Tre Cool wrote:
Agreed. How many on here were RU fans before discovering RL? Not many i bet.
I don't believe the club should target fans of any particular game, but instead, general SPORTS fans. Although I held a ST at Celtic between 1983-1992, by 2002 when the Broncos moved to Brentford, I was basically an Armchair SPORTS fan. I moved my family to Brentford in 1996.....I attended 1 soccer match there that year and that was it....until the Broncos moved in.....I liked the "family/community" feel of the matchday experience, obviously the beer in the stands and the willingness of people to explain the rules etc to a newbie like me. Sadly, most if not all that "ambience" had been removed by the time I flew south
Soccer fans are just that......soccer fans. With the exception of a few hundred, many only attend home matches, they have a long and rich history to fall back on when results are bad and they generally have an "us v the world" mentality.
London Broncos have never had the chance to build on a "history" through name or location....and name and location are the 2 things you need to have consistently if you're going to build a history.
Wherever they move to the club need to understand that they are not entitled to receive a welcome from the locals.....it is the clubs responsibility to go out and meet their new neighbours, to invite them to come to games and to make sure that they are well looked after when they do attend. Giving the landlords other customers a free ticket to game 1 and expecting them to come back doesn't work.