I blame Rob Powell.

Can't understand how he's still in a job?
He is single handedly destroying the club as we know it...he has no pedigree as a successful sports administrator, yet he is allowed to make decisions regarding the future of TGG in the south east



All I can think of is that DH is 1ng with the RFL by letting this bloke loose with their sport down south.......there can be no other explanation for him still having a job

What makes you say the performance on the park was 'abject'?

Public School education....if I'd gone to a comprehensive I would have called it

Awful, awful, awful.......... High hopes dashed in 30mins our defence out wide on the hurst/JO'c wing was appalling........

Not sure how much more I can take. I am still not home because of the delights of London transport
, spent about ......... God knows what and had to watch a shambles? I really do despair.....

Glumfox what did the match sound like on the radio?

Widnes were excellent in the first half, v well organised and nearly error free. We were ok in second half as their big guys tired but it was just too late. Ive seen us play MUCH worse than that.

slept in mate...friends over from Blighty...big BBQ...too much grog.

What was the attendance?

18 on the front deck, 12 on the back deck and 2 inside watching the UFC on Pay TV....in all, 33 people were invited to come and we had only one no show, but he sent a bottle of tequilla to say sorry......The apology was gratefully accepted and is the reason I am grumpy this morning!

I'll be a g'fax substitute seeing that he missed it.

It sounded like it was in Widnes.



Overall impression was of many missed chances, sloppiness, penalties conceded.

No, at one o'clock the shp was just being opened, Gus was in there emptying boxes and stacking goods on the shelf. That's not his job surely



Following this he was coordinating the effort to unfurl the SELCO banner in the South stand. That's not his job surely

Did love the big finger giveaway. No wait hang on. That was in the away stand. Simply amazing.
You'd think just on the law of averages something would be done right.

Who are our board members?

This was last March. Don't think there's been any change since then.


Current Appointments
Number of current appointments: 2

DIRECTOR: BOUMAN, GERRIT MR

Appointed: 19/01/2005 Date of Birth: 29/07/1944
Nationality: DUTCH

No. of Appointments: 24

Address: BOW GANNARK

ROTHERFIELD GREYS

HENLEY ON THAMES

OXFORDSHIRE

RG9 5LG

Country/State of Residence: UNITED KINGDOM






DIRECTOR: HUGHES, DAVID JOHN MR

Appointed: 19/01/2005 Date of Birth: 02/01/1945
Nationality: BRITISH

No. of Appointments: 8

Address: CHURCH COTTAGE

19-20 MONTPELIER PLACE

LONDON

SW7 1HL

Country/State of Residence: UNITED KINGDOM


This Report excludes resignations

So David Hughes + 1.

No surprise there then.

I agree, but it also needs to be combined with a decent team on the field. Quite frankly, it's difficult to see what London bring to Super League, and as much as I respect what DH has done, this needs a far higher level of investment - backed with action.

A la Melbourne Storm........they receive additional funding from the NRL because they are classed as expansion and are further bankrolled by the Comps main Broadcast Partner....who 100% owns them.

David Hughes has taken the club as far as he can...he should be applauded and when we eventually do get a permanent home, have a stand named after him, but centrally funding the expansion team in the south is required to protect all the good work done to date.

We have more and more youngsters coming through and it would be criminal if London were to continue to stagnate and die, leaving these kids with no local team to aspire to.

Are they still 100% owned?

I believe so.....News Limited have been approached and asked about the pssibility of selling up....by an Ex Players Agent from the UK???

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The Storm get their $7,000,000 from the TV deal + another $4,000,000 for the next 5 years at least...this is what the RFL/SLY TV should be doing with London if they are serious about expansion......the Storm have to market themselves really hard due to them being in enemy territory........you don't see them looking at moving to Adelaide because they play in AFL heartlands...

hi again Brian

can someone please tell 'twonk', whoever he may be that i've pm him and am still awaiting a reply ! thanks

I agree, David has propped up the club over the past few years but lacks the footballing know how and in my view has made some terrible decisions at critical times when a more innovative solution was needed. From hiring Rob Powell to rehiring Tony Rea when coaches like Mick Potter and Brian Smith were available. Also returning to the tired broncos brand when a change of direction was needed for the club. At every point where the club could have reinvigorated itself the wrong choice was made and we returned to and celebrated formulas which didnt work, another season of failure beckons.

London gets a lot of lip service as important to the game, and it gets its share of things like every other club, but I'm struggling to think of one active program or aggressive action London has benefited from since, say, Branson came along (no idea before that personally).

I'm talking from Sky, the RFL, the other clubs.

Junior coaches - all clubs get funding for it; if London got more it was based on Sport England regions.
TV money and other distributions - same. Went into admin in 04 - didn't block us out, but didn't prop it up. Players - we'll loan them to you if we don't need them and they'd benefit from the experience (and you pay them), but then they come back. Salary cap extension for London weighting - nope. When the 10-10-5 rules came in in 2007 when London had nothing near 10 - nope. They're not making it harder on us than any other club, but no easier either - no strong moves.

That's not a criticism necessarily - certainly the RFL & clubs don't have excess resources, and there's no charter that says it should be an uneven playing field I guess.

My point is: there's a fair bit of lip service about it's importance, but no-one does anything proactive or aggressive about it. If it WAS so important, someone would do something about it. The clubs and are RFL aren't complete idiots (possibly) - surely if there was some pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, they'd be doing something about it right? If it mattered to Sky, they'd do something about it. It's not like we're 5 years into Super League, it's like 18 years.

If it was [iactually [/i worth something extra to them commercially, in crowds or in TV viewers (actual value), they'd be willing to pay to make it work (money or other resources) - Sky, the clubs or the RFL. It doesn't seem like it's worth particularly more to them than any other club is.

Couldn't agree more. [size=150IF[/size the sport believes that a London SL club is important, then it has to take special measures to make it viable: Relaxation of salary cap. provision of substantial extra funding, relaxation of player quotas. As we are, we contribute little and, as we're going on now, we'll soon be contributing nothing.

Steve Mascord agrees: www.rlfans.com/indexmain.php?fid=134&id=1033

Steve Mascord agrees: www.rlfans.com/indexmain.php?fid=134&id=1033