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Head Coach: Danny Ward

After three years as head coach at London Broncos, Andrew Henderson moved on to become the assistant coach at Warrington Wolves and Danny Ward took over as head coach in 2018. He had been working as assistant since 2015 and before that he spent two years coaching the Broncos U19 team.

This is his first head coach position and in his first year he guided Broncos to promotion to Super League.

In his playing career he was a prop forward and made his début at Leeds Rhinos in 1999. He stayed at the Rhinos until joining Castleford for one season in 2006. That was followed by one year at Hull Kingston Rovers before moving to London Broncos (then Harlequins RL) in 2008. He retired in 2011. In 2004 he made one substitute for Great Britain against New Zealand in that year’s Tri-Nations competition.

Captain: Will Lovell

Jay Pitts was the Broncos captain in 2018 and 2019 but he has moved on to Wakefield Trinity and Will Lovell has taken over. He was born in Northampton and he has spent his entire playing career with London Broncos, making his début in 2012. He has also played for London Skolars on dual reg in the four years 2013 - 2016.

He is primarily a second rower although he has also played at centre and loose forward.

New Signings for 2020

It is commonplace when clubs are promoted or relegated for there to be many changes in personnel but when Broncos were promoted to Super League at the end of 2018 they retained most of the players who had won promotion. Although they were relegated after one year they had put in many impressive performances and so it was not surprising that quite a few of their squad were then signed for 2020 by Super League clubs.

Mitch Allgood, prop, is an Australian who played for Parramatta Eels in the NRL for 4 years starting in 2011. He came to England to join Hull KR in 2015 and then moved on to Wakefield in 2017. In 2018 he returned to Australia with Saint George Illawarra Dragons but only made 1 NRL appearance with them. He was a late signing for the Broncos and has not yet made his Broncos début. In 2012 he played for the New South Wales City representative team.

Olly Ashall-Bott, wing or fullback, has signed from Widnes. He made his début for them in 2018 and in his first year there he played 3 games for North Wales on dual reg.

Cory Aston, halfback, has been signed from Castleford Tigers. He started his career with Sheffield Eagles in 2013 (where the coach was Mark Aston, his father). In 2017 he signed for Leeds Rhinos but never played in their first team but came on loan to Fev and later that year he played on loan for Bradford. In 2018 he joined Castleford but spent the whole season on loan back at Sheffield. Last year he made his Castleford début and also played 3 games on loan at Newcastle Thunder.

Rhys Curran, second row, is an Australian who came to France to join Villeneuve in the French Elite 1 competition in 2012. In 2015 he transferred to Toulouse and spent 5 seasons there before joining the Broncos. He is a French international.

Tuoyo Egodo, wing, is another signing from Castleford. He was born in London and started his career with the Broncos in 2016. That year he also played for Hemel Stags on loan. He joined Castleford in 2017 but his opportunities were limited (16 games in 3 years) and he played for Oldham and York on loan in 2017 and in 2018 for Newcastle (dual reg) and Bradford (loan).

Dan Norman, prop, has joined from Widnes where he was a player since 2017 but didn’t make his début there until 2018. In 2017 he played 2 games on loan at Swinton and in 2018 he played 17 for North Wales on dual reg.

Josh Walters, centre or second row, has transferred from Fev. He was a Leeds player from 2013 to 2018, playing under dual reg for Hunslet (2015) and Fev (2016-2018). He transferred to Fev last year.

Jordan Williams, second row or centre, has signed for the Broncos from London Skolars. He started with Oxford in 2016 and moved to Skolars in 2017.

Dual Registration and loan signings

London Broncos have, for many years, had a dual reg partnership with London Broncos but this usually leads to Broncos players turning out for the Skolars. They do not, currently, have any players on loan.

The Fev connection

Two current Fev players have played for the Broncos. Jack Bussey was there in 2016 and Thomas Minns in 2014.

There are two players in the Broncos squad who have previously been with the Fev. Cory Aston played 12 games for Fev on loan in 2017 and Josh Walters has played 46 times for Fev, as a Fev player last year and on dual reg in 2016-2018).

There is a further special connection between the Broncos squad and Fev. One of their team has a grandfather who made 419 appearances for Fev! The grandfather is none other than Peter Smith and the grandson Morgan Smith.