Well Barry Hearn lives in LaLa Land and feels 9,800 is not sufficient at Brisbane Road, he needs 60,000! LOL Total Joker!

This forum has become infested by idiots over the last 6 months or so.

Why? Have Wigan & Hull got their own?

What's wrong with The Stoop?

Not a lot, but it is not in East London, the new centre of the universe! and it is not 20 mins from my gaff as the local cockneys would
'ave it.

We should have a sticky at the top of the index page where Northeners can come and tell us what we're doing wrong Stadium wise.

It's the right side of the river, not in East London and we might not have to share it with QPR as they are planning to find a bigger stadium now that they're in the Premier League

Indeed.

What's the parking like at Lotfus Road?

Forgot about that

Wrong. The ground is, at present, being reduced to 25,000, resulting in Barry Hearn making a bid. However, a 4,000 average in a 25,000 is stupid.

Moe what is being reduced to 25,000? The Olympic Stadium is currently 80,000 seats and will be reduced after next years Olympics to 60,000, being ready for 2014, my footie team West Ham want itm but I am not sure it would be far too big for us! and I wait to see the plans how the running track will be covered to get the crowd near to the pitch.

The capacity of Brisbane Road 9,271, but could be easily made into a 15,000 seater stadium.

Is the Olympic hockey stadium an option?

No. Please leave our forum.

Wasn't there actual talks about moving to Kingston and sharing with AFC Wimbledon or was that an elaborate hoax?

Moving to Kingston and sharing with AFC is highly unlikely given the ground is already shared by Kingstonian FC. Three clubs in one ground doesn't seem to work to me. Kingstonian owned the ground but the club and ground were sold separately a few years ago . Also, the capacity is sub 5000 and I struggle to see how it could be extended to Superleague requirements. Wikipedia reported that we were off to share with AFC at their much sought ground in Merton. There are a few problems with that statement. Not least that Quins RL, as were were then, stated we were not in talks with AFC but would be willing to do so. (Given we are openly searching for a ground I have to say I find it odd we hadn't been in talks with AFC.) Secondly AFC haven't even identified their preferred site yet, they are down to four or five, so we are talking years before the stadium will be up and running realistically. That's without even touching on the issue of funding such a project in the current climate. Kingston Council may not be too sympathetic to any proposal to assist funding it by building on the existing ground given that would leave Kingstonian up the creek without the proverbial paddle.

There are a number of "stalled" development projects in and around london that would require a cash injection to restart them.
By this, I mean there are sites that have been cleared, there are girders lying on the ground waiting to be errected......there is planning permission in place and there are other parties in need of cash to get their projects completed......
One such development has already been viewed in North West London..........others are to be examined. The club will move where they can truly put down roots....and if that's where they can have a ground of their own, then so be it.

To the OP.....please feel free to look at where Charlton is in London......I'll give you a hint....it's Nearer Holland than Twickenham

Merton council are very keen to get AFC back in the borough. A deal with another party would help things move along quicker.

Lionel Road

I understand that the on the road game at Leyton Orient is an experiment to see if there is an appetite for RL in east London and I have also read the comments from the club that apparently Harlequins want to do some pitch maintenance, so there is no need for anyone to remind me of those facts……but are on the road games a good idea?

I do not know if it was a prerequisite of the RFL that we needed to take a couple of games on the road to new audiences for them to provide the promised RL marketing assistance, but I do not understand the basis for the current thinking that somehow the promised land for London RL is east London. Did I miss the bit where the club provided the in depth analysis and research findings that east London is a veritable hot-bed of RL fans? If this is the case and east London is so blessed with easy transport links into central London, I suppose it begs the question as to why all of these RL followers are not already making the trip to the Stoop…….after all, the expectation seems to be that the loyal followers we already have (who come from far and wide) are expected to make the journey to east London.

In addition, it seems to have been an ever present comment on this board that to make progress we needed to improve the team and heavily market our presence and the game………..the one year when we seem to have those elements, some quality signings and a budget for marketing, we decide to take games out of the local area. What`s so wrong with building on what we already have in the area we are currently located?....and please do not tell me we have tried that, because by all accounts we have never seriously marketed the club.

Contrary to some of the comments made I think that Stoop is one of the best rugby grounds in the country with great facilities, after match party etc which is part of the attraction to away fans……..why does anyone think that sharing a ground with a football club in a sole-less concrete stadium like Wigan, Hull FC and Huddersfield is the way forward. Do those people not remember that in the past we were forced to take our games elsewhere while the football clubs manicured their precious turf……….with our season now starting ridiculously early in February the periods when we would likely be nomads would surely only be extended. No doubt someone will state that Wigan, Hull and Huddersfield make it work, but then again we do not bring in the crowds that Wigan and Hull have so we have less clout to bargain with the landlord.

The rent we pay at the Stoop (circa 200k a year I believe has been mentioned before) must compare favourably with any deal we are likely to get with a football club and we would get to play all our home games at home (I am thinking that the Quins maintenance thing is likely a one-off as we have not had problems of this nature before).

So in my opinion I think we should be staying at the Stoop, concentrate on building on what we already have and invest in marketing what we hope will be a much better product in the coming season. Changing the club name is one thing, but I see no reason to chuck the baby out with the bath water.

Just in case anyone is wondering, I live in south-east London and minimum travel time to the Stoop is 1.5 hours and it would be quicker for me to get to east London, so the above comments are not made out of self-interest.

I don't see what relevance this has. Yes there are stalled developments but none of them, save for Brentford's Lionel Road idea, are anything to do with sporting stadia. Plus we don't have any money, an issue that people in this thread seem willing to overlook.

We have to find money each season to pay the union landlords, St Helens only had around £8K from the sale of Knowsley Road but with different funding from regional development, council etc they raised the rest of the £26K - IF we do continue for many years to come which is my Hope I would not like to see it with no ambition and happy to pay rent and have no income streams except ticket sales and merchandise.

FFS, you people are so bloody negative, its disgraceful.

You've (not everyone) picked holes in the club's decision to revert back to the 'London Broncos' name, you spend a large chunk of time abusing players at the club, for example Chad Randall in a thread on here, you regularly pick holes in anything the club does and now people are picking holes in the clubs decision to play two games in other parts of East London and have all but called them unsuccesful and they're still 6 months away from being played.

The worst fans in the league someone said the other day, maybe. The biggest moaning fans in the league, definitely.

It is good to know we are top at something, but if fans of any other SL team had the teams and performances we have had in the last 6 years there would have been lynching and riots, so let us put the fans angst in perspective.

Well said Moe, you can't please all the people all the time but on here everything seems to get ripped apart. Suppose that is the point of an Internet forum but gets a bit too much sometimes when not many people are quick to praise the club for their
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