Quote ="Bronco believer"What if the plan is to move east until the new stadium in Brentford is open, could be a winner from all sides, club picks up new fans from the east then returns west with the pull of a shiny new ground.
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That is just totally hare-brained. Move 35 miles east with the intention of moving back again a few years down the line? The new Brentford ground won't be ready until the 2017 Superleague season according to the publicity when the project was announced a few weeks back. (And that's assuming everything runs smoothly with no delays in obtaining planning permission or during its construction.)
If there is any intention to move in with Brentford at their new ground it would make more sense to stay put until then, in an excellent stadium only a few miles to the south. (Or to move back to Griffin Park if it's compliant with current Superleague criteria.)
Gillingham would end my support of the club. I'm a Londoner, I've always lived within a few miles of Central London, I've got no wish to support a club based in the middle of Kent, or to travel to Kent to watch matches. I like watching Superleague rugby, and whilst Gillingham would still be the nearest place I can do so if we go there, frankly I'd rather book a few cheap train journeys a year to places like Wigan, Warrington, Wakefield etc, all of whom play within walking distance of train stations with direct services out of Euston/King's X, as well as lending my support to Skolars too.
I'm convinced one of the main reason this club struggles for support is that we never seem to go more than five years without changing (a) the club's name, (b) the club's location, or (c) the clubs playing colours. Every time one of these three key elements changes it weakens and dilutes the club's identity. Many of our rivals have played under the same name (give or take some of the "nickname" type names to have been incorporated into club names in the Superleague era) in the same colours and in the same area since the 19th century. We can't even manage to do that for more than half a decade.