Re: New Coach, who will it be?? : Mon Aug 23, 2021 10:23 am  

Deadcowboys1 wrote:

Jaybs, on behalf of the EODBFC (Edge of despair Broncos fan club) we invite you to bang on his door & sell London Broncos to him. Dont forget it's anything but one careful owner.

Sad to report, I was too late! it seems he is keen to join up with Derek Beaumont at Leigh, and he is 9 out of 10 sure, he will have him at the club.

Re: New Coach, who will it be?? : Mon Aug 23, 2021 12:38 pm  

Never mind I know you did your best jaybs.

Re: New Coach, who will it be?? : Mon Aug 23, 2021 2:37 pm  

wire-quin wrote:

He didn't but that was the start of the end.

To be honest, think the start of the end was 2007 when Lennegan bought Wigan then Quins "Bloodgate" in 2009 that cost us the support of Quins Chairman Jillings & CEO Mark Evans when they resigned. We were never going to get support David Ellis once he became Quins CEO to add to the stupidity of our Mismanagement Team.

Re: New Coach, who will it be?? : Mon Aug 23, 2021 3:34 pm  

Deadcowboys1 wrote:

To be honest, think the start of the end was 2007 when Lennegan bought Wigan then Quins "Bloodgate" in 2009 that cost us the support of Quins Chairman Jillings & CEO Mark Evans when they resigned.

If only we had someone of Mark Evans calibre running things at LB.

Re: New Coach, who will it be?? : Mon Aug 23, 2021 7:42 pm  

Deadcowboys1 wrote:

To be honest, think the start of the end was 2007 when Lennegan bought Wigan then Quins "Bloodgate" in 2009 that cost us the support of Quins Chairman Jillings & CEO Mark Evans when they resigned. We were never going to get support David Ellis once he became Quins CEO to add to the stupidity of our Mismanagement Team.

Quins never made life difficult for us.....as paying Tennant's we we were a valued income source, but the attitude of Hughes at the time was one of "everyone hates us"......I'm stunned a man who made so much money from selling didn't have the ability to press the RFL and SL clubs into allowing Lenegan to retain his interest in the club. He bussed down thousands of fans to wigans game at the stoop and was more than happy to see his commitment through, but Hughes was again stubborn to the extreme.
Yes....the change at the union club didn't help, but we are about to pay a similar rent to a football club.....I'll never understand why we moved from Twickenham. The club still had a core of about 2k fans......the move to Barnet killed that.....the move to the wedding venue was a step in the right direction (I was against it but admit I was wrong) but Wimbledon stinks of a Gus Mackay excuses move....
......and if you're searching for a day zero of when it all went wrong, Paul Brown stepping down on medical grounds needs investigating.....he was the last RL pedigree CEO we had......15 years ago

Re: New Coach, who will it be?? : Sun Sep 05, 2021 8:43 pm  

I have heard that Thomas Leuluai is in the frame. I cannot see it myself.

Re: New Coach, who will it be?? : Sun Sep 05, 2021 9:06 pm  

You might think given the quality & experience of the squad we all feel we will have next season, someone with real coaching credentials is required. Agree Vic that doesn't sound like Tommy but with this club you never know. Perhaps he could bring Luke & Marty to help him!

Re: New Coach, who will it be?? : Sun Sep 05, 2021 11:09 pm  

Victor wrote:

I have heard that Thomas Leuluai is in the frame. I cannot see it myself.

Christ on a bike. I hope not. I despair with this club.....inability to appoint key personnel who are qualified for their roles....there's a list of car crash appointments as long as my arm.....Hughes gets lucky from time to time, but in the main he's crap at recruitment.

Re: New Coach, who will it be?? : Mon Sep 06, 2021 12:21 am  

orangeman wrote:

Christ on a bike. I hope not. I despair with this club.....inability to appoint key personnel who are qualified for their roles....there's a list of car crash appointments as long as my arm.....Hughes gets lucky from time to time, but in the main he's crap at recruitment.

Lenagan Leaves: He agrees to throw 2 years of cash at us as he departs.....
2007 Paul Brown joins as CEO. A RL man through and Through
2007 Keith Hogg becomes Chairman after advising the Broncos for a couple of years and heling the club not fold, whilst brokering the Lenegan take over.
2007 Brown steps down inside 12 months on medical grounds....
2009 Hogg gets tired of the travelling and steps down inside 24 months
2009 Hughes becomes chairman
2009 After 12 months with no CEO, Paul Blanchard, A cricketing administrator who quit HKR after just 6 months as CEO takes over as GENERAL MANAGER at Quins RL
2010. After 18 months, Blanchard becomes CEO.......and McDermott leaves to become assistant coach at Leeds. He is replaced by Powell, who has no first team coaching experience.
2011....2 months later Blanchard quits and returns to Cricket
2011. We return to the cricketing trough and appoint Gus........Oh....boy, where do you start.
2012 we announce we're not supported because of our name and revert back to the Broncos
2012 after winning 23% of his games, powell is replaced with Rea
2013, we announce that we're not supported because of where we play.
2013. After defeating 2 2nd tier sides and Bradford Bulls we get absolutely owned 70 nil on FTA TV by Wigan.
2013 Hughes puts the club up for sale threatening closure if somebody doesn't step up
2014. The RFL bribe Barnet FC with £100,000 to takes us in.
2014 Rea quits after 11 losses. Joe Grima, a relatively unknown fringe coach from Sydney becomes Coach
2014 we are relegated
2014 Mackay runs out of excuses and leaves. Our accountant, Jason Loubser is made General Manager
2015, 3 games into or season in the 2nd tier and after 1 narrow win and 2 losses, Grima leaves to return to obscurity in Australia....
2015. Andrew Henderson steps up as head coach...we miss the play offs.
2016 we move to a wedding venue in Ealing and the Chairman says "it's a perfect setting for us"
2017 Henderson quits, assistant Danny Ward steps up
2018 Against all the odds, we win in Toronto and are promoted.
2019. despite being back in the top tier and being competitive, the club only attract 1,950 as an average gate and are relegated.
2021. After a global pandemic decimates all sports, The Broncos announce they're leaving Ealing and moving to Wimbledon and increasing ticket prices by 25%
2021 After realising that they couldn't move for multiple reasons, they return to Trailfinders, cap in hand
2021. Scraping into the playoffs in 6th and with another assistant pretending to be head coach after Ward has quit, the club are rumoured to be discussing another untried and tested player as head coach

Re: New Coach, who will it be?? : Mon Sep 06, 2021 6:15 am  

Perhaps we should take advice from Andersons, they seem to know a lot about coaches.