Re: Catalans game moved to Esher RFC! : Wed Mar 27, 2013 6:18 pm  

Rooster Booster wrote:

. Sort of blows the "they're moving us cos they don't want us to ruin the pitch" argument out of the water. Doesn't it?

No....because it wasn't the RFL that told them at 4pm on Monday that they couldn't play this game...it was the Landlords. Unless you, in all honesty,believe that the RFL sent someone to check the pitch 3 days before a scheduled game for the first time in SL History.......be honest RB.....it was Quins and you know it was. If it had been anyone else the Gus would have said so on SKYSPORTS....he didn't.

Re: Catalans game moved to Esher RFC! : Wed Mar 27, 2013 6:47 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

No....because it wasn't the RFL that told them at 4pm on Monday that they couldn't play this game...it was the Landlords. Unless you, in all honesty,believe that the RFL sent someone to check the pitch 3 days before a scheduled game for the first time in SL History.......be honest RB.....it was Quins and you know it was. If it had been anyone else the Gus would have said so on SKYSPORTS....he didn't.

Maybe it is all part of Gus's masterplan to turn us against The Stoop.

Re: Catalans game moved to Esher RFC! : Wed Mar 27, 2013 7:50 pm  

jbuzza wrote:

Maybe it is all part of Gus's masterplan to turn us against The Stoop.

Gus's master plan??? You do the man a great favour by assuming that there is any sort of plan

There's NEVER been a precedent set like this in SL.....NEVER. The club were awarded 3 years based on DH funding us, having a stable ground and building up our attendances. 2012, 2013 & 2014 were the years we received the licence for....potentially 39 "home" games.

We applied in 2011 with the news we were going to rebrand and kick on with the task of adding fans...someting we had failed to do in 2011......where we in fact lost 7.57% of our fans.

2012...we started the licence period as London Broncos .V2. This was supposed to sort out confusion over who we were and what we played.......and resulted in 10.14% LESS fans in attendance than 2011 when we were the oh so confusing Harlequins Rugby League Rob Powell had been mistakenly retained as coach and we were told that we spent to the cap yet even after Mr's Hughes MacKay admitted This mistake and replaced Powell, we finished in 12th place. 2012 ended with the news that it wasn't actually the confusion over our name and what sport we played that was the problem, but instead it was where we were playing our games. ...2 Year in and it's everything elses fault that we have lost 16.9% of our fans
2013....the season starts with the news that Gus's #1 priority is no longer increasing attendances, it is now finding anywhere else for us to play that isn't Twickenham...because we've never got crowds of 9k, 8k, 7k, 6k...in TW2....

There are 22 more home games left in this licence period.....but in reality, given March was the deadline last year, there are only 13 before we submit an application for a further 3 years......based on the performance of the club and its administrators and management thus far, who here is confident of another 3 years?

Halifax averaged over 2,500 last timeout and didn't get in....we're currently on 2,111......This year Featherstone Rovers are currently averaging 2,450 after 4 home games....16% more than US

Dead man Walking

Re: Catalans game moved to Esher RFC! : Wed Mar 27, 2013 8:12 pm  

Barley Mow, Moseley Rd from 5 if anybody fancies it, left out of Hersham Station then about half a mile walk. No idea what its like but the closest to the ground. If its crap, clubhouse from 6.

Re: Catalans game moved to Esher RFC! : Wed Mar 27, 2013 8:41 pm  

trains - leave Clappham 18.29 hersham at 18.51
18.59 reaches Hersham at 19.21

Barley Mow is quite a hike from the rugby ground about 25 mins each way but they do good pub grub.

Re: Catalans game moved to Esher RFC! : Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:18 pm  

Sod that, I'll have to drive in from berkshire

Re: Catalans game moved to Esher RFC! : Wed Mar 27, 2013 10:20 pm  

It's not so much the getting there it's the getting back using public transport. This'll be the first 'home' game I'll have missed in 5 seasons. Stuff 'em.

Re: Catalans game moved to Esher RFC! : Wed Mar 27, 2013 11:04 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

No....because it wasn't the RFL that told them at 4pm on Monday that they couldn't play this game...it was the Landlords. Unless you, in all honesty,believe that the RFL sent someone to check the pitch 3 days before a scheduled game for the first time in SL History.......be honest RB.....it was Quins and you know it was. If it had been anyone else the Gus would have said so on SKYSPORTS....he didn't.

We know the club has been asked to move the game. That is fact. Clearly by the owners of the ground who said it was unplayable. What isn't fact is your implication that we are moving because they are playing a QF Union game there. Let's just wait and see. If they move the Bradford game, then your theory and all the constant coating off will be true. If they don't move the Bradford game, then what you've implied, is complete pie in the sky stuff and another attempt to bag the club for something that isn't actually happening.

Just relax GF. We'll wait and see.

In them meantime read Nudenut's comments about how we have actually had to move games in the past which shows some of your previous comments to be wrong. And that is was part of the contract at Charlton and Brentford.

Re: Catalans game moved to Esher RFC! : Wed Mar 27, 2013 11:05 pm  

Quite amused by the contrast between this ground ad the next time we play - Esher to the Etihad!

Re: Catalans game moved to Esher RFC! : Thu Mar 28, 2013 1:41 am  

Rooster Booster wrote:

We know the club has been asked to move the game. That is fact. Clearly by the owners of the ground who said it was unplayable. What isn't fact is your implication that we are moving because they are playing a QF Union game there. Let's just wait and see. If they move the Bradford game, then your theory and all the constant coating off will be true. If they don't move the Bradford game, then what you've implied, is complete pie in the sky stuff and another attempt to bag the club for something that isn't actually happening.

Just relax GF. We'll wait and see.

In them meantime read Nudenut's comments about how we have actually had to move games in the past which shows some of your previous comments to be wrong. And that is was part of the contract at Charlton and Brentford.

First up....regardless if Quins told us "no" because of their QF or not, the still told us "no"...this was their call and nobody elses and the people who signed acontract to use their ground with a clause to them loving us should be "coated off".....

econdly, Brentford, Charlton et al...we KNEW it was happening and had months to plan ahead as it was part of the contract.....our landlords this time gave us 3 days notice!

Apologise for the idiots in charge of this nuthouse all you like....Londons only Pro RL team are playing park footie this weekend....the image ofthe game has hardly been advanced, has it.

As for bagging the club...no need for me to post the stats again......you know it, I know it and anyone with half a loving brain cell knows it....they are reaping what the failed to sew in the last 7 years and are scrambling around like the embarrassment they are begging for someone to take us in next year....professional? Professional my booty!