Apparently. they will be without Kevin Brown so that is one less player to worry about. Still strangely optimistic and why not at the start of the season.

You have the benefit of having seen Hurst play. What do you make of him?
I wondered if TR started him and Channing at centre so that he could make a direct comparison.

Channing isn't good enough to play Centre. 2012 proved that if nothing else.

He got walked all over by the French when he played for Wales, Hurst is a bit of a live wire.

I assume you mean in the SL season and you hadn't forgotten the 6 we let in v Skolars or the 22 v Dragons!

London by 20+, crowd 3,500+

If they're without Hock & Brown we really should be looking to win with a decent margin here.

Id be disappointed if we don't win by at least 20.

Are we not going to smash them?

Great to see the optimism on this site. What a contrast to most of the last 2 years! But let us get a good home win and a decent performance at Hudds before we get carried away. Anyone got any news on Clubby?

Ive been following this thread for a while and it's good to see the optimism.

However I hope your not underestimating us, I know your players won't be. I know Your new coach has you playing better but don't forget, we could have beaten you last year twice, as you could have to us.

It's a shame brown and hock are missing however if we have briscoe, phelps and hanbury playing, expect a tough fight

Not underestimating anyone here! Hoping for a game as exciting as the one we had at the Stoop last year, although hopefully not quite as nail biting with the win secured on what I think was the last tackle of the last set of 6 of the match!

Do you have any idea of how many are expected down from Widnes for the game?

Although finishing bottom, the excitement in widnes is still buzzing at the moment. 5 of us are driving down in fancy dress. There's 3/4 coaches and loads are going in the train. Hopefully a good following, usually is from widnes.

Hopefully it will be a good game. No excuses here but I'd have liked to have seen our full team out for the first game. Potentially we could be missing:

Briscoe
Ah van
Marsh
Brown
Hock

However the top three are touch and go as far as I know. I've never been to watch widnes in London so I'm really looking forward to this one

Its not the end of the world if either club loses in this one as its the first game but it would be nice to get off the mark with a win. London look stronger this year, Tony has certainly brought some steel and resolve back to the squad and given your pre season results I can fully see why you expect to win.

Hopefully a good game all round and both clubs cant take positives out of it.

as mentioned above Hock and Brown will be big misses for us in this one.

nah, they dont count

Realisticaly we should be hammering tin pot clubs such as Widnes.

Well have a safe trip down, enjoy the game!

Tin pot club?

You heard the man.

I read what he said. Never heard him.

Ah Mr Lister, I see you are still in training for the Diplomatic Corp!

Your spelling needs to improve too!


LONDON BRONCOS -STILL UNDEFEATED IN 2013! COYB

While that's blatant fishing, im going to bite and call you a southern tart.

Regards

VM

Broncos by 8 crowd a miserable 1037, 7 of whom used the back by popular demand Legends Lounge.

Speak for yourself, I won't be miserable if we win!

Out of curiosity how many did we take last year? Vibes going around maybe we can take a few hundred this year