London Broncos League Placings : 2000-21

Rugby league in London has been an interesting journey. It's been a disruptive nomadic life, played in a city that for the most part doesn't know it exists, yet developing young talent as well. It's no longer in the elite Super League as seen below but still has a small but dedicated following. The club was called Harlequins RL between 2006 and 2011.

The coach back in 2000 was John Monie, who did a one year stint after finishing at Wigan. He was replaced by another Australian, Tony Rea who had concluded his playing career in London and been a temporary dual coach for a brief time in 1999. This first period as full coach lasted six seasons and 153 matches. It was a reasonably successful time with the Broncos getting to as high as 4th in the League. 

Brian McDermott arrived for his first top flight coaching job. He finished the last few games in 2006 and continued until 2010 when he departed after a slide in fortunes wasn't arrested. His replacement, Rob Powell came out of relative obscurity to take on the job. 

Despite spending heavily in 2012, results didn't match expectations and Tony Rea stepped in at the end of the season and for the next two seasons. The slide continued as the club was relegated from the top flight in 2014, ending 19 consecutive years at the top. One season back in 2019 under Danny Ward ended with a return to the Championship. He did remarkably well with the squad that he had at his disposal. 

The issue the club faced was where to play in the future as they were informed that the ground they were using would stop them from gaining re-entry into Super League if given the opportunity. That is still being worked out. Some things never change.