Going to be an interesting one this one. Both teams did well in their friendlies this weekend. Broncos should be firm favourites but could be an interesting contest. Be nice to see how the new pitch plays at New River. These pitches should be the future and should give the skolars a good home advantage this season. Hope fans of london RL get out in numbers as the game deserves a decent support. We all moan a lot about how the game needs London and I agree and we rarely get a chance for a derby and we should all get behind it. Tickets can be bought here www.skolarsrl.com/club-shop/match-tickets/ Hopefully see a few of you Sunday.

Going to be an interesting one this one. Both teams did well in their friendlies this weekend. Broncos should be firm favourites but could be an interesting contest. Be nice to see how the new pitch plays at New River. These pitches should be the future and should give the skolars a good home advantage this season. Hope fans of london RL get out in numbers as the game deserves a decent support. We all moan a lot about how the game needs London and I agree and we rarely get a chance for a derby and we should all get behind it. Tickets can be bought here www.skolarsrl.com/club-shop/match-tickets/ Hopefully see a few of you Sunday.

What was the full-time score for the Skolars v Wigan Capital Challenge? Sadly I couldn't make this game and Google doesn't help and there is nothing on the web site while it says 0 - 0 on the Wigan site.

Will be down for the Broncos friendly assuming I can buy tickets at the gate.

Don't worry... I've found it. Skolars 10-28 Wigan

nah, we're gonna smash you.

I hope to be there

www.londonbroncosrl.com/news/gri ... n-skolars/ Broncos to play in away shirt, anyone got any idea of what it looks like?

www.londonbroncosrl.com/news/gri ... n-skolars/ Broncos to play in away shirt, anyone got any idea of what it looks like?

Last seasons Away shirt

Oh OK, there was me thinking of a new away kit launch!

could always play in skins while the new kit is sourced

FT: Skolars (3T,1G) 14, Broncos (7T,4G) 36.

A comfortable win for us (36-14) and some good plays by the academy boys but I wonder what would the score have been if it wasn't for all those dropped balls and infringement penalties we gave away? And a shame we also conceded 2 tries in the last 10 minutes. All in all it was so brilliant to see us WIN even if the oppo (almost full strength I believe) wasn't the best. And yes... the away kit was last years.

Away kit is certainly last year's away kit, saves on the pennies then.

Overall view of the game, not a bad hit out, skolars looked pretty good to be honest, fairly well drilled.
Positives for us: some good go forward with the lads hitting the line hard. Field kicking pretty good, one 40-20 rest put in the right place. Defence pretty solid, did not spot any glaring missed tackles and goal line defence good. Support play on a line break good.
Negatives: 9 dropped ball, penalty count 3 offsides, 3 offences at the ptb. Couple of ball losses on first tackle. 4 missed conversions. A couple of panic plays.

Lots of the youngsters playing with mathers sat in the stand, happy with the result though.
Skolars have a decent pitch to play on and a bloody good crowd for a friendly.

2 of the Knock ons, no excuse I know but 1 looked very much like hands in and one was a fluffed PTB, not making an excuse by the way.
It was a bit disappointing to see the "other" London team score twice more at the end.
looking forward to next week and see how we fair against the Rams.

seem to me that we need to smarten up at the PTB area. Penalties in both warm up matches to date.........let's hope they sort it out before the competition starts, because if we get a reputation for it, we'll be hammered by the Championship refs, who by all accounts aren't the best.

refs are not the best by all accounts!!!! who's accounts?
The knock on at the PTB was an incorrect PTB kicking it forward, trying to be too quick
Penalties, 3 at PTB was actually not as bad as I was expecting after the chat last week. Difficult to make that much of a comment as to opinions on hands in or not as you are a fair distance from the play at New River, Jamie B did seem to be allowing a fair bit of time and laying on but it was the same for both sides so that's all you can ask for. they were all early on as well so testing the ref.
Guys need to start making an effort to get to their feet after the tackle, hands and knees is ok but movement to regain is what is needed to force the issue.
Dropping the ball so much was the main negative, possession is key.

Priceless Micky, given that you were replying to gutters.

I thought the ref (Jamie Bloem according to the programme) was OK today. Mind you it was a much slower game than much of the stuff you see in SL but our defence was better than I've witnessed in years although in the last 20 minutes it was all academy players on the pitch. Spilling the ball as much as we did was my biggest bugbear coming out of this game.

Given that the Broncos were mainly fringe 1st grade and U19s I thought they should be pretty pleased with how they went today. I thought it would be rather closer based on how Skolars went against Wigan 9 days before. Skolars were fairly solid if lacking in creativity, but Broncos defended well, especially against the big forwards, and showed good pace and footwork. I thought Oliver Thomas was excellent in organising the team and Macani and Morris (who always plays well against Skolars) were always dangerous.

Thomas was excellent, assured and cool, a good pass, a good kicking game and backed up well for his try. Macani looks back to his best and I was impressed with Dwyer at hooker who is on loan form Warrington. Broncos were hungry and Mr Grima has a good pool of talent to work with.

*Oscar Thomas

agree totally, and Oscar Thomas was excellent, very good kicking game, much better than Catalan a week earlier. Overall a good performance, though the pace of the game and the lack of ideas from Skolars makes it difficult to judge. some good going forward. Main issues, some sloppy panicky passing - gave away one interception for a try and Skolars could, should have had two more. And play of the ball - we give away far too may penalties for interfering/laying on - a recurring theme for the last few years. Gutterfax is right, forget the standard of referees, if we get a reputation we are likely to be penalised heavily esp. away from home and that is likely to cost us.

but a good runout, some smart plays and given a basically under 19 team pretty impressive all round. i think dewsbury will be an interesting test, but feeling hopeful! (sorry Gutters i know optimism isnt allowed. Are we getting new away shirts? Last years look like hand me downs from HULL FC circa 1966................................... (washed out)

Bronc, all I was saying was that I am the first to have a go at the refs from the terraces, but in reality sitting in the stand its difficult to make a real comment. Ref saw hands in therefore their were hands in. As I said we were penalised 3 times for hands in or holding down, actually that does not worry me, most teams will test the ref early doors to see what they can get away with.
From what I could see 2 knock on calls were interesting, one the ball came out in a gang tackle in a way that looked like it was stripped, another was dropped at the PTB again looked like hands in. BUT like I say you are sat so far away from the play and the ref is 10mtrs away so Jamie B made the right call. It is the ball carriers responsibility to keep hold of the thing. Even with those taken into account if you ignored em. that would make 7 dropped ball during the game.
Just for interest the other penalties were 3 offside 2 ball steal one for continuing the tackle after held call and dragging player in to touch, and 1 that I could not make out the signal. Think it was a total of 10 which is too many.

Its funny with the shirt, that was the one I bought last year, I didnt bother with the home one.

There will be a new away kit.

On Twitter (about 3 days ago) club indicated that no date for a launch of the new away kit and hoped to play most of games in the home kit. I initially took that as no away kit but more likely recognition the away one might not sell as well.