Well done! I think every game being on sky sports next year will be a big help for you to boost crowds, if neutrals in London see it, like what they see, they may be inclined to come along. Good luck for next season in super League! Missed my trips down to watch London(last came down to the stoop during the Quins RL era!)

Yes, correct on both counts. The 0.25 points will partly mitigate the impact of last year's 23rd overall position which will pull London down a lot in the overall performance rankings.There are lots of scoring areas where you'd think London will struggle - for instance after averaging crowds of just over 1,000 for the last 2 seasons it would take average crowds of nearly 7,000 to get London up above the lowest scoring threshold of 3,00 averages.

Game highlights available here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i59wgKTDBP4

Game highlights available here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i59wgKTDBP4

With Hughes quoted on the BBC website article saying he "hopes we get more fans" it doesn't sound like there is any thought out plan to achieve that goal as yet!!

Yes I noticed that as well. We could assume this is an all too familiar ‘let’s hope something happens’ plan or we could assume he’s just caught up in the emotion and shooting from the hip. In the spirit of positivity I’m going with the latter but with a timely reminder that if we have ever been capable of making considered decisions then now is the time to do it because this could get tricky. Our crowds will be larger but if we get spanked casual visitors won’t care that it’s Hull FC not Batley they will think we are losers and not come again. Recruitment/ retention really challenging and important and our move towards an effective PT Model for a London side is slightly redundant although we’d be mugs to Chuck the baby out with the bath water some Heartlands players will have to come I. And some good PT players who’ve done a job for us may have to go. Hope we can get some kind of arrangement with a L1 side to loan out some of our academy step ups so they get some match time. It seems to me that the benefit we get from that long term is more than the minuscule fee we tried to get out of Skolars this year if reports were true. If we have full time players let’s get them out into the community pre season to raise awareness.

Bongser merely hopes for a Leigh 2.0 from Leigh next season but there are no guarantees. Second season syndrome could await. But "Leigh 1.0" was a fantastic treasure trove of memories.

In reply to RfE's later post: as a Broncos fan would you settle for horsey schlongs being sewn to the front of next season's shorts if it meant a Challenge Cup win? It would certainly get the club noticed and talked about, as did the Leopards rebrand.

Better than annoying people by stuffing schmarketing through their letterboxes.

The time for smirking at leopard print passed a good few months ago.

The time for smirking at leopard print passed a good few months ago.

On this one Bongser I’ve got to disagree. Any time I feel a little low I run through the excellent thread that ran on the other site re the Leopards launch. It really was a multi faceted comedy gem. The leopard/Jaguars backside element was merely one element of the hilarity. Mind you despite its seemingly amateurish conception and delivery and now the extensive teething problems are out of the way and the explanatory launch booklet consigned to the recycle bin it has been an unqualified success. I hope that Broncos can do as well. perhaps our bulldog management will allocate a few minutes to marketing, sponsorship and product design for 2024. If not that we blunder into a scenario that works out even half as successful as Leigh’s.

Hughes knows where I am. He knows how to reach out, but he won't....because if I got it right, he'd look even more an idiot than he already does.
£125k a year and he pays for my flights....I don't negotiate with idiots.
Happily retired and recovering from illness.....I don't need the grief but showing him how wrong he's been would make it worth it

Ah the treachery of the written/typed word! RfE, Bongser was not reacting sharply to a perceived slight but merely pointing out what great publicity (and more) the Leopards rebrand has been and asking whether you would embrace a similar masterstroke from Broncos. Yes, horsey schlongs would be a gnat’s dick too far, but the idea would have to be similarly outre, unco, outside the box etc.

Someone on here commented back then that his wife said leopard print was passe fashion-wise. Maybe so, but the backs of ladies’ wardrobes everywhere were crammed with such. The previous season Leigh had won the AB Sundecks (duty calls) 1895 Cup, the League Leaders Shield, the MPG (and thereby promotion) and along the way “tonned” a rival. Once there is a genuine product to air it is actually marketable.

Soon the good “burgessesses” of Leigh were reaching for the backs of said wardrobes and sporting L-Print all week round including on their Saturday afternoon jaunts into Manchester where the denizens witnessed the proliferation and further propagated it. Bongser works in said city and sees LP everywhere. Don’t follow trends; set ‘em!

B&B hated last season’s shirt even when the rear view was removed after the non-appearance of sponsorship from Anusol! It did, however, bring in a new shirt sponsor that paid £100K for the privilege; granted, not enough to tempt Orangeman but still a lot of bread for simply adding a logo to one’s shirt. The full colour Challenge Cup variant did however set your correspondent back a bullseye (in your parlance) when he naturally, eventually bowed to ongoing success.

This thread has drifted. Back on topic:

Thanks (and congratulations) again for your part in le weekend parfait for this party that has his petty (in this case “petites”), pet dislikes:

The Pies caused Les Faux Crapauds to croak,
Broncos leapfrogged The Frogs &
The Boks dumped Les Coqs off their own midden.

Bravi!

2024 is simply HUGE for the club.
On the park, they must be competitive
Off the park, anything below 3k gates is criminal and we must not rely on expat northerners and visiting fans.aome serious coin needs to be spent and some sincere marketing, like a visitors guide needs to be done now....let the rest of SL know about how to get to the cherry red and what to expect. Get bands booked, bouncy castles and food carts arranged NOW and sort the fecking shirt out before Christmas!

Wimbledon college of Arts is literally 10 minutes down the road.Contact their fashions students and get them to come up with a kit that will get us noticed and get us publicity in the press. They make come up with a wacky design design but if it gets us in the press and media that is not a bad thing.

This is exactly the stuff we need to be looking at.....outside the box stuff
Commercially the club has been a basket case but with every game now on TV they must leverage every avenue....

Everyone comes round to Bongser's way of thinking eventually!