London Broncos 4 - Whitehaven 12

When will we ever learn to do the basics right first? far too often, we throw the ball across the line when in possession and make little ground? Whitehaven have played it basic and made ground, with one man in the first few tackles, but too often we wait for the player to run to us, and then two players will struggle to bring him down holding him, rather than tacking his legs, you can't run without your legs. Whitehaven scored two tries, and we just managed the one.

Just hope we can have a better second half! and get basics right first.

Second half looking better, more energy and importantly ball retention
Sammut startinhg to run things as well

8 point try helps shame he missed the conversion

A game of two halves! our speed just showed through, and Whitehaven just could not compete with our speed, again great to see some of our young player who have come through the system developing well.

London Broncos 50 Whitehaven 12

Full time fitness verses a group of lads from a club in turmoil (also with injuries)- Dreadful first half

They will need to improve massively before the Fev game- Lots of injuries today. Hopefully nothing serious.

Was there 150 fans there today or was the number lower?

I counted between 200 and 250

First half dire. A decent team would have stacked up a decent amount of points. Think the final score was flattering

Just back from 1st game this season I've seen at Trailfinders (last game I attended was the fev game pre-covid). First half was probably the worst london performace I have ever seen (and I've seen some hammerings in the past), but 2nd half different game and London running in tries at will, some good tries with good skills as will, and they could have had more, but queue on rack in last 10 mins.

Was lucky was against a team who could not take more advantage of just how bad London was first half, a team like Fev or Tolouse / Bradford / Fax / York would have put 30+ on us in that first half, but will take the win and lots of positives in 2nd half.

However attendance was really bad, hoping more people would have taken advantage of the 4 for £60 offer but did not see it... 300 would be my very generous estimate and considering you could have a ticket for £15, I really don't know where the club can go from here.

Wimbledon.......it'll all be fine once those dons fans see just one game.


Just read that it was £15 for kids at Trailfinders. I may have mentioned in another thread that the average age seems to be creeping upwards.
I'd love to hear the logic at play in essentially barring families from games?

Stood with a family of 3 generations this afternoon
Father, grandad and 2 daughters
Not sure how that equates to barring families

We are a family of three generations who attend games. We are all season ticket holders including my grandson.
I do think fifteen pounds is far to much to pay for junior admission to games. I also ask what do the club offer for kids. Nothing,
Buck and Dusty even seem to have joined the missing fans. Covid I suppose is the reason for that..
The truth is what fanbase we still have, is getting rather old and I include myself in that.

There was nothing positive to take out of todays game. Even the most hardened Broncos No1 fan would struggle to find anything worth talking up from today.

Unless something changes quickly it would seem the club has or will die.

I see 46 points as a positive

Jarrod having fun in the second half i see as a postive, some of the london home grown talent is a positive.
Got to be honest first half was poor, second half was actually quite enjoyable, see that as pretty positive.

we scored more than a point a min in the 2nd half, and I don't think Haven had more than a couple of sets in our 20 in the 2nd half.. Some of the tries in 2nd half really good as well, so lots of positives in 2nd 40

But that was pretty much it. But remembering what the atmosphere was like at Ealing in 2016-2019, in the super 8's and ofc the SL season, it was really disheartening seeing <300 fans there today. And even in 2nd half when we was scoring tries for fun it was so flat. I know we sat in different section today (east stand) from when we was Gold ST holders, but we did not see anybody we remembered from those years (and the people we sat near at all our time at ealing where generally the same folks, as most people retained the same seats each year).

Do feel for the players TBH, must be hard for them to perform with the lack of atmosphere

Having played behind closed doors, they should be used to the lack of atmosphere.

Did like jack explaining rules of the game to haven, taking a ball full on in the face is not a charge down! And that the ball played the man not the other way round. Have had that myself but not strewth not that close, navarette looked well groggy, even when he walked round second half he looked groggy.
Good to see the 8 point try decision, dont see it often, but we were lucky not to get a guy in the sin bin for running in.

As for atmosphere, haven fans were pretty vocal for a small group.

Club only has itself to blame. Pathetic marketing, an average champ side is not going to attract many fans at those prices.

Good for you.
Kids under 16 should be FOC with a paying adult IMHO.
Attending sports events is a habit and like the Banks figured out i the late 70's, get 'em young and you'll keep them.

London Broncos total and utter disregard for Fans, Attracting fans and Fan engagement is not a new thing, but under this current management, it is reaping the deserved rewards.

I suspect that the crowd yesterday represented 10% or less than the average we achieved in our last season at the Stoop. Hughes reminds me of a bad gambler, stood at a Roulette Table and betting it all on the number 37 repeatedly not realising that the numbers only go to 36. The Name Change decision in 2012 resulted in lower crowds, the move away from the Stoop lower crowds and relegation, the move to Ealing, Lower Crowds.....so guess what? Let's move again.

He's a doddering old fool who deserves to have his money taken by the likes of Monkey Boy.......apparently there was no merchandise on sale yesterday?

Not like Monkey to miss a trick!

Orangeman, if giving free tickets to youngsters is such a good idea, whata happened to all those kids that were given free tickets in the past? Not saying if i agree or not with free kids tickets but its been tried, obviously long term it makes little difference.
When i was under 16 i never got a free ticket to any game, i still watched it.
That aside i thought this was a thread about the game, not club bashing

Good to see a few haven fans making the trip down from cumbria, got to be a good 6 hours each way in that coach. Pretty vocal as well.
Well done for making the effort marra.

Easy, lobbing free tickets around without a fan retention strategy is very likely to end up as a near 100% failure in the long run. Doing targeted approaches, sorting out your match day offering and deploying a fan retention strategy has a real - though not 100% guarantee - of long run success

There are numerous examples of clubs in varying sports who have revitalised using that strategy. The strategy is sound, the execution wasn't.

I understand that they came down for the weekend. Arranged through their club.

It certainly is a long trip, 800 mile round trip for us. I remember in 2016 getting to Whitehaven, to find the game was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.
We spent quite a bit of time with the team in the bar as the coach driver needed his rest period. We got the players food after they had left.
The game was replayed was a couple of weeks later. It snowed on the way up but we got our game.

Yet to see any merchandise at any game this season.

The only shirts were the ones given to season ticket holders. ( Not a good idea in my opinion )