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

They were on sale in the shop at every game. Both current and old strip. On the last game you would have thought they would have reduced them, but no.
They did put a " Last game at the Hive " programme on Ebay as a collectors item. Priced £ 7.99. This was on Saturday before the game.
I would think they we sell the shirts on Ebay over time.

There was a serious attempt to put a consortium together in the 2014 season. Not sure why it failed but those involved were known RL names and have the money. Some of them are funding RL elsewhere which may be why it didn't happen.

The leading story on the local newspapers website in Aldershot as I type is that some of the French RU team were shopping here today. Aldershot is home to Army RL and was home to Quins / Broncos academy. Shame no-one in Aldershot knew as no-one ever bothers to tell the local press. Just another symptom of the malaise which impacts southern RL.

Hughes is still in it because he is stubborn. (and I suspect a little bit guilt ridden of what he did in 2013) It is this stubbornness that has decimated the club as he makes "instant" decisions without thinking them through and the steadfastly refuses to accept he was wrong.......there's a long list of ex-employees who prove this but I suspect there's no need to name them as it will only inflame those who'd rather forget the past and plough ahead with the same bloke steering the way





As I said, the game would need to return to Licensing and London, under new ownership could apply. We don't have masses of P&R in sport down here...the NRL has it's sick puppies but seems to plod on OK without having to chop and change the system every 3 years, but the guys at the RFL are experts at protecting their own jobs......they have achieved exactly NOTHING this year with the extra games across the top 24 clubs. No new fans, no new sponsors and if anything, existing fans were no more or less engaged by the whole process and viewing figures are down. Now we have them "adjusting" the system......because owners of clubs who hailed the system now dislike parts of it and because none of the pre-season targets have been achieved.....the entire RFL is geared for self preservation and that means small town clubs and small town chairmen influencing national and international policy making.......and we wonder why we are ignored by the media?

If RL is to succeed in the UK as a full time professional sport, then a lot needs to change...starting with the people we employ to run the game!

Half, the French RU are training on Queens Avenue. In the past they have hosted Fiji RU for the previous world cup held in UK, The British Lions RU prior to a tour, Harlequins RU (not just the juniors) and of course the Broncos juniors (Jonesey lived in Farnborough). Eng RU use Sandhurst for secret training sessions. (they don't have a great deal to hide)

The Army facilities are brilliant for training; fields, pitches, gyms, pools, running tracks, combat gyms, weight rooms, restaurants.......... The Broncos at one point were looking to move there training to Aldershot but chose to use a public field with a toilet block on the A3!!

Another intelligent discussion that is being locked after attempts to derail it.

Hopefully, some people might start to get the idea.