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 Post subject: What's going on?
PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2022 9:33 pm 
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As we head for the 4th month of the season, it would seem that all emphasis has switched from "self sufficiency in 2026" to "let's say nothing and hopefully we can start again next year"
The move to Wimbledon is going exactly the way many believed it would. After spending 50K+ on stupid newspaper adverts and announcing a KO time, a few curious dons fans & community club players rolled up for the opener and since then crowds have gone downwards at an alarming rate. There has bee zero effort put into game day experience, with a belated reference to the club asking for volunteers but getting none? Why was this not planned back on November/December?

Ticket prices have already been adjusted "downwards", but there appears to be little activity to attract new fans.

One of the chief architects of this fiasco is on his toes, whilst the accountant who is playing at being a CEO is recruiting people mid season?

Social media, be that Facebook, Twitter of the club site is a shambles, with little if any relevant and up to date information available. Match reports appear 2 days after the game, whilst score updates during games are either sporadic or piggy-backed off the opponents sites. Links on the club website are either broken or incorrect, with even the new ticketing prices not updated and the "wire frame" of the site itself is amateur.

Tickets can only be sourced via the club site if you click on "tickets" and scroll to the very foot of the page........and ONLY tickets for the Bradford game are available, where earlier in the season all games were available.

Fans of the club who have criticised or commented on aspects of this unfolding carnage have simply been banned from social media aspects, in what I can only imagine is an effort to stop anything of a negative nature get to David Hughes attention.

On the pitch, the team is "gradually" showing signs of becoming competitive, (although a hail Mary bomb and an opponent error in the 79th minute earning us a draw is hardly time for champagne cork popping) but with no wins in 6 games we languish in a relegation battle and if we aren't on 7 points before we get "evicted" for a month, we really will be in a massive fight for our existence.

Other clubs when faced with such chaos would expect the owner or CEO to come out with a statement of sorts, but it would seem that 2022 is already being written off.

Tickets for the Bradford game seem to be at about 250 with another 6 in the South Stand.....I would expect the Bradford attendance to be 1,500+, but my biggest fear is that we will be outnumbered by away fans at only our 4th League outing and there seems to be no urgency from the club to change this?

I am registered (and as yet not banned) to receive emails from the club, the last of which was on March 2nd (3 weeks ago) regarding the cheaper prices to sit with Hughes and not make the platinum lounge look like a ghost town. I have expressly given permission to be emailed, yet nobody at the club has seen fit to send anything about the 2 games since, nor any club news and no promotions for the Bulls game.......

The average number of likes the club get to a tweet is 31 this season....our facebook page is infeected with trolls offering snide links and our email system is ignored.

This is just 4 months since David Hughes said
Quote:“For our Club to get back to the Super League, and to rekindle some of those memories we all have, there will need to be a period of re-building, laying strong foundations, and that period is starting now but we will need all of you to help us make this work.

...yet the silence is deafening.

So the question is, what is going on at the London Broncos RLFC? Is there a plan and if so what is the next stage, because from the outside looking in it very much looks like the wheels have fallen off and the club is heading for relegation and associated receivership.

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 Post subject: Re: What's going on?
PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2022 10:08 pm 
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[quote="orangeman"]As we head for the 4th month of the season, it would seem that all emphasis has switched from "self sufficiency in 2026" to "let's say nothing and hopefully we can start again next year"

Ticket prices have already been adjusted "downwards", but there appears to be little activity to attract new fans.

Social media, be that Facebook, Twitter of the club site is a shambles, with little if any relevant and up to date information available. Match reports appear 2 days after the game, whilst score updates during games are either sporadic or piggy-backed off the opponents sites. Links on the club website are either broken or incorrect, with even the new ticketing prices not updated and the "wire frame" of the site itself is amateur.
The average number of likes the club get to a tweet is 31 this season....our facebook page is infeected with trolls offering snide links and our email system is ignored.

This is just 4 months since David Hughes said .yet the silence is deafening.

So the question is, what is going on at the London Broncos RLFC?


Yes rapidly becoming a complete mess off the field as opposed to on it - although as you say still a lot to do there as well. I’ve said before and I think it may be true we have a one man back room staff and he leaves in a few days. Complete silence could be the new norm. Hardly a relaunch is it?
The drop in likes on Twitter tells a story of customer disengagement and the fact the club no longer prune the almost entirely negative comments on recent posts tells a story about club disengagement. With apologies to the guy on the other forum who spotted it,and just to add to the grimness of it all, check out the game day/platinum lounge tab and see what game is being touted there. It makes the Bradford/York banner fiasco look positively competent.
Bearing in mind how complicated it is to buy a ticket for the Bradford game 250 is not a bad result. But where from there? I think we have only 4 home games in 4 months and one of those is a Friday night game. I’m no mystic Meg but attendance at that will be terrible. How can you build momentum on that even if we were semi competent.
If we get through this I think the club will be stronger because it’s in a right state at the minute and things do look very bad. Skolars season starts soon and we’ll be able to assess the damage we have done to them.

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 Post subject: Re: What's going on?
PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 7:21 am 
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Surprised anyone is bothered tbh. This was seen coming a mile off.
Let the ub disappear up the owners backside

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 Post subject: Re: What's going on?
PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 7:28 am 
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To follow up, I've always hoped/prayed that the club would sort itself out.

After seeing the shambles we are, added to being banned on SM (for asking questions like why is there no programmes/what is the actual team) I think the club deserves all ot gets ow. Any hope/sympathy is long gone for me. My only interaction is the odd look on here.

Let's be honest, it's not even a PT club, its runike a pub team. Shameful really

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 Post subject: Re: What's going on?
PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 7:32 am 
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If Danny Ward gets the Leeds job then surely Hughes will admit he's lost the plot
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 Post subject: Re: What's going on?
PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 7:51 am 
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orangeman wrote:If Danny Ward gets the Leeds job then surely Hughes will admit he's lost the plot
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.....who am I kidding......Hughes can do no wrong!

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 Post subject: Re: What's going on?
PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 8:10 am 
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Did we let Ward go, or did he actually foresee/was told what was coming and wanted out??

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 Post subject: Re: What's going on?
PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 8:49 am 
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Honkytonk wrote:Did we let Ward go, or did he actually foresee/was told what was coming and wanted out??


He told them he was leaving at the end of the season, but then Hughes threw a fit and sacked him on the spot. But yes he was not going to stay for 2022. I'm guessing he did not want to go PT, and why should he.

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 Post subject: Re: What's going on?
PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 12:07 pm 
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To get back to the original question, bugger all from what I can see.

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 Post subject: Re: What's going on?
PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 12:55 pm 
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What a heart breaking decline for a once great club. Hughes is totally responsible for this for allowing himself to have a greater than thou know it all attitude and aided and abetted by a lobster and a monkey

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