This. Been saying this since move was announced last year, and since decision to move to part-time. But its too late, damage is done. If we are at 1K attendance by July be lucky. People go to sport stadiums for the sport not for the stadium, and if the sport offering is not enticing, then they are not coming back, no matter how super the stadium is,

Question is how long will it take DH to see he is paying 250K a year for a white elephant, which is what is going to happen with teh squad we have

Just got back. Surprised response is so restrained but most on here did feel the excess of L1 players would lead to L1 team and so it proved. Widnes competent but nothing special- kicker very rusty. I thought Williams and Juma (who?) showed some endeavour, Parata looks like he may be a player and Bienek looked good but a little leggy. Overall it was L1 players doing their best.

Just a word on the game announcer LB management paid for.We all had a good natured laugh at the guy volunteering last year but I was actually able to make out who was playing and who scored. I couldn’t make out a word with this guy. His microphone needs sorting and he needs to slow down and take a breath when announcing the team.

If we don’t bring in some Championship standard players we will be entirely reliant on Rams, Workington and Eagles imploding. That was by no means a good advert for the London game.
In the words of Stan Lee-“Nuff said” although Nan on The Catherine Tate show might had had a cor but more accurate turn of phrase.

Most probably because it was nothing less than expected.

Nan from the Catherine Tate show might be worth playing.

Given that Merton Council gave the go ahead back in July, they have no excuse for not having a programme with rules & player profiles for a whole new audience available.

Quite a few missing today….

What happened to the Fijian full back and Aussie speed merchant?

Absolutely and as they invested in getting a big crowd I’d have thought printing a1000 programmes wouldn’t make a big loss and as you say would have helped newbies.

The club never stops amazing me.....cant even be d to have a programme/team sheet.

The level of incompetence really is stunning. Feel for the players but the club are getting all they deserve.

Jesus it ain't difficult.

Makes my blood boil the way the club has been slowly killed.

Can we please get someone with a remote level of professionalism into the ub to sort this circus out

Only positive today was the attendance. Good number of Dons fans.
Doubt many will be enticed back by that performance

The crowd today means sod all when 500 are turning up

Completely agree. A loss might not have turned off Dons fans but fact that the game was lost after 20 minutes makes it a difficult sell. I assume that the squad such as it is was hit by COVID or injuries it’s the only explanation for the side we had out. Was Curran there - I thought he was a coach as well as player?

Yes Curran was there, he was in the dugout during the game. He had Covid a week or so ago and is still recovering.

Stadium is pretty good. Need to look at different routes, on street parking was fine. Was a bit of a shock to see queues at the food and drink outlets. Hope they can convince some to come back.

Shipping 34 points obviously not good, although have to say the second half was much better than the first. Not having played together pre season didn't help, so maybe the better second half could be seen as a good sign.
Positives! Couple of decent breaks up the middle. They didn't totally collapse in second half.

Negatives! Left wing wow! Has he never played there before? Too many free mtrs and set restarts, all justified!
Let's see what Halifax have to offer.

Agreed unimpressive but marginally better in 2nd half against a mediocre side. I suspect what Halifax have to offer will be too much for us if that performance is a fair representation of where we are and we don’t intend to recruit from anywhere other than Skolars.

A positive for me from today is that Dewsbury, Sheffield and Workington all lost so we aren’t adrift from the pack as yet.

In one post you've just described the club perfectly; put a game on, pick a team, sell a few discounted tickets, do literally nothing else, and expect thousands of people to become hooked.

The work starts NOW.
Wimbledon delivered that gate, together with 450+ Widnes fans.
If the club are true to form, that'll be it........expecting those that paid a quid to come back for a score or more......
...I wait to be prove wrong

Bienek and Tuilatu gained us some metres up the middle mostly in the second half. Come to think of it I don't think Tuliatu got on until; about the 50 minute mark - looked to be a big mistake from the coach, we were crying out for someone to help Bienek out.
The left wing defence was bad in the 'friendly ' against Hull it was non-existent today. Right wing was just poor by comparison.
Kicker looked nervy, and once he'd kicked out on the full in the first half he'd lost it completely. Am I right in thinking he missed all 3 conversions?

I don't know what the starting line up was as the PA was muffled from where I was sitting sounded muffled. No programme and no team sheet given out as far as I could see.

I'm hoping we have a few better players to come back into the starting line up ( Curran, Fijian full back for instance ) -- we're going to need them.

There were a few out there yesterday, well let's put it this way, if that was their one and only Broncos appearance this season it was one appearance too many. Harsh, yeah, but not an unfair judgement based on the 70 minutes i saw.

Bienek and Tuilatu gained us some metres up the middle mostly in the second half. Come to think of it I don't think Tuliatu got on until; about the 50 minute mark - looked to be a big mistake from the coach, we were crying out for someone to help Bienek out.
The left wing defence was bad in the 'friendly ' against Hull it was non-existent today. Right wing was just poor by comparison.
Kicker looked nervy, and once he'd kicked out on the full in the first half he'd lost it completely. Am I right in thinking he missed all 3 conversions?

I don't know what the starting line up was as the PA was muffled from where I was sitting sounded muffled. No programme and no team sheet given out as far as I could see.

I'm hoping we have a few better players to come back into the starting line up ( Curran, Fijian full back for instance ) -- we're going to need them.

There were a few out there yesterday, well let's put it this way, if that was their one and only Broncos appearance this season it was one appearance too many. Harsh, yeah, but not an unfair judgement based on the 70 minutes i saw.

Bienek and Tuilatu gained us some metres up the middle mostly in the second half. Come to think of it I don't think Tuliatu got on until; about the 50 minute mark - looked to be a big mistake from the coach, we were crying out for someone to help Bienek out.
The left wing defence was bad in the 'friendly ' against Hull it was non-existent today. Right wing was just poor by comparison.
Kicker looked nervy, and once he'd kicked out on the full in the first half he'd lost it completely. Am I right in thinking he missed all 3 conversions?

I don't know what the starting line up was as the PA was muffled from where I was sitting sounded muffled. No programme and no team sheet given out as far as I could see.

I'm hoping we have a few better players to come back into the starting line up ( Curran, Fijian full back for instance ) -- we're going to need them.

There were a few out there yesterday, well let's put it this way, if that was their one and only Broncos appearance this season it was one appearance too many. Harsh, yeah, but not an unfair judgement based on the 70 minutes i saw.

Think macani was on the right wing, he was at least in the right position defensively.
Currently looks like we don't have a kicker in the group, first two reasonably easy conversions missed were a worry. 3rd was a change of kicker but right on touch line so can't complain too much.
For the dons fans that came I don't think the score mattered that much, its more if they enjoyed the game of rugby league live.

Fine but if you don't tell them the rules & about the players, they are unlikely to engage. All the things we did right in 1980, we seem to have done wrong yesterday.

For £1 a ticket it should have been more people there.
Game ends and still Broncos not promoting the next home game.
London Irish had 11k on Saturday!

It is a fact that there is a lot of work to be done, but it is a start.
Behind me were a group of twenty somethings, one of the girlfriends was an Aussie who had instigated their attendance. They were impressed by the speed of the game over union. The consensus amongst them was that they would return.
I do think to have to pay twenty two pounds is a bit steep and may discourage many.

To say that 450+ Widnes fans were in attendance is a bit of an exaggeration.

Irish doing very well this season & in Less Kiss they have a very good Coach. Shame we can't get him to come back to the Broncos.

Do you think so?
As well as the big crowd behind the posts there were a fair few in the seats in the corner too I thought ( blocks 101-104? I think)
Either way I thought they had a pretty good turn out.