No debate needed.....barnet is a non starter.....brentford on the other hand

Another non starter realistically. Brentford put forward a planning permission request explicitly stating the stadium will not be used for professional rugby. They have hinted about potentially revisiting this and it appears to have been a conscious decision to do it that way around for planning reasons. If do there was no chance of us/Wasps/Welsh ever being more than tenants. It is known Wasps talked to Brentford and it is believed that's the exact reason they ended talks and focused on Coventry.

I thought London Welsh are already signed and sealed as Brentford's tenants when the new stadium is completed.

long chat with bentfords chairman last night......lionel road is a few years away yet.

Have either code ever looked at East London? What about Leyton Orient? 10000 capacity stadium, I assume it's an untouched area for rugby, "The Orient RLFC"?, East London's rugby club for lads looking for a tougher sport than association football...

Was discussing this with my Dad last night, and if you think about it only international sport outside of football has a chance of being profitable.

At club level in rugby union, cricket, rugby league, basketball, ice hockey the monies earned to sustain a professional club just aren't there. Whether that's interest from the local communities, which are now much more multi-cultural than 30-40 years ago, or resident's finances with Greater London are tighter than in the past, I personally think there are several socio-economic issues as to why the majority of professional sport struggles inside London.

With the plethora of alternative entertainment in London, whatever you do has to be a quality product that looks after it's customer base, London Broncos for the best part of the last ten years have failed in that! Its that simple.

Even if we had our own stadium (or at least a BASE) we'd still struggle because the quality wasn't there or what was there quickly diminished and those disolussioned with the it are NOT going to come running back any time soon.

We've played a couple of games at Orient (one of which, given your user name, I'm sure you'd like to remind us of). It's a tidy little ground but the pitch is just too short, even compared to Brentford or The Hive. The proximity of housing all around means it's unlikely to get any longer any time soon.


To be honest you can narrow it down from that, there are only a handful of football clubs who are truly solvent, even with the new financial rules.