Thank you for your opinion.

Assume you don't go to the games anymore, jolly good good for you. Sickened to there stomachs is a dramatic statement, think you will find its down to an apathy and the fact sports fans tend to like watching winners rather than a violent sickness.

Of course the players go on the pitch fully intending to lose with the intention of "mocking" the fans.

How would I benefit if I said enough is enough? Rugby league is my sport, broncos are my team win or lose.

Is this the same Rupe1 who assured us all would be fine when we ceased to be Quins RL as 6000 lapsed Broncos fans were waiting to come back? Talk us through how that one played out......

BTW please don't talk for me when declaring why people have stopped going. It's an open secret I have an Oxford season ticket and wasn't there yesterday (I'm 200 miles from The Hive at the moment.) I didn't stop going regularly because I was sickened to the stomach, I just prefer watching Oxford.

Mock from afar if you like. But to understand the result you need to be there, which by your own admission you were not.

Following the Broncos is a roller coaster ride, so at the moment we are going down. But as a true fan I believe things will turn round,
Do not know when, but that is what I believe.

If you choose too follow Oxford , fine. They need supporters too. Your choice.

Don't knock the crowd, whilst our crowds are not good enough, we still have a core who do turn out, are committed and show their love for the club.
The players appreciate this and the fans respond.

Our away game at Doncaster, when our game followed The Donny v Fev game, drew a massive crowd of 366. 80 Plus of those were Broncos fans who had made their own way to the game. I know I travelled 200 miles each way that day. So 543 considering it is Holiday time and it poured with rain all day is what it is.

I'm not sure the scrambled together squads of this year or even last year can be blamed, they are what they are. It's been a steady decline in terms of support, personnell and everything else since the end of the Lenaghan period and that you have to say is down to Davis Hughes, the paradox being, without him, the club wouldn't exist anyway.

I'm not mocking. I do still watch Broncos when games don't clash and would have been there yesterday had I not been 200 miles away for personal reasons. I hope to make a game or two in what remains of the season.

I fully understand what your away crowd do and have huge respect for them. I've done at least 50 Broncos / Quins away games over the years and have done every Oxford away game this season. My last away game with Broncos was Saints midweek last season. I was going to Batley this season as I was at Rochdale the day before, sadly the date switched.

I only mentioned I now watch elsewhere as I'm not best pleased Rupe1 feels able to tell the world why I am not a season ticket holder / regulars attender after 13 years of being one when he's never asked me but prefers to make a sweeping generalisation, which in my case at least is quite simply wrong.

As an aside I'm a rugby league fan first and foremost. I started out at Prescot Panthers and have had season tickets at three clubs (Broncos, Skolars, Oxford.) My loyalty is to the sport given my first club has folded and if I start preferring to watch Broncos I'll be back full time. I will certainly watch at least some games at Ealing next year. You don't don't rid of me that easily.....

That wasn't vitriol....it was a combination of pitty and laughter. You claimed that returning to the bronco's name would deliver thousands of returning fans......we all just felt sorry for you.
Same as when you claimed becoming quins RL would result in thousands less at games.......you never were a very accurate predictor.....just a sad case really.

Anyway I am sure you clapped your team off when they lost to Swinton Lions the other day. To see them lose by more than a point a minute is quite something.
All 97 of you.

No I didn't. Just as I chose not to applause some of the more abject Broncos displays over the years. If a team gives their all I'll applaud them, irrespective of the result, but I don't applaud a team that packs up and doesn't try to compete. I will do that irrespective of who I am watching.

Yes Oxford's crowds are worryingly poor. That's a debate for another message board however.

I've clapped nobody off this season, rupe. I'll leave you to work out why.

Only two kinds of people are internet trolls. Socially awkward teenagers and sad gits with no friends and no life.

I once fitted into both categories



rupe1 isn't a troll, he is just an utter moron.

Yeah - I clapped 'em off on Sunday, which I haven't always done this season. I went to the front and shook a player's hand, which I haven't done at all this season previously.
Thanks to a mountain of injuries, including serious ones in that game, there were some young lads playing at prop who no doubt have never done so before. It was an abysmal game, but I've no complaints with the effort - and I haven't always been able to say that

Staggering.

Broncos were the only full time team in the league not to make the top four and yet you still want to shake a players hand after a home defeat to a part time team!

Don't you think the players should be coming over to you apologizing and offering to buy YOU a drink instead?

If I am sad what does that make you Jim?, the man who metaphorically laminates Broncos attendance figures from history for a veritable onanistic deluge on here.

Thats right Perry, stick your fingers in your ears and go 'la la la la'

This isn't really happening is it?

That horrible Rupe is just a troll being mean to you and the Broncos. In make believe Perry world, the full time Broncos are battling it out for promotion to the Super League not losing game after game to men who work a minimum 40 hour week and THEN train and play rugby league.

Hands hurt from too much clapping the previous season?

Yes I clapped the team off. The rest of my family did the same too. We also shook hands with some of the players which we often do .especially at away games.

It is at away games that when the players come up to us fans that they show their appreciation of our efforts to attend. They share in our joy when they win.

Featherstone on Good Friday comes to mind. Or when they lose are they apologise. They are a pretty honest bunch.

Whilst it has not been the season I had hoped for. On the whole, with all the disruption that it has involved, I cannot fault their effort.

Wrong.

Nope, you're being very sad.

Our overall predicament is down to Davis Hughes, he could have built on what Lenaghan started, but made a bad choice in MacKay. This seasons predicament is down to a lack of grunt up the middle, pure and simple. I don't blame the players for recruitment policy, I blame the management!

Lack of grunt, lack of any leaders on the park ( apart from Hendo), usual bad luck with injuries to key players,
Same old London really.

Powell was the biggest mistake, Mackay was just a useless puppet whose job was to find sponsors and fill boxes, non of which he did.

You look at the Powell situation! Yep it comes down to management of the club, but you also have to ask the question, at the time was it him or no one? we dont seem to have been blessed with people flocking to the south to work for us!
Dont foget at start of season he got coach of the month, for a while he was the saviour!
Not heard much input from Nobby the latest saviour.
More boxes were sold than you know, one i know for a fact was paid for all season and never used! Not trying to apologise for GM by the way.
On the park, losing key players basically for the season didnt help us, would we have faired better? not sure, certainly Hendo on the park made us a better team.

We spent full salary cap that year, just think what Micheal McGuire could have done with that and where we would be today.

Powell was a coach with experience of managing under 16's

Do you see the difference, just a thought?

was he an option?