Londonbornirishbred

So…..September 23rd 2024 it was announced Hughes was “on his toes” and here we are 10 months later, with no buyer/investor, a LOAD of speculation and wondering who/what is funding the club at the moment with just a handful of fans at games. Personally, I believe that a new name and new investment with a 5 year protection from relegation would be enough for a new owner to step up, but it would take a HUGE amount of effort (and belief) as well as bringing a big event to London like Quinn’s or Sarries do to get even a small foothold. The alternative is RL accepts its place. I am currently in Bali and every pub is showing AFL on the main screens with NRL on a single screen and Union this weekend taking over a few big screens, begging the question “is RL really the greatest game, or just a good game that doesn’t know how to market itself”? I believe RL in this the UK needs London, but it needs a London that are front and centre and that is an investment that I believe the game isn’t brave enough to make. i hope I am wrong, but I will say it again, for GH et al to make it work, the cart needs to before the horse and SL needs to be assured before anyone invests.

10,000 fans! it really isn’t rocket science, but 10k a week will deliver sponsors and further revenue. I spent 20+ years in Brentford and remember the guys shaking a Bucket for the football team before matches and now they are a premiership side in a new stadium. Community is key and Merton isn’t right for them IMO. Hughes was a fool and I suspect GH has bitten off more than he can chew this time….

Well if the cancer couldn’t kill me and the heart attack was nothing more than “a mere scratch wound” living for another 45 years isn’t off the table

Without wishing to be to blunt, the club is a basket case. A 1000% increase in fan engagement & Social media is all well and good, but when the choir that you a preaching too is maybe just 300 or so strong, then you really need funds to attract more fans and for countless years Hughes ignored this. As a result, GH has basically taken over a tier 3 level side renting a tier 1 stadium and struggling in tier 2. Talk of pathways and academy’s are fantastic, but cold hard cash is what is needed and without assurances from IMG, nobody is going to take a punt of millions on a “maybe”, so whilst I don’t think “hounds” is a good idea, it might be time to retire the old nag to the glue factory and rebrand with the energy and bravado the deckboy del did with the centurions. but as I say, cash ain’t coming without a nod from IMG

Question is, do IMG/SL/RFL want a London side in a 10k stadium with 500 fans or a 2,500 seater ground with a chance of filling it? Image is everything. The Challenge cup final, the European Rugby thing at croke park....neither looked good on TV with 30% empty seats.....I'd rather games were played at smaller stadiums and tickets were a premium.....

I have 2 decades+ of being right about the Broncos and I care little for the 100 or se cheerleaders who got their name on a shirt recently......the Reality is that the club, unless someone finds £30,000,000 down the back of a sofa, is destined for tier 2 or 3 for the foreseeable future and Wimbledon's nice shiny ground is not the best solution. Happy to be shown I am wrong, but it's not happened in 25 odd years of me banging on about it and I very much doubt it will be any time soon. I was 100% against the move to trailfinders, but in hindsight. given their treatment by the RFU of late. Ealing is perfect. If London did get promoted back to SL, then by all means go and rent a football stadium, but putting the cart before the horse is what Hughes did and look where that got us...350/400 fans is what they have......WTF are they doing in a stadium that holds close to 10k????

He has been gifted a company with no assets.......UNLESS, the rumours about the donation/loan to the dons gives them free access to the stadium???? Genuinely believe that remaining at Wimbledon will kill the club. If Hetherington cant see this then he is just another well meaning northerner in London. As weird as it sounds Rosslyn Park would be worth a punt if we were to contribute to the building of a couple of new 2,000 seater stands. The Union lot would bite our arm off if we came with investment, or GH could pop back to ealing and have a chat....they too need investment and together we would be stronger.

On quite a few of my many replica shirts from the club over the years, THIS is the badge. I never understood why when Hughes rebranded, we felt the need to go with the Blue abomination or the cricket manufacturers soccer shirts. As for the old website, www.londonbroncos.co.uk (which is available to buy), we were told that there was confusion regarding RL meaning Rugby Lessons, so it obviously made sense to by www.londonbroncosRL.com??????????

Wrong county, but right idea

It is! I went to primary school there

I just contacted my utilities companies and apparently, "positive vibes" ain't paying no bills. So, there no investors on the horizon and we sit 2nd from the bottom heading for a play off to remain in tier 2. Whilst Hughes is to blame for this situation Loubser has been at "the helm" for a decade or more and is complicit in the demise whilst somehow managing to steal a wage. Good intentions, like good vibes don't pay bills or deliver tangible results and all we can hope for is a solid amateur club moving forward. Heatherington is a well intentioned fella by all accounts, but he isnt as young as he was and London ain't Sheffield. Wimbledon, with 2 hundred (at best) fans in L1 is even less tangible than 4 hundred in the championship. Ealing becomes more appealing by the minute.

I used to love going the CCF as a neutral....shirt spotting, chatting ro other league fans. To those rhat cited uniin earlier, Twickenham general admission tickets sold out 4 weeks ago. That was well before the 2 teams were known. The question for the RFL is "how do we sell out wembley before the semi-finals? The CCF is A Pinnacle game and should be a must see event.....same with the GF.....and filling wembley or old trafford is 100% their job

Quick question. If your club charged an extra £5 per ticket, but put you in a draw to win say a box at a home game or something like that (limo there and back), would you buy from them?

......was it Foreiner who once sang "Here I go again on my own"? London Broncos, in the near quarter of a Century I have followed them, have ignored industry standard and sometimes basic Marketing advice from professionals and governing bodies, whilst searching for the "silver bullet". Believing that if somone would only come to "one game, then they would be hooked for life" Whilst doing so, they have employed a long line of "wronguns" who have accelerated their demise to their current predicament. This years "silver bullet" is another well meaning owner in Hetherington and an Aussie firm trying to flog an idea that ANZACS will fill the cherry red stadium for advertisers/investors. Delighted the club have made it this far this year, but the reality is they are further away from SL now thqn they were in October last year.

FFS......ive have been down here 15 years and for the previous 13 REPEATEDLY told Hughes this. Now....it is a lovely soundbite, but how will you achieve it Gary? Saying it is free.....acheiving it wan't be