Re: Ealing Dealbreakers : Sun Oct 11, 2015 6:50 pm  

It was only a conversation in passing, but got chatting to a group of Ealing trail finders in Manchester on Sat, they seemed pretty positive about us ground sharing, main issue they came up with was access and lack of turnstilewich does sound a bit bizarre and needs addressing

Re: Ealing Dealbreakers : Sun Oct 11, 2015 7:26 pm  

mickyb1234 wrote:

It was only a conversation in passing, but got chatting to a group of Ealing trail finders in Manchester on Sat, they seemed pretty positive about us ground sharing, main issue they came up with was access and lack of turnstilewich does sound a bit bizarre and needs addressing

By access do you mean that it's difficult to get to Micky? Or are you talking about the climb into the covered seating?

Re: Ealing Dealbreakers : Sun Oct 11, 2015 8:28 pm  

No they meant actually onto the ground itself, they were genuinely surprised when I said our last home game was less than 300. Main thing they talked about was lack of turnstiles etc. They did mention a game with a decent crowd around 2000 with more capacity avail. Never got into what if anything they knew about increasing capacity with permenant or temp stands

Re: Ealing Dealbreakers : Sun Oct 11, 2015 9:05 pm  

How are they getting away with having a ground without a turnstile? Swinton and Oldham must be fuming as they have both been told they need to make improvements to their grounds

Re: Ealing Dealbreakers : Sun Oct 11, 2015 10:20 pm  

They've got a trestle table isn't that enough?

Re: Ealing Dealbreakers : Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:36 am  

Sarf Essex Taff wrote:

How are they getting away with having a ground without a turnstile? Swinton and Oldham must be fuming as they have both been told they need to make improvements to their grounds

You could equally ask why Bradford were handed financial assistance while we were thrown to the dogs.
Or why Hull got £1m and a Super League place to wind up Gateshead.
The RFL have never operated a level playing field.

Re: Ealing Dealbreakers : Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:45 am  

what have Oldham been told? I thought part of the problem was the state of the playing surface as much as anything.

Re: Ealing Dealbreakers : Mon Oct 12, 2015 10:36 am  

Oldham were refused permission to play at Whitebank in tier 2 next season. I believe one of the issues is off pitch facilities for the players.

I can think of a few 3rd tier grounds that don't have formal turnstiles so presumably they aren't required at level 3 and Broncos getting ground grading suggests that is true at level two.

Re: Ealing Dealbreakers : Mon Oct 12, 2015 11:04 am  

Halfdan of t'wide embrace wrote:

I believe one of the issues is off pitch facilities for the players.

Code for urinating with the supporters?

Re: Ealing Dealbreakers : Mon Oct 12, 2015 11:18 am  

Cowgirl, as the rfl have cleared trailfinders for use by the club at the level we are playing at then that obviously is not an issue