Re: London : Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:19 am  

Horatio Yed wrote:

Passionate fans yes but the ground is a bit lifeless and can put some off, i go to both London and Wire games and the difference in atmosphere is vast.

London games feel like Sunday dinner with the family and Wire games feel like a night out with lads

Atmos was much better at Brentford but can still be good when we are playing ok. I'm hoping Brisbane Road will offer a better atmos and long term solution.

Re: London : Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:49 am  

I doubt it Leyton O are dying to move out.

Re: London : Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:54 am  

Passionate fans yes but the ground is a bit lifeless and can put some off, i go to both London and Wire games and the difference in atmosphere is vast.

Did you ever go to Wilderspool when the club wasnt top of the league

Of course the HJ is going to be bouncing when you have the best team in the country

Re: London : Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:58 am  

Many fans would argue that Wilderspool had a better atmosphere than the HJ with less fans, personally i preferred the feeling i had back at The Zoo than the HJ, hoping the new corners help hold the noise in.

Re: London : Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:40 pm  

JB Down Under wrote:

It's good that they have backer willing to flash the cash, can;t help but think a salary cap of 1.45 mill and and extra 200k to marketing might have been a better spend!

Have you been tapping my phone?
The issue with Londons ESL team is that after 16 years of 100% neglect of any Marketing Strategy at all, the opportunity to organically grow bit by bit, may well have gone.
I get the impression that DH is not prepared to spend on the promotion of the Game as well as propping up the games expansion franchise......I have to say, I agree with him.

Why SLY TV won't do to London what they did for the Storm I have no idea.....

Re: London : Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:49 pm  

Wales for super L wrote: Most jobs that have a London weighting, its a couple of thousand pounds, it seems in RL its a couple of hundred thousand pounds I dont buy into the idea London is a less attractive club to players, to the British players that maybe true, but super league is half made up of Aussie's, Kiwi's and pacific islander's, who would find London a much more attractive place to live than the likes of St helens, Warrington, Hull ect A few thousand pounds??? Ok.... here is an example. I've checked a property website. I don't know (nor am I picking on Leeds) but here is a 4 bedroom house for sale - http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for ... 35862.html £50k Here is a house in London (again 4 bedrooms) - http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for ... 97166.html £190k Now, both areas of these are probably not the best to live and I'm sure you can get far nicer (and more expensive house) in both cities....but the point is that sort of price is the difference on every run of the ladder. Hence the need for London players to be paid far more!

Wales for super L wrote: Most jobs that have a London weighting, its a couple of thousand pounds, it seems in RL its a couple of hundred thousand pounds I dont buy into the idea London is a less attractive club to players, to the British players that maybe true, but super league is half made up of Aussie's, Kiwi's and pacific islander's, who would find London a much more attractive place to live than the likes of St helens, Warrington, Hull ect A few thousand pounds??? Ok.... here is an example. I've checked a property website. I don't know (nor am I picking on Leeds) but here is a 4 bedroom house for sale - http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for ... 35862.html £50k Here is a house in London (again 4 bedrooms) - http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for ... 97166.html £190k Now, both areas of these are probably not the best to live and I'm sure you can get far nicer (and more expensive house) in both cities....but the point is that sort of price is the difference on every run of the ladder. Hence the need for London players to be paid far more!

Re: London : Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:05 pm  

east stander wrote:

Did you ever go to Wilderspool when the club wasn't top of the league

Of course the HJ is going to be bouncing when you have the best team in the country

i preferred the atmosphere at the zoo you couldn't beat the banging on the old corrugated iron and the bounce that went on there i miss wilderspool for the atmosphere that you could hear in the town centre an d the walk over the bridge and causeway had your nerves jangeling

Re: London : Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:09 pm  

Thats a cheap house for London must be hell of a rough area?

Re: London : Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:19 am  

Wnidyone2012 wrote: Thats a cheap house for London must be hell of a rough area? SE2.....that's south of the stream and any further east it would be in Kent.......the description says "freehold", although it looks very much lile ex-council. Bracondale Road, Abbey Wood, London, SE2...google it and then hit streetview....makes Brentford look like Mayfair Given Leeds and London were being compared, cheapest TW2 4 Bedroom house was 299,950 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=OUTCODE%5E2724&insId=1&sortByPriceDescending=false&sortByRelevance=false&minBedrooms=4&maxBedrooms=4&displayPropertyType=houses&retirement=false&oldDisplayPropertyType=houses Cheapest LS6 4 beds is 60k.... http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=OUTCODE%5E1550&insId=2&sortByPriceDescending=false&minBedrooms=4&maxBedrooms=4&displayPropertyType=houses&retirement=false&oldDisplayPropertyType=houses Now......where's the RFL bailing out the Bulls thread......

Wnidyone2012 wrote: Thats a cheap house for London must be hell of a rough area? SE2.....that's south of the stream and any further east it would be in Kent.......the description says "freehold", although it looks very much lile ex-council. Bracondale Road, Abbey Wood, London, SE2...google it and then hit streetview....makes Brentford look like Mayfair Given Leeds and London were being compared, cheapest TW2 4 Bedroom house was 299,950 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=OUTCODE%5E2724&insId=1&sortByPriceDescending=false&sortByRelevance=false&minBedrooms=4&maxBedrooms=4&displayPropertyType=houses&retirement=false&oldDisplayPropertyType=houses Cheapest LS6 4 beds is 60k.... http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=OUTCODE%5E1550&insId=2&sortByPriceDescending=false&minBedrooms=4&maxBedrooms=4&displayPropertyType=houses&retirement=false&oldDisplayPropertyType=houses Now......where's the RFL bailing out the Bulls thread......

Re: London : Wed Jan 25, 2012 2:27 am  

London weighting was mainly for public sector workers, civil servants/NHS techers etc. It also applied to the home counties areas situated outside of the M25. Salaries in London are much higher than anywhere else and even this is often not enough with more poverty in London than anywhere else.
That some people can't get their heads around the fact that a professional sportspersons salary might be 20+% greater than his equivalent counterpart in an area relatively far cheaper to live in is quite bemusing!