Brentford or Saracens

In my opinion leaving Ealing would be a mistake even if we are promoted. The culture of the club with the youth teams doing well and training playing in the same small ground as the first team seems to valuably to just jump to another ground! even if it's Brentford i love griffin park but that ground is starting to fall to bits and has almost been sold 10 times to developers.
IMO staying put in ealing which is not perfect but committing to an area to grow fans and to grow with the ground makes the most sense

We don't need to leave Ealing, we could train there and play at another ground. Thats what lots of sporting clubs do including the top soccer clubs

Wire Quinn I don't agree, that's what we ended up doing at the stoop playing there and training elsewhere, it does not really work. I think looking at the feedback from the club a lot of issues in the past have been caused by that approach. The fact the u16s and such get to train and play on the same bit of green as the main squad has gelled the club.
I hope DH and his team are looking into options with the priority of trying to get Trailfinders up to an acceptable spec. In reality I fear the worst and we will end up searching for a new home again if we went up

I thought that Brentford were due to leave Griffin Park very soon for the oft mooted Lionel Road site, has that fallen through (again)?

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( Hounslow Council has been pushing a proposal for an extension of Crossrail to Hounslow via Kew Bridge, using one of these freight lines. The outline document suggested a station could be built to serve the Lionel Road site. The proposal is unlikely to make it into the first phase of the Crossrail project, but might be a later addition to the route)

It works for the largest and best Rugby league teams globally why not London?

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Err because it's going back to where we were! For the first time in a long time we have a club feeling about us.

Personally id rather decline promotion and stay in the champs than move stadium, spend big on rent and get relegated and go bust again. 3000 capacity is big enough and the facility's great, the rfl would be mad to force us to move for a few thousand empty seats. It hasnt done hudds or salford any good. Lets be honest about where the club and the sport is in this country. Its ok to have smaller clubs and bigger clubs.

Tre, I think it's an acceptance by the sport as a whole that apart from one or two clubs the big stadiums are not needed, the Wakefield situation is ludicrous, they are being forced to move for the wrong reason, nothing to do with the stadium facilities but because they cannot seat 5000
Look at realistic crowds we could get if we went up! What has been our biggest crowd in recent history? Think I remember circa 8k against Bradford the first time at the stoop. In the last say 10 years what has been our best crowd.
At the moment why do Salford need a 10k stadium? Are they ever going to hit those numbers, fit for purpose rather than capacity should be the focus.
At mo though trailfinders would struggle on that front.

Decline promotion?
Seriously?

They mabey a deal to be done with trailfinders if promoted spending the extra sky money on the ealing ground to bring it nearer sl code. I know trailfindes said if they had won promotion last season they would have declined it. That mite gives us a chance to move into more of a partnership with ealing though I may be dreaming here.
But keeping ealing for the academy lads and renting a ground sl dosnt make any financial sense

It was a discussion we had when we first moved to Ealing about if they could get the ground developed at all and objections from the locals.
I have friends living in Ealing who have links with the club, they seem to think, temporary stands are an option, not sure about anything permanent, the ownership of the ground does complicate things as well as the local residents, the car parking and access causes concern as well, I know it's improved but when Leeds came down last year there were some major problems caused by on street parking and Broncos had to do some serious work to 're build bridges with the locals

Ealing themselves must have had parking problems for the big games. It is not beyond the wit of man for the council to make it residents only parking on match days and police it as such. Better communication of the local transport infrastructure, buses and tubes as well as National rail could also be part of the solution.

Declining promotion could have been an option if the RFL could be trusted not to move the goal posts on a whim of the loud chairmen. We would not survive a return to the franchise system, what with our current low crowd numbers and Toronto and the other potential newbies we will be screwed.