Wigan On the Road game canned : Thu Dec 06, 2012 12:33 pm  

The Wigan game is at the Stoop - http://www.londonbroncosrl.com/news/4698.php, although Warrington still to be played "On the Road" due to "essential pitch maintenance work". Great news, just a shame they didn't have the foresight to map the pitch work in with the massive gap in the home fixtures we have anyway. Lets hope the "On the Road" panacea is consigned to the dustbin of history, and get on with building a supporter base!

The Wigan game is at the Stoop - http://www.londonbroncosrl.com/news/4698.php, although Warrington still to be played "On the Road" due to "essential pitch maintenance work". Great news, just a shame they didn't have the foresight to map the pitch work in with the massive gap in the home fixtures we have anyway. Lets hope the "On the Road" panacea is consigned to the dustbin of history, and get on with building a supporter base!

Re: Wigan On the Road game canned : Thu Dec 06, 2012 12:53 pm  

The OTR games are more placebo than panacea.

Still one less game played in the boondocks is something to celebrate I suppose.

Even if it does call into question the CEO's strategy.

Don't laugh at the back.

Re: Wigan On the Road game canned : Thu Dec 06, 2012 1:27 pm  

Any remaining credibitly GM had has now gone. Bewildering backtrack.

Re: Wigan On the Road game canned : Thu Dec 06, 2012 1:44 pm  

So the whole otr idea would have been scrapped if the pitch wasn't being reseeded?

Re: Wigan On the Road game canned : Thu Dec 06, 2012 1:46 pm  

Great news

Re: Wigan On the Road game canned : Thu Dec 06, 2012 5:10 pm  

Dave Lister wrote:

Any remaining credibitly GM had has now gone. Bewildering backtrack.

I didn't know you were Gutterfax's love child

Re: Wigan On the Road game canned : Thu Dec 06, 2012 5:30 pm  

A phone rings in a dusty TW2 office.....

DH "How are ST sales going Gus?"
GM " ER.....not that well Mr Hughes"
DH "Why the hell not? You swore that sorting out our name would get them flocking in, but instead, we've gone backwards"
GM "I thinks it's because we are playing in the wrong coloured shirts"
DH "didn't you choose the colours and kit designer?"
GM "er..yes.......er....maybe it's because we were taking 15% of the games OTR"
DH "Wasn't that another of your ideas?"
GM "er.....yes. It works in Cricket"
DH "sort it out GM.......maybe you should sack someone else...maybe your PA that replaced the Marketing and Corporate sales people you fired last year when you got it wrong.
GM " Yes Mr Hughes"
DH "by the way, Ian Lenegan doesn't like the M25, so get the game against his lot moved back to the Stoop"
GM " Yes Mr Hughes"
DH" I'll be there in 15 minutes......white and 2 sugars Gus....surely you can get that right"

Re: Wigan On the Road game canned : Thu Dec 06, 2012 5:42 pm  

"Our 'On the Road games' were successful last year in delivering above-average attendances and spreading the game to other parts of London and the south," said Gus Mackay, the Broncos chief executive. "We hope that the 2013 games will be even more successful." http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2012/nov/19/london-broncos-rugby-league-wigan 530 LESS fans for the visits of Wire and Bradford than in 2011.......maybe he's using duckworth lewis to calculate his averages. BBC can't be bothered to get it right....or maybe the club can't be bothered checking. As of 6.30pm GMT the link below isn't working http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/20629076

"Our 'On the Road games' were successful last year in delivering above-average attendances and spreading the game to other parts of London and the south," said Gus Mackay, the Broncos chief executive. "We hope that the 2013 games will be even more successful." http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2012/nov/19/london-broncos-rugby-league-wigan 530 LESS fans for the visits of Wire and Bradford than in 2011.......maybe he's using duckworth lewis to calculate his averages. BBC can't be bothered to get it right....or maybe the club can't be bothered checking. As of 6.30pm GMT the link below isn't working http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/20629076

Re: Wigan On the Road game canned : Thu Dec 06, 2012 6:01 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

A phone rings in a dusty TW2 office.....

... and rings ... and rings ... and rings ... and rings ... and rings ... and rings ... and rings ... and rings ... and rings .................... and rings until a Quins RU employee picks it up and tells the caller that Broncos administration is now in SW15.

Re: Wigan On the Road game canned : Thu Dec 06, 2012 6:39 pm  

No one wants us !!!