The fact that Monkeys Mafia couldn't even fill a minibus shows that you're not alone in that sentiment.
The level of BEGGING fans to come to games on Twitter shows that not only the team performances are falling well short of projections for the season.

The club is an absolute ing shambles.

Imagine what next year looks like if we stay up. More of the same? Who can face that but many of the current squad are on 2 year contracts and unlikely to be poached I think.
If we go down one final throw of the dice or club folding. By no means guaranteed we’d go up either. Surely we wouldn’t play out of Plough Lane though. A total shambles. Wonder what Man of Kent thinks. Or Northern Bloke or the old stagers who’ve left the scene like PC Plum. Really desperate times.

Note to Broncos management: this is an example of good decision making!

I don’t mind them asking people to turn up via their Twitter feed. It’s the lack of other avenues of engagement, particularly with non hard core fans, that is the worry if 5000 is the aim.

Given the lack of likes or retweets the Twitter avenue is about as much use as a chocolate teaspoon on its own, but they blew their budget on the standard and metro adverts and have not the foggiest idea of how to get new folk in.
Remember. We had close to 5k when Hughes took over......

the 2.2K we had vs Widnes seems such a long time ago now

IF we stay up??

Beginning to look less likely by the week.

Sadly the standard of performance at Leigh is very reminiscent of what was dished up v Widnes.

I do have to ask. Do you think that the RFL have any concerns regarding the future of the London Broncos ?
I wonder if they have been in contact with the club. It would have been difficult, I know, being that the CEO has been on holiday..
Surely the Broncos folding,. Which we all can see is a possibility. Would be bad for the sport.
Although some might welcome it.

On the OurLeague commentary, John Duffy as co-commenter was joking around saying that he thought our jerseys resembled Warrington kit so closely he thought he'd come to the wrong game!! True though and just awful colours for us.

I hope that the London snr management was not watching, or they will ban him from Facebook and Twitter

2 RL Clubs in London...1 is a professional side that used to ply its trade in the top flight, the other is a Pub Side made up of Ex-Pat Aussies passing through London on their travels. I suspect Belushi's get a bigger bang for their sponsorship buck than any of the Broncos....



London Broncos Team Sheet on twitter

Hammersmith Hills Hoists Team Sheet on FB

The thing is, the RFL are also culpable in this mess - because they refused at every turn to form a coherent strategy for the game in London and SE. Or anywhere else for that matter. And, no, I don't mean throwing £millions at the Broncos, I just mean a planned network of development officers (who they sacked to save money to spend up north) in schools, junior clubs with decent facilities (the RFL built one 3G pitch at a school in south London but neglected to draw up a concrete contract and the school eventually made it virtually impossible for the community club to use it) through to the Broncos and Skolars, with England internationals and rep games building a presence in the city.

And it's a failing that negatively impacts the entire sport. Ever since Richard Lewis left, the RFL has had a policy under Wood and then Rimmer of remaining at arms length. They do very little in fact. They got rid of facilities minimum standards, they removed the 'live salary cap' which was checked continually and made it a simpler affair, they play virtually no internationals (and when they do its midweek at Leigh!), they do nothing to promote the Challenge Cup Final or SL Grand Final. In short - they just don't anything.

So when the Broncos do go tits up, and it's guaranteed to happen, the RFL will share some (but only some, most of it lies with Hughes) of the blame. But Rimmer will dust his hands and say "we can't force the clubs to do anything, they have to run themselves" which is his favourite line. Sitting as I do these days in Singapore, although not for much longer, it's a failing I see right across British society - no-one in a position of authority actually wants to take on responsibility for anything. It's just easier to keep your head down, do the bare minimum required, and let others take the blame if/when things go wrong.

The twitter feed was fine. Yes, we have no graphics of players with sponsors logos etc, but when we're not scoring, it really matters little.
My point was that The Hoists make a bloody effort. Yes, it is a social club and yes they do have a lot of fun doing it, but one of them took the time to put together a graphic. Their match reports are always good with a player of the day announced.....I couldn't tell you who was player of the day at any of the home Broncos games this year and I suspect unless you were in the gold lounge, neither could you.
That's the point.
We have a Kit man, so that's that sorted for this weekends game
We have a commercial manager, so match day sponsorship should be OK
We don't have a marketing bod, but we do have a volunteer manning the media, so an hour on a basic graphics package would be good.......or maybe our PARTNERS at Key & Eagle could earn their crust?

I see we have a post match party planned........seems the dozen or so old farts are listened to now and again

TBF Match day Twitter feeds have improved last 3 games

Yup the kid is doing a good job. Gawd knows how he keeps his positivity up but he’s one of the few successes this year.

Maybe he can be encouraged to unblock those who can't see his updates.

I've asked

Our Twitter volunteer was busy at a 7's tournament today, so intermittent updates was all the club gave.

In other news, Dave's master-plan for London RL is paying huge dividends across town, where the London Skolars got absolutely and utterly demolished 96-0 by the Cougars and now sit below Cornwall on points difference

Yes an absolute hammering and worth remembering that we only used 2 of the Skolars we plundered from their first team so really difficult to see what we did in a positive light. As I have said before, to my surprise, Latu has been decent if unremarkable Championship player. Makani I think works hard in defence but does not have the toe required to be a major attacking threat. The other Skolars, I’m sure are decent human beings and I wish them well, but I’m unconvinced they were what we required.
The major concern for me is our team revolves around a short term loanee. How on earth did our recruitment get us to that place. Anyway, in the absence of a longer term recruit of correct standard I hope he sticks around for a bit as he added quality today.

Please god Fev stay injury free up there.....if he stays with us until the end of the year we may yet survive