Help Needed...can you assist? : Thu Mar 10, 2022 9:49 pm  

I opined via Twitter @BucknDusty@LondonBroncosRL A real shame that this avenue to fans seems to have been forgotten. Surely someone from the OBSA or LBSA can be persuaded to don the suits. Other clubs have their mascots back..... Got this response...... Replying to @GU????FAX and @BucknDusty We have asked for volunteers for this job, score board operator, media assistance, shop assistance, Kit Man assistant, hospitality, fan liason and to assist with various things at training. There was very little response. Email hello@londonbroncosrl.com if you can help please. Now. I'm on the other side of the planet and can't help much, but it's interesting that the OBSG seem to be nowhere to be seen (is the coach to leih still on?) when they're asked to help. Have the club (or an ex-employee) burnt bridges beyond repair? LBSA sponsor the academy, but I am sure many of them are on the banned lists now.... It looks like there's no staff at the club now other than the CEO and the community staff.....when I left the UK in 2010 I reckon I knew at least 2 dozen people who would have stepped up help........

I opined via Twitter @BucknDusty@LondonBroncosRL A real shame that this avenue to fans seems to have been forgotten. Surely someone from the OBSA or LBSA can be persuaded to don the suits. Other clubs have their mascots back..... Got this response...... Replying to @GU????FAX and @BucknDusty We have asked for volunteers for this job, score board operator, media assistance, shop assistance, Kit Man assistant, hospitality, fan liason and to assist with various things at training. There was very little response. Email hello@londonbroncosrl.com if you can help please. Now. I'm on the other side of the planet and can't help much, but it's interesting that the OBSG seem to be nowhere to be seen (is the coach to leih still on?) when they're asked to help. Have the club (or an ex-employee) burnt bridges beyond repair? LBSA sponsor the academy, but I am sure many of them are on the banned lists now.... It looks like there's no staff at the club now other than the CEO and the community staff.....when I left the UK in 2010 I reckon I knew at least 2 dozen people who would have stepped up help........

Re: Help Needed...can you assist? : Thu Mar 10, 2022 10:08 pm  

orangeman wrote:

I opined via Twitter
[b]Got this response......[/
It looks like there's no staff at the club now other than the CEO and the community staff.....when I left the UK in 2010 I reckon I knew at least 2 dozen people who would have stepped up help........

This is kind of what I’ve been saying Orange. Somehow we’ve got ourselves into a situation where we have a back room staff of basically one. It’s too much for one fella so it doesn’t get done. Our business model seems to be predicated on getting volunteers in to do stuff - even pretty important stuff. All power to people who volunteer. it’s not for me and it looks like, for various reasons, it’s not for many. I suspect the BOSG/ LBSA situation may not have helped. It seems nuts to be spending a small fortune on grounds (plural) but what appears to be cut costs really severely on behind the scenes people and playing/coaching staff who deliver the product at those grounds. My gut feeling is it’s a false economy and it wouldn’t surprise me if by season’s end we have one of the largest playing rosters in the league.

Re: Help Needed...can you assist? : Thu Mar 10, 2022 10:23 pm  

Not a BOSG member, those that I do know that are on the committee, I do not see on match day as they go into hospitality, so sit in a different area to us .
As for the coach to Leigh it has all gone very quiet, most likely the cost will have to rise due to the rise in the price of fuel. So maybe it is off.
A lot of those that I know that are blocked on SM are LBSA members. It is too much for the club to expect these people to put themselves out to help the club out. Bridges have been burnt.
Certainly you are right, there appear to be no staff. A lot of the functions of the club are put out to firms like TicketCo. Wether the office is manned through the week, I suspect not.
Some of the BOSG do help out, the kit man I believe is a BOSG volunteer and the Chair helps out at practice. They and others also help out on the pub crawls through Camden.
Alcohol seems to be a theme that runs through the BOSG.
Thats my take on it.

Re: Help Needed...can you assist? : Thu Mar 10, 2022 10:44 pm  

Not sure if bridges can be mended, but the NEED TO BE
Just made and tweeted this the the club now and also sent a message to a fan who I know would love to help out with the Kits

Re: Help Needed...can you assist? : Thu Mar 10, 2022 10:55 pm  

To be blunt, why would anyone bust a gut to help a club that has treated them like dirt for years and rejected offers of help? So the club can afford £200k minimum on a groundshare but can't afford national minimum wages a few times a month for training cooks, mascots, scoreboard operators, hospitality, kit man assistant and so on. That's a fundamental flaw in the strategic plan.

The simple truth is a good mascot person, good hospitality person etc will want paying as other clubs will pay them. These positions are important for fan engagement and should not be left to volunteers in the professional RL ranks.

Then devastate the support base and move ground so few fans live near the new ground and then get upset they can't find volunteers. Really?

Surreal. If the plan was to make Wimbledon work off the back of volunteers I despair. This was the last chance surely, and it needed professionals to drive 5k in three years.

BTW which is it, there's no Buck and Dusty due to red lists or due to a lack of volunteers. A slight inconsistency there.

Re: Help Needed...can you assist? : Fri Mar 11, 2022 1:41 am  

Halfdan of t'wide embrace wrote:

Surreal. If the plan was to make Wimbledon work off the back of volunteers I despair. This was the last chance surely, and it needed professionals to drive 5k in three years.

Loubser bet it all on blue and yellow and guess what........

Hindsight: Hughes tells Loubser we are part time and "this$$" Is what you get to per year for 5 years to make us self sufficient.
Loubser sees 5k as unattainable at Trailfinders and imagines SL is the only way we'll ever get close
Loubser sees part time as the only way to stretch the budget to get us into a stadium that is SL acceptable, ignoring the fact that part time is an even harder route to SL.
Loubser moves us away from our core base in the hope that Wimbledon will be different from The Valley, Stoop, GP, Hive Trailfinders and his coach assembles a L1 standard squad.
Loubser is now isolated and alone at the club. He has the budget to get through the season but if we go down, we need to plan to move back to Trailfinders and relaunch as a community club.

If we are relegated, I genuinely don't see any point in Hughes carrying through on the remaining 4 years of funding........but he never admits he's wrong, does he.

Re: Help Needed...can you assist? : Fri Mar 11, 2022 8:33 am  

You reap what you sow. The club has shown no respect for its fans so is it any surprise they struggle for volunteers.

Maybe Hughes himself should don the mascot outfit.

Re: Help Needed...can you assist? : Fri Mar 11, 2022 8:42 am  

[quote="orangeman"]Loubser bet it all on blue and yellow and guess what........

Bet on yellow and blue when the only game in town was red and black. Oops! That would be a mistake.

Re: Help Needed...can you assist? : Fri Mar 11, 2022 9:41 am  

jbuzza wrote:

You reap what you sow. The club has shown no respect for its fans so is it any surprise they struggle for volunteers.

Maybe Hughes himself should don the mascot outfit.

He certainly is the back end of a Pantomime horse.

Re: Help Needed...can you assist? : Fri Mar 11, 2022 11:28 am  

This ship has sailed.
The behaviour of the club to its supporters over the last few years, has lost them a lot of good will to the people they need to keep the club alive.
People will not volunteer with current mgmt in place, not going to happen.

I actually think the Broncos brand is so tarnished they actually need to reform under a different name, there is just no good will left.