Yeah - London Broncos playting at the Stoop seems to be the general consensus, but nothing official yet!

It seems curious to me that if we are to be the Broncos, what the delay is. Maybe we are waiting for a club sponsor.............................................

Yeah, most likely announce they will be the *insert sponsor name* London Broncos from next year on.

They did say the end of September, was there not some speculation it could be at some event we are tied in with at the Docklands?

There was and I confess to starting it, but it seems to have come to nought.

No I am sure I read it in the new edition of the 40/20 Magazine which also talked about us looking towards a 15,000 seater stadium of our own which the RFL agreed with but the area has to be right.

Quote: jaybs "No I am sure I read it in the new edition of the 40/20 Magazine which also talked about us looking towards a 15,000 seater stadium of our own which the RFL agreed with but the area has to be right.'" www.times-series.co.uk/news/9271 ... hill_exit/ So not Barnet then.

Quote: jaybs "No I am sure I read it in the new edition of the 40/20 Magazine which also talked about us looking towards a 15,000 seater stadium of our own which the RFL agreed with but the area has to be right.'" www.times-series.co.uk/news/9271 ... hill_exit/ So not Barnet then.

This 15,000 seater stadium is the most ludicrous "promise"/idea the club have ever issued.

This is an RL forum so I won't get started on matters roundball, but Barnet council are a filthy, horrible, repugnant bunch of self-important f**ktards. I've lived in some pretty ropey districts of London council-wise, but I've never heard of a council actively seeking to destroy the one professional sports team that operates within their boundaries - one of the few institutions that generates wealth for the area and gets kids playing sport in the borough.

Though it would make my journey to the games nice and easy I do hope London Broncos (or whatever we now find ourselves called) never make the decision to move back to the borough of Barnet. Stay where you are, I'll come to you!

Promise? or Business Plan to develop & secure Rugby League in London.

Have a pitch similar to the one Widnes Vikings are installing (if it works, though it seems to from last week's demonstration) and use the ground 7 days a week for school rugby and all Academy and Under 23 matches, making everyone feel part of the club as a community and the area based in.

Business plans are meant to be realistic, sustainable and achieveable.

Well Dave that is why you glass is always half empty and others like myself it is Half Full! we are making progress with youth rugby & The Academy that was never felt possible at long last, it does not happen over night but with hard work it can and does happen! I have been in many business positions what many have said it can't be done, it won't succeed, but you have to try if you Believe and show those who doubted they are wrong.

No way as a club can we just sit still and never think of progressing and developing, if we do we may as well pack up shop now & forget London with rugby league once and for all, gladly there are many who still say NO! we will not just give in, clubs in the North have been going 100 years plus and still need to grow and develop we are still young as a club so we have to fight on and succeed.

Given that stadia take several years from the identification of a site, and we haven't even looked at which area would want us, or even take us. This business plan should look at this, being 'realistic, sustainable and achieveable' but it seems like it is more Field of Dreams than it is fiscal thinking.

It is good to have a long-term vision, but it shouldn't be a major focus for the club as we should focus of the current licensing period and allow the RFL and someone at the club to look at possible areas. An all-year round and all-community pitch would sell the idea better to a council.

I don't disagree, your glass could be overflowing and the idea of a 15,000 seater stadium of our own within the next 20 years would still be barmy.

I'd be inclined if you said ten years, purely on how long a stadium takes to complete with the planning side of things, but 20 years and barmy seems to be not a case of glass half full or half empty. They say their glasses are half-full are considered optimists. Yeah, but shouldn't we be more specific about the contents of the glass? If it's a glass of sh't, I'm going half-empty. I don't like sh't as an optimist. "Yeah, we gotta half-empty sh't glass right here."

It would be barmy to think that we could not achieve the aim of having our own stadium inside 20 years. Just depends what's in your cup I guess.