Re: This Sunday I am mostly watching ... : Tue Oct 06, 2015 7:13 am  

I was also going to suggest a bouncy castle as a temporary stand.

But thought that might be too ambitious.

Re: This Sunday I am mostly watching ... : Tue Oct 06, 2015 5:03 pm  

wire-quin wrote:

Thats novel and something they should consider? Maybe have a picnic area where you bring food etc Nice sunny day, party in the park is a big thing these days

GF, thoughts?

Said the moment it was announced that we need to buy a marquee and have our own beer festival/bands etc on match day.......11 EVENTS throughout the season.

Re: This Sunday I am mostly watching ... : Tue Oct 06, 2015 7:38 pm  

Cowgirl Nostalgist wrote:

It's the template for the swanky new stadium David Hughes will build on our triumphant return to Super League.

Where's your vision, your money, your passion?

Re: This Sunday I am mostly watching ... : Tue Oct 06, 2015 7:39 pm  

Cowgirl Nostalgist wrote:

No less ambitious than the plan to turn a park pitch into a ground fit for Super League.

& plenty of people on here have bought into that pipe dream.

Where's your vision, your money, your passion?

Re: This Sunday I am mostly watching ... : Tue Oct 06, 2015 7:40 pm  

Cowgirl Nostalgist wrote:

I was also going to suggest a bouncy castle as a temporary stand.

But thought that might be too ambitious.

Where's your vision, your money, your passion?

Re: This Sunday I am mostly watching ... : Tue Oct 06, 2015 7:45 pm  

Cut & paste replies.

A familiar modus operandi.

Re: This Sunday I am mostly watching ... : Tue Oct 06, 2015 8:09 pm  

Andover Boy wrote:

Where's your vision, your money, your passion?

Let's look at your post with more detail shall we?

Vision: My Vision for the club would be of a team playing in a purpose built rugby facility. If not one that we own, then one where we can partner with the landlord and make sure we get a share of the match day bar and food takings. This is exactly the arrangement we had with The Stoop between 2006-08.
I would expect to be watched by a minimum of 4,000 fans per game with a plan to increase this number by a minimum of 20% per season until we got to 10,000.....this would also increase interest from sponsors and investors....we had 4,000 fans at the stoop in 2008.

Money: I would look to run the club on a shoe-string, with only people that wanted to be there employed. If I needed to invest in key staff, I'd make sure they were competent and qualified for the roles they were employed for. There remuneration would be linked to success and failure. What I wouldn't do is hand over 2 million a year and hope it worked.....as for where the money would come from? I have discussed with 2 investors who live here but have interests in the UK the concept for a successful RL side in the capital and both of them have said that they would consider it, but with no sign or trace of Hughes involved and with assurances from the RFL that the club would be given time......neither of those will happen in the near future but these 2 are still willing to step in should we return to a licenced comp.

Passion: I have about 24,000 posts on here over the last 13/14 years.....I bleed Broncos when cut and it pains me to see the shell of a club we've become. There was a time when I would have worked for nothing for the club but until Hughes leaves, there's be no point because the club don't understand the basic premise of promotion and marketing resulting in increased awareness and support and increased support resulting in more interest from sponsors and investors......they just move every few years, change their name and announce a KO time expecting the fans to flock in.

So, I have the vision, could arrange the investment and am as passionate as the next fan..........but it all means nothing, because the brand is toxic. The club has alienated other clubs and the RFL with it's sheer arrogance and it is now truly the play-thing of the owner.

Re: This Sunday I am mostly watching ... : Tue Oct 06, 2015 8:21 pm  

Save your breath.

The rump fanbase now consists almost entirely of apologists of one form or another.

If you truly have investors lined up then Broncos demise can't come quick enough.

Re: This Sunday I am mostly watching ... : Tue Oct 06, 2015 8:50 pm  

The Changing Man wrote:

Let's look at your post with more detail shall we?

Vision: My Vision for the club would be of a team playing in a purpose built rugby facility. If not one that we own, then one where we can partner with the landlord and make sure we get a share of the match day bar and food takings. This is exactly the arrangement we had with The Stoop between 2006-08.
I would expect to be watched by a minimum of 4,000 fans per game with a plan to increase this number by a minimum of 20% per season until we got to 10,000.....this would also increase interest from sponsors and investors....we had 4,000 fans at the stoop in 2008.

Money: I would look to run the club on a shoe-string, with only people that wanted to be there employed. If I needed to invest in key staff, I'd make sure they were competent and qualified for the roles they were employed for. There remuneration would be linked to success and failure. What I wouldn't do is hand over 2 million a year and hope it worked.....as for where the money would come from? I have discussed with 2 investors who live here but have interests in the UK the concept for a successful RL side in the capital and both of them have said that they would consider it, but with no sign or trace of Hughes involved and with assurances from the RFL that the club would be given time......neither of those will happen in the near future but these 2 are still willing to step in should we return to a licenced comp.

Passion: I have about 24,000 posts on here over the last 13/14 years.....I bleed Broncos when cut and it pains me to see the shell of a club we've become. There was a time when I would have worked for nothing for the club but until Hughes leaves, there's be no point because the club don't understand the basic premise of promotion and marketing resulting in increased awareness and support and increased support resulting in more interest from sponsors and investors......they just move every few years, change their name and announce a KO time expecting the fans to flock in.

So, I have the vision, could arrange the investment and am as passionate as the next fan..........but it all means nothing, because the brand is toxic. The club has alienated other clubs and the RFL with it's sheer arrogance and it is now truly the play-thing of the owner.

Have to agree with you that the end of licensing, particularly timed as it was, foreboded the end of the Broncos.

As for vision, well I used to think that Hetherington and Lenegan possessed it and were willing and able to push for it. Then Richard Lewis was replaced by Nigel Wood and the end began to begin.

BTW, here we go with a worthwhile discussion piggy backed onto a worthless thread.

Re: This Sunday I am mostly watching ... : Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:42 pm  

The Changing Man wrote:

So, I have the vision, could arrange the investment and am as passionate as the next fan..........but it all means nothing, because the brand is toxic. The club has alienated other clubs and the RFL with it's sheer arrogance and it is now truly the play-thing of the owner.

... if you can the investment, How about we all pool together and buy the club?