But you are disagreeing with me purely on the basis of your assertion that me saying the club have done nothing to attract our neighbours in TW2 and then saying they leafletted babaas fans in November 2011 and this year have placed adverts in local free sheets is some how contradictory.....it's not.

The clarify my stand point....the club have done nothing of any substance to attract "local" fans to games at the stoop.......and they have only just started placing adverts in the local paper AFTER THEY ANNOUNCED WE WERE LEAVING THE STOOP AT THE END OF THE YEAR

As for defending Gus = Disagreeing with me........it makes no difference if you are or you aren't defending Gus.....you seem to want to disagree with me on the lack of marketing...and where I bow to your superior knowledge of events on the park, my "hobby" is attendances at the club and a pretty detailed list of what they've done (SIC) since 2002........believe me, the effort and money spent since 2002 on marketing the club is less than a club like wigan spend in a season..

Interesting topic www.onlybarnet.com/forum/viewtop ... f=3&t=5401 Been having a look at the most recent planning application to modify the stands and floodlights. Residents not happy, petition and angry letters. Most of them never knew planning permission had been granted for a football stadium in 2008. Give the residents a car parking zone, free season tickets, make them feel wanted and the applicants will get permission. www.harrow.gov.uk/planningsearch ... sults.page ( go to quick search on the left and put in application number P/0665/13 then documents) At least there are no conditions on the original planning permission restricting the number of events they can hold, unlike Copthall. The whole development looks excellent.

Interesting topic www.onlybarnet.com/forum/viewtop ... f=3&t=5401 Been having a look at the most recent planning application to modify the stands and floodlights. Residents not happy, petition and angry letters. Most of them never knew planning permission had been granted for a football stadium in 2008. Give the residents a car parking zone, free season tickets, make them feel wanted and the applicants will get permission. www.harrow.gov.uk/planningsearch ... sults.page ( go to quick search on the left and put in application number P/0665/13 then documents) At least there are no conditions on the original planning permission restricting the number of events they can hold, unlike Copthall. The whole development looks excellent.

Whilst I advocate the use of leaflet drops to promote the game, I'd suggest we steer clear of the signatories of the petition in this instance

The irony is that the residents who signed the petition live on Aldridge Avenue which backs onto the tube line. Complaining about the noise from a stadium once a week, when they have a train rattling past every 5 minutes from 5am until midnight.

For what it is worth, Gutterfax has it pretty much right about lack of local marketing, in my experience.

I live in TW1 - it was a leaflet through the door announcing Broncos were coming to play at Griffin Park that got me to go see the disaster of their beating St Helens 40odd - 6, after which I continued to watch them as the only game in town.

Since then I've seen nothing else through the letterbox and hardly a sign of local marketing worth the name. I know the owner of the local Sports Shop, have arranged to go watch Broncos at Griffin Park and the Stoop with him, and he's never been approached to put up a poster or anything - and wouldn't a link to a sports shop appear an obvious place to advertise - other local sports clubs do.

As for local free papers carrying ads recently (did I get that right?) they don't come through our door.

At least the Richmond and Twickenham Times carries Broncos reports.

I live 100 miles from Twickenham but I did see an example of local marketing there less than four weeks ago.

Brilliant....in fact, utter Genius. Announce we're off to pastures new and THEN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 7 YEARS WASTE MONEY ATTEMPTING TO ATTRACT FANS FROM THE AREA TO GAMES WHO, EVEN IF THEY BECOME HOOKED WILL HAVE TO TRAVEL TO KENT, THE HIVE OR ORIENT NEXT YEAR

Am I alone in thinking that the levels of ineptitude at the club are seeming only matched by the levels of insanity?

Good to know that other fans,many who have more years of service under their belts that I, are just as dismayed at the goings on at the club...



Nope....the minute they announced we were 100% offski, any "interim spend" should have been on creating "events"...like opting for a game to run a deal for anzacs, or letting ST holders bring 5 mates for a quid each. The damned if they did/didn't scenario at the Stoop v2 only relates to 2006-2012.....2013 was over when the Warder played his second get out of jail card

Two different adverts in the local paper for the wire game, one with a chance to win a signed shirt for the outlay of £1! You have to answer one of three questions: Who are LB playing? Wire, Dragons, Gills. Just hope LB do not move to Gillingham.

There must be some LB fans in Kent to make the move plausible.

Maybe a few but the football club won their league averaging 6,600. Attracting even half of that on a regular basis would require a succesful side. I suspect the sort of team we have right now will attract even less than we do at The Stoop.

Of course, for a one off game we will get more especially if the local amateur team do all the hard work to promote it.

Spot on.

It may well be that the Gillingham FC owners are the only people willing to invest in the club. Mr Scally seems to be very astute financially, turning total debts of 13,000,000+ into a profitable situation in a short space of time.

and he likes animals too

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