I suppose we can see the positive of DH not being in denial but his failure to address the dwindling crowds since he took sole control from Lenegan is the issue.

Yeah that's fair

On the plus side whilst when it comes to RL players London may not be be a hive of activity or a centre of expertise when it comes to off field stuff like business strategy and comms. And marketing etc it’s very difficult to see a host of places with more experts. All we need to do now is access that talent ... and obviously a big screen fitter.

Just don't let sky tale it down next year, assuming they put one up at our home games

It's really hard to say that I wasn't screaming warning about this nearly 15 years ago but sadly I was right and sadly, I was referred to as one of a few old blokes ranting on the internet by Hughes and co at the start of last season.
I sincerely hope Hughes takes next year's funding and banks it for use over the years 2026/7/8 as a marketing budget. The club are already relegated in 2025 so better to regroup and properly relaunch in 2026 in the 2nd tier and most likely at Ebbsfleet. Being at Wimbledon has delivered no benefit at all...none....nada.....nil.
As a fan of the team I'm gutted.....as for the club? It's hard not to chuckle given the miles of posts on here, elsewhere, email, meetings etc when I predicted this

With the gradings released today and the criteria for 2025, there is now way London are going to be able to sign any decent ovdrseas players. How many overseas players are going to uproot to move for 9 months.
The celebrations from the play off game have already been diluted by news today.I was going to maybe purchase a season ticket again but no point.It must be hard for the players for next season knowing that whatever performances they put in, the end result will be the same.

Blimey Mr Orange, humility isn't really your thing, is it? You were far from the only person to predict this.


More than diluted for me.

What was the point in gaining promotion this season? Or this season at all? What's the point in the whole of next season?

(And not just for us either. Just put the highest IMG scorers in Super League now and get on with it.)

Looks like the club have missed the one week window where they could have pushed season tickets hard.

No question it’s a dampener to find we are a worse prospect than a defunct club amongst others and we desperately needed to sustain the feel good momentum of the MPG win so thanks for that IMG but there’s loads of things for us to worry about for the upcoming season not least whether being an unprepared entrant into SL might leave us in a weaker place by seasons end than if we had bowed out at the Semis stage. Let’s not worry too much about 2025 yet. Let’s see what the club gets up to re recruitment and improving all the off field stuff they have handled badly over recent seasons- shirt sponsors anyone? If they do that and we are relegated after performing creditably and giving fans value for money then so be it as per 2019 - there will be points of interest. If it’s week after week of beatings on a Thursday night to small crowds then frankly would we want to be in SL anyway? Important weeks here for the LB brains trust let’s just focus on the immediate task in hand but if we want to plan for the future then IMG have helpfully told us what we need to do - it’s a long list as per multiple posts on multiple threads.

Loving your tact, BT.

To ALL Broncos fans, every rational RL fan (so that excludes those of most of the "A" clubs - though not all ) thinks that these IMG rankings are just J Arthur.

I've just read Hughes's Statement.
Christ on a bike....the man's an idiot!


No poop sherlock. You've had 15 years of going backwards and you're about to be handed £1.8 million which you and your useless Hockey loving accountant will P up the wall and achieve nothing. Ask yourself some hard questions Hughes.

Why did we leave Quins? Why did we revert back to the Broncos name? Why did we leave the Hive? Why did we move into the "perfect" Trailfinders? Why did the perfect Trailfinders not work? How many more fans and to be precise how much more revenue has the move to Merton delivered. What is the plan now? Are there targets and consequences for missing them? Why has the Commercial Manager still got a job when we've had no shirt sponsor this year?

All these moves resulted in us going backwards.

It's just farcical that you're that much of a narcissist that you'll continue to spaz money away rather than admit defeat.

My initial mirth has now turned to outright ire at your utter incompetence. If IMG had been asked to grade us in the same way in 2008 we'd be very close to a Grade A ...now we are a gnats hair from being a C Grade club

The mismanagement of the club in the past two decade has well and truly come home to roost.

After promotion I.saw a fan on social media saying they wondered what some fans would possibly find to moan about now...

Unbelievably, on Facebook there are fans who still haven't twigged that Hughes is the reason we have this rating.

So I have not really posted much on this, as fully expected we would be this low.... For me however it looks like London and Cas out of SL next year and Tolouse and Bradford in....

Not sure what the approach is for next year. Why would you spend money on the squad next year, we are going down anyway, but will you get crowds if your conceeding 50+ each game

.......Hughes and Lobster couldn't attract crowds even if we were sticking 50 on Wigan and Leeds week in week out, but you've just highlighted the excuse that will no doubt be rolled out at the end of 2025.