Post subject: Re: Do the London Broncos Actually Exist?
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 9:55 pm
Call Me God
Club Captain
Joined: Jun 12 2017 Posts: 2921
northernbloke wrote:Like I say, nothing will please some folk
Sorry buddy, but you know as much about marketing as I do about refereeing a game of RL......mentions in dispatches is not marketing and the proof is in the fact that we have fewer fans attending and fewer Season ticket sales than we did when we were in Superleague at the stoop......same comp, same name, fewer fans.....why is that Einstein? You'd tell me something was white if I said it was black....you're a poor troll who argues with everyone, regardless of their stance. London don't market themselves and are therefore 100% reliant on the ego that owns the club....this is a documented fact.....what was the announced attendance today?
JESUS WEPT HOW MANY TIMES????? £20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000. The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover.
There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them.
Post subject: Re: Do the London Broncos Actually Exist?
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 11:53 pm
northernbloke
Club Captain
Joined: Jun 13 2017 Posts: 2821
Remember you prediction for today dog? The words you are searching for are- “well I was wrong” but even when you are you can’t say it. Why do we have less fans now than the stoop! Simple we have been playing in the second tier, even you with your marketing skills ain’t getting em back overnight!
Post subject: Re: Do the London Broncos Actually Exist?
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2019 4:28 am
Call Me God
Club Captain
Joined: Jun 12 2017 Posts: 2921
northernbloke wrote:Remember you prediction for today dog? The words you are searching for are- “well I was wrong” but even when you are you can’t say it. Why do we have less fans now than the stoop! Simple we have been playing in the second tier, even you with your marketing skills ain’t getting em back overnight!
1. I said we'd lose. I was wrong, as were a great many people including the majority of our sane fans, but regardless, I was wrong and freely admit it. 2. David Hughes took 100% ownership of the club at the start of the 2008 season. We had at that time, an average attendance figure of 3,428. 44,569 fans paid to watch us in 2007......in our last year of his expert guidance with a re-invented name and playing out of a soccer stadium in the middle of nowhere the figures you're looking at are 1,294 and 16,828.....so almost 66% down in 7 short years.......but hey ho....what do I know......well, I do know that your idol has pumped millions into what is essentially a mid tier RL outfit that can't possibly hope to survive once he dies or stops funding us.......it'll be tempting, but when it happens, I won't say I told you so because I think I may have already mentioned it once or twice.
What was the announced attendance?
By all accounts wakey took 1k down, so was it better than the average 2,675 they were in the book for over 18 prior SL visits, or was it somewhat less? 3,688 when we were Harlequins Rugby Lessons was the highest gate for a Wakey Visit......did we get close....was it the Times that done it?
JESUS WEPT HOW MANY TIMES????? £20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000. The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover.
There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them.
Post subject: Re: Do the London Broncos Actually Exist?
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 9:33 am
nadera78
Club Coach
Joined: Jan 16 2005 Posts: 991
It's an interesting one, and something they did last year too which was understandable in the Championship. I'm curious about it this time around, for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, Bronze Season Tickets are as cheap as chips already (£130 or £99 for early bird renewals) so I'm not really sure dropping them to £75 is much of an incentive - is that extra few quid really going to bring newcomers in? Secondly, if you are going to drop it then you should probably do so to match the early bird rate, undercutting that seems perverse. And what about people living in those postcodes who've already bought season tickets, are they now in line for a refund?
I'm not opposed to this offer, far from it. I can see the logic in reaching out locally, especially after such an exciting and unexpected win on the weekend which may have raised our profile a smidgen, but I'm not entirely sure I see the justification for it.
I'd be interested at the end of the season to hear if there's much take up, and then again if those people go on to renew at a normal price the following season.
Post subject: Re: Do the London Broncos Actually Exist?
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 10:27 am
Honkytonk
International Star
Joined: Jan 15 2013 Posts: 1025
Good idea but, are they actually letting people know it is on offer. Im not talking about tweeting something, I mean telling people that do not follow the club already, that do not look on social media???
Post subject: Re: Do the London Broncos Actually Exist?
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 11:55 am
Bostwick
International Star
Joined: Apr 16 2015 Posts: 2259
To my mind the club should offer locals free tickets emailing the tickets to them. From these email addresses they should follow up with cheap deals to encourage them to continue to attend further matches.
Post subject: Re: Do the London Broncos Actually Exist?
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 1:06 pm
itsmeagain
International Star
Joined: Mar 05 2015 Posts: 675
I may be wrong but dont you have to have email addrresses to email people or is there an email for local people, or a local news page on facebook. A leaflet drop before the next home game would be a good idea and the cost of having them delivered is not expensive
Post subject: Re: Do the London Broncos Actually Exist?
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 1:30 pm
RfE
Club Captain
Joined: Feb 05 2018 Posts: 1028
itsmeagain wrote:I may be wrong but dont you have to have email addrresses to email people or is there an email for local people, or a local news page on facebook. A leaflet drop before the next home game would be a good idea and the cost of having them delivered is not expensive
Get some of the Academy lads to do the leaflet drop. Will cost nothing( bar the printing costs).
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