Problem is mate, you cannot equate a Wigan or even a conference footie club with this one, regardless of the coaching issue [BTW inc the Mac years and it's closer to 6 of dross as the way those clubs would have operated in anything like similar circumstances would be totally different. As others have pointed out this has probably been our worst season [iOFF[/i field for communications and actions from the club, for all of those little cock up's they make, and frankly, for the we don't appear to really give a damn anymore attitudes that the reduced hard core perceive as meaning there really are not that many years left in the club.

We can fight and be as loyal as we wish, but if the club do not have the same ambitions or do not convey what those ambitions are in a realistic manner then why should we, the sport can still be followed and I have always maintained that the sport is more important in the South than this club.

David and Gus are businessmen, bottom lines are what they understand. We are far too polite and good natured to take the actions most other clubs supporters would have done, so perhaps notice has to be given in a slightly more direct way.

Like what?

So you think that halving our number of season ticket holders would be a positive move and the club would suddenly turn things around with no bugger putting any money into the club?

While poster X is sitting at home "ahhh, I feel much better now, the club must be kicking themselves over this".

"Oh the club have folded, my plan didn't work, never mind, I'll go and play cricket instead".

How about the option to pay a premium on my season ticket to pay off Rob Powell.

nice, however in the real world the only simple way the club can grow it's supporter base is via the existing fans, and not many would recommend this club in it's current guise to any mates, in the hope of retention, as opposed to the "come and watch one good game with Wigan coming down and slaughtering us".

So therefore if a reasonable % of the clubs ST holders indicate dissatisfaction with the clubs current direction, including coaching staff, they should be able to surmise that there is unlikely to be any significant growth in ST #'s next season.

Most of us come from the generation of Broncos supporters who pretty much knew they would get beat in most circumstances by the top 4/5 teams, and even on occasion get a good hiding from one of them, but would expect the guys to at least be ready to play their hearts out and on those blue moon occasions turn a Saints or Wigan over and at least be competitive against clubs of a similar nature to ourselves. For me that's all I want now, not the knowledge we will ship 40+ points every match, have the worst away record since Ronnie Kray got sent down, and have a coach whose main crime in my book, is not showing the passion that these defeats should mean to him as much as they do to us. I do not want platitudes, I want paint coming off the walls..................give me that & I continue to give you money, easy deal!

If Powell is there you can write me off for next season.
Ive only been a season ticket for twelve years but have decided
after last and this years debacle that enough is enough,
Ive only ever expected the bare minimum when it comes to Londons
Super League Club. A lowly play off place is all I would ever expect but
that is clearly far and beyond what we are capable of.
Im fed up of seeing us trounced week in and week out and having a four hour
round trip to witness such dross. Its cost me 70 hours annual leave so far.
Needless to say it wont cost me an hour more..
I will renew my Skolars season ticket as ever and will take in my local amateur
club Eastern Rhinos along with visits as ever to Hemel and St Albans, but any
commitment to the Broncos will depend on seeing the back of Powell.

I dont care if it makes me disloyal. Im not spending my money travelling 60 miles each way to watch a team coached by Powell. If Hughes cant be bothered to respect the fans and sort the problem i cant be bothered to travel to home games. Hes had enough time and loyalty from me while we get spanked every week.

Cya.

Homer....you missed out a couple of vital options
1. Only if they move closer to Holland
2. Only if they write me and my dad a letter because their emails get caught in my spam filter..
3. Only if my dad lets me.

I'm with Listy. As long as there is a SL club in London, I will be a ST holder (not sure whether that's a

or a

).

I simply will not give up on London no matter how bad they are.....a cross I have to bear.

As I was never a ST holder, I can't comment on renewals, but I would still attend games regardless of the results if I was still in London.....just so long as they were played IN London!

It's one of those things....when a club gets under your skin, there's no fighting it!

Quote ="gutterfax"but I would still attend games regardless of the results'" Maybe the Broncos ought to adopt this vile RU tactic to up our wins and improve our attack. www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6418349734

Quote ="gutterfax"but I would still attend games regardless of the results'" Maybe the Broncos ought to adopt this vile RU tactic to up our wins and improve our attack. www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6418349734

That's it Gutters. To know whether a club is really "under your skin" ask yourself whether you would go to a friends wedding on CC final day if Broncos were in the final. I wouldn't go to the wedding (might drag meself to the do after) That probably makes me mad or a bad friend.

We were sent a wedding invite for CC final day some 9 months before the wedding. Thus, you are on a very sticky wicket. We felt we had to say "yes," but we stewed for a few months before London obliged and got knocked out the cup! Phew, how would we tell them we couldn't go to the wedding? Must be very difficult when you support a team that actually gets to finals!

Luckily, we don't have that problem!

Quote ="Torbreck"Maybe the Broncos ought to adopt this vile RU tactic to up our wins and improve our attack. www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6418349734'" we are already doing it.....in reverse..... ...the other team are absolutely pi55ing themselves when they see Powell is STILL out head coach

Quote ="Torbreck"Maybe the Broncos ought to adopt this vile RU tactic to up our wins and improve our attack. www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6418349734'" we are already doing it.....in reverse..... ...the other team are absolutely pi55ing themselves when they see Powell is STILL out head coach

I love Listy's passion and agree with his sentiment.

Anyway I think I'd renew as loyalty can make you blind, even to the coaching, marketing and results of a club. But it's easy for me to say that as I haven't spent the last 13 seasons putting up with what you lot have.

I also love Listy's archetypal yorkshireman way of delivering the message that's funny. "I know what I like, and I like what I bludy well say, and if you don't then bugger off"

Château de Chasselas Listy?

I'm dreading the Wigan game and have been since the last spanking we got at home. That shouldn't be the case!

My suspicion is that the club will try to disguise Powell's involvement and role next season.

This may be done via putting a senior sounding position above him i.e. Director of
Rugby League or giving him a prestigious sounding job title which no one can fathom as to what its true remit is like Phil Bailey.

For the avoidance of doubt, I will not be prepared to accept Powell being involved with the first team whether disguised or not. A Season Ticket is almost a symbolic vote and I will not vote YES. We have been betrayed in 2011 and 2012 and owe nothing and there will need to be signs of goodwill - a full suite of new coaches at minimum.

<Sighs> Why do I think I will still be there regardless

You talk a good fight, Mark.

See you at the HAC as usual.

Since Fulham started in 1980 I've missed certainly less that 20 and probably less than 15 home games. This season is the last straw for me and the last 3 have been awful with no attempt by the club to do anything about it. There is no other club in any division of the Rugby League that would just carry on as we have for the last three seasons. It was quite obvious last season that Powell wasn't up to the job and it's been proved this year as nothing has changed even with the influx of so call 'better players'. The fact that he is still in position proves to me that the club is content to continue in the downward spiral to extiction. Because that is where it will end. We've had bad seasons in the past at Chiswick and Crystal Palace but the club had a heart then with a group of dedicated supportive fans. This management give the impression that the supporters just don't matter. So there 32 years of supporting RL in London for me is drawing to a close, I will not be renewing and the season can't end soon enough.

As the Leeds fan said to me as I was leaving the Stoop early last match , 'Don't blame you mate, we're rubbish and we'll still put 50 points on you, God alone knows how many Wigan will win by when they come here!'

Sports teams etc are the only franchises where the true fans are more loyal than the owners or staff. People get divorced more often than they switch their favourite club. We'll all be back.

Cheer up everyone only 2 more years and there won't be a Superleague club in London.

The club are putting in a good effort at making sure nobody cares by then.

Still think I might though. I'll be there next year.

So, 42% of the 36 people allowed to vote

will renew if we have a new coach, but 50% of that figure support Listers view that they will renew whatever the price or coach, guess the biggest concern is the 50% of that number who will not be back again regardless.

They should be the target audience the club are addressing right now and trying to retain.

What are we talking here, a Groucha Marx plastic specs and tash job?
Seriously hope you get this one wrong Mark, got to be the tin tack and see ya later, go see the RFL for a cushy number. No reason whatsoever to keep him around unless you want to reward total failure.

My view is that David Hughes is thinking like a Trader in that the value of Rob Powell has bottomed out but if he holds his nerve that he will see a rebound upwards.

I see him as a kind of Nick Leeson in that he has invested too much to pull out, gambling in a haphazard way, maybe in a Martingale system.

I reckon Tawhai and Powell were told their respective fates about 3 weeks ago because Powell has been much more critical and negative in his interviews than before and Tawhai has quit.

My guess is that Powell had played the role of Martyr and that Hughesy is soft enough to have swallowed these tales of woe and gelling tales and give him charity

Not a Q of whether or not people will come back, its how often and whether they commit to going to every game