Yes Kayleigh was helpful. Not sure there are any back room staff anymore. Agree I was surprised no merchandise was on sale at the last home game of season. In my view that’s an obvious time to sell stock and if it’s not felt worth while or don’t have any staff to do the necessary then that is quite an indictment of where the club is.

My last home game was back in SL v wakey....there were no adult shirts available in the club tent....so my boy got a couple.....I see everything is half price.on line now, but I refuse to line the pockets of our commercial gimp

That’s the risk with that type of offer. If they don’t have capacity or competence to deliver they create a negative impression. I picked mine up at the 1st home game. I’ve given up on my son’ s shirt ever arriving although in fairness I suspect so few kids interested in Broncos that producing them would have been too expensive. .Still the old motto: never over promise and under deliver.

I am sure there are fans who could step up and help the club out but they seem to view most of us as pests with our questions!
With so few full time staff, the infrastructure is too small and we could help produce programmes, sell merchandise even try promote the club in Merton with leaflets and posters but I am very sceptical that many people in that area will take any interest in the Broncos!

They owed me a shirt in lieu of a refund. Never heard a peep from them so didn't bother following up on it. Not that it matters now anyway.

Hughes either doesn't give a damn or he's being lied to..

When you have as few fans as LB and are even losing some of them, your top priority should be to keep the ones you have. I can appreciate they are short staffed but the priorites (I assume set by DH or Lobster) are wrong.

Can’t argue with that.
A lot of their deals - part sponsor a player, join BOSG, hand over your season ticket came with a sweetener that it was completely random whether one got. I remember as the TO game up thinking I didn’t really fancy it and I recalled one of these deals I’d done came with a free ticket. I mulled over contacting the club to take it up and save a few quid but I came to the conclusion it just wouldn’t get sorted and so once again put my money down.
In the interests of balance I did get my BOSG mug and it wasn’t broken. So there is that.
Bottom line is even with a quickly contracting fan base you can’t run this kind of back room operation with just one man who has other stuff to do. If you do it’s inevitable things go wrong and you alienate where you intended to create buy-in.

Catalan over the years have shown how to develop and run a club, and last night was superb to see! they have had up and downtimes, the position with travel has been tough for them this season, but you have to congratulate them!

One time London as the Capital was of such interest to Aussie players, but now it seems to be the South of France, even for English players, who would not refuse a life in the sun, with young children, being able to take them out in sunshine after training!

There must be something we can learn from them?

Clearly they struggle with the admin stuff so I'm totally amazed the members of BOSG haven't stepped up to the plate to handle a lot of that. Maybe they offered & club turned the offer down, I have no idea. Either way I'm sure there is enough experienced bodies between BOSG & BDSA (Broncos Disgruntled Supporters Alliance - no mugs no shirts here) to make the Club's life a lot easier. This club would have died donkey's years ago without the work inspired by the Snares, the Warren's & others.

Fingers crossed the Cats wipe the floor with either Saints or Leeds. London would still win out for Australians if we were in SL & properly run but sadly neither currently apply.

Yep I'd rather live in Perpignan than most places around the M62. Having said that, having been in Perp in February when it can be wet & freezing with the wind of the pyrenees, a wet Wednesday in Wigan has something going for it, but not much.

I would have thought if the club did not have staff to sell merchandise BOSG could have stepped in, thats why they were formed.

Perhaps the BOSG have been found, not to be fit for purpose.

Seems the BOSG was setup to grab a few extra quid from loyal supporters without an awful lot of thought to its role beyond that.

West Berks Broncos - everything you suggest ie leaflet drops, advertising and many more things were done by SAG for the Brentford time and the second visit to The Stoop time and raised thousands for the club each years and saved them a fortune to, The club in their infinite wisdom decided to abandon everything SAG did.

And if you suggested anything different like forward thinking or practical input or upset a certain person you were told you weren't required

Strange how things have changed

There was thought which went into the roll of the BOSG a constitution was drawn up and agreed, part of the constitution was about providing help for the club. The money collected for BOSG was paid into the same account as the lotto money is paid into which is a club account. Has there been any notification of renewal of BOSG membership as it is over a year ago that the BOSG started.

Google suggests BOSG is indeed over a year old. Personally I joined LBST instead, but has anyone received a BOSG renewal? If so, what have BOSG done?I

I know it's fashionable to knock certain people attached but I believe some people involved may be learning lessons and cannot condemn them yet.

You're a better person than me.....the shower at the club deserve nothing more than contempt in my eyes. Shambolic season, ridiculous move to wimbledon, lack of communications, banning of long term fans and social media becoming a clique for a select 30 or so devotees of a staff member.
The reality is there is no club. It's a semi pro team playing a niche sport and funded by an narcissistic owner who can't or won't see the error if his ways. London Broncos should've been involved in a million pound game next weekend........instead, were heading for oblivion.

I had no intention to critiisise the volunteers who put themselves forward for BOSG. I was thinking more of the club's intentions.

I actually agree with that. Those responsible the recent shambles will always have that on their record. Any lessons learnt will have learnt at a horrendous cost to the club. However, for better or worse, we seem to be going into next season with the same off field management and I'm hearing from a few sources the penny may be dropping. I've been quick to criticise the off field team in the past, and may well do so in the future, so it's only fair to record that I am hearing some positive talk about their plans.

Time will tell whether this proves to be justified.

Talk is cheap, outcomes are what matters. The club needs to change dramatically. Are those is charge capable of delivering that ?

Critisise away I was pointing out that a mechanism had been put place so that BOSG could help the club. From what I have seen the mechanism was not used.

On past history the answer has to be no but I live in hope.