??????????????? How can that be worst case PP..........as much as I do not want them to move to Gillingham (but I will still support them) I want the club to survive. They have been called all sorts over the years and played at countless grounds. If they are successful in SL but happen to play in kent I can live with that, and it will show that there is support for the game down south.

The problem is that just about everyone bar DH/GM believes that such a move is not a recipe for success, in fact just the opposite and remain very much against the rumoured relocation.

I predict looking at the pages overnight on this thread if we move anywhere other than The Stoop GF will come over on a holiday and stand outside the ground with a bill board around his neck "The End is Nigh" the height of real marketing!

Appreciate GF the twitter acknowledgement, you are really starting to catch up with new media!

OK, the worse case scenario is no southern SL club at all, I agree, but the whole case for the Kent move is, I guess, that SL cannot be made to work in London, and that if a move is successful we will be told that SL cannot be made to work in London end of, and that will be the last we will see in SL until the Skolars can prove that a paying-winning team can be built. It will a long time before the M62ers give us another chance to take one of their precious seats at the top table.

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Nope.
That would be a brilliant scenario and I would be the first to congratulate everyone involved when they are averaging 9k at games and making the play-offs on a regular basis with a decent shirt sponsor...........but they will have done it at the expense of some of the fans who have followed the club through thick and thin...fans who will have been abandoned because the right people didn't make the right decisions over the previous 17+ years.

London RL will not die.....the amateur game will continue to flourish, but the work in schools will need to be picked up by the RFL......but the team that will be making the play-offs regularly and attracting up to 100k+ through the gates every year will not be a LONDON Superleague club.......the will be the Gillingham Giraffes

OK, see where you are coming from. Perhaps `not working in London` is a sad reflection on the state of the game in general i.e. that for the most part we are a minority sport that cannot afford to survive and compete with other attractions/sports in the big cities (leeds accepted).

eugh....

I tell you what, I'd be dead impressed if you could market that.

So you say that even if our current landlords request an astronomical increase in rent as someone stated then DH should just cough up just to keep the fans happy who do not want to leave the stoop, sorry GF but I no businessman who would like that way, I can list a number of owners who do it their way be it RL or football it is not just DH. I think in the end most supporters accepted the name change, okay a few didn't but when can anyone keep everyone happy. I support the move away from the stoop, but I also feel we have to stay in London and I do hope any move will be temporary until we may be able to part own a stadium.

Sorry you don't appreciate the humour but you give it out consistently and most of us do take it!

On the other hand, with the exception of Harlequins, RU has largely abandoned London for the surrounding counties. we may have to admit that with 12 or 13 professional football clubs (I forget the exact number) London is a football city, and everything else is a minority game.

There is plenty that is wrong with the admin of RL, but I don't think we should beat ourselves up if we have a club near London rather than in it.
Especially when a game like RU has had over 100 years to build a fan base, and yet of the 7 teams that started the professional RU era, 2 have gone to the wall, and 4 have left the city.

Why would Skolars want that? They're run by people with a few more brain cells than pound notes but that idea is ridiculous. If Skolars were to get promoted and Gillingham Giraffes falling on their s, then I imagine some on here who live far from Gillingham will take up the option of watching a successful Skolars side in the Championship.

No, Stevo confirmed we are now "Gills Gee-Gees"

It was Stevo who said it on Backchat. I rather the comment with a pinch of salt. It is only a couple of years ago at a fans forum that Paul Blanchard was saying he felt we had a very good deal with Quins.What benefit would it be to Quins to price us out?

Why do people think that football clubs are philanthropic organisations who will let us in on the cheap? The experience at Brentford showed anything but.

If we can't afford the rent, how on earth will the club afford to be part owners of a stadium?