Quote: BRIXTON "I could live with a crap ground if it was our crap ground or part of it was. As for the temporary stands im not convinced ,behind the sticks is the road into the car park and has houses behind so think thats a non starter , opposite the main stand there's plenty of room but they will be going onto the training pitch so will surely ruin the grass so cant see that happening, couldn't really see what was behind the stand with the tent above it so not sure there , only place I can see for improvement is knocking down the main stand and starting again which wont happen because of the cost as it has all the dressing rooms , treatment rooms and bar in it , hope im wrong but cant see this being a decent ground without millions being spent on it.'"
I think in your posts you have really hit the nail on the head. If we had bought this ground and had planning permission to develop it then it would be a real step forward. As it is we are a pro club as tenants at a ground which screams amateur / social club!
I have posted previously about what would happen if we drew a SL club at home in the Cup, waive home advantage or desperately try to hire an alternative venue for the day? TBH I think we’ll have trouble accommodating a club like Bradford when they visit, they travelled in decent numbers last season.
And should, as we all want, we be successful in the league, win the million pound game then we’ll likely to have to move again won’t we as this ground is never in a million going to be up to SL standard? DH knows this hence his evasiveness at the Fans Forum!
Whilst many will brush this sort of thing off with a ‘we are where we are’ ( God I hate that phrase!) , we are where we are because of years of cocking up both on and significantly off the pitch! If the current level of marketing and engagement had been tried while we were still at The Stoop or even the Hive we might not be in the mess we find ourselves in, seeing as we still had a significant level of support! Even as the Broncos mkII we pulled in nearly 5k for the first game of the season against St Helens. At Ealing we’ll do very, very well to pull in a fifth of that crowd!