Re: Score v London : Wed Mar 14, 2012 3:52 pm  

Bonzo wrote: Interestingly, the style of rugby London play is traditionally so boring I'm surprised it doesn't appeal to more Union fans, given Union is the dominant code in the area. You can't knock the game as a whole - it's been good to you and the RFL have been persistent with their support. After all you are still in existence despite the fact that a franchise in a different area closer to the heartlands would've probably been more successful in terms of revenue and fans through the turnstiles. This might be of interest to you

Bonzo wrote: Interestingly, the style of rugby London play is traditionally so boring I'm surprised it doesn't appeal to more Union fans, given Union is the dominant code in the area. You can't knock the game as a whole - it's been good to you and the RFL have been persistent with their support. After all you are still in existence despite the fact that a franchise in a different area closer to the heartlands would've probably been more successful in terms of revenue and fans through the turnstiles. This might be of interest to you

Re: Score v London : Wed Mar 14, 2012 4:30 pm  

Darthchris wrote: This might be of interest to you Ah - you seem to be implying that I'm not open to forward thinking, expansion, etc. In reality after 15+ years I'm still struggling to understand why London should be given a Super League place seemingly unconditionally, whilst others are under threat despite owning their own facilities; striving to improve them; averaging much higher average attendances; and engaging much more with the local community for the benefit of both the club and the game. I.e. the many clubs that are much further away from being part of a "Flat Earth Society" than London, in particular in respect to marketing the game and raising awareness of it. You continue to insist our travelling support is poor when infact it quite frequently approaches the numbers that your HOME support did on Saturday...

Darthchris wrote: This might be of interest to you Ah - you seem to be implying that I'm not open to forward thinking, expansion, etc. In reality after 15+ years I'm still struggling to understand why London should be given a Super League place seemingly unconditionally, whilst others are under threat despite owning their own facilities; striving to improve them; averaging much higher average attendances; and engaging much more with the local community for the benefit of both the club and the game. I.e. the many clubs that are much further away from being part of a "Flat Earth Society" than London, in particular in respect to marketing the game and raising awareness of it. You continue to insist our travelling support is poor when infact it quite frequently approaches the numbers that your HOME support did on Saturday...

Re: Score v London : Wed Mar 14, 2012 5:58 pm  

Hull KR comfortably bring at least double the number of supporters that makes up your rabble. I don't understand why that is.

All us London fans are trying to do is buy into the obsession Northern clubs have regarding how many supporters they take to an away match. I'm surprised that nobody has claimed that the flock from Cas out numbered Broncos fans.

Your attempt at a Poznan was cute by the way.

Re: Score v London : Wed Mar 14, 2012 6:13 pm  

They took their tops of too..............was that the shame though?

Re: Score v London : Wed Mar 14, 2012 6:42 pm  

Re: Score v London : Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:14 pm  

Bonzo wrote:

Ah - you seem to be implying that I'm not open to forward thinking, expansion, etc. In reality after 15+ years I'm still struggling to understand why London should be given a Super League place seemingly unconditionally, whilst others are under threat despite owning their own facilities; striving to improve them; averaging much higher average attendances; and engaging much more with the local community for the benefit of both the club and the game. I.e. the many clubs that are much further away from being part of a "Flat Earth Society" than London, in particular in respect to marketing the game and raising awareness of it.

You continue to insist our travelling support is poor when infact it quite frequently approaches the numbers that your HOME support did on Saturday...

would expect you to bring a fair few to Wakefield - who you should be merged with anyway - seeing as you're in the same borough

Re: Score v London : Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:09 pm  

Darthchris wrote:

would expect you to bring a fair few to Wakefield - who you should be merged with anyway - seeing as you're in the same borough

Like Hull & Hull KR, Huddersfield & Halifax, Leigh & Wigan etc...

Poor attempt at trolling, just like the other 3 of you that reside on here (are you the only season ticket holders too?)

Re: Score v London : Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:10 am  

Darthchris wrote:

would expect you to bring a fair few to Wakefield - who you should be merged with anyway - seeing as you're in the same borough

You see with a club like yours things like tradition, heritage and local rivalry mean absolutely nothing. It's probably why your fans are so few in number and seem to lack passion for the game (although granted they must have a limited amount as they do turn up to some home games). That considered I can see why you might think we should merge. In reality it would never happen due to the intense rivalry between the clubs and the fans, both of whom do the things I alluded to above in the interests of progress.

Just going back to expansion though, Catalans have made themselves a credible club in Super League despite not having as long to get there. As they're technically your local derby team, maybe we should merge you with them.

Re: Score v London : Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:16 am  

Bonzo wrote:

You see with a club like yours things like tradition, heritage and local rivalry mean absolutely nothing. It's probably why your fans are so few in number and seem to lack passion for the game (although granted they must have a limited amount as they do turn up to some home games). That considered I can see why you might think we should merge. In reality it would never happen due to the intense rivalry between the clubs and the fans, both of whom do the things I alluded to above in the interests of progress.

Just going back to expansion though, Catalans have made themselves a credible club in Super League despite not having as long to get there. As they're technically your local derby team, maybe we should merge you with them.

Think Warrrington are our local rivals

[Wildthing]

Re: Score v London : Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:26 am  

Darthchris wrote:

would expect you to bring a fair few to Wakefield - who you should be merged with anyway - seeing as you're in the same borough

Oh dear.