2013 'On the Road' fixtures : Mon Nov 26, 2012 5:12 pm  

Apologies if this has already been discussed, but has the club announced details of where the game v Warrington will be played next summer? The game in August was shamefully my first trip to the Stoop, and despite the scoreline we had a brilliant day out, right up there with my favourite away days. Looking forwards to more of the same next year!

Re: 2013 'On the Road' fixtures : Mon Nov 26, 2012 6:06 pm  

No news yet re the OTR fixtures (will be lucky to hear anything until about May).

The bad news is that it's likely to be at Gillingham, Leyton or even Oxford

Mind you, could be worse...anyone remember the OTR game against Wire at Newport? (think it was Newport...all those Welsh villages look the same to me)

Spose I shouldn't be giving Gus any ideas.....

Re: 2013 'On the Road' fixtures : Tue Nov 27, 2012 10:12 pm  

The rumour mill says it's Gillingham and Leyton Orient, but the club TBC.

Re: 2013 'On the Road' fixtures : Tue Nov 27, 2012 10:59 pm  

I think we should be preparing for the Championship and suggest taking a game to Richmond Athletic Ground.

Re: 2013 'On the Road' fixtures : Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:10 am  

We had our best attendances at The Valley, SW London is a bastion of Union, and we all saw what happened when we tried to piggy-back on Quins id!

Personally I've always thought Public Transport to be a major failing, we need to be as close to the Tube or a "convenient" NR Station as is possible.

Re: 2013 'On the Road' fixtures : Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:36 am  

CrusaderPete wrote:

We had our best attendances at The Valley, SW London is a bastion of Union, and we all saw what happened when we tried to piggy-back on Quins id!

Personally I've always thought Public Transport to be a major failing, we need to be as close to the Tube or a "convenient" NR Station as is possible.

How do Quins RU get +10k then wiv the Stoop being miles off the beaten track

Re: 2013 'On the Road' fixtures : Wed Nov 28, 2012 7:07 am  

CrusaderPete wrote:

We had our best attendances at The Valley, SW London is a bastion of Union, and we all saw what happened when we tried to piggy-back on Quins id!

Personally I've always thought Public Transport to be a major failing, we need to be as close to the Tube or a "convenient" NR Station as is possible.

Very selective use of data to make your point there. In SL1, you are correct we had our best average attendance (5699) at the Valley, the next best was at The Stoop in SL2 (5125). Both locations have seen much worse averages since. Do you think that makes for bad locations or is the club doing something wrong ?

Re: 2013 'On the Road' fixtures : Wed Nov 28, 2012 8:30 am  

Paddock Punter wrote:

How do Quins RU get +10k then wiv the Stoop being miles off the beaten track

Horse back and range rover to carry their hampers so they can get over the long journey and have a feast

Re: 2013 'On the Road' fixtures : Wed Nov 28, 2012 8:49 am  

daftdad wrote:

Horse back and range rover to carry their hampers so they can get over the long journey and have a feast

Re: 2013 'On the Road' fixtures : Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:39 am  

Dan Stains woz God wrote:

No news yet re the OTR fixtures (will be lucky to hear anything until about May).

The bad news is that it's likely to be at Gillingham, Leyton or even Oxford

Mind you, could be worse...anyone remember the OTR game against Wire at Newport? (think it was Newport...all those Welsh villages look the same to me)

Spose I shouldn't be giving Gus any ideas.....

I can recall 'OTR' games in Wales (twice), Edinburgh and even Perpignan, so Oxford would be a doddle, I would prefer no OTR games but Oxford has some attractions and we would be helping a new RL community. The club need to be honest as regards their long term ground intentions, if they have got that far in their thinking, or are they hoping for something to turn up?