If the better Northern players wont come down here i believe this is the only way forward but the Clubs up North are looking as well as us as the player pool shrinks. Can we really recruit better than them? Theres no way in my lifetime we can recruit a full team of Londoners which is the only alternative.

Well I don't know how old you are but I think at the rate that we have increased in terms of our local production over the past 5 years or so, then I think a team full of Londoners is perfectly plausible within 20-30 years, if they grow up within a competitive club.

I am the first to be critical of our younger players who are pretty much consistently failing to make the step up to SL but compared to the days of the original Broncos (when I first started following the club), our youth set up is infinitely better and we are occasionally getting breakthroughs and judging by our competitive efforts in the Under 19's, I have hope that this can continue.

The reasons the better Northerners won't come down here are well documented and obvious apart from to that simpleton who didn't quite grasp the concept of London weighting. Aussies will still lap up a chance to play for us, I am sure of it.

According to some posters on the VT you're now allowed to have 7 non-quota players as it is - So wouldn't be getting a massive advantage with 10.

Bring back Jarrad Hickey

jbuzza, No what we are looking for are loan players, under RFL rules we would never be able to bring in big names under current salary cap, but it seems we may be able to top up with the increase in non federation players!

I stand by though that the RFL are making a major error cutting back on Academy teams, is that not the future of the game? or is it just me knocking the totally incompetent senior staff at Red Hall LOL!

Salford seem to manage it!

IMO, the club is clutching at straws. The situation is shambolic.

It's not just the club clutching at straws. Reading the current board topics, some of the fans are too!

Andover Boy how Salford are not breaking the salary cap is beyond me! But remember what we must pay extra for London weighting for our players

Just to add another part to this thread, I had a chat with Tony Rae towards the end of the season & asked if he could recruit a couple of "Brick #hit-house" Polynesians who could run through anybody or anything & be able to catch the ball.
He said his contacts in Australia had given him a few names to look out for in the World Cup & he was going to see how they turned out with a view to making a few signings if they looked good enough.
Hopefully they wouldn't cost too much & if we survive would add some power to the squad.

Three weeks and 39 minutes since anything came out of the "club": www.londonbroncosrl.com/news/511 ... kXAvz-Io1I

Three weeks and 39 minutes since anything came out of the "club": www.londonbroncosrl.com/news/511 ... kXAvz-Io1I

I got an email on wednesday

Anything juicy?

No.....just a keep calm carry on message. New investor and new ground both in negotiating stage

It's posts like this that gaul me. Why would the remains of the club just email one person saying... "[iNew investor and new ground both in negotiating stage[/i" and to no one else?

Check your PM.

That's the issue.
There needs to be open honest dialogue between the club and the fan base, not just the odd drip of information to an individual.
I do hope when all this is finally sorted the club are more visible and forthcoming with news.

There is a specific reason for me getting an email.....and it is not because I am a fan.

I don't doubt that.
The point I was making wAs that there needs to be some sort of "stage statement "from the club.
This may keep the fan base happy. Even if it's just to give a realistic time scale for real news.

As I have said before, negotiations are at a vital stage and are sensitive, what is said in email's or in person is really in the public arena anyway. I feel we may get an announcement after the meeting of the RFL, to approve the set up after 2015, I am sure how future will be discussed then and assistance we hope to find.

I know we all want news, and no more so than the younger players, who are waiting for more information anxiously.

A real problem now is, regardless of the outcome of the current talks and negociations, how many people are going to bother supporting the club anyway. A large (if it's possible to use such a word about our support base) have probably now given up and walked away. As far as I can make out reading what's on here, as from next Tuesday the club will consist of a CEO, coach, kitman, half a dozen players, no ground and the website and Facebook page will be gone as the person responsible for maintaining it's getting the boot tomorrow! No worries, then.

We will still be employing at least one clown.

Still no news. I can't say I'm shocked or even disappointed in the London Broncos, it is something I've come to expect from the circus in charge of the club and it seems that most on here aren't shocked either.

Everyone on here is against the ownership of the club and have suffered many broken promises. Why this forum as a group hasn't looked into forming their own side puzzles me. The chances are that club would be a Championship One club but it would a supporter owned club and that would be far better than being run by Hughes and watching a side with no (current) players and no staff.

If anyone is defecting to the Skolars, they will be more than welcome.

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Doesn't it occur to you there are clearly reasons WHY what is happening is not being put in the public arena at the present moment?

Also i can assure you that many supporters like myself will call it a day if the Broncos go under. I have no interest in watching amateur RL.