Idiotic comment of the year so far!

Do you have any proof that Bentham is a "cheat" & walked out on the pitch thinking I know I'll make sure London lose today or did he just give a decision you disagreed with

I'm sorry to say this but the best bit of yesterday's game for me was getting in the car and driving out of the ground.

Will I be back at the moment I can say hand on heart no I wont. I think I might spend my summer fishing instead, less aggro and to be honest less of a drive round the M25 for that.

Everybody already said about the performance of the team, so wont add to that apart from I agree with it all.
If things don't improve I can see Dixon off at the end of the season (if not before), same can be said about Sarg too.

I started to worry about this game when watching the warm up before hand. I looked at our lot just running around or not doing much really, looked like they were doing some running drills while the forwards ran into the heavy bags. then got together and then some sort of drill where they bang into each others shoulders.

so I looked at Wakey. first thing I noticed their forwards ran into the heavy bags a lot harder. the backs were doing some sort of drill where they caught the ball rolled on floor and got up quick into a PTB postion or run into the coach turned fast and offloaded to the player running behind. But one thing stuck out the most was Sykes, Smith and one other player did not see who it was(think it was the hooker) were all practicing kicks to corners both high for the wingers plus low along the ground and watched the bounce each time. Smith also then practiced grubbers along the ground around the goalposts but also out into the corners. the ones into the corners were interesting as he had a coach or player stand there who it looked like were judging the distance of the ingoal area ( I may be wrong there).

6-0 at half time the guy next to me said that's not bad they can come out in second half and turn this round, I said did you see the way they walked off. it was like they were 30-0 down, which lets be honest could have been so close to that if Wakey just had the bounce of the ball that half. Where as Wakey jogged off, so I wasn't as positive as him about the second half ( I really wanted to be proofed wrong). But atlas I wasn't.

In physical impact team sports the quality teams are often beaten by lesser, but more determined teams. I fear we fit into neither category and dread to think how this season will pan out. I was there at the birth of this club in Fulham and now sense the organ player is preparing for the funeral service march. DH has made some serious errors of judgement in his personnel recruitment and his financial loss this season will be his biggest. Im not worried about us moving to Gillingham now (even though i sense Leyton was the more likely outcome) as i think DH will realise he has a dead duck on his hands and will call it a day this season and cut his losses. I will have to check where my black suit is.

RFL state sin-binning sufficient for Michael Witt following a dissent offence in the 59th minute on Sunday.

I found the performance offensive as well! Does seem that the RFL agreed with Witt!

On a positive note, I see Wheeldon made 192 metres and 31 tackles (no pens or errors either)...seems like a good effort. Anyone know who got the defender award ?

Fusi put in a better shift too...145 metres (more than double what he did in the previous two games).

They eventually trapsed into the Kings Bar about 1800.
Dixon got the defending award and Wheeldon the Players player.

KD did pop up all over the place and was his usual enthusiastic self but as he only made 5 tackles and missed 5, he will have better days! (hopefully when the rest of the team sort themselves out).

TR clearly doesnt fancy Krasniqui as he was on for 10 mins at the most

One plus if Broncos go to Gillingham is that i wont feel compelled to get season ticket. As they are currently fairly local to me i tend to get one as generally a nice afternoon out, meeting up with fellow fans and hopefully some good live rugby league. Wont get season ticket for Gillingham, so if they not performing i wont be attending wasting time and money on team that cant be d bar a few players. They will have to earn my money next season rather than i paying up full of optimism only to have hopes dashed over and over. I was sitting there thinking, flip me, we have lost at home to 2 of the so called lesser teams that we may have got a win against, another 11 to go with possible 2 winnables left bar a miraculous turn around.



Saw David Hughes face after match, if looks could kill not a happy chappy.

Were Catalans not interested in friendly we played, as how can we beat them then when the league starts all gone to pot once more.

No doubt another hammering

will be served up by Wigan this weekend. Hope i am wrong, but you cant see anything else happening at present. ho hummmmmmm

Can't be true. He's deliberately running the club into the ground remember?




Does anyone know why Dixon was moved from FB to left hand wing?

Dixon has played 2, 1 and 5. At right centre, we've had Howell, Channing and O'Callaghan. Hurst has played 1, 2 and 4. At stand-off, we've had Witt, Dorn and Bailey. We have had 3 games.

I would say that the answer is something to do with Rea not having a clue what his best 1-6 looks like.

Fair enough. He moved during the game I noticed on the highlights package. Had he played poorly at FB in that game? Or just injuries causing a reshuffle?

Dixon's made a lot of errors this year, esp. at Huddersfield. I don't have a big problem with that as that will happen to a player who gets involved but I think that Rea then wanted to shield him once Robertson came back. However, I have no clue as to why Dixon was a left winger last year, then a right winger in pre-season/games 1 and 2, then a left winger in game 3. But I think Hurst, JOC and Lovell have had a much worse deal in terms of changing positions.

What annoys me is that these are developing players. If Rea isn't sure about his best line-up, move the experienced guys around and let the developing players develop in one position. This is a problem I had with Powell too.

Ah, now I understand, TR picks his team on a 'pick and mix' basis. Put the back line numbers in a bowl and draw them out at random. Explains a lot!

We noticed on Sunday that during the game Robertson played on both wings and at full back

It clearly is a new revolve-lutionary tactic, it is meant to confuse the opposition...................

As it happens, I don't think it's a stupid tactic to switch a couple of players dependent on the tackle count/field position etc. - that makes sense where someone might be a great kick returner but poor under the high ball. What I don't think works is when a switch involves several players.

That's perfectly normal

Income since David Hughes took 100% control of the club has been static...as in we've received less from sponsors, fan revenue and corporates, the same from SKY/RFL and more from him every year.

Using the ₤9.85 income from every attendee at every match quoted by IL in 2006, the total reduction in income from ticket revenue alone between the end of 2008 and the end of 2012 was $370,000.

If this year continues with a 2,372 average, then he will have invested close to ₤200,000 more in 2012 than in 2008.......that's how badly the club is being run!

If you are saying this is a good business model, then you lose any credibility as a poster on the subject of the London Bronos RLFC off the field...the man is singlehandedly and narrow mindedly IMO running the club into oblivion.

Deliberately? Can't comment on that as I've never said it.

Haha, who was even refering to you? It's not always about you. Remember?

But not when the switching is at random and players are looking round at each other to see which one is on the wing on this play.*






* True.

Good analysis. What I could've done with 200 grand a year to promote this club, jeez, you too I know. It's probably about the right sized marketing budget for a business that scale unless money was no object at all (in which case you could justify 200 grand on promoting one match at £20 a ticket and a decent lifetime customer value). £15k a match on DM plus a bit guerilla promotion stuff, done consistently for a season, locally, would make a difference. Much as he's been generous down the years, and God knows I don't have the money (and nobody else has offered to stump it up), David's been penny wise and pound foolish on marcomms for over a decade now.

That said, when push comes to shove there ain't much point now - people ultimately only pay to go to sports matches for two reasons 1) the thrill of uncertainty (we might win/lose), and 2) engagement (I feel part of this process), so no matter what marketing was being done in 2013, hardly anything would stick given the performance on the pitch and the organisational culture off it.

Hello HKB, how's sunny Manly. Or not very sunny Manly at the mo.