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Didn't get the invite but happy for my thoughts to be fed into discussion.
I have had a season ticket since SL2 (apart from a year at The Hive) but I didn't renew this season for a few reasons (i) uncertainly over where games would be played (ii) unjustified price rises (iii) uncompetitive squad and (iv) general poor running of the club.
While I have not been to Trailfinders this season, I have enjoyed watching the academy and women's team play at Richmond.
I believe RL can generate a sustainable crowd in London provided the team is competitive, the match day experience is good and the game is well promoted. Unfortunately these things have not been in place for several years. The team that got promoted to SL achieved way more than the sum of its parts (which was great) but the club failed to build on that and has now lost that successful coaching team.
While we have done well to bring players through the academy system to the first team, unless we can retain the better players for longer this is not providing the basis of a competitive side.
The club needs to create and share a medium term plan (3 to 5 years) and also take more responsibility to help shape the long term future of the game in London as a whole.
I don't know why the club saw another ground move as a priority this season. Particularly when this meant different facilities being required for training, academy etc. Perhaps if the club was to explain its plans and consult supporters this would be more apparent. From the outside, it seems this should have been a season for consolidation and re-establishing core support post lockdown.
We are totally reliant on David Hughes support. How long can this continue, it seems like everything is increasingly done on the cheap ? My concern is he does little to secure the future of the club beyond his tenure but again the club do not communicate any plans so it is difficult to know the direction we are headed.
There are plenty of other things to do in London, the club needs to do much more to be a success.
76569_1517914522.pngRise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number--
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you--
Ye are many -- they are few.'
Percy Bysshe Shelley - 'The Mask of Anarchy'
' ITS OVER' - Roy Orbison:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_76569.png
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