I hope you are well?

I would like to invite you to a meeting with the Broncos CEO Jason Loubser, myself, and a small group of fellow Broncos supporters to allow us to hear some of your feedback on all aspects of the club and give us an opportunity to take on board your thoughts and feelings as well as answer any questions we can that you may have.

You have been selected from a group of pass holders, or former pass holders, that we feel will give us honest assessments which will provide us with constructive feedback to take forward. It was important for us to try and get a broad demographic of fan and people so there is a mixture of men and women of all ages invited.

If you are able and willing to meet somewhere in Central London on the evening of the 2nd September could you please let me know and I will send you final details once I have arranged a venue. It will likely be a pub where we can accommodate a group of 12 of us and have a drink and discussion without too much noise or disturbance.

I do sincerely hope you can join us and look forward to hearing back from you.


James Milner
Head of Commercial
London Broncos Rugby League

Seems a little late in the season but better than not at all
Possibly preparation for Wimbledon who knows

Oh Here we go.
Should be interesting. Yes I suspect it’s about how to make PL a success bearing in mind the large drop in attendees at Ealing.
You’ll be more aware than me of the big old number of things to add to their to do list but I think 3 fairly uncontentious things are:
Indicating they allocate some time to how people can park near PL.This forum suggests if they don’t it could hit attendances.
The benefits of signing players other than at the last minute. Difficult financial situation but literally every other club did.
Doing something to attract kids. Kids Season Ticket - very good price, kids walk up price, until recently- very bad. Very few kids/U16s attend which doesn’t bode well for the future
I’m also not sure their radio silence approach was the best although I can see that C19 will have raised a number of challenges, financial and otherwise, that may have left them flummoxed.

Some good points
If anyone else has any I’m happy to feed them in

Gutted I didn't get the invite......I've become a wizard at zoom meetings


The number 12 points to a last supper scenario.

Got your 20 point plan at hand, maybe a Wimbledon version !

Searching for florists near roundabouts as I type.

Your best bet is outside Tooting Broadway station or Earlsfield. You could always nick some from Lambeth Crematorium I guess. Try putting them on either of the 2 roundabouts & SPLAT!!

Can't be bothered editing it, but the premise is the same

Lots of interesting stuff here OM much of which is still relevant. Point 4 about trying to get Aussies along would have been a really shrewd plan for Ealing. I suspect getting from the Bush to south of the river might be more difficult and less convenient and that there isn’t a ready made community thereabouts. Interactions with local pubs seems a really sound idea.
My overarching view is that the club needs to be innovative and will need to put some time and resource into a plan to raise attendances by quite a big percentage over the next couple of years as current rates aren’t sustainable. Sadly there is likely to be a cost but now is the time to speculate to accumulate and if we don’t back up the expensive new match day venue and dual training pitches with an equal effort to get a reasonable crowd in then it really was sheer madness to take that step.
I really don’t know what they are going to do but the clock is ticking so we’ll see.

Does anyone really have an evening to spare to be BS'ed by those who are 'running' the club?
I remember a fans forum at Trailfinders just before we moved there - won't get those two hours back.

Im hoping that with smaller numbers we can engage positively rather than a large crowd being spoken too. It clearly says consolation so lets see.

Asking if IL eats Weetabix for brekky won't happen again hopefully which is probably why the fans forums stopped previously because stupid questions got raised.

Are you going Wire-quin ?

I've indicated to him that I will. Just awaiting time and location.

Would be good to find out the plans for the playing squad next season. PT/FT. Have we started the ball rolling re next years squad. Likewise the coaching team

Not directly related to the squad, but of the few of us who are left, parking really is a big deal. Without being able to park nearby, it really prevents us from going to matches, and we are not the only ones... So if the discussion is how to get fans back to wimbledon next year, some parking options are really needed here.

Watch your back WQ as it looks like you're the only one selected of the angry brigade so assume 9 from the OSC + Monkey & Lobster.

Not sure there is an answer to that Crash. 4 car parks in Wimbledon Town centre which I think charges from £1 to £1.50 an hour or something like that & a black cab rank at the station. Or the single deck 493 runs every 20 mins unless more frequently during sporting events. There are a few schools in the area but don't have big playgrounds from what I can remember.

I can deal with them!!

Parking is fair enough, but I think this is a chance to ask more deeper questions, about how the club see the future, will they look to build bridges with fans etc.

Say hi to Paddock for me.....


Yep....and hopefully you'll get a straight answer.
If anyone fancies it, could they ask the club if there is a tangible fan for self sufficiency through fan and sponsor income or if we're going to continue to rely on Hughes and his moods?
Also. What are the targets in terms of attendances next year and what are the consequences of failure (or rewards for success)

Didn't get the invite but happy for my thoughts to be fed into discussion.

I have had a season ticket since SL2 (apart from a year at The Hive) but I didn't renew this season for a few reasons (i) uncertainly over where games would be played (ii) unjustified price rises (iii) uncompetitive squad and (iv) general poor running of the club.

While I have not been to Trailfinders this season, I have enjoyed watching the academy and women's team play at Richmond.

I believe RL can generate a sustainable crowd in London provided the team is competitive, the match day experience is good and the game is well promoted. Unfortunately these things have not been in place for several years. The team that got promoted to SL achieved way more than the sum of its parts (which was great) but the club failed to build on that and has now lost that successful coaching team.

While we have done well to bring players through the academy system to the first team, unless we can retain the better players for longer this is not providing the basis of a competitive side.

The club needs to create and share a medium term plan (3 to 5 years) and also take more responsibility to help shape the long term future of the game in London as a whole.

I don't know why the club saw another ground move as a priority this season. Particularly when this meant different facilities being required for training, academy etc. Perhaps if the club was to explain its plans and consult supporters this would be more apparent. From the outside, it seems this should have been a season for consolidation and re-establishing core support post lockdown.

We are totally reliant on David Hughes support. How long can this continue, it seems like everything is increasingly done on the cheap ? My concern is he does little to secure the future of the club beyond his tenure but again the club do not communicate any plans so it is difficult to know the direction we are headed.

There are plenty of other things to do in London, the club needs to do much more to be a success.

I can not understand when we have 2 supporters clubs why they are not being used to inform the club about the problems they have keeping supporters. I was under the inpression that the BOSG was setup to keep the club updated with supporters thoughts on how the club was being run.

I thought BOSC was set up to raise some dosh!

As I asked earlier...are there targets with rewards and consequences at the club?

The OFFICIAL Supporters group, AKA Monkeyboy's Clique seems established as to only defer away from the LBSA, which as I understand it, actually provides a revenue stream for the club in the shape of paid shirt sponsorship of the academy. I'd also point out that the LSBA has a LARGER presence on Social Media platforms Twitter & Facebook, whilst their INSTAGRAM page is a series of photo's of the same half dozen or so people......although I did Like a post from a while back claiming that "The Team" are busy working on the next BOSG newsletter






Then there's the FB rules for their page....including....Any post having a go at London Broncos or it's staff, will be deleted....oops....that's a non starter then



Oh...the Official group appear to have a Drum





In short. Setting up the BOSG would have given the impression that Monkeylad was busy working away to promote the club to a casual observer or in this case, Doddery Dave.......Swintons finest probably has a BOSG Mug on his desk at home which makes him feel all warm and fuzzy.

Simplest of questions for the dynamic duo when you meet them.....

what will be considered a success in 2022 in terms of:
1. fan attendances,
2. paid fan attendance,
3. ST sales,
4. [uINCOME[/u from shirt sponsorship
5. Table position at seasons end.

...straight forward enough.....5 answers that if they aren't given, point to there being no fqrking plan yet again!