Re: Do the London Broncos Actually Exist? : Mon Jan 21, 2019 4:34 pm  

nadera78 wrote:

"Local players bringing in local fans" is the kind of thing you expect to hear from a shinty club in a remote village in Scotland. Or a genius like Ralph Rimmer. For a professional sports club in one of the world's biggest, richest and busiest cities it's suicidal.

Based on northernbloke's theory, LMS must have brought about 2000 mates when he was playing for us .

Re: Do the London Broncos Actually Exist? : Mon Jan 21, 2019 6:32 pm  

jbuzza wrote:

Clearly it is a good strategy to invest in the academy and develop local players as the foundation for the team.

It puts the club on a more sustainable footing but doesn't really address anything in terms of attracting new fans.

you can't spend it twice

Re: Do the London Broncos Actually Exist? : Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:08 pm  

Robert Flack wrote:

you can't spend it twice

Using your "logic", when Mr Hughes leaves us, we will have a squad full of local players but no way of paying them.

Also, we could have 8 or even 17 local academy trained guys on the park and it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference to the reality that nobody other than our existing fan-base either knows or even cares. Mr Hughes steadfastly refuses to market the club, instead believing that if we build it they will come and this is despite a decade under his stewardship that has seen us drop 75% of our fan-base caused by exactly that strategy.

Apologists on here and elsewhere will doff their caps to him, but the reality is that he has run us into the ground and we are more reliant on him now than we were a decade ago and I am at a loss as to how that is seen as anything other than a negative.

The claim that Ealing Broadway Centre only had that particular window open is a perfect example of the mindset of your average London Broncos/David Hughes fanboy.......it was a badly thought out strategy, poorly executed and an utter waste of time and (hopefully not too much) money. Whe last in Lodon I stayed 350 meters from Trailfinders and my host had not a clue that the Broncos Played there......she is a Kiwi, who loves her sport, is a Quins ST holder and attends Ealing games when Quins are away.......how friggin' hard is it to arrange for the Academy squad to leaflet drop 3,000 homes near the club?

Re: Do the London Broncos Actually Exist? : Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:41 am  

Although it is the season he really needs to do some marketing, Hughes won't because most of the Northern SL clubs will bring anything from 500-1000 extra paying guests to Trailfinders for every home game . So he'll probably care less about marketing and promotion of the club more than he usually does with that many extra visiting supporters.

Re: Do the London Broncos Actually Exist? : Wed Jan 23, 2019 11:14 am  

RfE wrote:

So he'll probably care less about marketing and promotion of the club more than he usually does with that many extra visiting supporters.

Personally, I think we should be caring more about filling the small ground with new (and returning) Broncos fans. Visiting fans may help in terms of revenue but to become properly sustainable we need to regrow the fan base. Home fans are likely to be regularly outnumbered this season. I wonder if the club has ever tried to properly understand why the fan base has reduced so much ?

Re: Do the London Broncos Actually Exist? : Wed Jan 23, 2019 12:37 pm  

jbuzza wrote:

Personally, I think we should be caring more about filling the small ground with new (and returning) Broncos fans. Visiting fans may help in terms of revenue but to become properly sustainable we need to regrow the fan base. Home fans are likely to be regularly outnumbered this season. I wonder if the club has ever tried to properly understand why the fan base has reduced so much ?

I couldn't agree with you more.
Would any other business , after experiencing a loss of 60-70% of it's paying customers , just do nothing to address the matter.
But then it would appear we are DH's plaything, not a business.

Re: Do the London Broncos Actually Exist? : Wed Jan 23, 2019 4:07 pm  

Agree with the above. It is almost as though the club do not want to attract new/old fans back. The "promotion" that has gone on is the bare minimum a SL club should be doing. Right now the Broncos should be going above and beyond to grab this chance.

Re: Do the London Broncos Actually Exist? : Thu Jan 24, 2019 2:14 pm  

jbuzza wrote:

Really, where is your evidence for that alone being more likely to bring in fans ?

Do you remember the year free ST tickets were given to all players of local clubs at The Stoop

Completely failed- NB another nonsense theory of yours

Re: Do the London Broncos Actually Exist? : Thu Jan 24, 2019 2:15 pm  

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Re: Do the London Broncos Actually Exist? : Thu Jan 24, 2019 2:30 pm  

Exiled! Completely non sense theory of mine? Not quite sure what you mean? The year free season tickets were given to all of those involved in the community game in London. Nothing wrong with the theory, it might have even got some fans in! Why didnt it? Was pretty simple really, the season they did it most home games were played on Saturday! Community games are played on a Saturday! Can you spot a flaw in that plan?