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With AFC Wimbledon in a play-off against Luton Town for a place in the Football League, are they someone we should consider getting in contact with were we to be interested in setting permanent foundations in London and the South East.

The football club currently achieves a 3500 average home gate at Kingsmeadow which is the home of Kingstonian FC. AFC Wimbledon have a desire to return closer to their traditional home. The general Wimbledon area would be not much further out of central London than Twickenham and does have underground and overground stations in that area.

Just thinking that we can't do it ourselves, and Wimbledon may have the support of authorities that we could not rely upon and the finances may be alot easier to secure for the year-round use 10,000 seater stadium in the general area of Wimbledon in London, something that David Hughes has alluded to. A 50% share of a stadium would have us in a better position than other super league clubs and would it be a better use of David Hughes money to put say £8m down via whatever means, rather than drain his money away around £1.5m a season.

I'm not saying we should hawk ourselves out to AFC Wimbledon in desperation, latching onto whomever may want to build, but from the outside it does seem to be a better fit than Harlequins and RL, but how much more of a marriage of convenience would it be as we would be seen as minor partners unless we had a 51% ownership of the ground.

Wimbledon is not the nice expensive houses and tennis, the surrounding area is sprawling suburbia and the area of Merton is surrounded by Kingston, Morden, Wandsworth, New Malden, etc and would be closer to our original homes of Fulham and also the Valley. A club in the North and South of London can only help the game, but would be nice if the Skolars could make the leap up to the Championship and bring a genuine sense of rivalry.

Pie in the sky or a roadmap forward when our deal at the Stoop comes to an end three years down the line. A move of 10 miles would not be the end of the community program in the Twickenham area, and I reckon a permanent home could only help the community program across London in the long run. I'm not David Hughes, and I don't know his finances, but I reckon this is something to look at for the future of rugby league in London, because at the end of 2014 there is no guarantees on anything.

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With AFC Wimbledon in a play-off against Luton Town for a place in the Football League, are they someone we should consider getting in contact with were we to be interested in setting permanent foundations in London and the South East.

The football club currently achieves a 3500 average home gate at Kingsmeadow which is the home of Kingstonian FC. AFC Wimbledon have a desire to return closer to their traditional home. The general Wimbledon area would be not much further out of central London than Twickenham and does have underground and overground stations in that area.

Just thinking that we can't do it ourselves, and Wimbledon may have the support of authorities that we could not rely upon and the finances may be alot easier to secure for the year-round use 10,000 seater stadium in the general area of Wimbledon in London, something that David Hughes has alluded to. A 50% share of a stadium would have us in a better position than other super league clubs and would it be a better use of David Hughes money to put say £8m down via whatever means, rather than drain his money away around £1.5m a season.

I'm not saying we should hawk ourselves out to AFC Wimbledon in desperation, latching onto whomever may want to build, but from the outside it does seem to be a better fit than Harlequins and RL, but how much more of a marriage of convenience would it be as we would be seen as minor partners unless we had a 51% ownership of the ground.

Wimbledon is not the nice expensive houses and tennis, the surrounding area is sprawling suburbia and the area of Merton is surrounded by Kingston, Morden, Wandsworth, New Malden, etc and would be closer to our original homes of Fulham and also the Valley. A club in the North and South of London can only help the game, but would be nice if the Skolars could make the leap up to the Championship and bring a genuine sense of rivalry.

Pie in the sky or a roadmap forward when our deal at the Stoop comes to an end three years down the line. A move of 10 miles would not be the end of the community program in the Twickenham area, and I reckon a permanent home could only help the community program across London in the long run. I'm not David Hughes, and I don't know his finances, but I reckon this is something to look at for the future of rugby league in London, because at the end of 2014 there is no guarantees on anything.