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| When we first came to the Stoop back in 2006, if my memory serves me right, we had £299 season tickets. I think the other Stand was less expensive but not the dirt cheap £99 price.
I think anyone could go in any bar except the upstairs bars like the Captain's Club / Corporate Hospitality and there was a natural separation out of punters between the quiet carpeted bar and noisier King's Bar.
There were normally about 3 or 4 Fans Forums and the professional presenter Chris Warren was often on hand and when he was not there were also a supporting lot of high quality volunteers from within the support plus a few back office ladies who were genuinely helpful.
Where we are now is in an environment in which there is only a handful of staff, no professional presenter, almost no volunteers retained and a lot of complexity and barriers some of which cannot be enforced without a lot of resource.
I think the lack of revenue is the underlying issue with the other one being the divisive nature of the CEO who would prefer to keep the supporters behind partitions. That can't easily be fixed.
But the revenue angle would work much better to do a proper membership scheme.
As an example the club should charge £199 for the main stand and in return this should give supporters an allocated seat and a 'free hand' to go in any of the bars. Let people go to the fans forums for this price, bung them a car park pass etc. This could be policed via Gus's heavies checking a membership pin. And supporters turfing out squatters from their allocated seat!
Non-members would get nothing except an unallocated seat and King's Bar Access. I'd suggest a minimum price of £10 a game for adults. If they pay an upgrade fee, let's say £6 then they can upgrade match by match if they want to.
Otherwise it will continue to be amateur I feel. For want of resource.
Cheers
Mark
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6679_1399761959.png [quote="dally messenger":1gysl9ow]was watching an nfl doco. on one of their teams and they used the term bomb to describe those long high passes from quaterback to running back and i think gibson took that idea, realized you cant throw the ball forward in RL and adapted it to a "bomb" kick we have[/quote:1gysl9ow]
[quote="eels fan":1gysl9ow]You poor poor obsessed fat ex vichyballin potato thieving stoaway.[/quote:1gysl9ow]:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_6679.png |
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| The London Broncos will cease to exist as a professional Super League RL entity if no other major investor can be found toreplace David Hughes or if the club continues to around with gimmicky marketing campaigns that are done on a shoe string and achieve nothing.
Brown, Hogg, Blanchard and now MacKay have, over 7 seasons, presided over a loss of 30% of the average attendance..that's more than 1,100 missing fans per game or about 300k in lost revenue......for 6 of these seasons, David Hughes has contolled the purse strings and IIRC, we have had 2 full time Marketing Managers.....bot who were so out of their depth it was farcical that they were employed in the first place.
I am not sure if Mr Hughes once had a dog that was run over by a marketing executive, but he seems almost fanatically adverse to spending a brass farthing on promotion or marketing. He patently believes that the locals should feel honoured to have a SL club in their midsts and should be googling their little hearts out to find out when our next home game is.....perish the thought that he'd ever send them an invite.
He believes, incorrectly BTW, that if the team win something, the fans will flock to the games.......we finished 4th and 2nd before the play-offs, made 2 play-offs finishing 5th and 6th and visited Wembley......not 1 fan was added to the averages in the seasons immediately after these "successes".......
Mr Hughes is 100% Entitled to run HIS club as he sees fit, but patently he is doing it badly and his recent facination with all things cricket points to him having lost the plot totally........
I repeat, to compare the way the club is currently run to an amateur pub team is an injustice to amateur pub teams.
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| Quote: gutterfax "to compare the way the club is currently run to an amateur pub team is an injustice to amateur pub teams.'" So we're a bit of a black sheep and can't seem to do anything right. Maybe we should be kicked out of the Super League to teach us a lesson ![Rolling Eyes icon_rolleyes.gif](images/smilies//icon_rolleyes.gif)
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6679_1399761959.png [quote="dally messenger":1gysl9ow]was watching an nfl doco. on one of their teams and they used the term bomb to describe those long high passes from quaterback to running back and i think gibson took that idea, realized you cant throw the ball forward in RL and adapted it to a "bomb" kick we have[/quote:1gysl9ow]
[quote="eels fan":1gysl9ow]You poor poor obsessed fat ex vichyballin potato thieving stoaway.[/quote:1gysl9ow]:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_6679.png |
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| Quote: Torbreck "So we're a bit of a black sheep and can't seem to do anything right. Maybe we should be kicked out of the Super League to teach us a lesson
The London Broncos are not simply a black sheep who can't seem to do anything right.....The London Broncos are a professional Sports club and Business who have never attempted to do the right thing......there is a massive difference between doing something wrong and doing the wrong thing......HTH!
btw....When have I ever said that we should be kicked out of SL? What I have said since 2003 and what I am derided for repeating is that the club do not have a ing clue how to market themselelves.......and when DH walks away, nobody will need to kick the club out of SL.
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| You're smart, but not that smart ![Very Happy icon_biggrin.gif](images/smilies//icon_biggrin.gif)
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6679_1399761959.png [quote="dally messenger":1gysl9ow]was watching an nfl doco. on one of their teams and they used the term bomb to describe those long high passes from quaterback to running back and i think gibson took that idea, realized you cant throw the ball forward in RL and adapted it to a "bomb" kick we have[/quote:1gysl9ow]
[quote="eels fan":1gysl9ow]You poor poor obsessed fat ex vichyballin potato thieving stoaway.[/quote:1gysl9ow]:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_6679.png |
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| Quote: Torbreck "You're smart, but not that smart.'"
I am Albert ing Einstein when compared to any of the tools employed by DH to promote/run the club.......and my intelligence, charm and charisma are only overshadowed by my arrogance ![Laughing icon_lol.gif](images/smilies//icon_lol.gif)
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