Next up - Huddersfield at home. Lots of positives to take from our most recent game Vs Hull and the players will be keen to right the wrongs (especially the 15-20 min blip after HT).

I think most Bronco fans will agree that this is our biggest game of the season so far. Huddersfield will be confident after defeating Hull KR last time out, albeit KR having a huge injury list and fielded a much weakened team.

Bookies have Huddersfield as slight favs.

Agree, a crucial game. We do jsut need (just!) to cut out the going to sleep for 15 minute patches, we have shown we can defend and attack, so do both for 80mins and we can win!

Any injury news?

cant call this game, expect it to be a close one.... we only named 18 players last week so are still struggling for players which has been the main reason for our poor start again! roberts got injured v kr so wont play. expect obrien to come back though this week which will help leeming on the hooking duties.. others wont be rushed back on that pitch.

more importantly we have our spine playing together regularly now... mcintosh, gaskell/frawley and leeming.

making my first trip down to this stadium!

Having watched Hudds beat Wigan I thought they looked strong. The KR result (KR injuries aside) didn't surprise me

We need to concentrate for 80 mins(first 20 in second half is our weak spot) contain any big forwards they have and we can beat them.

We are fit enough, have the strike, decent defence patterns.... its 80 mins we need to do it for and we can take the points.

With last weekend's results this fixture has become much more of a must-win game for us.
Tighten up the slackness, don't give the ball or any soft penalties away.
Play the full 80 minutes.

I do not expect James Cunningham to be back this week. He said on Sunday he will be out for at least two weeks.
Helliwell is fit again, having turned out for Sheffield last weekend. He may figure in the nineteen if Wardy wants to freshen things up.

Where is Ioane??

we need Ioane and Hellewell back. Didn't young Rob Butler have a fantastic game punching well above his weight and experience

Ioane seems to be out of favour, with Rob Butler being picked ahead of him. He was sat out at the side of the pitch on Sunday with James Cunningham and it did not look to me that he was injured.
It will be interesting to see if he goes to Sheffield on DR. Sid played there last week, so one wonders how far down the pecking order Mark is.

We lacked a bit of punch in the game on Sunday, could do with Mark back, although to be be honest he has not been hitting the line as well as he was back end of last season. He has gone back to turning his back as he hits the tackler, that’s ok if he can get the offload, but if not it results in a slow ptb.
Maybe a bit of time out is to give him a rest, hope to see him back on Sunday coming.

Hi guys, where is the best place to park at your place please and is there anywhere decent for food beforehand?

Lots of places in Ealing itself buddy. Parking in Ealing itself usual charges, in town there s a multi story above the shopping centre. Fairfew chain eating places and a few independent.
If you are not pre booked into Trailfinders car park,it’s a case of finding on street parking around the houses.
You will prob get a few folk coming back with pub ideas not far from the ground.
In town the grove opposite Ealing green is ok.

Much appreciated, thank you

The Drayton or the Duke of Kent are both pretty good for food, as is the North Star in the middle of Ealing. There's a "spoons" if you're after a bargain.
I've not found fault with the food or beer inside the ground....£50 notes includes a 2 course meal, tea and coffee at half time, parking and a grandstand seat. Given that a ticket is a score on its own, that's pretty good given you can park at the club.....

Looking forward to attending what seems like the “hundredth” stadium London have played at for the first time.
A season defining game for both sides I think. Huddersfield seem to be the favourites.

Maybe not season defining but certainly important. London need to win ether home games against bottom half teams.

Cracking weather for a game of RL, hope the rugby matches it!

Very disappointing performance..Getting a 1st half hiding.

Basically out muscled all over the park today!
Goal line defence very poor, seemed like every time Hudds got within 5 mtrs of the line they were going over to score. Kicking option seemed to go missing today. Real shame think we needed that win today

NB- The Ref put Hudds on team warning. Couple of minutes later penalise them for offside ie in front of the ball

Why didn't he not send him to the bin?

Are there different types of penalties?

Ps something similar happened in the Cats v Wire game. Player got penalised for moving of the mark when attacking but wasn't sin binned.

Strange that the referee after putting them on a team warning then failed to send one to the sin bin two minutes later.Not surprised really when before the game he was chatting to a family from Huddersfield who seemed to be good friends and then find out via facebook that he used to play for Huddersfield giants academy.
In football if you declare you support a team you cannot referee them.

That used to be the case in RL but Ganson a Saints fan missed out on the big finals so it was changed. I remember Ganson coming to ref Quins v Saints at the Stoop with his son in a Saints top!

Are you seriously insinuating that the referee cheated to lose you the game?


There’s no time limit on a team warning- and no signal from the ref as to when he deems the warning over.

What struck me about London was they have pace, on the break not many will catch you, and you scored most of your tries through our errors and from missed tackles- but creativity was almost non existent. your players made almost as many metres sideways as they did going forward just looking for a space to open up rather than creating that space.
Your pace will win you a few games this season. Good luck. I love my trips to London so I’m hoping you stay in SL.

I did not say he cheated but is a bit strange that he is allowed to referee obviously his favourite team. If anyone was to referee their favourite team i dont care who you are , you are going to favour them.Straight after the warning there were players blatantly offside which he chose to ignore.

London have a habit of going sidewards looking for breaks in the defensive line.It will be a struggle this season as every team are far bigger in size than London bar one or two players.