Crowds are dwindling because the team are so poor and they offer nothing to bring crowds in. WHo wants to continually watch their laziness week in week out, they are boring with no idea and no passion. Gus can't take all the blame how can you sell tickets to watch such continual drivel

Agree entirely. I've been watching playing and sometimes coaching RL since 1966 and I've never seen a more useless set of players. I have never slagged off an individual player online until this year. I always thought every payer went out to win until I saw this shower. I am sick of lazy Aussies coming over for a paid holiday.

Marketing 101.

Understand what it is you sell.
Understand who it is you want to sell it to.
Understand what this audience finds frustrating or desires.
Deliver.

I appreciate that 23 wins from 99 games, with only 14 of them at home since the start of the 2010 season, don't help, but we have had crap teams in the past and managed to get crowds up.
We were in 2004 dropping 3% on the previous year, yet even when it looked like we were folding in 2005 we managed to up the gates by 13%.

Gus (and to be fair to him, Blanchard/Hogg) has failed to:

Understand what it is he is selling (curry don't count!).
Understand who it is he wants to sell it to.
Understand what this imaginary audience finds frustrating or desires.
Deliver.

The elite Wigan youth players are paid around 4800 a year on apprentice contracts through something called the AASE qualification, which basically allows a relatively full time training schedule, whilst earning and also getting a sports related qualification. The basis for this being a) Wigan don't have to pay them as its funded by the course provider b) it's a carrot prior to a full contract for them but also l
Players who may not be quite at that level. For any 16 y old that money in essentially full time education is a draw but also allows for physical and tactical development. Perhaps Broncos need to get onto this as other SL clubs and even the midlands academy offer this.

You could argue London has much greater potential for finding young players under schemes like this than any other location. We have a huge potential talent pool compared to other clubs and no shortage of educational establishments.

Yes, but are the club doing ths ? London Irish run the scheme, but I find nothing on it when googling the broncos.

Imagine that Tony Rea spotted two good 16 year olds from e.g. St Helens and Wigan.

He could put down £5000 on the table and do the education programme as per Wigan.

But would £5000 be enough with travel and accomodation to pay for?

I know the club owns several houses, so in theory this could be used.

I wonder if the club could also seek host families for players?

The club owns several houses? I don't know where they're hiding them on the balance sheet.

the club dont own the houses they are seasonal rentals and each year terms are renegotiated occassionally a house is rented year on year for the contracted players