I should say in the interests of fairness that the water bottles are of a good quality. It was a decent gesture to give them to kids. I am surprised that they and other merchandise I saw in the club shop weren’t available to buy online previously. Perhaps a production delay or something out of their control. But generally if you have items for sale best to put them on sale.

They are from APX sports and we all know who owns that company!! Now he’s going……

Monkey doesn't own it......it's owned by All Sports Global Ltd which has 1 director Abdul Qayyum Akram and is registered at 2nd Floor, 158 Grattan Road, Bradford, England, BD1 2HS.....the same registered address for APX.
The club has.many issues to deal with, but I'd hope that APX who also supply kit to the Broncos CEO's hockey side are scratched next year......he really hasn't achieved much whilst double dipping into the Hughes kitty.

My experience is that the merch has been decent it’s other areas where there have been issues from what I can see.
Who knows what the club will do for merch next season or if we’ll be around next season but I wouldn’t say changing suppliers was a must. In any event, I’m sure there will be a review of all aspects if we survive this season from social media to marketing, player recruitment and retention to the website. Possibly a relaunch 2.0.

What makes you think Hughes is someone who is suddenly willing to learn from his mistakes ?

In any case, a review at the end of the season would be too late and only serve to placate the egos of those who have failed during the season. Any serious business in this situation would be reviewing after each and every game to see what needs to be improved and prioritising actions.

Regardless......I've a wardrobe full of broncos shirts but only one (my son's) that is APX.....he was toxic and he needs to be flushed from the clubs history. There are hundreds of firms who can do this for the club.....it takes minutes to find them.


Loubser will be polishing his CV already and Hughes will be left with nobody to run his vanity project.
The time to plan for 2023 is now if you want any decent players.....but firstly get a decent coach and have a plan for next year be that in L1 or the championship.
As for off the park.....Hughes blames the fans for not coming.....his words in November highlight his marketing policy...."if they watch one game they'll be hooked".....it's flawed, but it's not his fault, it's the fans for not coming

The time to plan is definitely now. One issue of course is our incompetence has left us uncertain what division we’ll be in. That will be a major factor in any planning. If I was them and if they have a kitchen sink I would throw it at recruitment now to get us over the line early enough in the season to know where we stand for 2023. But as I’ve said before it’s easy for me to spend other people’s money.

Common sense would suggest this the case but Hughes was happy to assemble a L1 squad for the Championship this season.

So it’s possible he could do the reverse for next season. Things are looking up.

You should apply for a role at the club.......Hughes likes your type

Sadly I like to get paid so I think that takes me out of the reckoning although the almost complete absence of any relevant experience may make me an irresistible choice.

A memory just popped up on FB from 2009.......we'd just spanked Wire 60-8 with the infamous "shirt burning" incident.

In 2009 we averaged 3,500, with 2 gates over 4,200, we finished 11th of 14, our then CEO is now CEO of the Commonwealth Games, we had 6,000+ for the pre-season Manly game marketed by the RFL on our behalf and we took full coaches of away fans to Wales and Wakefield

We now have an accountant playing CEO with zero back office staff, a small community team and a coaching and fitness team of 3, we're averaging 1,500 and have little chance of maintaining this number in the 10 remaining home games, there is a reliance on free community attendees, AFC fans and now discounted tickets including to the Corporate Lounge.....Social media has seen fans banned for questioning decisions that have now been seen justifiably questioned and a toxic staff member has gone scorched earth on the way out the door. Nepotism in terms of the CEO's relationship with that ex-staff member are worth scrutiny IMHO, but won't because Hughes can't be bothered with any administrative tasks. Appeals for volunteers have fallen by the wayside due to the toxicity at the the club and we are hoping that we are better than Workington and Dewsbury.....and the mini-bus to Leigh seems to be a non starter...that's the depths that we have plummeted to.

In short, Hughes has overseen this decline, contributing with bad appointments and inept allocation of funds. In the 2009 hammering of Wire, we had 9 try scorers crossing 10 times with 10 conversions..... that's more of either than we've managed in 6 games so far this season.

Hughes will never admit he's wrong......even if you drew him a diagram of the fall under his ownership.....he'll NEVER concede it's been his doing

Anyone running a book on when the banner link to tickets for the Bradford game will be fixed

My guess is before the end of the season and 5 minutes after they fix the font on the 1st team staff and Men’s first team player tabs so it doesn’t look so absolutely amateurish.

Or where the top of this picture of Chris Baxter is and why wasn't it used?


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Wow that is spectacularly incompetent.
For those not in the know this on the front page of LB website but when you click on it to read the story the top of the guy’s head is chopped off. I assume no one is, the IT content equivalent, of proof reading what goes on public display. Boy the sooner they get someone in the better.

I've emailed the club at hello@londonbroncosrl.com. Not Al lot else you can do but try to point out the mistakes and hope someone is listening.......kind of like what I've been doing for 20 years now....I should know better

I've emailed the club at hello@londonbroncosrl.com. Not Al lot else you can do but try to point out the mistakes and hope someone is listening.......kind of like what I've been doing for 20 years now....I should know better

Quote ="orangeman"I've emailed the club at hello@londonbroncosrl.com. Not Al lot else you can do but try to point out the mistakes and hope someone is listening.......kind of like what I've been doing for 20 years now....I should know better'" In the big scheme of things these errors are unimportant but they are so avoidable you do wonder. Mind I’m happy for them to happen if the club are focusing on recruitment and devising a strategy for improving the match day experience and increasing crowds. I think they are just spread too thin, I wonder how their back room numbers match up to other Championship teams.

Quote ="orangeman"I've emailed the club at hello@londonbroncosrl.com. Not Al lot else you can do but try to point out the mistakes and hope someone is listening.......kind of like what I've been doing for 20 years now....I should know better'" In the big scheme of things these errors are unimportant but they are so avoidable you do wonder. Mind I’m happy for them to happen if the club are focusing on recruitment and devising a strategy for improving the match day experience and increasing crowds. I think they are just spread too thin, I wonder how their back room numbers match up to other Championship teams.

The website is out sourced to Key & Eagle and should be set up to render images automatically.
Another of Monkeys acquisitions!!!

I think it was commented at the time that Key & Eagle have some incredibly e websites. Clearly no due diligence done on them.

Being Eagle eyed is the Key to the job. They don't seem very good.

Emailed club yesterday.....new story with Milner's picture front and centre today.....banner still broken

Well if anyone is needing something to keep the kids away from the fireplace it might be useful.

BUMP
18 Days since I posted this and the club have (AFAIK) done nothing to address the marketing of these 3 games. To be clear, other than the trip to Barrow, which we didn't bring anyone to, to update social media, what has the back office staff been doing?
Monkey? During this period he has been employed, because he's self promoted himself and his replica tat on twitter, but nothing else.
Lobster? If you're the CEO of Glaxo SK, then I am sure you have people in place, but this clown is CEO of a 2nd tier Semi-Pro RL side supposedly at the start of a 5 year campaign to achieve SL and self sufficiency, he needs to roll his sleeves up and get busy. 2 adverts for jobs that could and should be done by one person and a message back to me on twitter saying their pleas for volunteers had fallen on deaf ears is about all I can see that he has achieved this season.
The club scored their first point of the season and it took 2 days for this to be mentioned on the club site....Twitter is tumbleweed.....but finally the banner on the club site takes you to buy tickets for the Bradford game after being broken for 17 days but there are still glitches on the ticketek site.....what important "CEOing" has kept Loubser from doing some of these tasks?

I can only imagine how both our new hosts and Mr Hughes are viewing this epic start to our "partnership" on a journey to self sufficiency, but I can categorically say that no matter their public musings, neither can be particularly happy.

So.
Bradford, like ourselves have this weekend off this week and will fancy this match as a chance to get themselves into the play-off spots. Looking at their site and our ticketing, 6 (SIX) people have bought tickets in the south stand and there doesn't appear to be a supporters coach running from what I can gather on social media. We will have not been at home for close to a month and yet the club as done nowt to keep interest going. We only narrowly lost to York and the "vibe" was apparently better, but nothing has been done to tap into that.....emails, Twitter and the club site are all free avenues but nothing has been done to keep fans engaged.

Is the belief that the new social media person ad commercial person will suddenly pull 1,000 fans out of the hat when they start?