It's these types of fans that the club needs to canvas for their opinions. Admitedly, they won't be interested in travelling too far from Kent to catch games, but it's their feedback that is vital to getting the message right.

It will be interesting to see how many watch the Widnes game at the Stoop, good level of support from the locals in Gillingham, Ian Ramsdale is tweeting that more than 2000 were a result of local efforts. He is probably correct.

Easily 2,000 locals......if not more. Good news for ther Dragons and their future

I came down from Keighley today and after the game when walking back Gillingham Station, one of the London fans was having a right moan, saying, London will never get a ground down here, and if they want to build ground here they can F*** off. I walked off because it felt like he directing it at me.

I thought it was a good turn out and think its a great idea for the Broncos to spread their home games to other area's of the south east.

I thought the locals got behind London, BTW I was in with the Hull fans.

Sorry state of affairs London has a major problem.

I suspect the "angry" fan was maybe someone who has followed the game maybe as far back as 1997 when the club first put down roots in West London and who feels slightly aggrieved that rather than spend money on marketing in West London, the club are instead spending money on promoting games 50 miles away....
It too believe the turn out was excellent and the promotional teams involved deserve a pat on the back. The only problem is that of the 2,000+ locals from Kent who turned up to support their local clubs and accompany the Kids as part of the "stampede" event organised by the Medway Dragons, maybe 20 will be in attendance at the Stoop on June 9th for the wooden spoon decider against Widnes.

OTR games are a great concept when utilised to promte the game in the area/region...alas, these 2 games smack of a move (another one) to try and build a fan base..........

Orient proved nothing......Gillingham even less.

6 Home games left in 2012......3 potentially close games in Widnes, Salford and HKA.........but also 3 hammerings in Wigan, Wire and leeds...........Let's see what the club does to attact fans to these games.

Maybe more than 20 but yes what are london doing to promote the Widnes game?

FWIW?
If I was the marketing manager at the club (rumour has it the club no longer have one......), I would immediately be booking 3 or 4 coaches from Gillingham to The Stoop on June 9th.
£25 return including a match ticket and a programme........200-300 fans......if it's well received, repeat it.

TOP TIP 1
Run the coach at COST.........this is not a profit making excercise, but a PROMOTIONAL ONE.
TOP TIP 2
Pay the Medway Dragons and local volunteers 15% commission on every ticket they sell.....£1,000 + in funds for the local RL scene, 300 extra fans at a Broncos game (7% of the gate).......


....Just a thought.....strike whilst the irons hot and all that!!

So... We have (I think) the biggest gate of the season, although not really 'at home', and their still are complaints. Atmosphere wasn't great for the stand I was in till the last few stages, damn, stop complaining.

BLESS....
2nd largest gate of the season.......sub 4k gate for an "EVENT"..........but eh, we're london, we reward failure

June 9th.......season maker, season breaker!

at least 35% in my estimation, pit the team could not find the extra gear again!

Seems they're advertising a deal where you can get tickets to 4 of the 6 remaining games for £30! Don't know how widely it will be advertised (Evening Standard,local papers in Kent and West London, posters on Twickenham station?) but it was in Sunday's programme - and is a good deal!

Daft Dad is involved with Medway, lives that way and has a vested interest in that area, hence his provocative post!

I'm "embarrased" DaftDad as I didnt go(nor did I go to Orient) as did a number of other ST holders I know off. If it had been played in my back garden I would have sat in the front garden. The team is Sh*t. I hope those that employ Powell are equally embarassed. 2 wins all season. Leaking in 30-40 points per game (accepting yesterday it was only 14). I'm not after winning cups(although it would be nice) but I want to be entertained in my time off and thats not happening currently.

Daft Dad-discuss!!!!!

Tim of there has been 10,000 present there would have still been complaints or excuses that it was a one off! currently whatever the club does or says is never going to please a few here. It was not the result we wanted, I thought it may have just been over the 5,000 mark but it wasn't but I get fed up of the "Glass half empty" attitude continually from the few, at least some accept it is not perfect, things are not being done as quickly as we would like, but we will see what the review says rather than simply moan or complain all the time or tell us how they would run things!

Maybe if the team was mid table or competative there would have been 5k