It would seem that even though the SL season is spread over 8 months, London Broncos fans will only see activity at the Stoop for 62.5% of it, or 5 Months, with no home fixtures in September combined with 2 OTR games

No SL games at the Stoop in May, July or September would seem to blow the whole concept of 'summer rugby" right out of the water.....there can be no re-seeding the pitch bollox this year either.

54% of our home games will be completed by April...actually, 64% of our games at The Stoop, so by the time "summer" arrives, the choice will be 2 games in July and August each, as well as 2 OTR games, 1 in May, the other in July. As I have said, 2 other games should have been chosen IMO.....Easter game v the French and maybe the Cas game in June.....then we would have had a game in all but 1 of the 8 months!

For most London Broncos fans, the season ends on August 17th....

The decision to take 2 OTR games away from the Stoop is flawed on many levels, but none more so that the concept of a one-off game at Venue X would point to their being an appetitite for 13 games a year in 2014. Furthermore, given the idiocy that nearly saw us move to kent last year, the suggestion that Oxford could be on the cards beggars belief......London Welsh aren't getting 5k there, there is not one social or demographic linking RL to the town or region....and we would be about 60 Miles away from London.

Gillingham, wich may well rear its ugly head again, would be another monumental mistake IMO. If the club are adamant that they must move in 2014, it must only be with a number of cast iron initiatives for the fisrt season in our new, new, new, new, new, new home:

Sign a 10 year lease agreement: No more moving..it's killing the club as an entity worth following
Tennants with Power. No 're-seeding' breaks....a full season played at the ground
RFL play ball: Home and Away....week in, week out. Regularity is key to building a fan base...2013 is over before it starts with that fixture list.
Spend 250k-300k less on players and employ decent staff in key areas off the field. People who understand our sport, the minority standing and the sheer amount of effort required to make it work.
SPEND SOME FUCKING MONEY ON MARKETING: Time and time again, the club have moved, put up goal posts and expected people to turn up.....it doesn't work.

For me, an agreement with Brentford is the ideal scenario. They will look to move into a new stadium in the next few years (2016/17) and may welcome some form of investment from us.....as part owners of the stadium, we would be more likely to encourage cross sport fans IMO. As tennants, we're just the people who mess their pitch up. A move to somewhere further out than Twickenham is the end of "London" being relevant in the name.

Any discussion between Brentford FC and the Club needs to involve the RFL as well, because the current "management" of the club are incapable of organising a pi55 up at Fullers Brewery, so it may be that the RFL need to take control of a portion of our club, a la Bradford Bulls. DH can bitch all he likes about lack of or perceived lack of support from the RFL......on his watch, the club have shipped million in wasted cash and opportunities and we are not an attractive proposition at present.

As it stands, I reckon 2013 will simply be a year to forget off the pitch....the important decision on where we move to has probably already been made and therefore, very little effort will be made to attract fans to games other than the OTR events.....the team may lift the gloom over the first half of the season with home wins, but any attendance momentum built up over these 11 weeks will see the wheels come off with trips to OTR venues....the only constant will be the CEO making excuses and suggesting another name change for 2014.

Gillingham Gladiators? Oxford Orcas? Brighton Bulldogs? Milton Keynes Storm?....kit designed by Gus and supplied by his mates at MKK

You missed the word Nomads in the name

.....damn, such negelegence on my part......there again, I could be heading for the CEO's job they way this club seems to reward failure

GF have you ever offered the club your services on a commission basis- ie a % of increased ticket takings etc

Gus cant have anything to lose I wouldnt have thought

But what can be done?

Hughes and Gus aren't going to wake up this morning and have suddenly turned into marketing genuises, are they? They won't employ a competent marketing manager who'll get 10,000 on the gate for the Widnes game.

Hughes and Gus will still make the same mistakes of years gone by and continue to make these mistakes as really there is nothing the fans can do.

There isn't enough fans to even have a half sensible thought about buying the club. And fan owned clubs aren't viable long term but even so, there simply isn't enough numbers to even begin to think of a sensible bid.

What if the RFL were to step in?

The probem with that would be the inevitable cries of conflict of interest, just look at all the bad mouthing they got (admittedly with some justification) over Bradford. What really hacks me off about all this is that, fingers crossed, we're at last looking reasonably stable on the pitch.

But are the Bulls suffering now? they picked up one of the biggest sponsorships ever in the game, we still don't have a sponsor for Superleague or the Challenge Cup. The RFL should have been involved for a long time with a London Superleague club, a ground which should have become RFL Heeadquarters for the South, a centre of excellency for rugby league in the south of England. The only real chance of survival is for rugby league to accept they will have to become involved full time to ensure the game does survive in London/

I worked with the RFL trying to steer the club down the right route in 2006/07.......The RFL paid consultant and I put together a number of plans, all of which were ignored by the club...once bitten, twice shy I am afraid.

6 years later and we ain't heard the end of it.

When I said we have to swallow it I was referring to us having to play MNF this year as we all know it won't go well, what I am bored to death of is every thread being turned into the same thing, and bored of hearing scaremongering about us moving to Milton Keynes or Oxford or anywhere stupid like that.

Don't get me wrong here either GF I care very much about the club and want it to carry on being based in London (preferably the stoop) and I want it to be successful and well run and I think most of your suggestions are great ideas that should be considered or implemented but you are preaching to the converted on here with us, we know what's wrong but most of us are on here to talk about other issues involving the club, in this instance the fixtures.

Regarding the Leeds Monday night game I thought when MNF came in last year both us and Catalans were "exempt" from it.