VIKINGS EDGE MAKESHIFT BRONCOS
HUW RICHARDS
Cherry Red Records Stadium, Saturday
LONDON BRONCOS 10
WIDNES VIKINGS 12
AMID the deluge of warm words and high aspirations at London’s relaunch at Australia House last month was a single note of coolly objective reality -head coach Mike Eccles asking for action to strengthen a squad which might be used as the dictionary illustration for ‘makeshift’.
A run of eight consecutive defeats, even if this against Widnes was the third by a margin of only two points, might raise the question of whether Eccles has lost the ability to make something from very little shown in his previous three seasons.