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| Is DH back in the country this week????
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| Quote: windy one 2010 "Have to say the Salford game is very important for obvious reasons,'"
Mmm…
You'd think this, wouldn't you, but what does Mr McDermott have to say about the Salford game"Salford is not important to me. If we go bottom of Super League, nobody spontaneously combusts. The season is long and we've just got to make sure we keep playing to a certain standard and keep our integrity about what we do.'"
). If the Quins move has failed then I'd try somewhere like Oxford as a last throw.
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| Quote: The Chronicler of Chiswic "But we did all that in our first season at Craven Cottage , which all petered out when Ernie Clay lost interest when he realised he wasn't going to make a load of money from RL (closure rumours began half way through the second season, thereby starting one of the club's most enduring traditions
High Wycombe would be better IMO. Not much else to do, easy access from the M4 for those fans on the west of London, decent population. Long way for me though
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| Quote: Snoopy "High Wycombe would be better IMO. Not much else to do, easy access from the M4 for those fans on the west of London, decent population. Long way for me though
What about "London" Wasps? And use of the ground would be an issue with Wycombe Wanderers there too. It's also a much smaller town than Oxford, to use the other example.
I must say the instant results re. attendances at Wrexham did make me start wondering about the RFL's whole expansion strategy. Crusaders v Leeds was an easy sell for a border town with only a football club in the doldrums to satisfy the local sports spectators: "Come and watch your new local Welsh team take on the best team in England".
Given Crusaders' relocation and the need for Ian Lenagan to sell his shares it did start me wondering what miight happen if a wealthy newcomer came in with an offer on the proviso that the club relocates lock, stock & barrel to some other town on the edge of the Home Counties or beyond. Oxford seems a good example - a football club attempting to fight its way back from relegation to non-league with a modern ground large enough for a Superleague club. Ashford, mentioned earlier, is another town of the type where the "Wrexham scenario" might work: a large town, not very affluent, over fifty miles from London with good trasport links and no other sports club of note. Problem there would be a ground - there's a non-league football club with a twenty year old ground on the outskirts of town, but it would be nowhere near SL standard and is in a rubbish location on an unlit main road with no footpath. Basingstoke is another similar town, but again no suitable ground. Swindon? The football ground there would be good enough and when I passed through there on a Saturday a few months back there were crowds of people boarding my train to go to Bath for a union game. Perhaps a local top flight SL club could flourish there?
Ideally what I think our club needs is another SL club in the south to stimulate a bit of rivalry and more interest. I just hope we can hang in there until the amateur game down here takes off and stimulates greater interest in watching Quins.
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| Stay at The Stoop. I like it there.
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| In the past Oxford were desperate to bring Rugby to the Kassam Stadium.
The then owner Firoz Kassam (who still owns the stadium, Ian Leneghan owns the club) tried to buy Mosely, tried to hijack Wasps when Wycombe failed to expand the stadium and had a deal done for Bristol to move had they stayed in the Premiership a few years ago
It all fell through and the stadium is now used just for football
Would suit me nicely, I could be there all through the year
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