Bulls coach Brian Noble has joined in the John Inverdale-London Broncos controversy.

The BBC TV sports presenter incurred the wrath of the club by claiming during a broadcast of Any Sporting Questions on Radio 5 Live that the Broncos' experiment was a flop, that they played to average crowds of 1,500 and that their support was entirely made up of expatriate Australians.

On Sunday the Broncos are at Odsal, and Noble said: "It is important that rugby league has a presence in the capital.

"John Inverdale's comments are ill-informed and a little bit ignorant.

"It has been difficult for London because of their nomadic existence, but when they were at Charlton they built up a good fan-base, and now they have settled in at Brentford I hope they can recreate that.

"As for whether their fans are all Australian, that certainly hasn't been my experience. They have all been southerners, if not Londoners."

London's 36-36 home draw with Leeds on Sunday, which surely made a point on its own about the Broncos' progress, attracted a season's best crowd of 5,058 in what was their

first match at Griffin Park for six weeks.

Broncos' chief executive Nic Cartwright says he has no problem with broadcasters expressing opinions, but he does have a problem over the presentation of clearly inaccurate facts. Cartwright said: "The facts are that our Australian match-day audience is less than 15 per cent, and this season of the 23-man squad just eight are Aussies."

Meanwhile, Noble has declared a clean bill of health after last Friday's 32-16 defeat at Wigan Warriors.

He said: "We should be able to pick from the same squad that played in the Wigan game.

"There are no major injury concerns. Andy Smith got a 'dead leg' but hopefully he will be available. However, no one is coming back into the squad from injury."