Jewish Care run a few care homes in NW London not far away. These are for theelderly and also younger people with disabilities. If I were the club I'd contact Jewish Care and offer all their residents and a care worker family member a free day out at a match (I guess a Sunday may be better). It would boost the crowd and cost nothing (except time although it would be nice to put coaches on if they have insufficient mini-buses - or even better try to get a local coach company to donate the transport) whilst we're greatly undercapacity. The publicity would be worth a fortune - locally, nationally, among the Jewish community - which is pretty big in the surrounding areas - and I guess loyal. I also think there is a chance of something very positive coming out of such an initiative. Would have to be done properly though - maybe exclusive use of one of the bar areas, meeters and greeters and people to look after the guests throughout the afternoon. Give people a day to remember and I'm sure good would come of it. Would need some thought as to the needs of the residents and whether they could be catered for.

Phil Clarke and probably some others went to USA with this mission before the start of SL. I think he/they just looked at "football".

Great idea Dally. Something to get the Jewish, Asian, Romanian,Polish,Afican and West Indian local Community involved would be great.

On the back of something like the above, invite local charities for the disabled / disadvantage to choose a match to attend. Over the season the club could build up alot of local goodwill and be seen as a community club and a local asset. Little cost involved. Do it well and it could just generate alot of positive publicity (via the charities and local press - ideally with a plug in each article showing next match date, time and venue!), lots of goodwill, potential supporters, potential sponsors, etc. Even if it does none of those things surely good deeds are their own reward?

PS Could even have bucket collections so spectators could make donations to fund a buffet lunch / half time snack for invitees? Create a good, all round feel around the club.

Quote ="Dally"On the back of something like the above, invite local charities for the disabled / disadvantage to choose a match to attend. Over the season the club could build up alot of local goodwill and be seen as a community club and a local asset. Little cost involved. Do it well and it could just generate alot of positive publicity (via the charities and local press - ideally with a plug in each article showing next match date, time and venue!), lots of goodwill, potential supporters, potential sponsors, etc. Even if it does none of those things surely good deeds are their own reward? PS Could even have bucket collections so spectators could make donations to fund a buffet lunch / half time snack for invitees? Create a good, all round feel around the club.'" Some quality ideas Dally. It's this positive Community links which will hold us in good stead, even the facetious going for a sarny in the area by the players. Getting more and more involved like this will be great. Any chance you could email these ideas to info@londonbroncosrl.com

Quote ="Dally"On the back of something like the above, invite local charities for the disabled / disadvantage to choose a match to attend. Over the season the club could build up alot of local goodwill and be seen as a community club and a local asset. Little cost involved. Do it well and it could just generate alot of positive publicity (via the charities and local press - ideally with a plug in each article showing next match date, time and venue!), lots of goodwill, potential supporters, potential sponsors, etc. Even if it does none of those things surely good deeds are their own reward? PS Could even have bucket collections so spectators could make donations to fund a buffet lunch / half time snack for invitees? Create a good, all round feel around the club.'" Some quality ideas Dally. It's this positive Community links which will hold us in good stead, even the facetious going for a sarny in the area by the players. Getting more and more involved like this will be great. Any chance you could email these ideas to info@londonbroncosrl.com

Quote ="RLLDN"Some quality ideas Dally. It's this positive Community links which will hold us in good stead, even the facetious going for a sarny in the area by the players. Getting more and more involved like this will be great. Any chance you could email these ideas to info@londonbroncosrl.com'" I am sure that someone connected with the club must read these pages, pathetic as most pages are! They have paid people to think of ideas - I'm sure if they wanted to do something like this they'd have done so before. to me though, the big problem with London Broncos in their various guises over the years is they have not engaged the local community. To me that's what needs to be worked on. It's much harder without your own ground and club facilities but these sort of initatives or similar could perhaps be a way? Like everything though things need to be done well and followed through and up.

Quote ="RLLDN"Some quality ideas Dally. It's this positive Community links which will hold us in good stead, even the facetious going for a sarny in the area by the players. Getting more and more involved like this will be great. Any chance you could email these ideas to info@londonbroncosrl.com'" I am sure that someone connected with the club must read these pages, pathetic as most pages are! They have paid people to think of ideas - I'm sure if they wanted to do something like this they'd have done so before. to me though, the big problem with London Broncos in their various guises over the years is they have not engaged the local community. To me that's what needs to be worked on. It's much harder without your own ground and club facilities but these sort of initatives or similar could perhaps be a way? Like everything though things need to be done well and followed through and up.

True true. Hopefully we will see some great links with the local Community.

I'd be booking Double Page Spreads in the Jewish Chronicle, but not for Friday evening games eh

As if London are important enough to get Friday game

"L'chaim"

Already e-mailed the Hive asking if they can do multiple TV feeds into the bars.

It's nothing of the sort. Advertising the fact that sports are being shown in the bar before and after the game as a way of enticing them into the bar to spend money is called marketing.

Nice one. The more people frequent the Hive, the more they will see how easy it is to just pop in and watch a live RL game there on an afternoon also. Keep up the top ideas people!

I'm perfectly happy with the club saying they are showing the game afterwards but making it the centrepiece of our marketing strategy for a game is effectively making an admission that our game is inferior and the secondary attraction

Errr.... That makes no sense whatsoever, lmfao

That makes even less sense than Paddock's

He makes perfect sense. Nothing wrong with adding things to the "matchday experience" but the Broncos match surely needs to be the key element.

Well who is going to pay £20 to go and watch telly when they could watch it for nothing somewhere else - like a pub, home, a friends!?

The readers of the JC to start with apparently!

I didn't think you would understand!

Now there is a brief that would flummox the glitterati of the advertising world

I see RU and RL get positive publicity in the nationAl press today as leading clubs to invite old men to matches to combat loneliness. Who'd have thought it - community initiatives getting positive press!!

Add chicken soup, boiled cabbage, curried goat + rice & peas to the menu & we're sorted.

I was thinking more of the way you said it than what you said.

actually Deakin(?) there first CEO, who i think was the driving force behind the bulls name, the cheerleaders and razzamattaz based a lot of his thinking on American sport - he was the early driving force behind the bulls success and no-one should forget how successful they were in the early years of super-league 10,000+ crowds. He then went to the dark side Sarries(?) or Wasps(?) and was pretty successful i think?