Re: I smell the whiff of decay : Tue Feb 19, 2013 11:53 am  

poplar panther wrote:

5,000 fans x £20 per ticket thats a 100 grand, plus sponsorship if the club had a clue how to get it, plus a mass of London publicity. No clearly the club were right!

The club are bent on thinking small and therefore shrinking small, we are a Championship in disguise and have been since Lenegan went.

You're right of course, we are small.

Putting on that game would have involved applying some resources on top of those which are already clearly struggling just to keep up with out current commitment to SL. DH and/or Gus and/or the invisible Dutchman decided they weren't able or willing to finance those resources and SL and the RFL couldn't or wouldn't help, so the decision made itself.

Re: I smell the whiff of decay : Tue Feb 19, 2013 1:37 pm  

poplar panther wrote:

5,000 fans x £20 per ticket thats a 100 grand, plus sponsorship if the club had a clue how to get it, plus a mass of London publicity. No clearly the club were right!

The club are bent on thinking small and therefore shrinking small, we are a Championship in disguise and have been since Lenegan went.

PP......if the info provided in the story link is to be believed the Broncos would have been picking up the tab for all the Storm costs and expenses......as a guess that would be for around a squad a 25 players say plus 15 support/admin people, around 40 in total. They will not be staying at a local B&B and I doubt they flew economy from OZ, so the notional £100k entrance money is already under pressure. We then have to add the costs of the ground, staff and facilities as this would be an extra fixture.

History tells us that when we have had friendlies against other NRL champions it has not exactly attracted a huge turnout of fans and the long term advantages to us have been.......er, nil.

As for a `mass of publicity`, well it did not happen before, the RFL want naf all to do with it and it would all be down to the club to do..........so I think we can safely say that will amount to zero exposure.

Yes we are a small club and will continue to shrink all the time we have the current management and a lousy team, which will no doubt result in the Broncos going tits up in the not to distant future.

The fans have had a bellyful of defeats and disappointments with this club and I for one can well do without yet another in what is going to be a long, long season.

Re: I smell the whiff of decay : Tue Feb 19, 2013 8:02 pm  

Under the sticks wrote:

History tells us that when we have had friendlies against other NRL champions it has not exactly attracted a huge turnout of fans and the long term advantages to us have been.......er, nil.

1. We attracted 4k and 7k IIRC.......the 7k was as a result of the RFL's man in London at the time working his bollox off...the 4K a result of harlequins RL making a phone call to TNT.
2. Neither event was used to collect data.....as per loving usual, the club/rfl expected people to flock back to the stoop
3. Done PROPERLY....with a trophy (qantas cup/TNT trophy)and a big drive in direct promotion to criminal bar staff would have seen a potential 10k attendance......
4. The RFL have patently given up on London and will let us die when DH walks......

the club is a dead man walking.......they tried to move to Gillingham and the RFL said no....our future is now in the hands of a bloke I suspect spends more time updating his CV (or maybe he gets his PA to do it for him) and planning 2 course menus than attracting investors

Re: I smell the whiff of decay : Tue Feb 19, 2013 8:06 pm  

Under the sticks wrote:

The fans have had a bellyful of defeats and disappointments with this club and I for one can well do without yet another in what is going to be a long, long season.

A fair call. I was one of the hardy 150 or so souls who woukld regularly turn up at games at the likes of Crystal Paklace and Chiswick, seeing a poor team lose regularly but at least there was some hope that things would turn around some day. I can't see any hope at all now unless either the RFL or Sky step in and completely revitalise this club.
As it is, I'm looking forward to seeing the new Oxford team in action.

Re: I smell the whiff of decay : Tue Feb 19, 2013 8:28 pm  

Andover Boy wrote:

A fair call. I was one of the hardy 150 or so souls who woukld regularly turn up at games at the likes of Crystal Paklace and Chiswick, seeing a poor team lose regularly but at least there was some hope that things would turn around some day. I can't see any hope at all now unless either the RFL or Sky step in and completely revitalise this club.
As it is, I'm looking forward to seeing the new Oxford team in action.

That's exactly where I'll be heading come March

Re: I smell the whiff of decay : Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:23 pm  

Under the sticks wrote:

History tells us that when we have had friendlies against other NRL champions it has not exactly attracted a huge turnout of fans and the long term advantages to us have been.......er, nil.

It was 3612 last time out against the Storm in 2010. So I'm guessing that this time around it would have been considerably less

Re: I smell the whiff of decay : Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:38 pm  

Blazingsmoke Bronco wrote:

That's exactly where I'll be heading come March

And me, for at least a few games. It would help if they released some ticketing info ...

Re: I smell the whiff of decay : Wed Feb 20, 2013 3:31 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

they tried to move to Gillingham and the RFL said no....our future is now in the hands of a bloke I suspect spends more time updating his CV (or maybe he gets his PA to do it for him) and planning 2 course menus than attracting investors

Obviously I don't expect you to name sources, but is that reasonably accurate about the RFL blocking Gillingham or just a bit of speculation?

Re: I smell the whiff of decay : Wed Feb 20, 2013 4:00 pm  

I heard the same from Quins sources a few weeks ago.

Sad to say, I've since heard the opposite from someone connected to one of our players, so I am not at all sure now that Gillingham won't come off.

Think we'll end up wherever we can afford (and that may be Gillingham).

BTW, all the stuff about players having to move to Kent is a red herring, imo. They will continue to live and train where they are and just drive to wherever on matchday...no different from a lot of the journeys the Northern players do.

Still live in hope that good sense may prevail and Quins will continue to host us for an affordable rent.

Re: I smell the whiff of decay : Wed Feb 20, 2013 6:34 pm  

The Chronicler of Chiswic wrote:

Obviously I don't expect you to name sources, but is that reasonably accurate about the RFL blocking Gillingham or just a bit of speculation?

I've no reason the doubt my source.