In today's current financial climate the RFL should be looking at its Super League criteria. The Hive seems to be coming along nicelyThe Panorama from the bar / restaurant


Main Stand


And it can't be worse than Cas or Wakey!

It looks better than Odsal and the RFL own that!

On the hive stadium wikipedia page it mentions the broncos potential future at the ground

Some comments from BarnetSteve on The Barnet forum:

South underhill moving. Next year and corners being filled to make a bowl within the next few years. Negotiations with london broncos under way but they arent the only ones looking to groundshare, and if they come then membership will cover bronco games.

In the conversation I had about groundshare the guy said it was extremely likely that we would be groundsharing with a different sport. I said I'd heard about Broncos and he confirmed they were keen and negotiations were underway but it wasnt a done deal and if it didnt happen they werent the only option. We had a brief chat about the rumours that Tony had recently been looking at Wasps but I'm not convinced they are one of the interested parties as the Hive would be too small and I dont think the pitch would cope imo.

Thanks for the update. The Hive looks the least bad option as things stand at the moment.

Interesting, chronicler. I am based in Chiswick and cycle to games at the moment. The Hive is 24 stops on the tube....worthwhile for a committed bunch of players, doubtful if some of the current team merit it....

Is 24 stops on the tube a problem? I come in to watch each home game from Cambridge. Why whinge if only coming in from Chiswick, FFS?

Hive = 3,500 seats....it signals the level of ambition at the club.....regardless of where those seats are!

Still no idea as to why we are leaving the Stoop apart from the money rumour.

My view is that they have no need of us anymore, we are just small change nuisance.

2008/2009/2010 we would have been close to or actually filling the seats on 24 of 39 games.....rationalise the fact that of the last 33 games only 10 of them would have been in the same category.

The club has been dismantled to the extent where you are happy to accept a 3,500 seater stadium.....no ambition regardless of rationalisation!

Happy ? No

Realistic ? Yes

As an aside, I travelled up to The Hive today, have to say really impressed. Its compact, yes, but the general set up sound, in fact ideal. Talking to the guys there, there are two further phases of development planned, my only concern is the development will take place in the football off season. Barnet are a community club, very much like ourselves, so that has got to be hugely positive.