2015 London Broncos season

2015 London Broncos season
2015 London Broncos season
2015 Championship Rank	7th
Play-off result	Championship Shield Final
Challenge Cup	Fourth Round
2015 record	Wins: 15; Draws: 0; Losses: 16
Points scored	For: 808; Against: 790
Team information
Chairman
Head Coach	Joey Grima; (until 2 March 2015); Andrew Henderson; (from 2 March 2015)
Captain	Nick Slyney & Richard Mathers;
Stadium	The Hive Stadium
Top scorers
Tries	Rhys Williams - 19
Goals	Wes Naiqama - 89
Points	Wes Naiqama - 214
Home colours	Away colours

The 2015 London Broncos season was the thirty-sixth in the club's history and their first season in the Super League. Competing in 2015 Kingstone Press Championship, the club was coached by Joey Grima, before being replaced by his assistant Andrew Henderson in March. They finishing in 7th place, reaching the Championship Shield Final and reaching the Fourth Round of the 2015 Challenge Cup.

It was their second since moving to the Hive Stadium. They exited the Challenge Cup with a defeat by the Leigh Centurions.^[1]

2015 milestones[]

2015 squad[]

London Broncos 2015 Squad
First team squad								Coaching staff
1 Richard Mathers (c) – FB 2 Rhys Williams – WG 3 Ben Farrar – CE, FB 4 Wes Naiqama – CE 5 Ben Hellewell – WG, CE, FB 6 Liam Foran – SO 7 William Barthau – SH, SO 8 Nick Slyney (c) – PR, LF 9 Ray Nasso – HK 10 Josh Cordoba – PR 11 Daniel Harrison – SR 12 Rhys Lovegrove – LF, SR 13 Luke Adamson – LF, SR		14 Brad Dwyer – HK 15 Matt Garside – SR, CE 16 Glenn Riley – PR 17 Erjon Dollapi – PR 18 Jon Wallace – PR 19 Joe Keyes – SH, SO 20 Iliess Macani – WG, FB 21 Joel Wicks – HK, CE 22 Oscar Thomas – SO, FB 23 Toby Everett – PR, SR 24 Alex Walker – FB 25 Harvey Burnett – CE 26 – FB, WG		27 Jarrod Sammut – SO, SH 28 Tom Gilmore – SH, SO 29 Jamie Thackray – PR 30 Dave Williams – PR 31 Elliott Minchella – SR, LF 32 Elliot Kear – FB, CE, WG 33 Chris Annakin – SR, LF 34 Matt Davis – SR, LF 35 Andrew Henderson – HK 36 Jonathan Walker – PR 37 Jason Walton – SR, CE 38 James Cunningham – HK				Head coach Joey Grima Assistant coaches Andrew Henderson Danny Ward Brian Noble Legend: (c) Captain(s) (vc) Vice captain(s) Injured Updated: 2015 Source(s): London Broncos squad 2015

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2015 tables[]

Regular season[]

Position	Club	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Pts for	Pts agst	Points
1	Leigh Centurions (C)	23	21	1	1	972	343	43
2	Bradford Bulls	23	18	1	4	828	387	37
3	Sheffield Eagles	23	17	0	6	586	451	34
4	Halifax	23	16	0	7	646	377	32
5	Featherstone Rovers	23	13	0	10	633	565	26
6	Dewsbury Rams	23	12	1	10	490	461	25
7	London Broncos	23	12	0	11	538	510	24
8	Workington Town	23	7	1	15	379	671	15
9	Batley Bulldogs	23	7	0	16	421	539	14
10	Whitehaven	23	7	0	16	418	671	14
11	Hunslet Hawks	23	5	0	18	362	769	10
12	Doncaster	23	1	0	22	282	851	2

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	Teams qualifying for "The Qualifiers".
	Teams qualifying for "The Championship Shield".

Championship Shield

The third of the three "Super 8" groups saw teams finishing 5th to 12th in the regular Championship table. Like the Super League 8's, these teams retained their original points and played 7 extra games, with the teams finishing in the top 4 places after these extra games contesting play offs similar to Super League, with 1st v 4th and 2nd vs 3rd, with the winners contesting the Championship Shield Grand Final. The two teams finishing at the bottom of this Super 8s group (7th and 8th) were relegated to the League 1 2016 season, and replaced by the two 2015 League One promoted sides.

Position	Club	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Pts for	Pts agst	Points
1	Featherstone Rovers (Q)	30	19	0	11	809	701	38
2	Dewsbury Rams (Q)	30	17	1	12	686	624	35
3	London Broncos (Q)	30	15	0	15	756	674	30
4	Workington Town (Q)	30	11	1	18	587	782	23
5	Batley Bulldogs	30	10	0	20	645	707	20
6	Whitehaven	30	10	0	20	618	921	20
7	Hunslet Hawks (R)	30	8	0	22	518	957	16
8	Doncaster (R)	30	2	0	28	401	1128	4

(Q) Qualified for the Semi Final (R) Relegated to League 1

	Teams qualifying for the Championship Shield 2015 Semi-Finals.
	Teams relegated to 2016 League One.

#	Home	Score	Away	Match Information
#	Home	Score	Away	Date and Time (Local)	Venue	Referee	Attendance
CHAMPIONSHIP SHIELD SEMI-FINALS
SF1	Featherstone Rovers	52 – 14	Workington Town	27 September, 15:00	Post Office Road, Featherstone		1,233
SF1	Dewsbury Rams	18 – 34	London Broncos	27 September, 15:00.	Tetley's Stadium, Dewsbury		940
CHAMPIONSHIP SHIELD GRAND FINAL
F	Featherstone Rovers	34 – 6	London Broncos	Sunday 4 October, 4:30pm	Select Security Stadium	Chris Campbell	4,179

References[]

^ "Challenge Cup match review: Leigh Centurions 64-12 London Broncos". Nothing But League. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
^ Gains & Losses
^ Second Division 2015

[Challenge_Cup_match_review:_Leigh_Centurions_64-12_London_Broncos-1] "Challenge Cup match review: Leigh Centurions 64-12 London Broncos". Nothing But League. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2017.

[2] Gains & Losses

[3] Second Division 2015

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v t London Broncos
Established 1980 in London, England
The Club	History Records Honours International representative players Players Coaches
Home grounds	Craven Cottage Crystal Palace National Sports Centre Chiswick Polytechnic Sports Ground Copthall Stadium The Valley Griffin Park The Stoop The Hive Trailfinders Sports Ground The Rock Plough Lane
LBSA Hall of Fame	Reg Bowden Luke Dorn Peter Gill Tony Gourley Mark Johnson Roy Lester Hussein M'Barki Martin Offiah Rob Purdham Tony Rea Steele Retchless Scott Roskell
LBSA Player of the Year	2014 Cook 2015 Naiqama 2016 Williams 2017 Sammut 2018 Battye 2019 Abdull 2021 Hankinson
Honours	1982-83 Rugby Football League Championship Second Division Champions Super League II runners-up 1999 Challenge Cup runners-up
Seasons	1980/81 1981/82 1982/83 1983/84 1984/85 1985/86 1986/87 1987/88 1988/89 1989/90 1990/91 1991/92 1992/93 1993/94 1994/95 1995/96 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Captains	Tony Karalius (1980-81) Tony Gourley (1983-85) (1985) (1987-88) Sam Stewart (1993-94) (1995) Terry Matterson (1996-98) Shaun Edwards (1999) Karle Hammond (2000) Jason Hetherington (2001-02) Jim Dymock (2003-04) Mark McLinden (2005) Rob Purdham (2006–11) Craig Gower (2012-13) Tony Clubb (2013) Antonio Kaufusi (2013) Matt Cook (2014) Richard Mathers (2015) Nick Slyney (2015) Wes Naiqama (2016) Daniel Harrison (2017) Jay Pitts (2018-19) Will Lovell (2020-)
Culture	Super League Founding Member
Affiliation	Rugby Football League (1980)