Ealing is not a good move. Too small and no where near Super League level. Of course we still have a long way to go to get back into Super League but if it does happen how will Ealing be any good??

I'd suggest any move to Ealing, or Hayes & Yeading, is recognition that David Hughes is trying to ensure the club becomes self sufficient, or close. If that means non Super League then that's the future realistically. The parachute payment won't be around next season and gate levels clearly won't fund SL at the moment, or for the foreseeable future.

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I would like to see New River developed as a home for London RL. A 'Hive' could fit there.

SL self sufficiency requires 10,000 fans a game paying 20 each, and other residual revenues and SKY TV money delivering a turn-over of not less than 4 million. This London Club in its current guise will never return to Super League......Hughes has seen to that. Ealing Trailfinders is a tidy little sports ground with a Cricket Crease on the other side of the Stand/Club rooms.....it could be the Headingley of the South!

Edit. [urlhttp://www.tfsc.co.uk/sport.htm[/url

The Pitch is available for general hire for £250.00 at weekends, or £720.00 weekend evening games.....if we were getting 600 to games next year then over 11 regular season matches, that's £132k a season on the door for a cost of £2,750 in pitch hire (based on 3pm Sat/Sun)
Unless we are buying into the grounds, that'll be it other than shirt sales.....200 or so won't add much to the coffers.
Not sure how much Sky money we get next year, but if it's say £300k, then we could be looking at an income of about half a million before Hughes chips in.
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[urlhttp://www.tfsc.co.uk/pdf/2015/Rugby-Pitch-Plan.pdf[/url
Tidy little set up there. I can see this being a permanent home for us with.....Bristol and London Scottish at Ealing in the Union next year will probably require another temporary stand, so there's probaly a chance we could squeeze 2k in if required.
[urlhttp://www.tfsc.co.uk/pdf/2015/Grounds-Plan.pdf[/url

Craven Cottage to a glorified park pitch?

So lots of rumours people latching on to random ground names, anyone actually heard anything to back up any of the thoughts?

Nope, as usual it's all B******s

One fact. Ronniequin posted that David has said Broncos may be off. He also added that he believes the negotiations to be with a West London location. No source named so quite possibly not David or a club source. The named grounds are speculation but the truth is there aren't many suitable venues in West London. It seems reasonable to presume that, if it is West London, both will have been approached. Whether they would be interested is a very different matter.

Looking at the Trailfinder website I don't see it being a viable option at all. I also have trouble with the idea that they'd be interested in us - the main grandstand is part of a very posh corporate conference/party/wedding reception venue and there would (as has been pointed out already) no room for expansion and about as much chance of getting planning permission in that neighbourhood as me being next Pope! No, the only possibilties as I see it would be Hayes's new ground, which looking at it on Google Earth might not be able to be developed much beyond the present lay-out or Brentford's new gaff. We'll see.

London Welsh were already lined up as the "preffered" co-tenant for Lionel Road (Brentford), though as it's all on hold anyways its a bit of a moot point.

So in a nut shell... we have no idea where they might move too.

Well, whatever happens, wouldn't it just be nice to get something sorted sooner rather than later.

This will drag and we'll be patching things up at the last minute as usual. No local promotion, tickets not on sale until a week before the season, one-year deal, etc. Depressing.

....if only we could have seen this coming

London welsh are leaving Oxford. Announcement tomorrow I think. Maybe we could team up with them.

Has that been confirmed? Nobody knows about it on their website.
LW have 2 more years contracted at Oxford. To get out of that would be Very Expensive Indeed, as Firoz Kassam is no mug.

Has that been confirmed? Nobody knows about it on their website.
LW have 2 more years contracted at Oxford. To get out of that would be Very Expensive Indeed, as Firoz Kassam is no mug.

As of a few minutes ago this was not confirmed. Their fans seem to think it is inevitable but disagree whether they will move before the next RU season ir run their agreement down for another season and then move.

LW back at Old Deer Park next season, but looking "at other facilities appropriate for hosting top level rugby"

[urlhttp://london-welsh.co.uk/index.php?mod=news_view&id=2609[/url

Think the A games will continue at Ealing Trailfinders.


Probably makes a Broncos tie up less likely except also being in the hunt for a new London ground.

Yep, an ambitious Union club looking for exactly the same thing we are doesn't bode well for us, remember Coptal and how we were the "first choice" tenants, lmao! Not that I'm that bothered, I hated Coptal, bloody awful souless place it is!

Teaming up with a RU club now that is a good idea we could get first class facilities and access to new supporters. Makes you wonder sometimes.

And a pig to get to on public transport.

Well we did one better than LW as we haven't gone a season unbeaten! At least in posh union terms they got a bonus point for losing by less than 10 points

hearatic.