Bet you wish he hadn’t let you in!

On crowds I prefer the Sunday match but I wonder if Friday night or perhaps a Saturday is a better night to get good size crowds. In any event it’s academic because as usual we have failed to be joined up and having got our act together off field have assembled a squad that is well below the standard and is unlikely to be a draw.

That game really annoyed me. It was obvious the squad is too thin and a Championship standard one but truth be told it’s weaker than the one we ended last season. That just isn’t good enough. There were 3 short term loanees in the starting 13. 3 players that other teams in our league deem surplus to requirements or not yet ready-it’s week five. How are we supposed to grow as a club if we continue to get spanked at home. This season is a write off if we don’t get players in right now. Is anyone confident that when we get relegated we’ll sweep away Bradford, Toulouse Fev etc I’m certainly not. I can’t say I fancy going to the Giants game if this is what we serve up.

All things considered I think crowds are holding up well although I don’t think that will last. Easter Sunday I suspect public transport will be up the wall and Giants don’t travel well so undoubtedly crowd will be down to about 2.5k I’d say.

Not if every game is a non contest. This game was over after 10 minutes. Cake says we are struggling with the physicality and size. No Sherlock but we also lack quality in key positions.

They might try hard but some of the defending is dismal. Especially left side.
Said it last season will say it again foe this season macani is a nightmare, he has no positional awareness in defence and seems to be zero communication with him and his centre.
How many times last year did we see him stood 15mtrs in field looking at the back of his opposition no?

No one supporting London can say the game was entertaining and this is off the back of the Catalans game which was equally poor and a mildly more interesting game against Wigan. It really can’t go on. It’s no good for the club and no good for SuperLeague.

All we are currently doing is proving why we shouldn't be in SL. I am also yet to be convinced Cake is actually a coach. I think Rhys Lovegrove added a lot last season.

What do you think about the Meadows Campagnolo pairing. Not sure either has shown they are above Championship standard. Clearly its difficult when we are so physically mis-matched with opponents but even so. o Leyland and Butterworth have been more likely to break open the line than them. We don’t seem to have a general driving us around the pitch it’s like Groundhog Day for the last two seasons before Norman and Whare turned up.

Totally agree...that was a completely miserable experience .....I've said it before but this season may be be a very very damaging one for Broncos

Any new fans are going to be put off for life

The best thing that can happen now is that no new fans turn up...crowds stay as low as possible and a new start in the Champ

I would far rather have paid my £20 to watch that Broncos team play a Batley or Widnes today

I won't be back this season.....

Wimbledon is an absolutely awful place to get to on every way ...by car, tube or train

Think there must have been a glitch in the system.
Bought a pair of tickets, first one went through ok , second one came up as ‘ not valid for this fixture’, but the steward tried it on a different scanner and it was ok.
Got the impression it had been happening all afternoon

Computer was trying to tell you something mate. It was saying you really don’t want to go in there.

It’s really annoying because it’s been clear over last 3 home games that are quite a few RU fans, occasional fans and dormant fans who have been coming back to see us in top flight and are served up that. Players are clearly trying but everyone could see our recruitment was not SL standard and not enough through the door. It’s obvious that these fans are less likely to return when we lose so badly. It’s one step forward, two steps back all the time with the Broncos. Gawd knows what happens next season.

And yet today Thameslink to Haydons Rd was running today, Northern Line to Tooting Broadway was running today. I ended up getting to the game on the latter and left on the former.
Don’t know about trains from Waterloo to Earlsfield.
I don’t know about driving into London, I avoid doing it as much as possible.

Wimbledon might not be perfect but has more transport connections than many places we’ve played at before.

Fair enough. These things happen. Hopefully only once though.

Probably worth adding I spent the match with Wire fans I met in Toulouse back when we played them at Carcassonne. They tell me Wire rested three and were missing a fourth due to a bereavement.

We’re missing a few ourselves- not that it would have made a lot of difference……

One thing I did find interesting was the presence of a small playmaker for Wire. (Albeit a back up.) I'm told their third in line is very young, very highly rated and vey short by pro RL standards. Are we begining to see the high tackle changes already influencing what clubs look for in terms of height in some positions?

We could definitely do with Bienek but the sad truth is no it wouldn’t have made much difference.

Yes he was very short. Yet we still struggled to put him to the ground.

For a professional sportsman he was very short. Leon Hayes I believe. About 5 foot 4 and half inches. I looked him up as I was interested when I saw him. Actually looked shorter, but that was because of the giants around him.

Macani was vulnerable in defence. Walker wasn't back to his reliable self. Campo was pedestrian. The defence was poor. Meadows was one of our best. Oli made the biggest impact when he came on. Team selection was poor today.

Agreed Leyland did well and Kershaw works very hard. Thought Butterworth did quite well but generally there are too many who are anonymous at this level. Id like to see a few of our players cutting out the crabbing sideways and just moving forward and a quicker PTB.

Could we swap out Macani for Boafo. IIRC at championship level he was prepared to make hard metres and defend - not sure if he’s a massive step up from Macani defensively but he does have real pace and unlike quite a few of our players simply wouldn’t be caught if he broke away.

Can someone please explain to me what that halftime thing was that went on over on the far side of the pitch.
Something to do with Brewdog. Two kids doing something, however it was being played out in front of nobody.
The stand close to it was empty and all the hospitality that overlooked it was empty, everyone had ed off inside.
It was in truth rubbish. In the same way as was our defence in the game.
Plus if you are doing something with the assistance of our sponsor, give them something for it, put some signs up.
The club have a history of giving little back to sponsors.
Kids playing for a Brewdog voucher, did I get that right? Seems wrong to me.

Like everyone else having stared at the floor for five minutes I went into the fan zone so didn’t see but they had a competition on Twitter following up on a post where players tried to knock down cans by throwing the ball accurately. Tellingly they didn’t do well. The idea was people who commented on tweet would be put in a hat with one LB fan and one wolves fan battling it out to win £60:worth of brew dog vouchers. Didn’t look a tremendous take up and bemused to hear 2 kids battled it out. My view - a little thought/prep is best when running these competitions to ensure they look professional. Hopefully we’ll improve next time but big worry is reducing crowds make us a less good team to sponsor. Come on Broncos get some players in before this season goes down the pan.