Re: First Game at The Hive: The Good and the Bad : Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:34 pm  

Paddock Punter wrote:

Love off, I have organised and driven mini buses up the loving M1 and M6, bought 9 cheap loving train tickets on a group discount and hoped to sell them, been to watch U 15s, 16s, 19s and whatever other age groups Red Hall has invented. I have sponsored players and done all sorts in the past as a volunteer at the club

I don't want a loving medal for that I enjoyed it and I could see a future. Right now I can't see one, and that saddens me. I have seen these players in the age groups coming up but an inevitable fact of a pro sport like rugby is that you don't win anything with kids and I fear for them and the future. Sad to say I have enquired to bookmakers on the odds of the broncos not winning a league game this season!

I have no desire to be a rubber necker at a car crash, and by the way it is you weren't there not you wasn't.

Will you take the stance of only attending away games? That way you still support the sport and players without contributing to the wrongs at home?

Re: First Game at The Hive: The Good and the Bad : Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:34 pm  

Good facility. Team much better than I expected. Moore very good.

Downside was that 4 of the membership seats our group bought were taken by the Salford coaching staff and a technical guy. Opposite us on the same row other members were moved to make way for the timer which was strapped to the back row seats.

At least we could drink in the seats in the west stand.

Re: First Game at The Hive: The Good and the Bad : Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:45 pm  

Paddock Punter wrote:

Love off, I have organised and driven mini buses up the loving M1 and M6, bought 9 cheap loving train tickets on a group discount and hoped to sell them, been to watch U 15s, 16s, 19s and whatever other age groups Red Hall has invented. I have sponsored players and done all sorts in the past as a volunteer at the club

I don't want a loving medal for that I enjoyed it and I could see a future. Right now I can't see one, and that saddens me. I have seen these players in the age groups coming up but an inevitable fact of a pro sport like rugby is that you don't win anything with kids and I fear for them and the future. Sad to say I have enquired to bookmakers on the odds of the broncos not winning a league game this season!

I have no desire to be a rubber necker at a car crash, and by the way it is you weren't there not you wasn't.

Never mind all that, you are robbing the club and you hate the players!
I normally resist the urge to indulge in personal insults on these forums, but the ideas expressed about you denying the club your money are f@ckwittery of the highest order.

Re: First Game at The Hive: The Good and the Bad : Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:48 pm  

Euclid wrote:

the ideas expressed about you denying the club your money are f@ckwittery of the highest order.

We're all denying the club our money.

Tony Kleanthous gets it all.

Re: First Game at The Hive: The Good and the Bad : Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:52 pm  

Some people seem to have missed that.

Re: First Game at The Hive: The Good and the Bad : Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:56 pm  

How did this get to a have a dig at Paddock thread (who turned up to the Fans Forum the other week by the way)? His opinion is shared by many long term supporters - I noticed a core of great supporters absent from the game today, and several who were there have not bought membership and will see how things pan out.
I've had many people tell me that the way the club treated its players and staff after last season was the last straw for them. We've decided to buy memberships and renew player sponsorship but I totally respect those who have had enough and completely empathise with why they're doing it.
The good news is that we can win them back - they want to come back - but the bad news is I fear that the future of the club does not reside in Barnet FC and we'll have to work together to recover the soul of our club.

Re: First Game at The Hive: The Good and the Bad : Sat Feb 22, 2014 10:00 pm  

poplar panther wrote:

Somebody on Twitter disagrees:


Craig ‏@Craig_Thorpe_ 2h
If London Broncos get more than 10 points this season, I will circumcise myself and staple my foreskin to my forehead

Logical posts (or comments at games) were never the strongpoint!

Re: First Game at The Hive: The Good and the Bad : Sat Feb 22, 2014 10:04 pm  

Through the gates of the tube station and you almost fall into the ground. Facilities are fine, decent bars, range of beers, good view in your seat or the one you end up in! Pitch is approx 10 metres short but if there is a future, scope to expand. Good crowd around us but Brian Noble cusses all the time. Team played the full 80 and some positives in the performance. It will be a long hard season, development rather than success, though maybe the odd win. Didn't see any sheep.

However, why no stall selling memberships or whatever? Why no posters for future games or offers? Where is all the memorabilia from the stoop? Still a way to go before it's home.

Re: First Game at The Hive: The Good and the Bad : Sat Feb 22, 2014 10:05 pm  

willow6666 wrote:

Good facility. Team much better than I expected. Moore very good.

Downside was that 4 of the membership seats our group bought were taken by the Salford coaching staff and a technical guy. Opposite us on the same row other members were moved to make way for the timer which was strapped to the back row seats.

At least we could drink in the seats in the west stand.

BRIAN NOBLE TOOK MY SEAT!!! i WAS SOOOO SAD

OK - I was p*ssed off at the Broncos (To say the least!!).

Apart from that, it was still a good day out!

Re: First Game at The Hive: The Good and the Bad : Sat Feb 22, 2014 10:50 pm  

Wire Yed wrote:

There are means and ways of protesting that don't rob the club, you could turn up outside his office with a band of guys protesting, but no instead you deny the club your money and you deny your players your support, do you hate the players too? They're the real victims in this and they're the ones busting a gut, not that you'd know, you wasn't there.

And what loyalty do you think the players would show to the supporters if the were offered a better contract at another club NONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. The players are only doing the same as you and me doing the job they are paid for.