As an outsider looking in I can't see anything but looking into the future in the Championship. Switching coaches at this time in the season especially when your lads have been improving (a win will come soon!) is a bad idea. He was just starting to get them to play how he wanted. Also reports said Rae would have rather stayed on. Good luck rest of the season guys.

I am really upset about losing this great man who is the heart and soul of London Rugby League.

He has been badly let down.

In the backs he has pretty much a full suite of reserve/academy players with his first choice fullback and wingers (Mataitonga, Dixon and Duckworth) never available.

At half back in the main he has again untested kids.

In the forwards he has a reasonable set of backrowers but the smallest and youngest front row in the competition.

That is down to David Hughes and Gus Mackay and the full year of faffing around.

If you look at the players who first played Super League at the Broncos or left in recent years we could have had a team like:

Dorn, Dixon, Sarginson, Sykes, Caro, Soward, T.Leuluai, McCarthy-Scarsbrook, T.Lee, Clubb, Bailey, Vea, Cook

But in 2009 and 2013 Hughes wobbled.

We should be able to give Tony a send off this weekend.

Rooster booster ... Wise words. I chatted with tony a few times last year and it was clear that he was building a new team long before the season ended. He wasn't promising the earth but hoped to finish in a safe place for next year.

Sadly the cock up that was the post season pretty much destroyed any chance of rebuilding.

In my experience tony is/was a good man who cared passionately about the broncos and importantly he understood and cared about the supporters.

Good luck tony.

Great post!

Tony Rea was a great club man as Rooster and others have said.

The last time I met him he was still involved in Union in Australia, but we spent ages discussing London and he knew results etc., and you could see that the situation was painful to him.

The reason this Club is that the people that own and run it don't have Tony's passion.

Thanks Tony.

One thing Rea was very good at was selling the club, it's position in the UK RL World and what it's short history meant. I cannot measure him as a coach as I never played for him, that is for others to judge, but he certainly loved this club.

So sorry to see him go - he has been good for this club in many ways over the years, as a player, and as a scout - finding the good kids to bring them in.
Good luck and all the best in your next venture Tony - missing you already!

Will he get a regular commentary gig on Sky and/or BBC, like the other Aussie ex-coach Shaun McRae had for a while, or is he soon returning to Australia?

Tony Rae is London through and through. Marvellous scout and he brought in some great new unheard of talent. Knew the players and markets and was a great ambassador for the club. His only failing is he cannot coach. However he took the reins rather than do nothing for London. A great man with a great belief in this club. I wish you everything you wish for yourself Tony

Agree with this 100%

Best of luck for the future Tony!

I love it, one keyboard expert obviously has such indepth knowledge of Rea's coaching methods declaring that he 'can't coach' yet they can't even manage to take the time to spell his 3 letter surname correctly.

Dave, its a bit like the days when everyone was saying McDermott cant coach, he seems to have managed ok at his next job.

Sad to see Tony go, but I think most Broncos supporters agree that a change was needed! TR has been a stalwart for RL in London, but it was always said that it was a temporary post, and think right from the fans forum when he arrived Joe Grima was being given the hospital pass or taking over when Tony wanted to head home.
Has the question been asked, has anyone said, was it a case of being pushed or did he just decide himself it was time to go.

Given that he said he felt he could have gone on and kept the side up, I would guess the former.

Listen to the interviews. Seems he wanted to carry on at least till towards end of season.

Hi Mr Lister I am obviously not a keyboard expert or I would not have typed the letters the wrong way round in Tony's name. What makes you think I know nothing about Tony or know nothing about coaching. Now put your fishing rod away and go and start a fight in an empty room there's a good boy.

I dunno, a hunch? I look forward to hearing about your credentials in both fields however

But his team was presented to him, he's never signed a decent player, nooo.

as was said many times on here, ok mainly by me, you can only work with the tools you have!!!

Rea has been on 5 live extra tonight and was introduced as been sacked. Thoughts from the programme are LB are planning for the championship

I will admit I wasn't convinced when he was offered a two year deal. However it is blindingly obvious that more than anyone, Tony was the man who is responsible for our continued existence.
It speaks volumes that he was the one who addressed the fans after the last game at the Stoop, while the owner and CEO were nowhere to be seen.

Good luck Tony.

His later spells as coach were not great - but none should forget he got us to two play-offs, no-one lese has come close........................ He also, as others have said, cared about London and did everytjing he could to make it a success. If everyone else had put in the same effort, i exclude Nick Cartwright who also worked hard, we would be in a very different position.......................................................

I agree Tony is a great bloke, if you cut him in half we would see London written through him, I repeat a great ambassador for the club, a great talent scout and above all a gentleman and I wish as fans we could have given him the send off he deserves akin to the one we gave Nic (yes Lister Nic is spelt correctly) . He got London out of the mire many a time, in my mind his coaching wasn't great but in every other field he was the consumate professional. Well done Tony.

This!

Why would we want to do that?

Now Gus on the other hand ...

lol but I agree with your Gus sentiment