What would folk on here have preffered? Stayed at trailfinders from the off and not bid for a SL place.
Or do what we did?
Its irrelevant now that wimbledon is delayed. But had we not made the plan to move then we could not have even made a bid to compete for the SL slot. If that had been the case then would that have been acceptable?
So no its not missing the point at all

You don't get it do you. Negotiations should have started 12 months ago. No announcements should have been made until a contract was signed. A Fall back plan should have been in place. Its simple business.

The website being out of date, crashing....the night before the season starts should tell you something.

Its shambolic nothing less.

I can't argue it's messy definitely some questions for the club to answer at some point.
But we don't know what deal was available form trailfinders for a one year deal or whatever.
And I'd supposed there is a benefit for getting all the hassle of moving out of the way.
Before the important games towards the end of the season.
Also with the way this sport is run we could get promoted out of the blue look at Leigh.
There been rumours going round about adding another club to superleague.

I am probably mising the point just doesn't seem that bad a situation

If you don't think having contracts at 3 grounds with a possible 4th in 1 season isn't bad or at the very least poorly planned, I don't know what is.

Difficult times trailfinders isn't Super league standard.
The club isn't viable unless we're in SL
Even then may not be.
We need a permanent home for 1000 reasons.
This move is awkward but we gotta try.
Imha as every likes to day on this site

It isn't the league we play in or the ground we play at that makes the club viable.

Attracting more fans is what makes the club viable and this is an area the club has rarely shown an interest in.

I like the ambition to move to a SL ground but it should have been planned for next season or progressed much further during 2020.

When the move happens lets see how interested the club is in making itself viable long term. I expect the home support will likely drop as it has after every other move because the club never put the investment into building the fan base in the new location.

Jbuzza I don't really disagree with your sentiment, I would say with the cut to central funding. I don't think any professional champ club is viable long term.
I do personal think with the crowds we have had since moving to Ealing.
We're we played great rugby singed a few biggish names.
Jamie soward wes naiqama. I know not stars but NRL players some fans would have heard of.
Played big games on sky and played well Vs Leeds and Warrington.
Got promoted! are attendances were still awful.
I'd say the run we had a Ealing that was some great marketing in its shelf if you watch RL.

So I suppose what trying to say sorry if I am rambling.

Marketings is important I struggle to see what marketing can be done to bring in many more fans.
If we gotta jump through some hoops to secure a chance at more permanent home it's hopefully worth it.

Lots of assumptions made! There were rumours a long time back even abiut a move to wimbledon! So how do any of us know what the club were negotiating! So no am not missing the point at all. Had the second wave of covid not hapoened wimbledon would likely be all wrapped up.
Nobody is denying the situation is poop
As for the club not being viable if not in super league! Not as if we were pulling massive crowds in when we were SL

In the course of 5 years at Ealing our entire marketing campaign consisted of: one poster outside a church near the Broadway, which went up with only a couple of games left in our first season, a leaflet drop outside Ealing and Richmond (!) train stations, a leaflet drop for the Super 8s which went out after our first game had been played, and asking the players to go for coffee in Ealing wearing their training kit. I lived in Acton/Ealing for 40 years, until leaving 18 months ago, and it's a plain fact that no-one there knew we existed let alone played in the borough.

Let's be honest here, we haven't done this stuff properly for the entirety of David Hughes' ownership, and certainly not since the hardworking Chris Warren left. If I may quote the most prominent western philosophers of late 20th Century society, The Simpsons, "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas".

Its back to the d8scussion of where is the expected fan base. Personally in m mind it never has and never will be the local populace where we play, so local advertising leaflet drops around the ground pretty pointless. Its a london club not an ealing club.
Marketting if there was any needed spreading further afield, and then you are into how and how much.