Only 2 games for the club now in the next 34 days, so plenty of time for Coleman to firstly be given some new targets/KPIs by the boss.
1. Fitness. Again we've capitulated at the end of a game....this needs addressing.
2. Tactics. From what I've read, Coleman likes defence work and we do seem fairly robust there, but it would seem that all that early tackling comes back to bite us in the last 20. Fitness I've mentioned, but why not work on early offence too?
3. We need a half and we need a mongrel forward.

If we lose to York at home, we have a single home tie in April (bulls) before Dewsbury in May. Coleman needs to understand the direct correlation between results, fan interest and his wages, so quite simply.....if by 7pm on May 1st we don't have at least 4 points in the bag, he should be fired

As for the off field stuff. I'd drop the prices to £10.00 for the rest of the season with kids free, spend some money on face painters and posters and I'd open the doors for free for the visit of Dewsbury. If it costs is £10,000 of gate receipts then so be it, but it's a might win game.....and if we have kids stuff, a band etc.....we might just get another chance to make a good impression!
May 1st is 9 weeks away....get planning now. Book the band. Get sign off on free entry. Book the kids entertainment. Get NucknDusty ready. Dare I say reach out to a cheerleading Troup? Email every lapsed address we have asking them to wear their oldest broncos/crusaders/Fulham shirt....give free tickets by the bookload to every pub in the area......do everything you can to get 3,000 bodies through the door and make sure that they enjoy/remember it.......


Odds are both Colemans coaching CV and crowds will continue to plummet, but the reality is, another reboot at Wimbledon in 2022 is needed, because the first one went off like a dud firework

We have
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Barrow (A)
Bradford (H)
Sheffield (A)
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I'd say 4 points is the absolute minimum, and 6 should be the target. I just dont see it however, we would need other teams to get hit by injuries while we go injury free to meet it

Dewsbury at home is the must win. Lose that and we are as good as relegated. Can’t see where the other 2 points comes from. Are you thinking Sheffield away? They seem to blow hot and cold. A strong 1st 13 but thin thereafter. Unusually they are one of the few teams that haven’t recruited from our ex playing staff so it may be they struggle to get players as well.

It’s difficult to see quite where the appropriate space is for a relaunch (I.e. an effective relaunch). The cluster of summer games in August/ September seems the best bet but (a) by then it could be all over bar the shouting and (b) the football season will have just started sucking all the oxygen out of attempts to drum up interest in other sports. Basically we’re in real strife! If we get out of this, the club really will have to learn some lessons on what not to do.

Sheffield away was my pick for our first win and I'll stick with it. As you say, Dewsbury is a must win.....

1. Yes we are
2. This club under Hughes never ever EVER learns lessons.....Hughes will blame the fans for not coming.

Anyone who thought combining a ground move with our worst ever squad would work out well was deluded. When you add the failure to build any sort of match day experience it seems reckless.

Let's not forget this is a club that has moved many times, we should already be experts at this.

I could not see how the move to Wimbledon combined with going part time was ever going to deliver an increase in attendance.
Having decided to relocate, the club ( David Hughes ) needed to chuck some money at a full time team so we could knock over teams at home. A successful team was crucial.
Then the fans you have attracted are likely to hang around.
You also have to consider, we start the season in mid winter, attracting new fans was going to be hard work, but offering nothing other than than a poor game ending in defeat. The project was doomed to fail.
As Jbuzza said. We should be experts at this moving ground thing. We have shown we are not.

Oh and and forgot appointing a part time coach who was used to operating at the bottom end of the division below.

Its Likely we will gain less Dons fans than they have lost in legacy fans, with the decision to go part time with very weak squad and coach out of his depth

Add in doing this move during a pandemic, not being clear about where games would be played (in 2021) and sharply increasing many season tickets, with no covid related refunds. Given all that I'm surprised crowds have been as good as they have been. I thought about going yesterday for the first time this year but it was either a drive all around the M25, including Dartford twice or public transport, with rail replacement buses in this part of Essex. Probably a two and a half hour journey each way. Neither option appealed. I then learned there were issues on the District line so a good decision.

If they offered tickets for £1, I might go not for the rugby, but after reading multiple times how good the food at mypie is from @smithers99, to try one of their specials. But the rugby is not high enough standard right now to justify the effort of getting there.

Everything you say here is true. Would have been interesting to have been a fly on the wall as these plans came together. I get the arguments for a ground move (although the fact it’s predicated on the nonsense of the authorities of a game where even the best sides rarely get deep into 5 figures telling us we need a better ground when we really didn’t- can’t be overlooked) but how would the discussions on team strength and off field match day experience have gone? “Let’s get a few in from Skolars and hope for the best. What about match day experience chief? Open the gates and let them find the bar. Job done.” I hope we can muddle through to next season still in this league and then do it all over again but in a joined up sensible way.

I sense another 2014 season is in the making. Hope I'm wrong!

Possibly, but there was that win against Leeds !!

This is worse.
Hughes has nowhere to hide this year. He is 100% responsible, but he doesn't care......he's already said he's off in a few years and is scaling down his input with an inane reference to his son being a "fan" followed by my 5,000 fan figure that I have him to his face in 2009.
For 15+ years he overpaid players, ignored bad coaching runs and ignored any form of marketing, just so he could sit in his seat and watch his team.

His 2026 pipe dream of 5,000 fans is a fallacy.....,he's looking for the exit and Wimbledon kicking us out (1k average won't cover their costs and the bars/food franchises won't open) will be a perfect excuse.

It's not just him though. Loubser was key in this stupid reboot that has failed.....he should go now......

Do not forget the Monkey he had a lot to do with the moving from Ealing as he did not think much of the facilities. The monkey has seen the writing on the wall and walked away.

Are we sure he walked?

A usually realiable birdie suggests he walked

Another hire Hughes refused to fire......he really NEVER learns

Now I'm under pressure! I think anybody who can deliver nice mash and a tasty gravy (and plenty of it) has made a good start. Haven't encountered any poor quality meat in the pies either. Whether it is too everybody's liking I can't say, but I'd be surprised if many (any) said it was awful.

What is telling is I would recommend the pies, but currently (despite enjoying each match so far) I wouldn't be bringing anybody along yet. Partly lack of confidence that the Broncos will be competitive, but more about improving the match day experience. The danger is getting bored, but that is hugely mitigated by a good general experience.

The on and off field experience is absolutely key to retaining new supporters. I eventually decided to take my son along to our first game a few years back on the basis, at the very least it would be good to see elite athletes even if they were on the opposing side. My gut feeling was that Broncos would lose and their team would be slightly soulless in the style of the modern iteration of Watford FC filled with journeymen Aussies but I thought RL was potentially an exciting game and that it was worth a punt. The fact they won and played well encouraged me to sign my son up to the Foals club ( who sent him free stuff and a birthday card) and we’ve been ST ever since. If our first match had been that Haven game we wouldn’t have come again. If the Widnes or Bradford game maybe/probably not- that is where the fuller match day experience comes in. Despite a big new stadium (3/4 of which is closed) the off field stuff is really, really light touch. I urge Broncos management to get this stuff out of first gear before the opportunities of this relaunch are lost.

That ship has long since sailed!

Yep. 2 adverts in the free press announce a KO time and expect them to flock in.
Follow it up by begging local amateur clubs to come for free and then follow that up by discounting across the board......no so much strategic as idiotic