So orangeman.
What do you suggest

There was an opus posted on here back in 2009. It outlined a number of ways to promote the club for either minimal or no outlay. What was required was a desire, a will and a group of volunteers to make it work. The premise at the time was that we had about 3,750 as an average and it was a way to get the club nearer 5,000 fans, which at the time would have delivered about £1,000,000 in gate receipts.
Alas.....it would almost be cheaper to bin the Broncos and start from scratch again as any goodwill is gone, there's 500 fans left at best and if the club decide that Wimbledon is their desired destination, I see no point in spending a farthing on marketing and promotion until next January/February, when the Covid situation may be a bit clearer and the club have an idea of interest from Dons fans.

That said. If it were me?

I'd stay at Ealing until we've a squad that looks like it might challenge and if needed, take one or two games to a bigger stadium like the stoop.
I'd put together a 10 year plan, with chances to amend and update it at 1 year, 4 years and again at 7 years. I'd re-engage with the lapsed fans.....maybe in the form of a letter from David Hughes outlining the plan for the club.
I'd streamline and outsource every aspect of the back office, with maybe a General Manager and 2 other full time employees. I'd allocate a set figure for marketing and interview local agencies with a major part of any fees paid for acquisition....
...I'd have the Academy & First Team Squads training together, using the Gymnasium that Dave built







back when he said it was perfect for the Broncos and I'd use any of the savings we make from not having seperate training facilities etc to market ourselves.
I'd run Beer Fesivals at 3 games during the summer.....a la Toronto. I'd have bands on, activities for the kids and bring back Buck'n'Dusty......in short, I'd act like a club and not a team.

But it won't happen. Hughes has bought into someone telling him what he wants to hear and the club will be part time in a matter of a few years....

Over the years from Gutter to Orange, the mantra has remained the same despite a fair amount of abuse from some of us, including me i suspect.

But it is hard not to agree any more. The only thing I would really love to know, but suspect never will is WHY Hughes has done (or not done) what he has to get us to this position despite spending millions.

I have too many good memories, from The Fulham days, bad ones are outweighed by good! If David Hughes had never come along, we may not have even had a club for years now, I would not like to imagine how much he has put in of his own personal finance? In my case, I am more bitter about my home town club, run by an owner, who is it all about himself! the new ground was not his money, it was a friend in Hong Kong, with a very high interest fee! he even has hos own office at the ground, Saturday after the cup presentation, when it should have been all about the players, there he was running out on to the pitch. We all look at matters differently! Thank Goodness lol

Between £20 & £30 million....with an equal or possibly higher figure of central/TV revenue as well as fan and sponsorship monies.
Just short of 1 million fans watched London's Home SL games over the years....there's £10,000,000 in a heartbeat.
Stop saying we'd have no club without Hughes. It's apologetic in spades and it pardons him for the utter clusterfudge he has made of running the club.
We could well be a solid mid table SL side now with comparable crowds to Castleford or Wakefield if he'd have just employed a Rugby administrator instead of Blanchard then Mackay. If he'd accepted that we were lucky to meet lower tier teams on the way to the semis and deserved the pasting Wigan gave us, we'd maybe we'd have not been bolted on to drop.....and before anyone mentions it, Toronto bottled it......yes, we went up, but even then he just expected fans to rock up when we were in SL. So please.....stop excusing his ineptitude by saying without him we'd not be here......he's wasted our money as well as his own!

No One! tells me what I may say! and never will.

Over the years I've been involved with many RL owners, and he's anywhere near the bottom! Never fails to amaze me, how people who put their own personal money into the game, take stick, look at the way League Express constantly knocked Koukash!

You can count on one hand, those owners in our sport, who have put there own major money into a club!

I've said over and over again, I don't see a queue of major financial backers fighting to take over the club! How many have walked away from our club! Let's just hope when the day comes, we need an owner, there is one!

did you carry a watermelon






How many fingers have you got on your hands???






In 202 and again in 2007 we were a prospect......now we're junk bonds. When he put us on the block in 2013 he admitted as much.....he'd reduced the club to a worthless entity.


Plenty. But just because he's an arrogant narcissist who refuses to admit he's wrong, so he continues to plough money in whilst saying his way is right and ignoring the blaringly obvious doesn't excuse him. He has killed the club!

There's no club left to own. There's a team with a toxic brand and staff who seem more about self promotion than actually doing their jobs. Wimbledon is lazy....it really is. The club needed staff who would work hard and do so for peanuts or less......but it seems the current Monkey requires more than a bag of cashews and is delivering nothing in return!
When Hughes goes, that's it. If anyone steps up it'll be for no cash outlay and with the debts wiped clean and then the club has a chance of rebuilding, but as I say, it'll do that from the 3rd tier....why do you think shortcut argyle and perez aren't sniffing around? Hughes has ruined us....that's why!

By the way.....on your first point of "not being told what to say"....welcome to the club. Ive been told to shut up for nearly 20 years and guess what?

Perhaps, look closer to home first! ' arrogant narcissist who refuses to admit they are wrong'

Would anyone want to support our club any more, if they ever managed to find this forum??, they would be put off for life!

How many even bother to post here? 4 or 5? No Wonder! and nothing to do with the club, West Ham fans can be arrogrant on KUMB, but nothing like a few here!

Do you seriously believe the decline in poster numbers here is solely due to arrogant posters and in no way related to the club losing the massive majority of its support base?

If so you are wrong. Two people who used to do away games with me were regular posters on here. Neither watch the club or post here any more. Both cited their reason for ceasing to watch the club, and therefore post here, as disillusionment with the way the club was run at the time they ceased attending. The same reason was given by the person who used to sit next to me at The Stoop in the early seasons. He posted here too He's reverted to being an official at a Iocal RU club now.

They are the three ex regular posters I know who have ceased posting and know why they ceased. All cited the club as their reason for ceasing to attend, which caused them to cease to post. I highly doubt they are the only three cases.

Spot on Halfdan, of the several bodies I dragged to the Stoop & France on a number of occasions & who posted once in a while here, they have all given up. 1 is dead which is fair enough, 1 spends their weekends sailing on the solent, 1 just follows Quins RU & the rest do family things. All have given up attending & posting because of the state of the club & see no future with Hughes about.

Fine.
I'm wrong.
The club were really fine all the time and the disappearance of fans and sponsors as well as our SL status weren't predicted back in 2003 and if it were, it wasn't by me.



Mr Hughes is a genius and his plan for a multi-sport club will come to fruition soon and they'll be queuing around the block to get in to see us. It only failed before because charltonthestoopcharltonbrentfordthestoopthehivetrailfinders was on the wrong bus route....this time it'll be different.



As for folk coming on here or total RL or any other non club sponsored media....there's nothing positive to say at the moment. The clubs a mid table one, with an outbreak of covid, no fans and has a squad of about 6 players signed for next year and are moving to a 9k stadium with 2.5%of the fans needed to fill it.

I was wrong and all those who said I was wrong and who no longer go to games and post in any of the forums were right.....they just don't go any more because of a poster 12,000 KMs away being wrong all the time

Not assured of being able to play at Wimbledon just yet ...they need to get 4,000 fans to a friendly v Shorpe first
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