After the Widnes game prices may fall even further. What is the chance of a free ticket on facebook?

Not a hope in hell.

If you want cheaper use the £2pm membership to get 15% off so you pay £14. That's as low as you'll get.

Exactly.

There's little skin of AK's nose if fans turn up or not. He's got the rent, he's got some ticketing cash, he's got a few bob over the bar and in the food outlets, he'll flog a few shirts and he's got the RFL's marketing budget. This is all cash he wouldn't have had if we were somewhere else. He's rented us FULL TIME a venue that was occasionally used for parties and corporate events, he get's to open his venue 13 more times and will assuredly make money on match days AND HE'S BEING PAID BY THE RFL TO DO IT!

.....it really is the most astute piece of business he will have done in quite a few years. Fuck me, if the RFL had offered me to take the club on for all the benefits and none of the costs AS WELL AS paying me, I'd have been home like a shot!

Reckon we will see some record crowds this year

If that's what you want, that's what you will get.

No fans, no Broncos.

What I want is a bucket full of fans at every game but fear this will not be the case

Catalans 1,136
Salford 1,517
Wakefield 1,887
Huddersfield 1,800 (2nd game in London 2001)
Castleford 1,810
HKR 1,837
Widnes 2,117
Hull FC 1,865
Wire 2,261
Bradford 1,441
Leeds 2,377
Saints 2,839
Wigan 3,200 (2nd game in London 2007)

of the above 13 teams that will visit us in 2014, Gus has delivered 11 LOWEST ever attendances and in the case of the other 2, second lowest attendances, only beaten by years when the away fans had to make 2 trips.

With no prospect of AK doing "deals" to get crowds up, I suspect Gus may well stand a chance of getting the Wigan and Hudds crowds to add to his CV of shame!

Why don;t you back this up with figures to show how much costs TK has taken on, how much money he will recieve and how many fans he needs through the door to make money.

It's very convenient to claim TK has nothing riding on this but until I see proof then this is hot air to support an agenda.

I listened to Ians pubcast as you suggested and he certainly does not portray the situation with the same negativity that you choose to. If fact he says TK is taking a risk, which is contrary to your claim.

The number through the door will ultimately determine whether the money men see a future. Don't come and as you may as well wave goodbye now instead of gloating over the corpse.

What a strange thing to say?
London Broncos fans want the Hive packed...rammed 13 times this year and they want AK so impressed he pumps 7 figures into the club in 2015 and gets them straight back into SL. We want another 4,000 seats, all full again in 2015 giving us a 120k over the season and him 2.5 million in ticket revenue and the same again over the bar and in the shops. We want a successful club.

Alas, I suspect a 2k average and no more broncos (at the hive) is what we'll actually get.

ooohh!! look!!
Broncos could actually do worse.

I don't think anyone wants to see this and we should be aiming to avoid further shame. regardless of whether this Gus guy is involved

That to me is what is so stupid about the whole deal. Surely it should be the Broncos who should be getting the fans in and the only influence they now have on that is team performance which all the experts agree will be poop this year.

AK has a new FULL TIME paying tenant at a facility that he let out for the occasional party and corporate 5 a side event.
He also has a new reason to open the Hive to the public at a score a pop 13 times this year. Those that pay to get in will also spend money in his bars and restaurants as well as in his shop.
He has also received funding from the RFL to market these 13 events, where he keeps the ticketing, bar, restaurant and shop takings.

I'm risk averse......but that is risk free.

If it goes wrong, it goes wrong for the Broncos. AK has cash in the bank.......


BTW, this attitude from Barnet fans of "if you don't come to games, it's your own fault when it fails" is nothing new. It has been the attitude of David Hughes since 2008 (and before probably)....do you need me to go over how that's panned out for us?

Nobody knows we exist. Seriously....2006-2013 at Twickenham and no effort was made to let people know we existed.


For the record, there is an RFL guy on loan to the club/hive on facebook and twitter for the club at the moment.....the first home game is in 9 days time and the crux of the marketing by Barnet FC/The Hive to date is an offer on their website........this isn't going to end well!

but as I have shown.......there is no negative consequence for AK or the Hive if the fans don't turn up. If we average 2k this year, he'll bank 1 million pounds in tickets and residuals, + his RFL marketing money, + the rent on Underhill and administration charges.......worst case scenario for his is.....actually, there isn't one!

So no figures then, how unlike you

Well I'm glad to hear it had nothing to do with the dross served up on the pitch.