Yesterday, I noted that Wimbledon are holding a family fun day on May 15th 10am to 5pm. No ticket required and free entry.
I understand that it is a Wimbledon event, not a Broncos event.
I wonder if London Broncos will be present ? I suppose that they would possibly not been invited.
However I feel we should have a presence to try and endear our club to Wimbledon's fanbase.

I saw the same poster and thought it was the kind of thing Broncos should be involved with. One problem we have is that we have no product to sell, so to speak as the next home games, other than the Friday night one are in July which is ages away.

Yes, I highlighted this weekends Plough Lane Funday back on 10th March, suggesting the Broncos participated. If they are then they are being very quiet about it.

The Football Stadium is built where the Greyhound/Speedway stadium was situated from the 1920's until it was demolished for a new stadium. Losing those sports (and the football team didn't directly push them out) resulted in some Speedway fans who hate the club and were delighted they were relegated last week.

But ...

On Sunday TheDons Speedway museum will have a presence. Bikes on display. Ex Riders in attendance. Participation from this group in the Abseil.

What about the Broncos. Currently playing at the stadium. Free marketing will will benefit the club which in terms benefits AFC Wimbledon. It's a community event and I see absolutely no reason why the football club wouldn't want them involved. Is there actually anybody at the Broncos available to organise this?

How on earth can a sport in Speedway that will sadly never return to London have a major presence at the event whilst the Broncos appear like they will be totally absent.

At the final Stock Car meeting at Plough Lane (Speedway was last there over 10 years earlier), the Speedway guys put on a great farewell. Riders, bikes, stalls, memorabilia etc and a final few laps of the track (not set-up to race). They did a great job. I suspect their set-up on Suinday will be the best in the stadium. If there were a track they'd ride on it.

Assuming the Broncos aren't represented (hopefully they are) can you imagine surveying the attendees after the event to name three sports linked to the Fun Day. If the answers were Football, Speedway, and Climbing (the new Olympic sport) in lieu of Abseiling, then you really would have to question what the Broncos are up to.

I agree with you entirely. I suspect that London Broncos will not be there.

Or they will be there but have left it so late to announce it or organise anything impressive that they might as well not have been.

Obvious opportunity to use Buck and Dusty but we can't even get that sorted for our games !!

If the Broncos were there we didn't see them. Pretty certain there were thousands of visitors today. The Club Shop had their second biggest sales day in the 20 year history of the club, beaten only by the first home match on their return to Plough Lane.

Five speedway bikes, lots of memorabilia, ex riders dressed in their leathers. When they started up three bikes and revved them for ten minutes, the noise and smell of methanol was awe inspiring. It attracted a large crowd.

This community day will be a success beyond what was expected. More aimed at young kids but a great set-up. Footballs all over the pitch. Penalty shots. Could the Broncos not have done something?

Most of those in the stadium were likely on their first visit. I have no doubt that DLAG and AFC Wimbledon are going to get a massive boost from today, especially through the community goodwill and support that is likely to bring for expanded use of the stadium.

The London Broncos achieved as close to zero as possible from today. I'd even go as far as suggesting it was a step backwards as the London Broncos presence becomes smaller.

The food outlets were taken be surprise. MyPie ran out by 1pm. Chips and Pizza soon after although the latter re-opened after restocking. Only the Ice Cream van survived the day, and they were doing a roaring trade.

Oh and I bought raffle tickets, something I tried and failed to do at the last two Broncos games. The lack of any Broncos "presence" today was no different to any home match this season. Never have I come across a sports team (or business even) so unable to promote themselves to people walking into their stadium, especially on match days.

Today was a open goal in my opinion, and the Broncos didn't even get out of bed let alone take a shot at goal.

The event probably clashed with 1 of the Lobster's hockey matches.

Frankly, that is pathetic from the Broncos. The club is run by people who just don't seem to care.

The hockey season has finished so it’s not that sadly. We just have to accept we couldn’t organise a knees up in a Family Day so to speak. Very Poor.

I think it is arrogance by the club. They believe things like this are beneath them.
After all we have so many fans, Why would they want more ?

When you’re right Victor you’re right!

That could well be right but I think it may be more simple. When we were planning this crucial season we overlooked the need for people to deliver success. Some vague promises about getting fans to fill the gaps were mentioned and everyone took them at face value and never thought about it again. Hence zero match day experience outside corporate and zero community engagement. Looking from the outside without knowing all the facts this looks like rank incompetence. That may or may not be a harsh assessment.

To me, this is a sackable offence!
Our CEO has been tasked with delivering 5,000 as an average attendance by the end of the 2026 season. Thus far we languish on a number similar to our last full championship season at the wedding venue (980) and in a downward spiral. This was a huge opportunity to introduce Rugby League to our home (sic) community and immediate neighbours. Commercially it was a free ad campaign.
Over and above the kids and parents who were there, local industry and businesses should have been invited along by the broncos, given a free beer and courted as potential sponsors for players.....there's plenty available
I'd have given every attendee a free ticket to our next home game in July v Sheffield (a northern town they'll have heard of) and had buckndusty doing a conversions/tackling.....a few players handing out t-shirts/hats/mini balls.....

The lack of effort from those at the club exposes either acceptance that this is our final year or that we are a shoo in for SLII.......

The biggest miss to me was having so many people in the stadium today that would never have been there before. The two figures I've heard today were "thousands" and 5,000. The latter being quite apt as the target chased by DH has been hit by a Fun Day! I doubt the numbers are known as it was just walk in, but it was certainly multiple thousands. Saw loads leaving after a two or three hours in the morning, presumably heading home for Sunday lunch.

My guess is that the London Broncos have just missed the single biggest opportunity to entice a large number of new visitors to Plough Lane. The day was made for their mascots. It was made for giving the opportunity to visit the stadium again (on a Sunday afternoon)

To have the entry via the club shop was a master stroke. It's not just the sales on the day, it's the awareness that the shop is there with choices for all budgets.

Even if we are a shoe in for SL2, why would the club not take the opportunity to promote itself at this event ? Beggars belief.

It’s a serious question but how many back room staff do we have. I think it may just be Lobster and the ex pro who has just replaced ML. What are their remits? For instance someone must be responsible for match day, someone for recruitment and retention. On the former we seem to focus on the Gold Lounge experience only. On the latter our risk averse wait and see approach over the last two years has seen us with our pants down. May I cordially suggest that both of these key areas need a lot of urgent work ASAP if this season is to remain anywhere close to on track.

I don’t recommend that anyone from the club read our musings but if they are then right here is the problem. Smithers is one of a very small number of AFC fans who’ve actually took the time to engage with the club and attends matches. It’s increasingly obvious that at best he is becoming baffled by our on and off field incompetence and at worst gradually Alienated. The club really need to get a grip everyone can see it’s just not being run effectively.

Objectively yes it probably be is but if someone gets sacked then there is no one to put out the napkins in the Gold Lounge.

I expected to see Social Media awash with pictures of the jam-packed Gold lounge and a video of the player of the match as well as Mustards interview to the enthralled sponsors, but as of the time typing, the club have yet to put up the score from Friday or a match report and there's no banner or route to buy tickets for our next home game.

The fixation with corporate sales as well as the discounting of this offer after only 2 home games makes me think that Hughes is fixated with this "straw man" as proof that he was right to drag us to Wimbledon. His narcissism will never let him admit he gets anything wrong and the announcement of the gate on Friday shows that they think 940 is a good result....it f()(king well isn't!

Corporate hospitality here in NZ is a whole new level to the Broncos. For example, I can buy a ticket to the Hurricanes v Melbourne Rabble from $20. That's about a tenner in your coin. However, if I want corp hospitality, then that starts at $285 and includes food and drink. As the price dictates, this is truly CORPORATE hospitality, with no private individuals going to pay that much, but businesses happily doing so. Hughes, Monkey and Loubser FAILED to sell to enough corporates in games 1 and 2, so instead of trying harder, Monkey resigned and the other 2 decided to try and fleece the few remaining loyal fans they have left, including offering a discounted entry price and a discounted offer to Season Ticket holders. This is not corporate Hospitality. If the room holds 300, then it's 10k at best of revenue...when Hughes took over we had gate receipts of 80k.

Hughes has a record of missing opportunities.

When we arrived at Quins, they were a 2nd tier outfit with about 9k fans which had a huge Business network, regularly hosted the local chamber of commerce group, had community and charitable foundations and they were active in welcoming us as "partners". We arrived as prior season play off contenders with about 3,900 as an average. Discounting the 12k double header, our first year there delivered 4,334, then Hughes took sole control......in 8 years of his stellar leadership at Quins that number dropped to 2,213....after his dummy spit that year, 2013 we collapsed to an average of 1,294 at The Hive. 3,600 fans lost in 9 years. We can blame Gus all we like, but HUGHES was the architect of this travesty. His pig headed stubbornness and refusal to ether accept advice or admit his mistakes enabled MacKay to steal a wage for 1,171 days in which time he shed fans at a rate of 1.5 a day


Worcester saw through MacKay inside 500 days....Cricket Scotland just over 700 but Hughes refused to fire the man that oversaw the darkest ('til now that is) period for the club

As for the current CEO? He stepped up April 1 2014 and in the following 2967 days has stolen a wage whilst managing to negotiate a move to a wedding venue where we delivered bigger crowds than they'd ever seen but gave us nothing from the money spent by these fans whilst paying rent, absolutely missing a huge opportunity when we fluked our way back to SL, orchestrated an unneeded move away from our west London base and who now is hiding behind his ability to fleece loyal fans out of a few bob by selling them an overpriced pie and a table with a view of the owner.

AFC Wimbledon are our Landlords. They are not our "partners' or our best mates either, but I have no doubt that they would have welcomed the participation of the Broncos is a day where the local community were shown around the new facility on their doorstep. The London Broncos failure to participate, especially given the low numbers of fans we have delivered to their stadium is an unforgiveable snub to our hosts and one that I believe shows how little Hughes cares for relationship building or partnerships.

This club and that man make me so goddamned angry.