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| Long ago I accepted that SL will forever be lumbered with a nomadic London side forever languishing in the lower regions of the table and attracting crowds of 2,000. 20 years from now we'll be in the same situation as we are now and saying 'it could still work'.
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| Quote dboy="dboy"Strictly speaking, you are wrong.'"
How so? I am not aware that SL existed prior to it's first season, but I know we had the first division prior to and after the formation of SL as an entirely new league.
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| Quote garyhulsefan="garyhulsefan"Long ago I accepted that SL will forever be lumbered with a nomadic London side forever languishing in the lower regions of the table and attracting crowds of 2,000. 20 years from now we'll be in the same situation as we are now and saying 'it could still work'.'"
I wonder when Castleford will work.
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| Quote Kelvin's Ferret="Kelvin's Ferret"How so? I am not aware that SL existed prior to it's first season, but I know we had the first division prior to and after the formation of SL as an entirely new league.'"
I stand to be corrected, but IIRC the places in SL1 that weren't earmarked for London and PSG went to the top 10 teams in Division 1 (no favours to Workington, who weren't ready, got relegated after 1year and went bust) - which, incidentally, is yet another reason why the old Widnes fans' moan about you stealing their place in SL1 is wrong: they could have finished in the top 10 and qualified, but didn't even make the top 11 (Featherstone were 11th, I seem to recall)
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| Quote Dave Lister="Dave Lister"I wonder when Castleford will work.'"

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| Quote tb="tb"I stand to be corrected, but IIRC the places in SL1 that weren't earmarked for London and PSG went to the top 10 teams in Division 1 (no favours to Workington, who weren't ready, got relegated after 1year and went bust) - which, incidentally, is yet another reason why the old Widnes fans' moan about you stealing their place in SL1 is wrong: they could have finished in the top 10 and qualified, but didn't even make the top 11 (Featherstone were 11th, I seem to recall)'"
They were 14th so never really going to be in a 12 team league.
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| Quote Kelvin's Ferret="Kelvin's Ferret"How so? I am not aware that SL existed prior to it's first season, but I know we had the first division prior to and after the formation of SL as an entirely new league.'"
Perhaps I am missing your point, but Wakefield and Castleford have earned there place in SL - they weren't "invited" to the party.
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| Quote wire quin="wire quin"Did you not see McMeekin, Krasniqui, Bolger, Dixon, Caro, O'Callaghan on the pitch last night (not forgetting Sargeson and Clubb who are injured). Does this not tend to indicate given they all have come through the youth programme that their may be a "solid footing" of RL in the south
What sort of crowds are other underperforming teams like Cas, Reds etc getting? What in your mind is the acceptable crowd?'"
Oh I saw them and that's why I WANT there to be a London team. My point is though that OK clubs like Cas and Salford don't get big crowds but they have much bigger clubs less than half an hour down the road and have to fight for their fanbase (see Wigan Athletic in football). London is the Capital City, f*cking huge and the only club within miles. They should be getting far bigger crowds than they are and it's that reason that I base my opinions on.
Your work in schools is superb in getting kids to play, but why aren't they watching?
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| Quote Guerrier="Guerrier"These the cup finalists who left half a squad up north and the ones that went down there didn't really want to be there?
Fair play to London, 62 points isn't to be sniffed at, but let's be honest - that result had 'Wembley' stamped all over it.'"
tony smith chose to send that squad down and it back fired bigstyle! a lot more different to having injured players out to resting players
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| I fuuly expect an announcement that will clear everything up at the HKR game 
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| Excuse me for pointing out but my club 'Cas' got bigger crowds in the championship than London will ever get in Superleague.
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| London's poor crowds are relatively recent. There's been many a crowd over 6k, quite a few over 8k and even a few 10ks over the years. I was there on Friday and I also think that London are not being given enough credit for a fine performance. Maybe Wire were not 100% ( even for the side that took the field ) but London did not give them time to play. I also caught the Under 20s and it was nice to see some good performances from Broncos lads with clear London accents.
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