Re: Sheffield Home game : Mon May 16, 2022 7:07 pm  

jbuzza wrote:

This will be the 4th venue Hughes is paying for this season. The one we can only use for 1st team matches for part of the season, the training ground we can only use when the landlords have finished with it for the evening, the one we are using for the youth to be close to the Academy head who then quit and now the one in Kent.

When you write it down and read it back it’s crazy isn’t it. My wacky idea that every single decision that the ‘board’ make should be sanity checked by an independent person with a brain grows more attractive by the second. Surely if they set out what they intended to do and sent it to a grown up, any half sensible person would ask a couple of questions and the whole rationale for it would fall away and we would avoid another banana skin.

Re: Sheffield Home game : Mon May 16, 2022 7:10 pm  

Halfdan of t'wide embrace wrote:

An ex Broncos fan I know was told by an Ebbsfleet official that this was on the cards at Steve Mascord's birthday bash. He told me at Army RL Challenge Cup 2nd Round day so it's been in the pipelines a long time.

One of the Ebbsfleet officials used to be employed by an NRL club, which is why they were so keen to host the match.

Cheers Dan that offers some glimmer of understanding. I’m all in favour of our ‘board’ talking to management teams from other clubs from across any sports. If we are lucky they’ll pick up some good ideas. We seem to have run out of them ourselves.

Re: Sheffield Home game : Mon May 16, 2022 7:31 pm  

On the plus side ( and this is probably for me alone) it’s going to be a hell of a lot easier for me to get to than Wimbledon.
Even easier than when we played a couple of games at Gillingham.

Re: Sheffield Home game : Mon May 16, 2022 7:38 pm  

Like RfE, I am a winner in the journey lottery. Living only fifteen minutes or so from the ground.

Re: Sheffield Home game : Mon May 16, 2022 7:40 pm  

Victor wrote:

Like RfE, I am a winner in the journey lottery. Living only fifteen minutes or so from the ground.

Every cloud. Mind I don’t think people who live in Wimbledon or Ealing will find it that handy. For me looks like train/tube into Kings Cross then out again on the train. 1hour/ 1 hour 20. Sigh.

Re: Sheffield Home game : Mon May 16, 2022 7:45 pm  

Ebbsfleet is great when to 2 French clubs come over on Eurostar. What? They're both in Super League, well that's another plan fallen through.

Re: Sheffield Home game : Mon May 16, 2022 7:50 pm  

Hopefully no Sheffield fans booked cheap train tickets to London...

Re: Sheffield Home game : Mon May 16, 2022 8:01 pm  

Halfdan of t'wide embrace wrote:

Hopefully no Sheffield fans booked cheap train tickets to London...

IIRC they hardly turned up in numbers when they got to Wembley a few years back so suspect this won’t be such a problem. Now the thousands of new SW London Broncos fans we’ve accrued via our aggressive marketing of this season that may be a problem!

Re: Sheffield Home game : Mon May 16, 2022 8:14 pm  

Given this has clearly been brewing for ages, Broncos should have had the courtesy to warn Sheffield fans not to book cheap train tickets as the venue was uncertain. It doesn't matter whether it's one fan or ten thousand. It's not like it's never happened to Broncos own fans is it ...

Re: Sheffield Home game : Mon May 16, 2022 8:34 pm  

I was going to make a crack about would we have to play in our host’s colours- seems Ebbsflleet wear red shirts and we have a 3rd kit that is red……….