i think this is all very sad. Gus may or may not be the worst CEO ever for Quins/Broncos - or the whole of sport. Surely the real point is we as a team have been rubbish for the past 4 seasons or so. We barely win a home game and on top of that we havent got a history to rely on? I became a season ticket holder at Hull in 1964 - was 10/11. We won, i think 2x at home. We were hopeless.

but we still got 2000/4000 because people remembered the glory days of the 1950's grandads took sons who took their kids. There was a tradition. i started taking my son to Broncos in 1999 (cup year). He doesnt live in Engalnd anymore - but is still passionate about them and about RL in general. But we havent got many of them.

i am as depressed and fed up as anyone about where the club is going i dont understand David Hughes' but without him we would have been buried a long time ago. I dont understand Gus - but he hasnt had much to work with. i dont understand Tony Rea - why do we seem so badly set up at times? i know nothing of marketing/adveritising etc so cannot comment though i previously have supported Gutterfax's ideas. if i won the Euromillions i would put money in. if we had 10,000 crowds and could do a Portsmouth (were i currently live) i would chip in my couple of thousand - but we dont

what i do know is when we win, and i see us win or even when we play really well and lose - it makes my weekend better. i feel happier and go to work on Monday feeling better about the world.

i will be at feathersone, i will be at every home game i can and (stupidly, unless its Gillingham) will renew my season ticket next year if we survive. Becuase i am a SUPPORTER, and thats what supporters do. I pray it gets better, i fear it wont, but until we finally die i will support.

then its Catalan and Lanquedoc and lots of red wine........................................

There's a guy (from Leigh I think) who's posted on here from time to time under the a moniker something like "cj hates union". I pointed out to him that defining his whole being on here through a negative was pretty silly and hardly likely to have people, unless already like-minded, paying much attention. He ignored me of course.

gutterfax has now got himself into the same mode, epitomised by his childish avatar, and he'll stay on my ignore list until he starts writing stuff with an element of balance to it as he once did. (Although I try to ignore him, I do have to read some of his diatribes when quoted by others.)

Well done to those who take the trouble to reply to his rants in detail. I just can't be bothered.

EDIT: I come on here to discuss rugby league, not gutterfax. So the above is my final comment about him.

Outstanding

Agreed. Says it all really

The most sense I have read on this forum in some time

Well said Brian 2......your sentiments echo those of many London Broncos fans. I have often mused on the potential lottery win and ensuing divorce case once I announced we would be heading back to London to take ownership of the Broncos


I must admit to being in a much better mood when we have managed to get something out of a game and am also puzzled how TR is managing to have trouble getting results out of the team that he seemed to have turned around at the end of 2012.

With regard to the CC game this weekend, it would be nice to see some marketing activity, but in truth, as we are moving at the end of the season, there is very little point in spending cash where it's not needed. Let's hope the guys raise their game and dispatch the Championship side and then get another draw against "beatable" opposition for the next round....a cup run might just be the thing to turn the fortunes of the team around.

i too face an expensive divorce, but a £120million lottery win would sort. first step ground - either buy in to the Brentford project or look for alternative (Trust Fund). Then coach team - i love Tony Rea. but this season worries me - Brian Noble going to Salford takes out one option - Rea as manager and a good Aussie coach?

Team - not re-sign anyone (other than Dorn who i have a soft spot for). We need some big ugly forwards who will put in the hard work, we are constantly outmusculed by teams. this year its not fitness - we are knackered by second half. other than that what the hell do i know............................

I'll vote for you.

If i am the answer god help us....................................................................

Just waiting for the club to announce that ST holders gain free entry via one of the special offer vouchers in an attempt to boost numbers!

Think that somebody has already pointed out on this thread that that would contravene RFL CC rules.

A (home) 4th round draw has been free for ST holders for at least the past 4 years (can't remember before that) after that a separate home ticket was needed if we progressed.

Yes, I do remember that. Also remember the rule though. Both clubs are supposed to get 50% of the gate receipts.

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Ticket pricing for the game will be as follows:
General Adult pricing (including Season Ticket holders) - £15
Concessions - £10
U19s - £5
Free for Junior season ticket holders of London Broncos and Featherstone Rovers

Hospitality
Not on Sale



Fev reckon they're bringing 6 coaches+ so maybe we'll see a 4 figure gate, which could net the away side a handy few bob....

Ahhhh... as kids ST holders are free and adults just £15 I'll be down. Especially as the Hemel Stags CC game has been changed from a home game to an away one against Wakey. Stags, BTW, are only charging £20 for the coach up AND admission for adults. Amazed London have not tried a travel/admission price like that to travel up to the M62 even for a few select games.

The used to give travel up north away in 2006 and nobody bothered......think it had something to do with not pushing/marketing the opportunity......I may be wrong.

Oxford did that offer for the Halifax game two weeks back too

I'd suggest it was because not enough people wanted to go. We went on a couple of coach trips, and they were less than half full - the coaches were being advertised "internally" to the existing supporter base (I think even in the programmes, but can't be sure now).
Problem is, apart from the additional time spent in a coach versus driving (which I would normally have done), the pick up points are no use to me - and I suspect many others.
I know a couple of trips have been initiated on this forum, not sure what the numbers are like.

I did 2...Wales and Wakey.

IIRC I filled a 70 seater to Wales and a 45 seater to Wakey....they were about 20 notes each...used FB, Email, home games and the club site to drum up interest....have to say, the Wales trip was the biggest away following from London I've ever seen.....good craic!

I’m quite looking forward to the game in a curious way. I’m intrigued as to firstly how we will go against a "lower" grade team (albeit a good one), how the tactics will vary between the teams(and if we will change our) and finally what the difference in fitness levels will be.

A blow out wouldn't be a surprise neither would a close loss- strange

Referee: T. Alibert, Touchies: B. Robinson and M. Kidd.

I did the Wales trip and we won! Dorn hattrick - good day out!

And yes i am looking forward to the game - would be good if it was a warm day. i would hope for a comfortable win, but i always hope that.........................

I watched Doncaster-Featherstone on Premier Sports the other day and Fev looked like a good outfit, full of players with smart rugby league brains but bodies that worked a little slower.

I expect that they'll almost match us down the middle - Ellis will provide good service out of 9 and ex-Bradford prop Steve Crossley looks like he'll make yards - but we really should be much much pacier out wide. We just have to be sensible when and from where we push the ball laterally.