Pittsburgh Steelers fans wave yellow towels around all the time - its one of the most famous "routines" in sports.
Why us waiving white towels in protest is daft escapes me.

Now you've endorsed it Chris it's just another daft yank idea

and should be nowhere near a northern sport

Penguin - I think supporters would rather RP wasn't at a fans forum. If he isn't there, you might get an idea from the powers that be why they think he is a good coach. Let's face it, no-one will say anything to RP to his face, so don't think it will help having him there. That said, I doubt they will have the balls to front up to the fans at this moment in time.

Darth, there are so few of us any protest will look pretty daft. How many people would do it...a dozen or so? Sorry, to me it seems pretty pointless (and what if we manage to get a big win against Widnes? How will it look then?)

What I want, as I think everybody else on here does also, is for this team to start playing up to its potential every week.

If someone can persuade me that waving a white towel on Saturday is going to help in that, I'm willing to do it. Nothing I've read here yet has had that effect though.

My personal inclination is to simply sit in silence when the team run out and to start cheering only if and when they do something to merit it.

Expressing our thoughts on Our Forum! Our Club Facebook Page, many of us including myself expressing our clear opinions both in email's and letters to David Hughes as well as Gus, of that is putting my head in the trough it is a completely know meaning!

No! this is how I think is best, not writing letters to the general media or rugby league weekly press or waving or throwing towels.

I fully endorse what Dan Stains was god says, I personally feel the numbers who would join in a towel protest will be small in what we all feel will be a very small attendance, does that send out a powerful message?

The most powerful message will be the attendance - not the towel waving buffoons, but the number in attendance as a whole.

The attendance will not exceed 2,000, I'm quite sure of that. That shows how uninterested people are in the London Broncos club.

What are the odds that we lose to Widnes and Powell keeps his job still...

Think jaybs and Moe are right.

RP will still be in a job if we lose, imo. If he was going to go, he would have gone quite a few games ago.

I will say that we as fans have been too kind and too polite, certainly when compared to our northern rivals, certain other sports and sports in other countries. We are often summarised as passionate, but small in number and this may be true to an extent but I believe our passions brim under the water when compared to more vitriolic fans. I can only rem one proper outburst against Powell all season, that rebuke of the Towel at the Catalans game would have been followed by numerous other for instance Cas fans, but we keep our emotions under the surface, the reserved Londoner who tuts, who doesn't speak his or her mind, but leaves it to write after the event, well look where that has got us.

The other point is one that Iestyn Harris made on the SL show a while back that our matches tend to lack atmosphere and intensity, home and away because there is no cauldron, no killer atmosphere that pushes either team to dig that little deeper, and I think this bleeds into the team. Too many just accept defeat, or accept a missed tackle because at their former club they would have been crucified by their own fans, where as we just groan and those groans are at least half in number as they were used to. Basically we are too reserved and the players don't hear that we are not okay with failure, and then failure then becomes an accepted routine at the club. Are we to blame, partially maybe, but to do nothing really hasn't helped the situation at all now has it.

It may be verging on daft but we should make our feelings known and unless someone has a better idea I will be bringing a white towel to the Widnes game.

I agree with a lot that you say, Londo. It's true that Londoners are a bit more reserved than our Northern counterparts and the fact that we are such a small crowd means we cant influence the ref or the game to much effect.

I must admit that I wouldn't boo my team...it's just not me, I'm afraid. My sister mentioned to Chad one day that he was lucky that we London supporters don't boo. His reply? "Perhaps you should!" That was at an away game a couple of years back.

I'm not sure I could ever boo my team, but if we are playing by one set of rules to every other set of fans out there, then surely our players have ears and when they hear we are okay with insipid performances then why would they think that anything is wrong.

Basically the players are having to be there own motivators at the minute as fans drift away and I just don't see an ounce of charisma in the Towel that would lift the team.

The Towel has all but said that Gower delivers more than a few team talks, why not sound him out as a player-head coach if we don't have the cash to bring someone in. I see a lack of passion at every level of this club, and it's about time we let everyone know that we're not gonna take it!

I find it worrying that he is doing this already and it still has no effect.

If that is the case is there much point in promoting him

Fair points, Londo. Do you not think that CG has enough on his plate though?

I know what you mean about lack of passion though. Unfortunately, we haven't got hardly anyone left that have a long term affection/affiliation for this club.

On a side issue, I'm not convinced this re-branding has helped us. I find it hard not to shout out "Come on Quins" etc...I don't think everyone has got comfortable with Broncos yet. Hard to come up with anything to chant other than the turgid "Larndan, Larndan". Oh for the days of "we've got the longest name in Super League" and "The Sharpest Willy" . Mind you, we were losing even then.

Can't be blamed as we don't know how many he has taken, but we do know that he brought players into the club by his reputation and that he is the leader of the club at games and in training. But it may well be a case of me just trying to be cost-effective in my ideas, and that may not be the way to go, esp if there doesn't seem to be a track record for his teamtalks working.

Surely there must be someone willing to come in on an interim basis for a wedge of cash, say even the av yearly wage in this country for three months work with a view to carrying on or is that too lofty an ideal, or have we and David Hughes reached peak oil?

£100k a year or whatever I say load it on him, would be a great way to start a coaches career, with a team that should be doing alot better, a team with internationals and NRL GF winners, I'd be interested if I was him and it was offered to me.

Side issue was that we stuck a GTI badge on a mark 2 Golf and did nothing else about it, everyone knew that all we'd done was through a bucket of water over her, polished her up a bit and added a badge. Without a ground move or a significant change in infrastructure it was always gonna less than even a facelift as the money wasn't put in to actually say this is more than a new badge on the same old car, but without a new home, new infrastructure, and many players retained there was little interest. That left it up to a winning side, and as that has not happened we have gone backwards instead of potentially taking the small steps forwards that we should have taken with a team performing to their potential.

I wonder if a white feather might be more appropriate

Maybe we should carry out a review of whether we should protest or not

I'll get onto that now, results will be
made public at the end of Rob Powells Contract. In the mean time any one else is welcome to be appointed as protest logistics manager or any other vague job title you can think of

Whats the betting some jobsworth Security nut job will find a reason to stop towels being brought into the ground. I am going to say it is my prayer towel.

I could bring my Parramatta Eels towel. It hasn't stopped shedding yellow fluff on everything since I bought it in Oz 5 years ago...

Pedant alert - the Pittsburgh Steelers' terrible towels are not waved to express disgust in the direction of the coach but to try to intimidate the opposition when they're in possession of the ball. They are accompanied by whistles, boos etc.

When did anybody say they were?

In fact I have changed my mind, a polite round of applause after the full time hooter is in order if we get beat, as is customary in the West Stand.

I am starting to want Us to lose Saturday, Seems wrong on every front but Towel would have to go then surely??