As was pointed out earlier , this gives Gus another excuse for a terrible attendance.

Game should have been postponed! Could you imagine any of the Northern clubs doing this? A complete and utter farce. A two bob decision from the two bob management of what's becoming an increasingly two bob club !

i will still go, got travellodge in twickenham booked, but its annoying and smacks of poor administration, but we have played at Kingstopn before and i think my son played a mini-rugby tournament a few years ago at the ground - seem to remember club house is OK. Lets just hope Catalan are in their worst Gallic mood and dont fancy cold wet and windy. if we get two points i can live with it!

The French may be here plus there fans may have flights booked-have you considered that?

Kingston isn't in Surrey, well not since about 1966

He will be very happy because the team wanted to play......

If you go on the Surrey County Council Website you will find that the address for County Hall is in Kingston Surrey

Good point...........basically, Harlequins have TOLD Gus, he's tried to delay the French, they've demanded compo, so we've agreed to play it at Esher.

God ing forbid Gus would have stood up to Harlequins who we pay rent to....unless of course there's a clause in the 1 year extension that lets the Landlord evict the tenant at 2 ing days notice......surely our sooperdooper CEO wouldn't have agree to that

I will add that the above is purely in my opinion only and is not the opinion of anyone else.....Istand alone on this conspiracy theory....totally alone

BTW...He needs to take me of Speed dial...I am in no way interested in the excuses and flawed reasoning for anything that has happened since Jan 14th 2010!

Mackay, in the words of Harry Dunne to Lloyd Christmas, "Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this…and totally redeem yourself!"

Is this what circling the drain looks like?

Pretty shoddy stuff all round.

If The Stoop is unplayable after recent weather, what makes anyone think a third tier rugby union pitch is going to be any better?

I look forward to freezing my knackers off in that wretched looking venue.

Already done. Saints played for a full season at Widnes because we didn't have a home at all, much less one with a flooded unfit pitch.

At least you weren't in the position of Gateshead Thunder recently who, because work was being done on their regular ground, had to play their game against North Wales Crusaders at Hull KR because the RFL wouldn't approve any alternative local ground (the RFL should get its priorities sorted, it really should). However, for most teams Up North there is generally an alternative Superleague standard ground nearby simply because of the geographical concentration of the sport so there wouldn't be an issue.

Although the ground at Esher doesn't look very big it looks in better nick than the ground at Castleford, for example, which has sheds made of corrugated iron dating back to the second world war.

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Oh come on, this is totally different , your club moved to a stadium that was up to SL standard while your new stadium was being built! If your pitch was unfit at the weekend would you be playing at a 3rd tier union ground? Would you balls! Would our landlords be doing it? Same answer! No our club is yet again falling over itself to become the laughing stock of SL. Game should have been called off, and in retrospect last Saturdays probably should have been too.

It didn't stop them doing it to Hull FC at even shorter notice last year

It's as I said earlier: due to geography we are spitting distance from SL standard grounds but because you aren't, you are being given special dispensation to play at a ground that wouldn't normally meet SL standards. I doubt very much that your Board would have played there if there had been a more suitable alternative and it is quite possible they were told they could not play at The Stoop. As Wigan constantly rediscover, the downside to playing in a shared stadium is that sometimes the tenant has no choice in the matter.

While I can appreciate frustration especially given the major hassle of travelling across London, some of the vitriol sounds really harsh, especially if people are not 100% certain who made the call and why they made it. Is everyone certain it was Gus? Is anyone aware of an alternative? Was there pressure from the Dragons who I'm sure will have already booked their travel if they aren't already here? Was the club backed into a corner through no fault of their own (ie The Stoop is not under their management and so they couldn't influence the state of the pitch)?

I live in Surrey, and whilst it is true that the council is in Kingston, that's a hangover from before the days of Greater London - so Kingston was absorbed into the Royal (London) Borough of Kingston. It is not now in Surrey