The club have posted extensive notes here https://www.londonbroncosrl.com/what-wa ... fans-forum It is starting to look like Hughes prevented some sensible interaction with fans.

The club have posted extensive notes here https://www.londonbroncosrl.com/what-wa ... fans-forum It is starting to look like Hughes prevented some sensible interaction with fans.

I believe that David Hughes like a lot of people who have power. Disliked criticism, fans forums invite it, so in his book fans forums probably were best avoided..

I really do struggle to get my head around the catchment area nonsense. It impacts on nobody else even if you just totted up the populations of Merton, Richmond, Hounslow & Ealing where we have had past "home" grounds. The refusal to accept this by the RFL/IMG does seem to be obstructive on their part to our grading score for whatever reason.

The Catchment score is defined as the population of the Local Authority District where the club’s stadium is located divided by the total number of Tier 1 and Tier 2 clubs in the same area.

Ealing alone would have gained the maximum 1.5 points for catchment since population is above 260k. Richmond and Merton have relatively small populations (for London Boroughs) both falling within the 130k-260k bucket that awards 1 point.

Even if points were awarded on a sliding scale (rather than in rather crude buckets), we might get a more sensible score.

Just be thankful we aren't playing in the City of London.

I bow to your superior knowledge Buzz, but it's still bonkers. Mind you if we played at the HAC regularly, we might not be short of money.