How does me being right about the demise of the club =>my having an ego? As for me being as bad as Hughes......never in this lifetime. Its not his management that's bad, its his choice of key employees and his failure to accept when he is wrong

Bloody hell Gutters!
Look at the time! Are you suffering a touch of insomnia?

1 year old boy........he's up, we're all up.

Little kids...no respecters of time, hangovers .....

Club being non committal as usual at the moment on Twitter.

Got a few tickets to flog first for the dead rubber 8s

Indeed. At least we are not at Heworth yet.

Not yet

I cant believe they havent sold out bearing in mind the fact that every minute matters. Its the also ran shield for goodness sake not The Challenge Cup.

You need to check what your missus is up to whilst you're spending endless hours on here spouting crap



Is the kiddie ginger with doc martins on or does it have a slight maori look!

Anyway Ealing......

The earliest you will hear anything from the club will be after the Sheffield game. I am sure.

Had look on the Crossrail map last night and saw that it runs to Ealing Broadway, thought that'll be handy - but seeing as it doesn't open til 2018 ( or 2019 if some rumours are to be believed) is there any chance we'll still be there? Or still in existence?

Two years is a long time, when you follow the Broncos.

Out working to keep me in the manner to which I am accustomed

Alas, the hair is a mix between mothers blonde and fathers greying ginger...so strawberry blonde at present. DM's don't come that small just yet, but as soon as his feet are there, the boots will be on!


Indeed.
78 Year old Michael D Gooley who owns Trailfinders, donated £1,500,000 to the Tory Party in the last 12 months and he is borderline UKIP he's that far right!. He is very forthright, with a military background (SAS) underlining his refusal to suffer fools lightly and his Jesuit boarding school education making him someone not to be messed with, which will raise the question how gentle giant St David of Swinton and this guy will get on, given St Dave's track record with the toff element at Quins.

I believe that the sports ground is owned by a charitable trust that Gooley set up and since 1997 they've spent millions on the place, so there may be a "buffer" in place between these two independently wealthy men.

As for the "development" of the sports grounds, in respect of the main pitch, I have scoured the planning rights section of Ealing Council and looking at the conditions enforced on the new cricket pavilion ([urlhttp://gis.ealing.gov.uk/webreports/planning/planning_weekly_Detail_results.asp?txtPlanRefNo=PP/2013/0825[/url) any new stand will have to blend in with the local environment. They had to fight hard with the residents in 2010 to get the floodlights up and their licence application in 2008 was met with objections from residents of Vallis way.

That said, I now believe that having looked at the site from google earth, there is certainly a case for a bigger stand across from the current offering.
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FFS Gutterfax, does anyone other than you care enough than the 13 passionate fans left/

Whilst I welcome the news that there are enough "passionate' fans left to field a fans team, I am stunned that someone as "passionate" as you is decrying me for posting relevant information regarding our home next year????

Well gutters, if the Broncos move to Ealing I doubt I'll be watching them, although knowing me I'll probably have a season off save a few games (like 2014) and return to support the club with a ST if we're still in existence in 2017. I suspect that if we move again we won't be moving until 2017 anyway.

It's all very sad and I really hope that at some point there is some light at the end of the tunnel for you guys. Would've been great to have you stay on board as the Hive evolves but sadly not to be it seems.

I'm pretty sure the information from others about Broncos moving away from the Hive is correct as there are far too many dots joining up for me to think it could be otherwise. Although I haven't seen or heard anything definite from my perspective on things, I have recently been told that TK is talking to another sport about sharing the Hive facilities, this isn't anything new but the fact these stories are re-surfacing now may be relevant.

Shame we couldn't get Kleanthous to buy the club as he was sniffing around Wasps at one point I recall.

Guess we're lumbered with David Hughes & the ongoing Brewster's Millions scenario.

Welcome to the soul destroying, spirit crushing world of following London Broncos. Like you say all the pointers are that we will, yet again, be moving.
Shame. The Hive is a nice facility and we've been made to feel welcome there (I should also declare a selfish interest here, it's the closest the Broncos have ever been to where I live).
Thanks for all your posts meliferra, it's been good to have someone who knows what's going on at The Hive keeping us up to date. As you may have noticed this forum sometimes offers more heat than light.

As much as I like The Hive and it facilities. I must say that to me, it is the ground that we play at. It is not home. I feel no sense of belonging and Barnet hardly bend over backwards to make us welcome.
I think we could build something there, but for it to work we would have to some more input and control. It is not going to happen.
We cannot even give out leaflets there, so we are a bit stuffed.
The club went in there with its eyes open, so I don't blame Barnet, I blame our management.

Bostwick, are you suggesting that we didn't have a top notch negotiating team?

Have we ever had one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers Mel, if it were down to me I'd be for staying at the Hive. I think the place is a good fit for the Broncos and had hoped we would try and put down some roots. Sadly not to be, and we pack up and move again - this time to what appears to be a very inferior venue.
Thanks for all the Hive related info these past couple of seasons - good luck to Barnet back in the Football League next season.

I think we all know the answer to this one!