Looking at rents of comparable housing 15% extra would cover the cost of living 10% is probably not quite enough. If you look at the top teams most have a blend of players brought in and their own youth which they have developed. London need to change the culture at the club and bring in the right coaches, develop and retain their youth before they will be competitive. I hope you have signed Long as an assistant not as head coach otherwise you don't have a chance.

Most people tend to move to London as their chosen profession usually pays more. Why else would people want to live here?

London can't afford to pay more, it's that simple, we need to develope talent from within, we've had an increasing number come through the ranks, though without investment, it's hard to see how that can continue. Though at the advent of SL, London and the SE had 3 clubs, we now have over 30 plus 300+ schools teams (including 60 girls teams) plus 8 Universities putting out teams, this was from a virtually ZERO starting point, so it's not all gloom and doom, these seedlings need time to grow!

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Brentford, as much as I like the place, is hardly the top-end of the West London property market!

If you think the cost of living is 15% different in London than to say some of the towns with SL or Championship sides you need your bumps felt.

A semi in Chiswick is £1.2 million or over £2 k a month to rent. Chiswick is respectable but not quite Notting Hill. Is that 15% more than the M62 corridor?

Brentford East is how we refer to Chiswick

didn't we have a fitness coach?

as a professional sportsman fitness to some extent is personal issue, if the coach has to concentrate on fitness levels then things are in a bad state, but IMO that's the players own fault.
Lots of stories were coming out through different sources for the last couple of years, things like factions within the squad little cliques! aussies refusing to train etc etc etc
players fault? some of it, coaches fault? some of it, but all last year I had overall feeling that there was something much deeper effecting the whole club, and no am not saying it was Gus or strewth might as well blame woodsy at rfl as well
But there was something!

Utter rubbish. Thats why sporting clubs have fitness coaches, strength coaches, sport scientists..............

Micky seems to hit nail on head - there was something fundamentally wrong!

Might have been most of the squad knowing they were being released at the end of the year by the middle of the season.

A number were informed at the start of the season. No real incentive to fight for the club. Dorn, Melling being 2