would have intervened or at least made their views on the issue clear by now given our very obvious predicaments.

Also, not sure what the RFL has got to do with the "Olympic heritage".

Bingo, at the end of the day we don't pay to win the Grand Final or the Challenge Cup, otherwise we would almost always be disappointed. We pay to be entertained, and Soward generally delivers that. You could have stuck Jonathan Thurston in the London side on Saturday and even he wouldn't have looked that good.

On his own? Chances of London beating Wigan, Warrington or Hull with or without Soward - about 0.04 I'd say.



Extra bums on seats?



That was my point.



Which new fans?

40K trust me its a lot more than that Danny Orr was on a hell of a lot more than that when he was at the club.
The RFL would probably let the club sink if they could hide it under other news!!!
Sadly I think that's the fact at the moment.
What we have to do is perform next year!!! we need to finish mid table at least and that throws the challenge down to the RFL and SL
Can it happen? god only knows.
Spending to the salary cap, if we did it this year then there are some overpaid players, Clubb is leaving for that reason.

The 40K guess was based on 120K pro-rata.

ahhh in that case yr probably pretty close