Five mins from London Bridge, not cavernous, working class area that some people seem to think is important, near the Greenwich Admirals and South London Storm... can't be the first time anyone's thought of it. IS there some obvious problem with it that I'm missing?

Millwall FC "fans"???

There are many many reasons why this would not work, number one being it's South London...........The A***Hole of London!!!!

i think not many fans is maybe better than millwall fans

great first post

LMS?

Keep wendy ball off here you will be talking about kick and clap next

I reckon if I was to start a new SL team in London, if I could not get the new Olympic stadium, I would definitely go for a soccer ground in a working class area. Why?, RL remains stubbornly a working class sport, one of the reasons for the crowd failures at the Stoop. Most of our original core fans were Fulham football fans, and they for me should be the target audience for marketing. RL has more in common fan-wise with soccer than RU. And Millwall could easily become a fortress, the away teams would not like going there! It is bizarre but I think the East End has more potential than South West London, it could hardly be any worse. NB Charlton is not in the East End! Go Mudchute Uncles!!!

would upton park be an option after west ham move to the olympic stadium?

Snob's on here, eh? =]

Erm, what?

It didn't work too badly at the Valley as I recall , remind me what side of the river that was please?

I seem to recall it was considered when we left the Valley. Dulwich Hamlet FC, a couple of stops further down the railway line, certainly was visited by people from the club back then. What's the train service like down there now? When I lived out that way there were no trains on Sunday though that has certainly changed and they do run now, not sure how often though.

As an aside the vast majority of genuine Millwall fans are good people. I've been there as an away fan several times, a few idiots in the top tier of the left hand stand, from the away end, tend to spend the match gesticulating at away fans not watching, the rest support Millwall. The local police are pretty well organised as well with a secure walkway to the ground for away fans etc. (I support a team that also has a problem and our fans were banned from there a few seasons ago, as it happens Millwall gave the away end tickets to local youth clubs etc and I went along with one of them with no problems.) As with many teams there can be issues when their big match muppets turn up but the chances of them rocking up to RL are very small to be honest.

Millwall would be an impossible sell. Irrespective of whether the prejudices are justified or not, they exist in most sports supporters heads.

Surely they are selling it to a housing developer of something to get some money back.

I think any move is a while off if it even does happen, we will have our next 3 year licence at the stoop so nothing will happen before 2015.

I think sharing a football ground is a good idea as I like how they are closer to the pitch and (generally) they are usually easily reachable by public transport, I've not been inside the new den to comment on their facilities, but I would happily watch rl there. Perhaps we could be the London Lions if we shared with millwall?