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| Anyone used the website to buy tickets for the Toulouse game? Keeps giving me an error message saying 'not uniq' for my email address. Used same details for all previous games so wondering if anyone else had a problem?
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| Perhaps they are hoping if nobody can buy them at £10, they will do so when price goes up.
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| Fixed now, fair play I raised a query yesterday and had a response today.
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| Quote ="Traffic"Fixed now, fair play I raised a query yesterday and had a response today.'" Excellent....did they offer you A FREE polo shirt and if so, which size and which club?
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To put the above into perspective....we might expect a thousand people to hit the site, so the person(s) had one job to do......a job that at best takes an hour.
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| But unless someone tells them there is a problem they can't fix it, when they were told they did, whats the problem?
Traffic is happy with the outcome, so all good.
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| Why would he be offered a free polo shirt? Was that part of the ticket offer?
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| Quote ="northernbloke"Why would he be offered a free polo shirt? Was that part of the ticket offer?'"
No but its part of the joke!
Oooooh never mind.
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| NB he’s saying he hates the commercial manager. You know like he does very, very occasionally.
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| Quote ="BigTime"NB he’s saying he hates the commercial manager. You know like he does very, very occasionally.'"
I think to say he hates the pillock. Is a bit extreme.
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| My mistake. It’s Hughes he hates. Monkey is the wage thief.
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| No ! Monkey is the bogey man that chases supporters away !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Quote ="BigTime"My mistake. It’s Hughes he hates. Monkey is the wage thief.'"
I hate nobody. I regularly question the sanity of Hughes and I certainly admire the ability of the wage thief, but hate is not in my make up. have to say, for a new poster you're pretty clued up....have we met?
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| Ahh that’s a fine distinction I hadn’t taken from your recent posts.
Have we met: as I understand you live abroad so I think not.
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| Quote ="Victor"No ! Monkey is the bogey man that chases supporters away !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'"
Good to see Broncos are good at something!
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| Quote ="BigTime"Ahh that’s a fine distinction I hadn’t taken from your recent posts.
Have we met: as I understand you live abroad so I think not.'"
I haven't always lived "abroad'....I used to rock up to London RL games quite a lot as they were an enjoyable experience......I even made the last SL game at the Hive before the drop and then another when we got back up....neither of those games were particularly enjoyable as the matchday experience was pretty much dead in the water by then...........the last of those games was a game v Wakefield where the gate was announced as 1,205.
I can only imagine what fun Trailfinders is now with 1,000 fewer in attendance.....and that is down in equal part to Hughes and the Commercial Monkey...no reason to hate anyone, but hardly endearing either.
I seem to recall paying £14.00 on the gate at Brentford in 2002.....it seems 19 seasons later inflation is not that bad with tickets now on offer for £10.00...that commercial guys a bit of a wiz i reckon
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| It has to be said that the match day experience at the moment is “thin”. The major excitement being when the pies come out. I suspect the Wimbledon match day experience will be better but that is predicated by a reasonable amount of fans turning up which looks “challenging”.
Our views on the competence of the LB back room staff may not be totally aligned but clearly they will need to step up somewhat from where they are now to make the project a success. I think you may have described the move in an earlier post as an existential threat. I think that was not unreasonable. We will see. I will give it a spin but trekking South of the river to be presented with no parking or adding £8 or some such to my spend may dampen my enthusiasm.
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| Big time as you can see from some posters, nothing the club does is right. £20 for a ticket is wrong its too much. An offer of £10 for a ticket is apparently crazy from the emoji. Am not sure what would please some.
As for the move the Wimbledon like ant move it will suit some, it will not suit others, but that goes for any move anywhere.
As for existential threat! Is staying at ealing any better?
The club is at a pretty low point at the moment, and currently yup a pretty average champ set up. So change is needed, DH is the money, I don't see any other deep pocket investor in the wings so that's hard to change.
Moving to a decent stadium that is acceptable to the RFL has to be a positive step, then buying a squad that can compete has to be the next step! Q is will or more important can DH do that. With a decent stadium and a decent squad you will see more fans
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| Big Time. You describe the matchday experience as thin. There is just a game. Just a game. Nothing else.
Look around on matchday. How many kids attend? One or two. There is nothing for them .
As a club, a lot of work is done in schools. This translates to nothing on matchday. Which surely aim of the community work, is to draw people to the club.
The attendance for the Toulouse game was going to be low. It is peak holiday time, no away fans and the likely thrashing we shall receive. Add to that the football season starting. Something needed to be done.
It is fine to offer reduced price tickets, but how do people outside of the London Broncos bubble, find out about this promotion.
I do not know.
I wonder if bringing new fans to a game where we get thrashed, is a good idea anyway.
Perhaps contacting the missing fans and giving them free tickets to attend is worth a thought ?
Interested to see what the gate is with this super promotion.
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| NB you make some interesting points. Pricing is less of a concern to me than some posters. My gut feeling is the prices are not unreasonable. I do though agree with those who think the timing and delivery of the new pricing was “ unfortunate”.
I can see the arguments about Ealing being a dead end and a new stadium attracting fans/sponsors but, putting aside the hassle it will be for me personally to go to SW London, it is the disconnect with the general mood music of managed decline I can’t unpick. It looks to me like we have almost no back room admin staff, the squad is thinner in terms of quality and numbers, revenue streams have reduced and we are focussing on bring through home grown products and going to a hybrid model. That is a noble but long/ mid term project. Moving to PL and running 2 training grounds is difficult to marry up with that dissapointing, it perhaps sensible, approach. It might work but, if not, I think it does place a heavy burden on the club.
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| Victor
On the subject of kids, as one of the very few that does bring their son I could not agree more.
On that point whilst I’m hear one of the reasons I registered was to correct a misapprehension that has been circulating on this forum ( I think). Whilst the ( in essence) walk up prices for kids appears counter productive and dumb, there was and remains a child season ticket at £30. That’s £3 a game. For London that seems a good deal to me. The club is getting quite a bit wrong but that seems a small positive and we should acknowledge it
No arguments from me on the comma side/ fan engagement failings. It is most likely partly due to the fact there appear to be no admin staff currently employed so commas and fan engagement and all the other things that push a club forward have gone into hiatus. Perhaps the club is planing to correct this for next season. I’d like to think they are but they have quite a few plates to spin and next season will come around soon.
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| They have to sort the parking out for next season, they need to do a deal with some nearby business / school to allow of paid parking. For the three of us it would be a combined 70 pounds on travel to PL, compared to around 5 pound for parking and a couple of quid in Petrol..... If they don't have a parking option, no way we can attend unless they have very cheap tickets (not 25GBP which they are proposing)
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| Yes Crash. I agree that seems a sensible option that I hope the club explores. I don’t know South London at all but if it’s the case that there is a complete absence of any roadside parking spaces on a non work day that strikes me as pretty rank. The problem is, of course, exacerbated by the fact that public transport, to all intents and purposes, doesn’t run on Sundays in London.
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| Victor
I’m conscious I didn’t respond to your point on LBs work with schools.
I’ve seen a few things in programmes and it looks like they try and engage but my only experience was when I went to a mid week game and there were a lot of excited school kids in attendance who were mascots. the thing that struck me was that, I think, without exception all were of Asian descent. I don’t know enough about the Ealing area to know if that was atypical but I wonder how fertile ground that is. I don’t recall seeing anyone of Asian descent at any other games so it looks like that work did not land, at least in the short term. It may be for many reason that that ethnic group don’t fancy coming to matches. It may be difficult to unpick and address the reasons short term and I suppose it might be one of the reasons why the management of LB feel a move to another area might be productive.
I, like I guess other posters, have no experience of running a professional sports club but it’s clear there are loads of challenges which perhaps it’s easy for us fans to dismiss/overlook.
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| It's good to see the players themselves volunteering to help with The Wimbledon FC club Charity, getting out in the community, we have got to start off in the right way, then carry on! Be interesting to know if there are primary or junior schools in the Wimbledon area involved with London Primary & Junior Schools Rugby League, who give credit are doing an amazing job! The Finals last week were a great example to the game in the north, where school sport is on the decline.
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| Quote ="jaybs"It's good to see the players themselves volunteering to help with The Wimbledon FC club Charity, getting out in the community, we have got to start off in the right way, then carry on! Be interesting to know if there are primary or junior schools in the Wimbledon area involved with London Primary & Junior Schools Rugby League, who give credit are doing an amazing job! The Finals last week were a great example to the game in the north, where school sport is on the decline.'"
The club should be aiming at marketing, in Sutton, Carshalton, Mitcham and Morden where a lot of the population is working class and they are not too far from Plough Lane.Might even be worth linking up with South West trains and Thameslink for promotions involving tickets and travel.
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