Club is a shambles. Bang average mid table squad. As far from SL as you could get on and off the pitch. A massive 280 bothered on sunday. The club has successfully managed to alienate an entire fan base and shed around 4000 fans. In truth, I think the club sees the fans as an inconvenience rather than something to work with in building the club. No effort is made to engage. No effort to promote (no surprise here as the club has been clueless in promoting itself for as long as I can remember). I tried to find out details about the womens team (squad, fixtures, venue). Imagine my shock when there was nothing on the website (I found out some details from elsewhere, first game on the 14th I think?).
With being over dramatic, it breaks my heart tbh, have loved following the Broncos but like so many, have decided to call.it a day. The foolish hope that the club might get its act together has finally wasted away. Sorry state of affairs really

If that 280 is the official gate, take this in...

Oxford RL frequently pulled bigger gates than that for home matches during their first two season. (I was a dual Broncos/Oxford season ticket holder.)

Yes, Broncos are now pulling fewer fans than a team widely regarded as a fan free joke.

Unbelievable.

Caveat - home games played in Oxford only

I remember when the target was 5k averages and a floral roundabout. Now it's 5k for the season and a funeral wreath by October.

It's frankly diabolical how little focus has been put on building support. Even the hardcore support has been eroded through lack of engagement with fans and lack of investment in the team.

Barrow managed 2k apparently for their last game. We just make no effort whatsoever. Rather than trying to work with fans, Broncos prefer to pee them off. I honestly think the club does not want fans, I cant see any other explanation. Look at stuff like the website, help with promotion, I would guess there is plenty of expertise among the fan base that would (maybe not now) be willing to help. Club needs a long re think. PL will be great, with 250 people rattling around in there.

I guess I wouldn't mind so much if Hughes, the CEO or even the Lemur Lover came out & explained the great plan they are working to. It might be a rip off of Hans Christian Anderson but at least we would know what the thinking was (if any).

Leaving the limitation of the website to one side, there seems very little from Danny & a lot from Will. All due respect to the Skipper, I'd rather hear from the Coach.

Reading through this, it looks like most of the old guard who have supported the club through thin and thinner are just about done. I know, I'm one of them.

David Hughes took over in what? 2001? There's a part of me that wished we'd have been put out of our misery then.

I wouldn't believe a word that came out of his mouth. It's got to the stage now where ANYONE and not just mouthy gits like me, that dares to call into any activity or lack there of at the club is banned or has access limited on social media.

Long time fans with a track record of defending him and the club, whilst spending thousands in support are now shunned because he's given another unqualified idiot the keys

He employed (and continues to) Gimps, who will do his bidding whilst coming up with every excuse under the sun for the lack of interest. The Name, The Ground, The lack of a Tube Station......but the cold hard reality is that David Hughes is a fan with cash who spat his dummy out so hard in 2013 because of a hammering by Wigan that we nearly folded. That's not the action of a smart business man. Since we were saved in 2005/6, the club has had one CEO of any note. Paul Brown. Since then, we've had a bunch of amateurs running the club. The RFL have tried, with giving access to Marketing specialists and bribing the bloke at the Hive to let us in, but the buck stops firmly with the bloke who has flushed £30,000,000 down the drain because he refused to ever listen to anyone who might have known better.

Wimbledon have a 4 million (IIRC) debt to service and David Hughes paying them £200,000 a year in rent over 10 years will help with that, but if they're budgeting for anything north of 300 on game day for the Broncos they may have to look at other revenue streams.

280 fans, which will include Wags etc....Pub soccer gets bigger gates

Yea, we are pretty much done tbh. I really hate what seems to have happened, and I put no blame on wimbledon at all, I think they have been sold a lemon, and they must be wondering why the long time london fans are so opposed to the move. Its the fact we are moving, not where we are moving to, and the fact of the significant price increase with the weakest squad we have ever had.

Sad to keep reading this thread, but glad you say most! & not EVERYONE! I was at the first game and ever since, travelling 225 miles each way by car for home games.

I still Hope that we will come through all this, that the move to Wimbledon will turn out Positive! In our travels we had that many lows, playing in an athletic stadium one for me!

Without one person financing Our Club for many years, we would not be here today, I can't see any queue of investors? wanting to take over.

Unless they have a master plan up their sleeve you would think given where the club is today, pulling out of Wimbledon would be the sensible thing to do.

It makes you wonder if a new benefactor doesn't come forward fairly quickly then the club is going to be run down to closure.

I would not be surprised if Wimbledon pull out and take the decision away from London... If they have been told we will rock up with 2K fans and be in SL in the next 2 years where attendances will be >2K, and from that made projections on match day revenue, now they are seeing we will have

1) 20% of the projected fans (and then by extension 20% of the gate takings, beer and food takings etc),
2) we won't even be making the playoffs let alone promotion as no money to get in quality players over than the acadamy boys,

does it make sense for them to have us as Tenants. I can't believe rent alone will cover what the Dons need to pay off there loan, they need a cut of the takings, and 300 fans that cut will be very small.

To answer Jaybs, we would come back when the product on offer matches the cost of attending. Right now it does not. And this is coming from somebody who has had 3 ST for 20 years, has bought 3 home and 3 away tops pretty much every year, and paid for parking when available... SO I have put more than my money in over the years.