Lets hope they can kick on, aim has to be to get to 20 points and see if we can leapforg Sheffield and Newcastle, got to look up and not down

Not sure on target for an 11th place finish is a great advert for our bulldog management’s brave new part time dawn of top quality northern RL players/part time builders flooding to sunny South London aided by streams of highly prized Aussies but at least there is some hope. Not sure this forum will be happy place post our home game against you guys but you never know.

I think getting passed them is a big ask. I’ll take us winning a couple more home games and then building for next season much, much more effectively than this year. Some non-playing staff in post would be a good thing.

I agree its a big ask, but last thing we need is them switching off thinking they are safe, and dewsbury suddenly getting on a run... Got to have at least something to aim for last 7 games

Agreed. I think I’m right in saying that none of them are playing for their contract. They are either on a 2 or have come over for a year to facilitate playing at the World Cup. My take is after a miserable season they are finally enjoying it and just like when non professionals turn out for the love of the game down the RL equivalent of Hackney Marshes it’s really now just about enjoying the game and playing with mates. My prediction is we’ll win 3- Haven, Workington and Newcastle. I say this because in my humble opinion Haven and Newcastle were quite poor sides and both turned us over at home, Newcastle spanked us. Pride dictates we give them some of that back. As for Town - I assume they are bottom place for a reason. we’ll see.

Watch the Highlights of out game up there to see where they got their only 2 points.


In my first year as a Broncos fan Halifax won only once before going down.....that was at Griffin Park.
I'll take a win at Bash and then worry about the next game....1 gamer at a time seems to be the way the boys are approaching it and it's working!

On current form some of those last 7 games are definitely winnable. I'm not sure Mike Eccles will let them switch off.....

I see no reason why we can't turn Sheffield over again.

Also Barrow last game of season will have one eye on playoffs, would not be surprised if they rest a few

Hughes is clearly a moron.

Slight correction, a wealthy moron.

Perhaps its easy to make money burning up the planet.

Wish my school Careers teacher had said go into oil & gas broking. I was always competent at being incompetent just without the money. Oh well..........

To get to the top you would, however, need to be a good con man and able to live with the consequences of denying and sowing doubt on the scientfic consensus.

Well if you put it like that!

Not true.
I doubt Hughes ever sold oil or gas to anyone who didn't want it.....he was a facilitator not a sales person. A dealer, not a pusher so to speak, which explains his inability to sell RL to a new audience.....he's always sold to a willing purchaser.


He has spent his money and got no return.....yet rather than change tactics, ask advice or employ competent staff, continued until his funds now diminish to the extent that he can't bankroll the club, but still he continues with the failed processes of the last 20+ years that has seen us nearly fold on 2 occasions, be relegated and shed 4000 fans.
He is an arrogant narcissistic megalomaniacal fool.....

Off topic really but I was making a more general point about the oil and gas industry. By definition a trader buys and sells, you are right though, there's not a lot of unsold oil and gas.

I’m going to go against the flow here and say that being successful in any highly competitive and highly lucrative business no matter what it is will always require a certain degree of skill and hard work. Now whether that skill set can translate itself into the running or hiring people to run a successful sports club is very much open to debate. Some have succeeded, some not. This season has not been text book....unless the text book was entitled ‘how to make basic errors and very nearly xxxk it up totally’

Not just this season though is it. Look where we were when Hughes took sole charge.

I've never said he was cr4p at his Job. FWIW, I believe that he accidentally became a Trader and it was a combination of his ability to network combined with longevity in his trade that enabled him to succeed. I have no doubt he is tenacious and hardworking.


It is a debate that would rage for ever......the reality is that [umost owners of professional sports clubs[/u, be they billionaires, millionaires or community owned clubs like our Landlords, struggle to make ends meet. The higher the spend the higher the expectations....Leeds United being a case in point...from Champions League Semis to 2nd tier in 2 years.....then worse. Bradford Bulls another, if you want one close to home....but it's not like we've gone out and blown the bank on star players over the last 20 years, is it? No. He's blown the bank on bullsh17 ideas and schemes, dummy spits when we lose, stupid appointments and needless moves.


Please define "very nearly xxxk it up"?
Wrong coach?100%
Wrong to go Part Time/Squad? We sit 11th with no chance of Play off Football with 30% of the season left. We are only safe because Cumbria exists! 100%
Wrong Ground? We are averaging the same attendance as the last full season at Ealing and just 20% of the gates he inherited. so again 100%
Wrong match day experience? They genuinely expected us to rock up and carry on supporting them with zero effort put into the match day experience...100%
Wrong Marketing? Sticks in the ground, KO time announced in 3 paper adverts and on a tube station wall and expect people to just rock up........100%

Make no mistake. Without Workington, Whitehaven and Dewsbury, we would already be preparing for a derby game at Skolars next year. Luck doesn't deserve any applause when it comes to the Broncos, but I expect to hear that "it's all going as planned" when Hughes/Loubser eventually comment on the season that has been.

The Ladies play their final game away this coming weekend......[size=200ACCORDING TO THE CLUB WEBSITE THE MEN DON'T PLAY NEXT UNTIL NEWCASTLE AWAY[/size





so given you guys have no game at Bash to go to, why not get to Cardiff and cheer the lasses?

A more serious response (than my last one) on the match. I was very close to not bothering as I had to work around other commitments, but we decided to go. A win is always good, but it was far more than that, London actually pot on a quality performance.

I don't have a lot to go on, but it appeared early season our strength was in the forwards and we played that way. There was little trust in the backs. Sunday was a revelation, the backs starred, but also the forwards were very good, they were simply outshone by the backs making such a jump. I joked about Mancini in my last post, but he really was everywhere.

So what changed. It truly does look like the coaching. Eccles appears to have put trust in the backs and they delivered big time. As a spectator it was fun to see the ball being moved and sensible risks taken. Mistakes (and penalties) were minimal it appeared.

Moving Parata to half back was key. Very influential and wasn't missed in the forwards where there was great depth including the interchanges.

Results are important, but I'd accept defeats with that kind of spectacle. It was a different sport on Sunday; bear in mind the only live RL I've ever witnessed has been at PL. The feedback of newcomers early season wasn't great; watching games like Sunday would change a lot of the negative views (from those games) on the sport.

Problem is first impressions are always most important, and Broncos blew it big time. 2.2K was at that first game at PL, would not surprise me that will be the highest attendance we have while we play there (unless we get into SL in the next 2-3 years)

I think this is why so many were frustrated at the start of the season. If the aim is to grow crowds to 5,000, then that's going to need decent performances on the field.

Agreed. And with that in mind if any Dons fans are thinking of giving Broncos a second chance I hope they avoid the Leigh game which, even accounting for our upturn in form, is likely to be messy.

The figure of 950 has appeared on wiki....so that's 850/750/950 for our last 3 "home" games.........850 average.......remove that first game and it's a shocking first season in terms of paying attendees.