Inept, incompetent, in trouble. : Mon Feb 14, 2022 6:59 pm  

From our club website https://londonbroncosrl.com/2022/02/14/injuries-and-covid-isolation-are-hurting-broncos-development-accepts-head-coach-coleman/ The Broncos return to action on Saturday evening (5.30pm) when travelling north to face unbeaten Featherstone Rovers at the Millenium Stadium. Coleman said the game will present players with their biggest task of the season to date before a two-week break separates York City Knights’ visit to the capital on March 6. Sorry....but we're at home to Bradford you gimps It's beyond a joke now. Hughes and his tin pot club are incapable of getting the basics right on and off the park...

From our club website https://londonbroncosrl.com/2022/02/14/injuries-and-covid-isolation-are-hurting-broncos-development-accepts-head-coach-coleman/ The Broncos return to action on Saturday evening (5.30pm) when travelling north to face unbeaten Featherstone Rovers at the Millenium Stadium. Coleman said the game will present players with their biggest task of the season to date before a two-week break separates York City Knights’ visit to the capital on March 6. Sorry....but we're at home to Bradford you gimps It's beyond a joke now. Hughes and his tin pot club are incapable of getting the basics right on and off the park...

Re: Inept, incompetent, in trouble. : Mon Feb 14, 2022 7:29 pm  

Yes I assumed they simply didn’t care about the Cup game which has sold it to me.

Re: Inept, incompetent, in trouble. : Mon Feb 14, 2022 8:30 pm  

Talking of incompetence, does anyone have any insights into how we managed to lose so many of our young,non-heartland players? I’m thinking here of the players that have left London to play PT elsewhere like Davis, Meadows, Jones, Hodson. I get the ones who have gone to SL and Boafo to Newcastle but what’s going on? Hindmarsh and Walters appear to have fallen out of the game rather than play for us. Something can’t be right. Was the money no good or did they balk at a L1 coach? Were they annoyed that Ward and Langley went?

Re: Inept, incompetent, in trouble. : Tue Feb 15, 2022 11:07 am  

What I find so incomprehensible, is how the club can set themselves up to relaunch at Wimbledon. Yet they go part time and put out on the pitch the worst team in the clubs history.
How did they ever think it was going to work ?

Re: Inept, incompetent, in trouble. : Tue Feb 15, 2022 11:15 am  

Victor wrote:

What I find so incomprehensible, is how the club can set themselves up to relaunch at Wimbledon. Yet they go part time and put out on the pitch the worst team in the clubs history.
How did they ever think it was going to work ?

Maybe they thought if they deleted all the bad comments they could get away with it

#EmperorsNewClothes

Re: Inept, incompetent, in trouble. : Tue Feb 15, 2022 11:19 am  

Do you remember being told lots of RL players were waiting for the opportunity to move to London and play part time?

I wonder whether recruitment proved harder than they anticipated - as forecast on the forum.

Re: Inept, incompetent, in trouble. : Tue Feb 15, 2022 11:26 am  

Victor wrote:

What I find so incomprehensible, is how the club can set themselves up to relaunch at Wimbledon. Yet they go part time and put out on the pitch the worst team in the clubs history.
How did they ever think it was going to work ?

We all said this last year once the decision to go PT was made. Whats made this even worse is that now we have moved to Wimbledon, and paying through the nose for it, is that we are not actually making any use of the facilites (ie Fans Zone closed, no kids activities etc), so if the reason to move the wimbledon was better facilites, why then are they not using them? Bonkers

Re: Inept, incompetent, in trouble. : Tue Feb 15, 2022 12:02 pm  

Halfdan of t'wide embrace wrote:

Do you remember being told lots of RL players were waiting for the opportunity to move to London and play part time?

I wonder whether recruitment proved harder than they anticipated - as forecast on the forum.

Yes I do. I assume it did by our Antipodeans (and Skolars) only recruitment. On the plus I’m confident that Aussies who want to play PT would make us their first choice as long as we remain Championship. It’s not what we were promised but......

Re: Inept, incompetent, in trouble. : Tue Feb 15, 2022 12:15 pm  

Victor wrote:

What I find so incomprehensible, is how the club can set themselves up to relaunch at Wimbledon. Yet they go part time and put out on the pitch the worst team in the clubs history.
How did they ever think it was going to work ?

All the reasonable criticism and anger coalesces around this point. I’m not throwing huge sums at the club nor am I a relaunch expert so I’m shooting my mouth off here but it seems to me there are several inter-connected pillars to a successful relaunch. Of course the ground is important and it looks of the standard but equally important is the product: that is playing squad and match day experience. The ground itself is only part of that as others have said it’s how it is used. Underpinning it all is things like recruitment, fitness and conditioning, marketing, presentation, customer service, advertising sales and merchandise. Hand on heart which of those pillars have Broncos really spent much time or money on?

Orange was critical of the advertising campaign but I thought it was a reasonable loss leader to raise awareness but sadly it has to keep going (at great expense that won’t immediately be returned).

My humble suggestion is a re relaunch at a more clement time of the year when we are playing sides we can compete with. The May games look doable I’d focus some advertising on highlighting them. Sadly of course we then don’t play at home until July so we lose momentum but it is what it is
They really do need to do some type of event in the Party Zone and have some kid friendly stuff. Why no scarves, badges, flags whatever on sale. Is a programme really that difficult I reckon they’d sell 500. Sadly we need to keep going with cheap tickets as it helps to get people in and at least the atmosphere is OK and improved on last year.
But my big point is this. All the money has been chucked down the drain if we don’t improve on the pitch. It’s not my money but it’s obvious what needs doing. If they are honest there is not much anyone can do about February weather but was that performance of a type that would attract one single person back. It may simply be smart to offer those who got community tickets or whatever back again for free-least worst option the York game.

Re: Inept, incompetent, in trouble. : Tue Feb 15, 2022 5:34 pm  

BigTime wrote:

Orange was critical of the advertising campaign but I thought it was a reasonable loss leader to raise awareness but sadly it has to keep going (at great expense that won’t immediately be returned).

It was a total and utter waste of time and money......£50,000 thrown down the drain. A 1st year Marketing Student wouldn't have made that error.....but your wrong about ROI.....it got rid of the Monkey