see what happens with the brentford venture! get in with that from the start, make that our ground from 2014 with a shared of that ground, make it our home!, London Broncos, need to be in LONDON

Brentford is the only ground where we left with more fans than we arrived with........if the owners of Brentford are up for a discussion regarding ground share or part investment/ownership at their Lionel Road base, then that, in my humble opinion, should be the only option being explored. If the club are seriously moving away from the Stoop (again) then it has to be based on more than the opinion of a CEO and Chairman who have presided over a fiasco in the last 24 months....

The RFL, now they have their money back from looking after Bradford should purchase a controlling interest in the London Broncos from 2015-2018 with the sole aim of removing the culture of failure from the club, working on the off field areas that have been butchered for over a decade and attracting investors to take the club forward from 2018 onwards........Thank you very much Mr Hughes for all your support....if we ever own a ground, a stand is the minimum that will carry your name, but for the club to move forward as a viable professional business, it's time somebody else took over.

Let's look at your post in depth shall we?


How does it make complete sense? Since we returned to the Stoop the club have spent less than 100k on atracting fans or promoting games...they have repeatedly employed the wrong people and done nothing to raise their profile in the immediate area. The fact that another CEO who is out of his depth was scrambling around for unimportant things like name changes 6 months into the job and then blaming the team when the re-brand fails points to something that does make sense.......that no matter anyone else says, so long as you do what Mr Hughes tells you to, then you're OK for another few years employment.....see Mr Powell as exhibit 2 and further proof of this theory.


Ah....this is your statement that you can fall back on when a failing CEO and Meglomaniac Chairman decide to shunt the team to Kent in 12 months time.....failure to increase crowds by 78% in 1 season will be the reason.....




This is the only accurate thing in you post...because if we do move, then attendances in the first year will be higher...they have been when we moved back to The Valley in 2000, to Brentford in 2002 and back to The Stoop in 2006........guess what happened in the years after the "initial" curiosity....go jaybs, guess........shall I tell you?

2000-2001 dop of 6%
2002-2003 drop of 7%
2006-2007 drop of 31% (discount the double header and it's only down 22%)

.....the common denominator? Not a ing penny spent on marketing the team/club/event/game......just an arrogant belief that goalposts, 2 teams and KO time was enough.

This club moves to cover up the failings of those charged with improving things and the inability to understand what is really needed by its owner......it always has done and always will do

Now I don't recall him doing that but maybe he did. I'd be interested if you could clarify when and how he did that.

Thanks Barbary

, and with that, it's goodnight from me ...

My bad....7 months into his job he was discussing the change....he's on record as saying...

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14-01-11 / Gus Mackay Joins as CEO
22-06-11 / Club announce they are investigating a possible re-brand
10-09-11 / 3,456 Watch the loss to St Helens, securing 12th spot with an average down 8% on 2010
01-11-11 / Club announce a rebrand back to the Broncos name

Above are some of the highlights of the 2011 season on and off the pitch.....others include the employment of a communications manager from the LTA to the position of Marketing Manager at the club (she's now been employed in the correct role by our landlords BTW), the decision to appoint a Cricket Clothing Manufacturer to produce the clubs kit and replica items and also, the decision not to press ahead with further exploritary discussions after looking at a potential ground in Barnet........which is now being built by sarries with an 8 million pound sponsorship deal in the bank and, lest we forget, the continued employment of a coach who would go on to become the reason than attendances in 2012 were crap....according to the CEO that is!

There is no direction or leadership being shown at the club.....the problem has never been the stadium the team play their games at, the problem has always been the wrong people in key roles.

I think a share in Lionel Rd project would be great for us but the new owner there has plenty of money and i dont think needs us. Wonder what half a share would cost and whether DH has that sort of money anyway.

With all the cost-cutting going on elsewhere within the club I don't think we need bother talking about pie-in-the-sky ideas for a share in Brentford's stadium. Wound up by the 2014 Grand Final.

Having a close the club down day are we 78

Interns=close the club
Stoop=close the club

Nothing to do with the Stoop, I like the ground and it's probably our best bet when you compare it to anythign else on offer. I just don't see anything coming out of the club that suggests the attitude or approach is going to change in any way shape or form. Which makes the whole thing a bit pointless really.

Which makes what pointless exactly?

You still get to see SL every week. We have a new coach, a bit of hope for the playoffs given the end of season form, you like the Stoop

DH may have made a decision to keep forking out- How does that effect you?

The RFL should have done something years ago about having a LONDON RL GROUND! when we first left Fulham! it could and should have been a Centre of Excellence for RL in the South, all the community teams based there and the HQ for RL & Super League in London, but no they did nothing they were supposed to have sent in help wonder what they did! instead they buy a big hole in the ground for Bradford to save them and ensure that the sale of the ground did not give the people owned £6 Million their monies back! I would not put Nigel Woods in charge of anything and he is shaping the Future of the game and he is part and responsible for the disaster the game is in!

30 years ago Warrington plus plenty of other "big" heartland clubs were failing and you think the RFL had a vision to waste all there money on a ground in London. No really

Wigan had only just returned to the top flight from the second division. Thats what was going on in them days!

There was no Sky deals!!

What disaster is the game in? Crowds growing, Sky deal the biggest we have had, more youth playing than ever before, more youngsters making the top level, new teams in Oxford and other southern regions playing semi pro.......it goes on

Look a bit further than the empty seat next to you in the west stand.