Being played at Ebbsfleet United’s ground ....in south EAST London.
Apparently we will be playing an annual game in Kent. Not sure that will get past first contact or how we fetched upon South East London. Not sure what the cross over is of people going from SE to SW my guess low. For me an hour’s drive and pay the toll I believe. Hmm...maybe not. On the plus side that now means our first home game is Fev. Hope for a big attendance push so loads of new prospective fans can see us get an absolute towelling in our shiny stadium.

They are taking the ing now.

Bit of a stretch to call it South East London but being close to Gravesend, has a sense of humour about it.

You might think if we are playing in Kent then Medway would make more sense.

To paraphrase Hughes

"We could play in a 2nd or 3rd division Rugby ground, but where's the future in that"

6th tier soccer grounds are OK then.

Spiralling down the plughole with every turn of the page....

Am I missing something or is a really, really random choice.

I never thought I would see the day when there was a parody rugby league club.

Yup. It’s the drive to get buy in from Kent I don’t quite get. Is Wimbledon’s nearest home county not Surrey? If Wimbledon is to be our new long term home then getting buy in from somewhere where people might travel to go to games would make more sense.
Ebbsfleet and Wimbledon don’t seem to be an obvious fit. I like to think we got a good deal. If not.........bonkers!

Did anyone else get the email? If not it’s perfectly reasonable to assume it was some kind of spoof email designed to lift the mood in these difficult times.

This will be the 4th venue Hughes is paying for this season. The one we can only use for 1st team matches for part of the season, the training ground we can only use when the landlords have finished with it for the evening, the one we are using for the youth to be close to the Academy head who then quit and now the one in Kent.

An ex Broncos fan I know was told by an Ebbsfleet official that this was on the cards at Steve Mascord's birthday bash. He told me at Army RL Challenge Cup 2nd Round day so it's been in the pipelines a long time.

One of the Ebbsfleet officials used to be employed by an NRL club, which is why they were so keen to host the match.

When you write it down and read it back it’s crazy isn’t it. My wacky idea that every single decision that the ‘board’ make should be sanity checked by an independent person with a brain grows more attractive by the second. Surely if they set out what they intended to do and sent it to a grown up, any half sensible person would ask a couple of questions and the whole rationale for it would fall away and we would avoid another banana skin.

Cheers Dan that offers some glimmer of understanding. I’m all in favour of our ‘board’ talking to management teams from other clubs from across any sports. If we are lucky they’ll pick up some good ideas. We seem to have run out of them ourselves.

On the plus side ( and this is probably for me alone) it’s going to be a hell of a lot easier for me to get to than Wimbledon.
Even easier than when we played a couple of games at Gillingham.

Like RfE, I am a winner in the journey lottery. Living only fifteen minutes or so from the ground.

Every cloud. Mind I don’t think people who live in Wimbledon or Ealing will find it that handy. For me looks like train/tube into Kings Cross then out again on the train. 1hour/ 1 hour 20. Sigh.

Ebbsfleet is great when to 2 French clubs come over on Eurostar. What? They're both in Super League, well that's another plan fallen through.

Hopefully no Sheffield fans booked cheap train tickets to London...

IIRC they hardly turned up in numbers when they got to Wembley a few years back so suspect this won’t be such a problem. Now the thousands of new SW London Broncos fans we’ve accrued via our aggressive marketing of this season that may be a problem!

Given this has clearly been brewing for ages, Broncos should have had the courtesy to warn Sheffield fans not to book cheap train tickets as the venue was uncertain. It doesn't matter whether it's one fan or ten thousand. It's not like it's never happened to Broncos own fans is it ...

I was going to make a crack about would we have to play in our host’s colours- seems Ebbsflleet wear red shirts and we have a 3rd kit that is red……….

It is not like over the years, London fans have been messed about with game times, dates or venues being changed.
Sheffield did it to us about a month ago. Oh the irony !

I've not had an email from the club since Feb 11th....a week after the 1st (and to date only) [size=200[uMONTHLY[/u[/size Q&A with Mustard.

The Obvious choice for this game "on the road" would have been Ealing Trailfinders which is 30 minutes away, but nope, let's drag the few regulars we have left across town on a 1 hr car trip or a 100 minute public transport journey from the Cherry Red

There's a very good chance that Bridges with Ealing have been torched a la The Hive and Harlequins before them.......

Utter contempt and disregard towards the existing fan base and they're not even apologetic about it. The NEW landlords have kicked us off the park for 8 weeks and 2 days which is 26% of the regular season........TWENTY SIX F()(KING PERCENT!

Who negotiates these deals? A child? Surely not a businessman with a sound grasp of reality?

The harsh reality is that this move has been an even bigger disaster than any of the dozen or so whiners on the internet knew it would be.

Discounted kids tickets offered after game 1, along with cut price "mates rates". The discounts across the board after game 2. A lucky draw and a win against a relegation contender sees us in a relegation spot after 11 games and we have an average gate that is guesswork because they were too embarrassed to announce the gates for Dewsbury or Bradford. Even the 940 claimed on Friday is dubious given fewer than 550 had been sold by Thursday night, but if they're happy to announce 940 but not those other 2 games, you have to ask how much below 900 were they? 980 was the average at Ealing last full championship season, so we've gained nothing except possibly 400 curious locals on Freebies last Friday?
Hughes has to go.
If the club can't survive without him then it doesn't deserve to.

In terms of building up a local fan base to make up for those lost on the way the following seem important to note:
No home games for 2 months. ( very difficult to see how this would work out as a good option in terms of crowd building or Championship survival during crucial 1st season in new ground)
Only one home game - a Friday nighter where our pants were pulled down during the very small window when we might be the only game in town.
No presence at the family day.
Only 6 more home games, 2 of which will be humiliating spankings at the hands of Rovers and Leigh respectively.
Halifax and Batley are likely to make difficult viewing as well as they chase playoffs.
I think our one chance to make a good impression has gone. Pretty sure we didnt get many/any of the big decisions right. We really have to learn from this- if we survive.

But as Orange often points out BT, the Broncos never learn which is why we are where we are.

If they had adopted even 30% of the suggestions made on this forum by us, the club would be in a better position & lord knows we don't have all the answers just more that Hughes & his tame Lobster.

Hope the first doesn't happen, Big Time, and will say no more.

Funny old game, RL...and RLFans is stranger still: Leigh got a fantastic result uphill and down dale tonight and there's virtually no activity on our forum. Meanwhile another slap in the face for Broncos' fans sees a thread spinning out as fast as if from a fishing reel.

Really hope you survive (and get shut of undesirables) and not only for the selfish reason that Bongser wants something to read late at night.