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.

Maybe we should sell our place in SL next season to any club prepared to pay £500k for the privilege.

Or put it on eBay with no reserve! Cash on collection only though...

Sounds a plan that is better than Lobster would come up with.

It has little to do with my humility and more to do with the close to 2 decades of me trying to get Hughes to comprehend what was important. I may not have been the only one, or even the first but I would hazzard a guess that I have been the most prolific voice when it came to the need for the club to focus on attracting fans and attention to itself. I've met with them and the RFL and offered viable cost effective ways to organically grow gates but even though encouraged to listen to me by the RFL, Hughes ignored me. Oyster card holders in Canary wharf and stickers on black cabs is about the long and the short of it. Lazy above the line tube advertising. I've often pointed out that the only ground we left with more fans than when we arrived was Brentford and AFAIK that is the only ground where fans would meet on a Thursday night to leaflet drop the neighbours. Even then, Chris Warren didn't help other than to print the leaflets....volunteers did the work.
Interestingly, since moving to NZ I've set up a company that has helped 2 professional sports teams grow their crowds. One of these now regularly sell out their games, so no, I don't do humility. I do however get results!
Here's a thought for you. We were at trailfinders for a few years. When I'm back in London, I stay at a mates flat a 5 minute walk away and a great number of our friends live in West Ealing and Hanwell, but none of them have ever had a letter, leaflet, seen an advert for the Broncos. That's criminal in my opinion. Hughes prattles on about corporate income and it "not being fair" but the reality is he just doesn't understand why fans don't flock to the game HE likes.....like most RL fans he's myopic in his passion and prejudice against anyone or anything that doesn't "get it".
Don't get me wrong. £30,000,000 is a hell of an investment, but in truth, if he'd spent 10% of that.on marketing we'd probably be bolted on for a SL spot in 2025.

Absolutely. I've zero argument with any of that: it's what we've all grown to expect.

Add to that, we moved from Trailfinders as it wasn't fit for Super League. Apparently.

Good job then: our move to Wimbledon really shot us up the IMG rankings.

Oh, hold on a minute...

Perhaps the management misjudged what the ranking criteria would be and thought they could get some easy points. In reality, the fact our crowd barely touch the sides of the stadium and we can't play all our games there count against us.