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| Interesting figures gutters.
So fact is you are able to actually do nothing.
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| Quote ="mickyb1234"Interesting figures gutters.
So fact is you are able to actually do nothing.'"
No Michael.....I'm able to do a lot but Hughes wouldn't dare employ me in case I did it......then there could be no doubt how inept he has been.
£100,000 to find out........I suspect that's less than 10% of his 2016 investment.......butbhed rather spend it on networking evenings and telesales......
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| Back on topic I had a very nice time in Club Wembley today.
Can't wait for similar facilities at Ealing.
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| What did you watch from your seat in club Wembley, can you remember?
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| I was too busy luxuriating to pay much attention.
Club Ealing should offer something similar.
Or at the very least deck chairs.
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| What has club Wembley got to do with ealing. ?
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| It's the template for the sy new stadium David Hughes will build on our triumphant return to Super League.
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| so you are suggesting that every sports stadium in the country should or has to be the same as Wembley, its a nice aspiration, but I think its a bit ambitious dont you.
Still quite interested what does Wembley stadium facilities which is a national stadium have to do with where we are or ever have played?
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| Quote ="mickyb1234"so you are suggesting that every sports stadium in the country should or has to be the same as Wembley, its a nice aspiration, but I think its a bit ambitious dont you.
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No less ambitious than the plan to turn a park pitch into a ground fit for Super League.
& plenty of people on here have bought into that pipe dream.
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| Quote Or at the very least deck chairs.'"
Thats novel and something they should consider? Maybe have a picnic area where you bring food etc Nice sunny day, party in the park is a big thing these days
GF, thoughts?
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| I was also going to suggest a bouncy castle as a temporary stand.
But thought that might be too ambitious.
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| Quote ="wire-quin"Thats novel and something they should consider? Maybe have a picnic area where you bring food etc Nice sunny day, party in the park is a big thing these days
GF, thoughts?'"
Said the moment it was announced that we need to buy a marquee and have our own beer festival/bands etc on match day.......11 EVENTS throughout the season.
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| Quote ="Cowgirl Nostalgist"It's the template for the sy new stadium David Hughes will build on our triumphant return to Super League.'"
Where's your vision, your money, your passion?
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| Quote ="Cowgirl Nostalgist"No less ambitious than the plan to turn a park pitch into a ground fit for Super League.
& plenty of people on here have bought into that pipe dream.'"
Where's your vision, your money, your passion?
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| Quote ="Cowgirl Nostalgist"I was also going to suggest a bouncy castle as a temporary stand.
But thought that might be too ambitious.'"
Where's your vision, your money, your passion?
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| Cut & paste replies.
A familiar modus operandi.
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| Quote ="Andover Boy"Where's your vision, your money, your passion?'"
Let's look at your post with more detail shall we?
Vision: My Vision for the club would be of a team playing in a purpose built rugby facility. If not one that we own, then one where we can partner with the landlord and make sure we get a share of the match day bar and food takings. This is exactly the arrangement we had with The Stoop between 2006-08.
I would expect to be watched by a minimum of 4,000 fans per game with a plan to increase this number by a minimum of 20% per season until we got to 10,000.....this would also increase interest from sponsors and investors....we had 4,000 fans at the stoop in 2008.
Money: I would look to run the club on a shoe-string, with only people that wanted to be there employed. If I needed to invest in key staff, I'd make sure they were competent and qualified for the roles they were employed for. There remuneration would be linked to success and failure. What I wouldn't do is hand over 2 million a year and hope it worked.....as for where the money would come from? I have discussed with 2 investors who live here but have interests in the UK the concept for a successful RL side in the capital and both of them have said that they would consider it, but with no sign or trace of Hughes involved and with assurances from the RFL that the club would be given time......neither of those will happen in the near future but these 2 are still willing to step in should we return to a licenced comp.
Passion: I have about 24,000 posts on here over the last 13/14 years.....I bleed Broncos when cut and it pains me to see the shell of a club we've become. There was a time when I would have worked for nothing for the club but until Hughes leaves, there's be no point because the club don't understand the basic premise of promotion and marketing resulting in increased awareness and support and increased support resulting in more interest from sponsors and investors......they just move every few years, change their name and announce a KO time expecting the fans to flock in.
So, I have the vision, could arrange the investment and am as passionate as the next fan..........but it all means nothing, because the brand is toxic. The club has alienated other clubs and the RFL with it's sheer arrogance and it is now truly the play-thing of the owner.
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| Save your breath.
The rump fanbase now consists almost entirely of apologists of one form or another.
If you truly have investors lined up then Broncos demise can't come quick enough.
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| Quote ="The Changing Man"Let's look at your post with more detail shall we?
Vision: My Vision for the club would be of a team playing in a purpose built rugby facility. If not one that we own, then one where we can partner with the landlord and make sure we get a share of the match day bar and food takings. This is exactly the arrangement we had with The Stoop between 2006-08.
I would expect to be watched by a minimum of 4,000 fans per game with a plan to increase this number by a minimum of 20% per season until we got to 10,000.....this would also increase interest from sponsors and investors....we had 4,000 fans at the stoop in 2008.
Money: I would look to run the club on a shoe-string, with only people that wanted to be there employed. If I needed to invest in key staff, I'd make sure they were competent and qualified for the roles they were employed for. There remuneration would be linked to success and failure. What I wouldn't do is hand over 2 million a year and hope it worked.....as for where the money would come from? I have discussed with 2 investors who live here but have interests in the UK the concept for a successful RL side in the capital and both of them have said that they would consider it, but with no sign or trace of Hughes involved and with assurances from the RFL that the club would be given time......neither of those will happen in the near future but these 2 are still willing to step in should we return to a licenced comp.
Passion: I have about 24,000 posts on here over the last 13/14 years.....I bleed Broncos when cut and it pains me to see the shell of a club we've become. There was a time when I would have worked for nothing for the club but until Hughes leaves, there's be no point because the club don't understand the basic premise of promotion and marketing resulting in increased awareness and support and increased support resulting in more interest from sponsors and investors......they just move every few years, change their name and announce a KO time expecting the fans to flock in.
So, I have the vision, could arrange the investment and am as passionate as the next fan..........but it all means nothing, because the brand is toxic. The club has alienated other clubs and the RFL with it's sheer arrogance and it is now truly the play-thing of the owner.'" Have to agree with you that the end of licensing, particularly timed as it was, foreboded the end of the Broncos.
As for vision, well I used to think that Hetherington and Lenegan possessed it and were willing and able to push for it. Then Richard Lewis was replaced by Nigel Wood and the end began to begin.
BTW, here we go with a worthwhile discussion piggy backed onto a worthless thread.
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| Quote ="The Changing Man"
So, I have the vision, could arrange the investment and am as passionate as the next fan..........but it all means nothing, because the brand is toxic. The club has alienated other clubs and the RFL with it's sheer arrogance and it is now truly the play-thing of the owner.'"
... if you can the investment, How about we all pool together and buy the club?
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| Quote ="Partisan"... if you can the investment, How about we all pool together and buy the club?'"
The 2 guys I have spoken to will only consider investing if there's no Relegation. As for Buying the club? What is there to buy? The only 'ASSET" the club has is about 120 season ticket holders and a store-room full of unsold replica kits. Hughes would have to simply walk away and leave a debt free entity. As it is, if the NRL give us a second side the 2 guys will probably spend their money here, where there is a detailed plan for self sufficiency from day 1.
When discussing the 2 codes here in NZ with people who have already invested in the game and who would look to invest in London, they are stunned at how badly the game is administered as a business and how much money was wasted in London whilst the RFL looked on. Regardless of the millions flushed away by the owner every year, there was the 1.8 million of central funding that was being wasted too.
Rugby League at the top level is dead in the Capital until there is total change at the top of the RFL. Whilst we have narrow minded northerners running the business for the benefit of small northern towns then we'll attract pay as you go sponsors and partners, be told what and when to do by SKY TV and will be mostly ignored by the media.......too which the narrow minded northern fans will cry that it's a RFU/Establishment conspiracy
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| thanks for the in site.
Store room full of shirts and 120 season ticket holders.... So why is Hughes still hanging on (That's the one thing I can't get my head around)... just doesn't make sense? Sell the club for a Pond and you got yourself a bargain
But if there was no relegation how would you expect London to make it back to super league?
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| I do not think they even have the shirts, they belong to Barnet.
Without doubt the RFL have not made too much effort to help The Broncos, They can put themselves out for a club if they choose to. look at Bradford.
For the good of the game, Woods, Barwick and the rest of the board need to go. Bring in people from other sports to inject new blood and some direction to the sport.
Gus Mackay need not apply.
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| So what are people watching this Sunday?
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| Barwick, what the hell has he done for the game? He was brought on so he said to engage the London centric press and make use of his black-book of contacts. He lives in the south east, is on the games board .....
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