Ian Lenegan said that the match with the Skolars today was the "beginning of a new strategy to develop the Wigan brand in the south."

Seems like one club have an idea about marketing on the capital! BTW the Wigan kids won 48-0!

Not sure of the point of the game, if it is just to send the Wigan kids for a day out in London? rather than a Capital Challenege it is really just a friendly.

It summed it up when Ian Ramsdale tweeted the scribbled official team sheet, I would have thought if the game was played under the auspices of The RFL, the referee would have had an RFL official team sheet, as part of his appointment yes only a small point, but it does not look good on twitter.

Exactly, what's the point of putting your club in front of a potential audience of wealthy and influential people from the City of London?
Much better the Broncos way....

Havn't we been doing it for years?

You could also do the maths, 800 people paying £15. Including a couple of hundred who paid for corporate hospitality. I know that the Skolars use it to get sponsors and generally promote themselves in London. Now why would anyone do that?

Has it ever resulted in getting sponsors then?

Shock! Jaybs has posted more uneducated hate (along with his usual Cr*p) about the Skolars. It's as though he's jealous of a successfully run London club.

The money raised by Skolars today will go a long way for a club of their size, they've shown themselves in an excellent light (both on and off the pitch today) today in front of men and women with money and their squad have had a good work out against one of the best Academy sides in the country.

But hey, the Broncos, they're great. They don't let you know anything, have had more homes than a gypsy and are run by complete and utter clowns.

i think if you asked the majority of people there they would say they had a great time. including the 6 schools who played in the tournament before hand.

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Good event as usual.

Those are some good people to get involved....still, the Broncos are turning away blue chip companies every day...

A scribbled team sheet. I wonder how a typed one ever gets done or thought about. Wigan and err rather more seemed to be there than last year. All round a good day, and the problem would be?

Gus concentrates his efforts on Blue Circle companies.

Gus and concentrates in the same sentence

Well done Wigan stepping forward as an opposition today. As ever it was an enjoyable occasion.
And I must say the fact the the official team sheet was scribbled down on any old piece paper has`nt left me overly crestfallen.

Good luck to Smokie Junor who has suffered a horrific leg injury after colliding with one of the posts

Well done WIgana and the Skolars for putting on what sounds like a very good day for all who bothered. Wonder If London will be invited back in 2015 or if that bridge is burnt too?
Don't be too harsh on Gus guys.....he's had a hard 36 months work destroying the club and he deserves a break!

Which bone would you suggest?

You misunderstand! the form is printed, names are written in, on the official RFL team sheet! I said it was no big problem,but why tweet it to show people how amateur it looked!

For some who think I am anti-Skolars, far from the truth, I get tired at times of hearing about nothing else on our forum, they have their own forum, people from Hemel Stags do not post constantly here, telling is that there team is much better run. I wished many of our ex players, taken on by London Skolars the best yesterday.

Why bang on about it. It is a minor detail compared to the destruction of our club.

The point of this thread was to show an SL team is taking London seriously. I thought you should know!

You must be uniquely bad at picking which threads to read then. On the front page of the forum at the moment only two Skolars threads are shown. Even then one is about a match Broncos have traditionally taken part in and one is about a possible ground share with Broncos.

Also it may not be that long before Skolars are the senior team in the capital.

Personally i want both clubs in SL but unless some very large investors materialise i think we'll be lucky to have one soon.

I would like to see Three London clubs in Super League!

Ian Ramsdale's podcast from yesterday: www.spreaker.com/user/ianramsdal ... autoplay=1 Broncos interest right at the end re attitude towards the fixture and Dan Sarginson

Ian Ramsdale's podcast from yesterday: www.spreaker.com/user/ianramsdal ... autoplay=1 Broncos interest right at the end re attitude towards the fixture and Dan Sarginson