How does that make more people aware of us when radio coverage is lowered, SSN no longer on freeview and unlike our union counterparts we do not have a national highlights show.



Play good football and the rest takes care of itself is not far off thematically as the ised Field of Dreams quote build it and they will come. There are bigger problems for the London Broncos and they are the RFLs problem, not ours. But what we can take care of is the football and it is a start, not the final solution.

Sit in any stand and you have people milling around at the bottom of it.

Play good football and you have something to market

Play good football and you have something to write about.

A team playing bad football watched by nobody does little to help the above.



Its about setting priorities. If the Broncos were a band you wouldn't invite the world's media down to watch your first ever rehearsal and expect them to go mad for you.

We need to build something worth shouting about and then the rest takes care of itself.

Yeah, my bad what was I thinking. The Stoop's a rockin and I aint a mockin

Darth thats our defensive line you are refering too

I agree with the onfield performance being a key factor in improving ticket sales and general interest, I do however believe that this can only be amplified by a national highlights show, because as it stands the club does not and has not properly utlised the tradtional means of advertising ie radio, newspaper, inside trains, buses, London tv, etc and so any potential team improvement can only be picked up on SSN, SS and those who chose to look for it on iPlayer, websites and pages, fb, twitter and us fans bringing mates to the game or shouting from the rooftops. We are working from inside a closed bubble that shows no signs wanting to be anything more than a regional game. I believe this so strongly that I would lobby the club to attempt to make the RFL look into the SL Show contract and see why it not broadcast nationally. Whatever you might think about the show it has become fundamentally important to the future of the London Broncos club, whether that is to be a steady rise in fortunes or a continued decline is how inexorably linked I believe the tinpot club and the tinpot show to be.

How many column inches were the Broncos getting in 1997 compared to last season?

clearly its not an automatic process. but even GF will tell you you need a product to market. Otherwise every company team and sport would be at it.

But going back i little further - you used to have to ask pubs to put football on the telly and crowds were on the decline.

Agreed, and it's been dire for a number of seasons, but it is not the one single factor in poor press exposure, that's an issue for the sport in general, issue is the correlation between press coverage and bums on seats, which in my view is a red herring.

To puncture my own argument of national highlights programs Twenty20 cricket does not have a dedicated terrestrial highlights package and that does okay, but ours is a minority sport, with consistently amongst the highest non-soccer viewing figures on Sky, and we don't even get a mention on the London News for ITV or BBC London News on the TV, not asking for pictures, just that there is a fixture or result to mention. There are soccer fixtures with lower gates mentioned and union fixtures with comparable gates to our own mentioned, but we do not even register, in more ways than one.

completely agree. as massively important as spreading the gospel is you need something to say first, and this team has had almost nothing to say in its entire history. A couple of brief periods of success followed by attendence crushing moves and terrible teams is not the way to build a following. These things take years and need to become part of a culture - which is where the coverage of the sport starts to come in.





I hate the stoop but while we were harlequins it was our ground,

As broncos we need to find our own or something we can call our own on a permanent basis.

Then we can build a team worthy to play in a ground.

Then the legacy to support future teams.

Once we have a story to tell then focus on the marketing etc- and by marketing I mean brand management rather than just telling people we exist - that should be a standard.