.....RESIGN!

You have overseen the worst series of results, both on and off the pitch, in the history of the London RL club in Superleague.

A win ratio of 22.5% is unacceptable.
Losing 34.5% off our average attendance is unacceptable.
48% of our games with no major shirt sponsor is unacceptable
You hold the record for the lowest ever SL crowds in London for the visits of:
Celtic Crusaders
Catalan
Wakey
Castleford
HKR
Widnes
Hull FC
Bradford
Saints.
You hold the second lowest records for:
Hudds (watch this space)
Wire
Leeds (watch this space)
Wigan....the reason being that the lowest gates for these teams were back in the days when they visited London twice in a season.
You have ripped the very soul of the club away from the fans.
You have failed to deliver a single fans forum this year, a condition of the purchase of Season Tickets.
The culture of acceptable failure is 100% down to you.
Your hand picked staff were sacrificed as a result of your failings...they should never have been employed to the roles you gave them.
You have blamed everything from the weather through to the teams performance for your failings, even blaming ST holders for not responding to an offer in last years package.
You have failed in your main focus for the season, in finding us a new home, without ever telling us exactly why it is we are leaving the stoop?


I fail to see anything positive that has happened during your tenure. I find it hard to believe that you have a conscience at all after essentially stealing a wage over the last 30 months although I admire your resilience and ability to keep your head down (out of the firing line)


By the way, if the malaise the club find themselves isn't your fault, I'd be keen to hear who else you think I should direct my attention to? David Hughes delivers funds to the club, as does the RFL and to a smaller and smaller extent, so do the fans. If it's not one of your main tasks to manage these funds which are about 4,000,000 a year, then what exactly is it that you're responsible for?

A nice original thread.

Sorry..........I'll check with you first in future

I trust this was sent to the club

Gutters what will you do with your time when the club is dead? (God forbid!) and I am a atheist!

NZ Warriors

What destroy them as well, each day!

How have I destroyed the broncos?

You have distracted Gus from doing his job by making suggestions and confusing him into taking no action

By coming up with good suggestions, and just to spite you, he's done the polar opposite of every idea you've come up with as a personal vendetta to you

My BAD



Seriously though, I showed this list of achievements to one of my sports related customers yesterday and she said he wouldn't have lasted 1 year in semi-pro sports here in NZ. Maybe that's why such a small country such as this manages to punch well above its weight internationally....they don't accept second place as "well done" and failure along the lines of London Broncos would have seen sackings before it got this far.

Think the fact that our beloved CEO has more direct contact with an Irishman living on the other side of the world than any other Bronco fan speaks volumes

Second place!!!!!! Be happy with that.

That's the point though....2nd is nowhere to most Kiwis.

As a London Broncos fan, especially over the last 3 years, anything between 8-10 would be acceptable. We have, we are told, spent to the cap, yet 12th, 12th and now 14th, coupled with the merry-go-round over names, colours and venues have eroded the hard core support numbers to 300 or so.

He has to go.....surely another season of failings, in SL or below would be just too much for the remaining fans to accept!

When he goes, will we perform better on the pitch? After all, that is why so many of the long suffering die hard fans have left or are leaving.

As I said earlier, the culture of ACCEPTABLE failure is 100% down to him.....he has systematically dodged bullets at every turn managing to blame everything and everyone for the shortcomings on and off the park.

He arrived and immediately hired his own "hand picked" team to deliver fans and sponsorship money as well as corporate hospitality growth. When that failed, he blamed the name and our colours.....and took as back to the Broncos name. When that failed, he said it was the ground/area we were playing in that was the problem....he is the master of excuses.

On the pitch, the players see ever decreasing crowds, the team being bounced around different venues, a couple of coaches that were/are incapable and senior players like Gower walking and Clubb saying he wants out...it is a poisonous and vile culture of acceptable defeat from the CEO down to the tea-boy....and The Chief Executive Officer is where the buck stops in the REAL WORLD!
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my favourite part of that..
"Everyone believes that CEOs can do whatever they want, are all powerful, and are magically competent. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth"

The damage he has done to the club in 30 months is not beyond repair, but I believe it would take longer than 30 months to fix it. The best place to do that may well be the Championship

Who said we have a culture of acceptable failure?

You and your impression of events of course.

If it wasn't acceptable failure, there would have been consequences before now. David Hughes walked at half time on Saturday.....I fully expected blood on the carpet first thing Monday, but no, nothing as usual.

A 70 point hammering on national TV with at most 250 travelling fans, on target for a SL record of points against in a season, a record +/- difference and the lowest average gate in the clubs history. No corporate hospitality, a fruitless 18 month search for a new home and now tales of our allies in the north becoming ed off with us as well.

I can think of no other business where a CEO sheds 40% of a companies customers and remains in a Job.......at a conservative guess, that's about 400k a year in lost revenue or 1.2 million on his watch!


Read some of the musings of Mr Gower....he didn't leave us because London had a winning culture!

Rooster, the club is not a happy place and seems not to have been for a while. I am sure you remember the especial bond that existed between the club and the fans. Sadly that has been ripped away. Broken promises along the way.

Well, we are failing in almost every aspect of on-field and off-field endeavour and nothing appears to be happening to address these failings. We had a review of on-field performances last year; this year, with worse performances, nothing.

I don't think it's particularly controversial to say that (a) the club is failing and (b) very little is being done about it.

Now, what may be happening is that the club is working like mad behind the scenes and is about to announce all kinds of new and fantastic things. Trouble is, if they wait much longer to tell us, there'll be nobody left to hear the news. As usual, it is the uncertainty that is killing the club. It is desperately sad.

I think that 250 is a VERY optimistic estimate of our support on Saturday - it wouldn't suprise me if there are more Crusaders' supporters at the Skolar's Cup Final eve game than we had at Leigh (one coach already booked just for the game plus a fair few independents oop for 't Cup).

There is strong evidence from recent seasons.

David Hughes did when he didn't sack Rob Powell for his failures, nor Gus MacKay for his, and we the fans did when we clapped Broncos off the pitch after all their hammerings.

When the captain leaves because we don't train hard enough.

When Kaufusi is allowed to traipse around putting in one or two decent runs per game.