Re: Leeds Rhinos at Ealing : Mon Jul 25, 2016 7:49 am  

PC Plum wrote:

We all know the issues. You won’t find a Broncos fan who is happy with the current set up, in its current form.

But if it’s a choice of having a club at a ground that needs to be improved considerably and paying reasonable rent and having some control of our destiny OR being at the behest of others as we were at The Hive and Stoop, paying extortionate amounts for the privilege, having no opportunity to make any money, I'd take this option every time.

By the way well done for lying to get a free ride, you must be very proud of yourself. Fortunately, I don’t think you are reflective of the average rugby league fan.

We did have tickets , purchased at Leigh , my point being they weren't checked , and if I had been less honest I could have phoned many other fans ( we arrived early ) to tell them to bluff their way in , I didn't

Look I fully understand your situation and hope that one day you will be in a better position than you currently are , we had a good day at Ealing , but get them to sort out the ' bogs '

Re: Leeds Rhinos at Ealing : Mon Jul 25, 2016 5:03 pm  

Rosslyn Park now have a plastic pitch too. A stand on one long side of the pitch and a shed the length of the other side which both seat about 1,000 in the dry. They hire it out for a few hundred quid.

Worth a thought if the crowd looks in the 1,000 to 2,000 range and the earthworks are still going on at Ealing?

Re: Leeds Rhinos at Ealing : Tue Jul 26, 2016 8:54 am  

TaRL yep but it means we are giving up home advantage

Re: Leeds Rhinos at Ealing : Tue Jul 26, 2016 8:56 am  

Our home is Trailfinders like it or not its home, lets see if they get the temp stand up and go from there

Re: Leeds Rhinos at Ealing : Tue Jul 26, 2016 9:44 am  

I recently tweeted the club, and they advised new pitch complete mid August, so let hope hope the first three games up to mid August are away (as I am on holiday) and the rest at home

Re: Leeds Rhinos at Ealing : Tue Jul 26, 2016 4:05 pm  

mickyb1234 wrote:

Our home is Trailfinders like it or not its home, lets see if they get the temp stand up and go from there

IF?
We've known we're going to be in the 8's for a while now, we know we'll be playing at least one SL team at home with a sizeable away support and we're still at the stage of 'IF'? shouldn't this temporary stand, which seems to be acquiring semi-mythical status, be in place in case our first game is Leeds at home?
Or is this another case of DH being evasive about increased capacity at Trailfinders - like he appeared to be at last year's fans forum? When most of us actually got a first look at where we would be playing for the foreseeable future.

Re: Leeds Rhinos at Ealing : Wed Jul 27, 2016 1:34 am  

mickyb1234 wrote:

No mate its not what us lot said, actually what I said I quote "you are assuming anyone from Leeds will bother" you have just suggested it depends on the time and day so if it's the wrong kick off time and wrong day can we assume then that you won't bother?, what makes you say the ground is not ready? What makes you so sure it will be that number?
Simple fact is, Ealing trailfinders is our home ground, the club have planning permission to build a temporary stand and am sure that's what they will do. If numbers are restricted to ticket only then that's life.
All I am interested in is a decent game and Leeds don't put too many points past us.
Hope you enjoy your visit anyhow

Fair enough! Can it be as bad as that farce at The Stoop when we kept getting told "you can't sit there" but no one actually told us where we could sit. Ended up busting into the seats behind the goal and then that mad woman came down and started saying we shouldn't be there but it was too late, there were too many of us to move out. She harped on about some kids from a local home who might be distressed by our presence. They weren't and had a great time from what I could see! Anyway if the poor little buggers are in a home I doubt sitting with us for a couple of hours ranks as one of the worst things to happen to them! Looking forward to visiting anyway.

Re: Leeds Rhinos at Ealing : Wed Jul 27, 2016 12:24 pm  

Looks like DH has got til Aug 19th to have that stand in place and it's safety cert in place too ( assuming such a thing will also apply to temporary structures)