What's going on? : Tue Mar 22, 2022 9:33 pm
As we head for the 4th month of the season, it would seem that all emphasis has switched from "self sufficiency in 2026" to "let's say nothing and hopefully we can start again next year"The move to Wimbledon is going exactly the way many believed it would. After spending 50K+ on stupid newspaper adverts and announcing a KO time, a few curious dons fans & community club players rolled up for the opener and since then crowds have gone downwards at an alarming rate. There has bee zero effort put into game day experience, with a belated reference to the club asking for volunteers but getting none? Why was this not planned back on November/December?
Ticket prices have already been adjusted "downwards", but there appears to be little activity to attract new fans.
One of the chief architects of this fiasco is on his toes, whilst the accountant who is playing at being a CEO is recruiting people mid season?
Social media, be that Facebook, Twitter of the club site is a shambles, with little if any relevant and up to date information available. Match reports appear 2 days after the game, whilst score updates during games are either sporadic or piggy-backed off the opponents sites. Links on the club website are either broken or incorrect, with even the new ticketing prices not updated and the "wire frame" of the site itself is amateur.
Tickets can only be sourced via the club site if you click on "tickets" and scroll to the very foot of the page........and ONLY tickets for the Bradford game are available, where earlier in the season all games were available.
Fans of the club who have criticised or commented on aspects of this unfolding carnage have simply been banned from social media aspects, in what I can only imagine is an effort to stop anything of a negative nature get to David Hughes attention.
On the pitch, the team is "gradually" showing signs of becoming competitive, (although a hail Mary bomb and an opponent error in the 79th minute earning us a draw is hardly time for champagne cork popping) but with no wins in 6 games we languish in a relegation battle and if we aren't on 7 points before we get "evicted" for a month, we really will be in a massive fight for our existence.
Other clubs when faced with such chaos would expect the owner or CEO to come out with a statement of sorts, but it would seem that 2022 is already being written off.
Tickets for the Bradford game seem to be at about 250 with another 6 in the South Stand.....I would expect the Bradford attendance to be 1,500+, but my biggest fear is that we will be outnumbered by away fans at only our 4th League outing and there seems to be no urgency from the club to change this?
I am registered (and as yet not banned) to receive emails from the club, the last of which was on March 2nd (3 weeks ago) regarding the cheaper prices to sit with Hughes and not make the platinum lounge look like a ghost town. I have expressly given permission to be emailed, yet nobody at the club has seen fit to send anything about the 2 games since, nor any club news and no promotions for the Bulls game.......
The average number of likes the club get to a tweet is 31 this season....our facebook page is infeected with trolls offering snide links and our email system is ignored.
This is just 4 months since David Hughes said
“For our Club to get back to the Super League, and to rekindle some of those memories we all have, there will need to be a period of re-building, laying strong foundations, and that period is starting now but we will need all of you to help us make this work.
...yet the silence is deafening.
So the question is, what is going on at the London Broncos RLFC? Is there a plan and if so what is the next stage, because from the outside looking in it very much looks like the wheels have fallen off and the club is heading for relegation and associated receivership.
