I guess it's been mentioned before, but with Broncos going well at the moment, it's relevant. In the event of promotion to Super League what are the implications with regard to ground/safety etc.?

The ground is massively short of SL standards, so far that an exemption to play there seems unlikely. When Broncos moved in it was stated the ground could be upgraded to SL standard if required. We'll know more if it becomes relevant I guess.

Note that Ealing RU are looking at the opportunities that may exist for them to try and push for RU Premiership status so the ground may be on their to do list. A friend who lives nearby is of the opinion he redevelopment work begining in the area may offer opportunities. Clearly that is medium to long term and unlikely to make much difference by the 2018 RL season.

An additional problem would be that with a ground move (even a temporary one while Trailfinders was upgraded) any potential landlord would know that we were desperate and charge accordingly.

Not really there are plenty of sports clubs that would welcome further income without ripping of a potential partner/tenant. Probably every soccer club outside the top flight for example

Why did we end up at trailfinders in the first place? No one else in London wanted us.
So moving even temporary would not be straight fwd

I understand that there were other options when the club looked to relocate. Trailfinders it was felt was the best.

Of course there were options in and around London.

Not what I heard

I believe that the club are taking the idea that we could win promotion seriously.

Agree, with options being considered

If by any chance we could pull it off, I really do hope that we can find a way to work with Ealing and bring trailfinders up to an acceptable standard. I really do think being at Ealing has played a massive part in the club getting to this position where we can even think about it.

As I understand Ealing would be the favored option, however the club are not putting all its eggs in one basket. So other ground are being looked at closely.
Ealing themselves have aspiration to get promoted themselves, which can only be a positive where ground improvement is concerned.

It doesn't take much to build a good temporary stand. The East Stand at Blackpool is a temporary structure built for their one season (2011) in the Premier League, with the intention to make it permanent if they stayed up.

The Stoop has temp stands at each end. The issue would be parking, increased numbers etc etc

As others have said, if we do get promotion, let's hope we can stay at Ealing.

Brentford or Saracens

In my opinion leaving Ealing would be a mistake even if we are promoted. The culture of the club with the youth teams doing well and training playing in the same small ground as the first team seems to valuably to just jump to another ground! even if it's Brentford i love griffin park but that ground is starting to fall to bits and has almost been sold 10 times to developers.
IMO staying put in ealing which is not perfect but committing to an area to grow fans and to grow with the ground makes the most sense

We don't need to leave Ealing, we could train there and play at another ground. Thats what lots of sporting clubs do including the top soccer clubs

Wire Quinn I don't agree, that's what we ended up doing at the stoop playing there and training elsewhere, it does not really work. I think looking at the feedback from the club a lot of issues in the past have been caused by that approach. The fact the u16s and such get to train and play on the same bit of green as the main squad has gelled the club.
I hope DH and his team are looking into options with the priority of trying to get Trailfinders up to an acceptable spec. In reality I fear the worst and we will end up searching for a new home again if we went up

I thought that Brentford were due to leave Griffin Park very soon for the oft mooted Lionel Road site, has that fallen through (again)?

of the stadium wiki

( Hounslow Council has been pushing a proposal for an extension of Crossrail to Hounslow via Kew Bridge, using one of these freight lines. The outline document suggested a station could be built to serve the Lionel Road site. The proposal is unlikely to make it into the first phase of the Crossrail project, but might be a later addition to the route)

It works for the largest and best Rugby league teams globally why not London?

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg ... gby-league

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg ... gby-league

Err because it's going back to where we were! For the first time in a long time we have a club feeling about us.

Personally id rather decline promotion and stay in the champs than move stadium, spend big on rent and get relegated and go bust again. 3000 capacity is big enough and the facility's great, the rfl would be mad to force us to move for a few thousand empty seats. It hasnt done hudds or salford any good. Lets be honest about where the club and the sport is in this country. Its ok to have smaller clubs and bigger clubs.