Do you want a copy of the away crew email list from 2008?

Just picking up on a few points here Darthchris

Rob from Erith has been busy typing while I was doing the same, so some of these points have already been covered, but I'll post what I typed anyway...




No, we are one of the worst supported teams, the supporters we have come from far and wide, not from just around the corner like you in Richmond on Thames. My return journey for home games is 98 miles, others that I’m aware of travel even further from the likes of Kent, Cambridge, Peterborough, Northampton, all of these have longer journeys both mile-wise and time-wise.

I will once again attend every home game, bring others with me, buy programmes, shirts, food, booze, have meals, as will those that come with me, and will also attend a couple of away games of my choice through the season, but these will be tied in with family visits, disposable income only goes so far. That doesn’t make me a bad supporter

As Rob from Erith stated, we have family and other commitments, which in my case actually enables me to enjoy rugby league. So I do “choose” to miss some games, but they are for very good reasons, I have my priorities, you have yours, what’s right for you isn’t right for me, and I daresay for others too
Simply put, people HAVE do other things than watch us play ALL THE TIME. Again, that doesn’t make them bad supporters

You say, “UK union sides take 10,000s on their tours RL teams take a lot less.” I agree that some RL sides take less away fans than RU sides, but 10,000’s is way off the mark. The latest figures I can find for attendances for RU league games were Round 8, where the attendances in The Aviva were 7,013, 12,200, 9,607, 20,479, 8,222, and 6,012... so hardly tens of thousands of away fans making the trip


My personal opinion is that anybody that names their kid after a football/rugby club is a pillock, but each to their own I suppose
A couple of questions for you...If Broncos home ground was in Basingstoke, or Kent, or Cambridge, or Peterborough, or Northampton, would you make the longer trip from Richmond on Thames?
Where’s your Harlequins tattoo, and when are you having your Bronco’s one done?



We have some of the best supporters in the league, so don’t knock them. We just need more of them

Excuses

Good thing we're not a soccer side and have 30 home games a season. The 13 we do have is more than enough for all but a handful

We are now starting to digress a little from the thread title! but I fully agree with you, the round trip journey for is is just over 500 miles for home games, while it is just 20 minutes to either St Helens, Warrington or Wigan. Being in the North I am fortunate to get to many of such as the Academy games as they are played usually Saturday afternoons. Yes our Fans are loyal but we do not enough of them, that is why when we get them to come along and share the Experience the product has to be right and we have to make them welcome.

3 £99 season ticket excluding central half way line blocks

2 No on the road games

1 A winning team

As has been mentioned, people have commitments away from Rugby League.

Worst support by numbers, but then again I would say the club has a wider fanbase than the rest of the Super League clubs. People travel in from Kent, Essex, Hampshire etc every other week to watch what has been a poor side. Often this goes unnoticed but these people deserve a round of applause at the very least.

That brings me nicely onto the away travel. Firstly any coach organised would likely be from the Stoop. You firstly have to remember what I have just said, people have to travel into London and back out again from places like Essex, Kent, Hampshire etc. They then have to sit on a coach for 4/5 hours to watch 80 minutes rugby then make the 4/5 trip back to London before completing their journey back home. This can become a very long and tiring day for many and understandably so.

Yes, it would be nice to see a relatively full away end on tele when the Broncos are on Sky at Leeds but you also have to take into consideration that Saints, Leeds, Wigan and whoever else play on Friday nights and I imagine that most people who go to Broncos are in full time employment till about 5pm on a Friday. It is then a case of taking a day's holiday to go and watch Rugby League, it's not something people can do really because they have other commitments.

But a bit of positivity, the fixtures are out on Friday, lets have a look at the fixtures and then that is the time for planning. I'd like other clubs to say Broncos have a decent set of away fans so here is a wild idea; have a party. Whenever the last away game of the season is, throw a party.

* Get a coach hired and have it advertised well before the event.
* Get it full.
* Have a theme if you must, fancy dress, inflatables, whatever.
* Take flags, scarfs etc
* Have a sing song.
* Cheer the players off the pitch after, for their effort in 2012.

If people were passionate enough about following the team they would.
How many soccer teams play on weekdays - loads - how many soccer sides, even the small lower tier sides - take more away from home than we do - most.

I don't mind that people have things they would rather do than watch us play, well actually I do, just pointing out that for almost all our fans, they generally have things they would rather be doing than watch us play.

IF RL was such a great game and all it took for people to come down and watch us play was the product on the field, then surely it would apply to fans and away games.

I would recommend go to an away game, even though I've never seen them win away...

GET OFF THE BUS JONAH!

Fulham FC took 433 fans to Newcastle at the start of the season and about the same number v sunderland. That's on an average home attendance of about 25,000 (although a hell of a lot of those are away fans and tourists). Which is probably about the same percentage of Broncos fans that travel.

So not many people passionate enough to follow the team then?

I only posted it because you said football clubs - even with a low following - take more away than we do. Which perhaps isn't always true.

One season in a premier game there were 68 Wigan football fans at White hart Lane to see Wigan play Spurs.

Wigan FC have no fans shocker

Or not one trick ponies, or a varied and interesting life

Either Darthchris has been fishing on this thread and caught quite a haul, or the amount of beer he has consumed during 2011 to get over watching Harlequins RL home and away has destroyed several of his brain cells

Another 3 wishes from me : Robbo and Rodney actually turn up, Hickey loses about 3 stone and Craig Gower stays off the beer.

Wasn't that the season after they lost 9-1 to Spurs?

Think it was that game. I believe the club compensated the fans travel costs.

Ha,

Nah, just people on here saying they are too busy and have better things to do than watch us play hardly inspires confidence in us attracting new fans going forward

I wouldn't say most of the things I do on Sundays are better than watching London RL, but I would say most of the things I do are better than travelling 7-8 hours to do so.