Given that many of the posters on this thread have ceased watching the club, whether temporarily or permanently, and are busy happily doing other things, I'd suggest London Broncos is far from the only important thing in their lives.

The challenge is for Broncos to either win them back or to generate a new support after the move. It would be interesting to hear from the club what their fan attraction and retention policies will be once the move is done.

That should move the debate along if nothing else.

Agreed, my poor wording

I can see Monkey and Co reading that scratching their heads with a bemused look thinking policies………what is them !

You would think, given the decline of crowds, that fan attraction and retention would be a high priority for the club irrespective of a move. However, we know from previous moves, where nothing much seemed to be done, that we are more likely to lose fans than gain them so this is absolutely vital.

In my experience the club are not very proactive where it comes to attracting or retaining fans following a ground move.

I am interested as to what the club will do.

And so what ..?

You support the broncos don’t you ?
You want to watch the lads go out there and give it a go ?

So go

Used ITV news a six as well that season, answer a simple question about RL if you gave the correct answer you got 2 free tickets. Thats how we started to watch Broncos. Back then you had a great game day experiance for not only the adults, for the kids as well. The bars at the Stoop were great and catered for large crowds. BRING BACK 1997.

Nothing probably!

Edited for accuracy

No they are a back field team with poor individual skill levels. They are fit and that’s it.

Indeed. Being one of only 2 apparently full time professional sides, the lack of anything other than stamina is quite startling. Without sammut we'd be bottom half material.

Not sure why you are still here then? a 'forum' is usually for fans who Support a club! I respect we all have different opinions.

I don't agree with your claim/comment, we have some players who are good, others who are developing, Championship clubs are rarely going to hold on to top players, that's just reality.

Have a good Sunday!

Is supporting the club your definition only?

Where does it say you must support a club to comment on a forum?

I welcome both your responses.

Well to me it seems natural members of a forum, for that club, support it! yes we can all be disappointed with things about a gane or the club, but constant whining, it's not what I would do, lots of better things to do.

Most forums for a club, do support it, yes we get visitors, supporters from chubs we are playing, I've never visited any other forum.

Well to me it seems natural members of a forum, for that club, support it! yes we can all be disappointed with things about a gane or the club, but constant whining, it's not what I would do, lots of better things to do.

Most forums for a club, do support it, yes we get visitors, supporters from chubs we are playing, I've never visited any other forum.

Continue to do your better things. Leave others to do there’s.

Monday morning here. Wake up, boil kettle, check BBC for London Broncos result. (No.match thread here yet?)
Have a wardrobe with about 20 Broncos shirts coats hats etc....not sure how much more of a "fan" I can be from the other side of the planet.

The doom and gloom surrounding the club is 100% self inflicted and therefore worthy of investigation and discussion. The game on Sunday v Swinton will hopefully get a thread soon, but don't be surprised when the attendance creeps into it. $15 for a child has (according to people I know) turned quite a few families away. It was a mistake to raise prices before the club knew where they were playing. It was a mistake to try and shoehorn us into a new venue too early and Wimbledon should have been for the 2022 season.
On the field, we are bang average. Level with cellar dwellers at half time then behind to them.....Fev are going to eat us next week.

That sums it up!! The lack of (edit: NOT) knowing the home ground did it for me. I'm saving £100 a weekend by not attending in the meantime.

I was planning to put a review of the game in the Swinton thread when I got home from the game today but basically the words awful, shocking, useless, absymal sums it up. Worse than last week vs Haven (if that was even possible).

I know we got the 4 games for £60 offer, but I am really not sure I can endure another 2 games of the dying embers of the club which was once London Broncos, and which only 2 years ago beat teams like Saints and Wigan at Trailfinders.

Interesting how quiet NB has gone whilst the rest of the apologists have disappeared completely. Even they can’t defend the club anymore

How many were at the game ?

It felt that we had at least the same as Haven,maybe a few more, but still in the 300-350 range max

Will probably be more for the York game, but that will be York fans not London ones

WQ not quiet at all. Was not at the swinton game so cant comment. This thread is no longer about the haven game its turned into a rant about how the club is run. As you say i am an apologist, and as such not intetested really in continued commenting on how the xlub should be run or who should be doing what! I cant change any of that, all i can do is turn up watch the rugby support my team.
No longer defending the club is an intetesting comment though, i have only evr said i have no say in the way the club is run! Therfore its pointless me saying how i think it should be run, DH pays the wages, without him no wages paid simple fact. I cant change that, if thats being an apologist fine am an apologist

Twitter post from a fan of a club that have been around a long time, with the odd high and some very bad lows. But its an interesting post that sums up my approach to what being a fan of a club is. So @YorkKnightsFans I’ve had a good old vent & calmed down. The season proving far tougher than we thought so all we can do is turn out in numbers next week vs Newcastle. Get behind @YorkKnightsRLFC in their hour of need. It’s OUR club and we love it so let’s be 18th man again. https://t.co/AcHRhJBh2w

Twitter post from a fan of a club that have been around a long time, with the odd high and some very bad lows. But its an interesting post that sums up my approach to what being a fan of a club is. So @YorkKnightsFans I’ve had a good old vent & calmed down. The season proving far tougher than we thought so all we can do is turn out in numbers next week vs Newcastle. Get behind @YorkKnightsRLFC in their hour of need. It’s OUR club and we love it so let’s be 18th man again. https://t.co/AcHRhJBh2w

York City Knights have been a shining example in how to regenerate and re-energise with excellent fan attraction and retention strategies

I was there when Oxford won in York. The home club was absolutely in a mess and there was a real risk the new stadium would see them horrendously overshadowed by York City. I also saw them meet Oxford RL at an NCL stadium as they hung on in there hoping the new stadium would appear, watched by an aging group of diehards.

A proven track record in these areas leaves a club with a bit of credit in the fan bank on bad days.

I totally agree there are lessons to be learnt from York, and not just by the fans.

Edited to say, and to be fair to the club, earlier this season Broncos referred to York as our good friends so it is possible they have been consulting York. It was warmer than the usual comment, suggesting there may be something underpinning it. It would certainly make sense for them to do so. It would also make sense not to spend too much marketing to the Ealing area so perhaps there is a plan?