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 Post subject: Re: Shambles
PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2022 11:46 pm 
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BigTime wrote:I don’t mind them asking people to turn up via their Twitter feed. It’s the lack of other avenues of engagement, particularly with non hard core fans, that is the worry if 5000 is the aim.

Given the lack of likes or retweets the Twitter avenue is about as much use as a chocolate teaspoon on its own, but they blew their budget on the standard and metro adverts and have not the foggiest idea of how to get new folk in.
Remember. We had close to 5k when Hughes took over......

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 Post subject: Re: Shambles
PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 9:05 am 
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the 2.2K we had vs Widnes seems such a long time ago now

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 Post subject: Re: Shambles
PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 11:49 am 
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BigTime wrote:Imagine what next year looks like if we stay up. More of the same? Who can face that but many of the current squad are on 2 year contracts and unlikely to be poached I think.
If we go down one final throw of the dice or club folding. By no means guaranteed we’d go up either. Surely we wouldn’t play out of Plough Lane though. A total shambles. Wonder what Man of Kent thinks. Or Northern Bloke or the old stagers who’ve left the scene like PC Plum. Really desperate times.



IF we stay up??






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Shake your chains to earth like dew
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Ye are many -- they are few.'

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 Post subject: Re: Shambles
PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:05 pm 
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RfE wrote:IF we stay up??

Beginning to look less likely by the week.

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 Post subject: Re: Shambles
PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:06 pm 
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crashmon wrote:the 2.2K we had vs Widnes seems such a long time ago now

Sadly the standard of performance at Leigh is very reminiscent of what was dished up v Widnes.

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 Post subject: Re: Shambles
PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 2:02 pm 
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I do have to ask. Do you think that the RFL have any concerns regarding the future of the London Broncos ?
I wonder if they have been in contact with the club. It would have been difficult, I know, being that the CEO has been on holiday..
Surely the Broncos folding,. Which we all can see is a possibility. Would be bad for the sport.
Although some might welcome it.

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 Post subject: Re: Shambles
PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 3:13 pm 
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orangeman wrote:And yes. Even if we don't win all year, please God can we ditch the Warrington kit.


On the OurLeague commentary, John Duffy as co-commenter was joking around saying that he thought our jerseys resembled Warrington kit so closely he thought he'd come to the wrong game!! True though and just awful colours for us.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 3:26 pm 
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Torbreck wrote:On the OurLeague commentary, John Duffy as co-commenter was joking around saying that he thought our jerseys resembled Warrington kit so closely he thought he'd come to the wrong game!! True though and just awful colours for us.


I hope that the London snr management was not watching, or they will ban him from Facebook and Twitter

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 Post subject: Re: Shambles
PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2022 2:31 am 
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2 RL Clubs in London...1 is a professional side that used to ply its trade in the top flight, the other is a Pub Side made up of Ex-Pat Aussies passing through London on their travels. I suspect Belushi's get a bigger bang for their sponsorship buck than any of the Broncos.... :?

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 Post subject: Re: Shambles
PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2022 4:21 am 
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Victor wrote:I do have to ask. Do you think that the RFL have any concerns regarding the future of the London Broncos ?
I wonder if they have been in contact with the club. It would have been difficult, I know, being that the CEO has been on holiday..
Surely the Broncos folding,. Which we all can see is a possibility. Would be bad for the sport.
Although some might welcome it.


The thing is, the RFL are also culpable in this mess - because they refused at every turn to form a coherent strategy for the game in London and SE. Or anywhere else for that matter. And, no, I don't mean throwing £millions at the Broncos, I just mean a planned network of development officers (who they sacked to save money to spend up north) in schools, junior clubs with decent facilities (the RFL built one 3G pitch at a school in south London but neglected to draw up a concrete contract and the school eventually made it virtually impossible for the community club to use it) through to the Broncos and Skolars, with England internationals and rep games building a presence in the city.

And it's a failing that negatively impacts the entire sport. Ever since Richard Lewis left, the RFL has had a policy under Wood and then Rimmer of remaining at arms length. They do very little in fact. They got rid of facilities minimum standards, they removed the 'live salary cap' which was checked continually and made it a simpler affair, they play virtually no internationals (and when they do its midweek at Leigh!), they do nothing to promote the Challenge Cup Final or SL Grand Final. In short - they just don't anything.

So when the Broncos do go tits up, and it's guaranteed to happen, the RFL will share some (but only some, most of it lies with Hughes) of the blame. But Rimmer will dust his hands and say "we can't force the clubs to do anything, they have to run themselves" which is his favourite line. Sitting as I do these days in Singapore, although not for much longer, it's a failing I see right across British society - no-one in a position of authority actually wants to take on responsibility for anything. It's just easier to keep your head down, do the bare minimum required, and let others take the blame if/when things go wrong.

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