The fact that the Broncos are such a diabolical team must put southerners off our game more than if they didn't have a club representing them at all

61% less fans than we had 17 years ago. The depressing thing is that we've got 56% less than we had just 7 years ago and nobody at the Club seems to care or want to do anything about it.



The RFL need to step in in some shape.......the recent platitudes from Wood about "improving" strategy means nothing without some actual action by the sports governing body.



In the year 2000, Huddersfield Giants won 4 games, lost by an average of 19 points a game and were watched by 3,392.......fast forward to now and with clever and persistant use of KD's cash, they are challenging again and have doubled their average to over 7,000. They have repeatedly asked the locals to come and watch them....ticket offers, deals for students etc have all been used to coax locals to the club...



London in Y2K finished just above Hudds in front of 3,430 fans.......fast forward now and we are still cellar dwellers with 34% less fans. The club do nothing in the way of local marketing activity other than place an advert in the local free rag....they have never leafleted the locals, but instead have tried to target the entire city.....a pointless excercise.



Someone at the RFL needs to sit down with the club and find out why we are going backwards.....it is plain to see that if left to continue, it's not going to end well for the club or the sport for that matter.

Tbf Huddersfield's renaissance has been remarkable and they've had more their share of luck (like not being relegated when finishing bottom because of events elsewhere). I don't think they are a fair yardstick especially since they have the advantage of playing at the one ground.



Obviously though going backwards as quickly as Broncos have is pretty terrible.

We probably should have gone down in 2005 and nobody made the London Broncos move.....they did so because a series of owners and CEO's couldn't understand why fans weren't flocking to the games.



The WCC in 1997 showed that The Stoop could be filled if marketed correctly......but instead of kicking on, they simply sat back and expected those fans to come back with no encouragement. 9,846 watched the game v the other Broncos......it can be done, but it takes effort.



When Ian Lenegan bought into the club, many of us thought that at last, we had a successful businessman who knew what he was doing at the helm.....the short sightedness of the RFL in making him step away was the begining of the end for the club........it would have been very simple to "police" his ownership and ensure that everything was above board....instead, we have a generous commodities broker bankrolling us as a hobby with no effort in making us self sufficient, so when he walks away at the end of 2014.......well, you can guess what will happen then

We were relegated in 2001 and came straight back up, even in 2008 we finished 3rd from bottom so our rise is pretty recent and has no bearing on what happened in the late 90's.



As for London i think it is quite clear to see that it never has and probably now never will happen down there, a shame cos a decent set up in the South would enable the game to grow down there.

Perhaps the CEO of the London Broncos should read some of the comments here, and perhaps take some on board viewtopic.php?f=2&t=545750&tsmp=1362964652

Perhaps the CEO of the London Broncos should read some of the comments here, and perhaps take some on board viewtopic.php?f=2&t=545750&tsmp=1362964652

Someone at the RFL needs to sit down with Lenegan and tell him its OK to have an interest in two clubs.

The lack of relegation did far more harm than good to Huddersfield, as evidenced by the progress made when we were eventually allowed to go down and rebuild. Can't really think of any other pieces of 'luck' Fartown have had over the past 40 years other than KD marrying a Giants fan!

A very good point.

i think for a couple of the years the favs lost the play off final....didnt dewsbury win it one year in which if they had lost we would have been relegated as the other team were "ready" for sl and dewsbury were not

My fault SKY SPORTS a week behind.

As I remember it the rebuild had already started in the season Huddersfield were relegated. They started the turn around halfway through the season and it was only their dire performances before that that sent them down. I don't think that going down (only confirmed on the last day of the season when Wakefield won to finish just above them) did Huddersfield any good, but it did them no long term harm either.