Re: Ealing is the new venue : Thu Jul 30, 2015 12:04 pm  

I still live in the faint/unrealistic hope that there will be plans in the future for the ground to have some development to enable Ealing and Broncos to play top level rugby if the opportunity ever arises. Its all very well saying the ground is big enough for the now, but what happens down the line if the club are ever in a position to play in SL?? Ealing is not even close to being of the standard

Re: Ealing is the new venue : Thu Jul 30, 2015 12:16 pm  

Perry wrote:

Interesting to read Hendo's reasoning.

Hmm , read to me like a bloke desperately looking for positives while the negatives stand out a mile.

Re: Ealing is the new venue : Thu Jul 30, 2015 2:28 pm  

Bye-bye dreams of SL, hallo Championship 1.

Re: Ealing is the new venue : Thu Jul 30, 2015 7:06 pm  

Hmm , read to me like a bloke desperately looking for positives while the negatives stand out a mile.

Club man spinning the club message.

The military stadium at Aldershot would be a prime location. Good ground, amazing training facilities with running tracks, gyms, combat centres, swimming pools weight rooms....(or event Aldershot FC ground and use military facilities)

Its good enough for the British Lions, Harlequins, Fiji (training wise)

The kids have played there for years.

Nice stand/ground thats very rarely used.

Re: Ealing is the new venue : Thu Jul 30, 2015 7:30 pm  

Harlequins train at surrey sports park

Re: Ealing is the new venue : Thu Jul 30, 2015 9:20 pm  

Wire Quin is referring to the fact Quins RU used to train at Aldershot before moving to Surrey Sports Park. The army did a lot of work in the expectation Quins RU would use it as a non match day base and the GB 2012 Olympics would use Aldershot for their pre games camp. Quins left after two or three seasons. Aldershot was made the location for the pre games training camp but was quickly dropped for a foreign base after leading athletes expressed concern about the facilities and weather.

Re: Ealing is the new venue : Thu Jul 30, 2015 10:04 pm  

Aldershot is not London

Re: Ealing is the new venue : Thu Jul 30, 2015 10:36 pm  

mickyb1234 wrote:

Aldershot is not London

In a nutshell!

Re: Ealing is the new venue : Thu Jul 30, 2015 10:39 pm  

They are about to or have already started digging it up to lay a 3g pitch.
Army rugby league playing there inter service home game v RAF at salford

Re: Ealing is the new venue : Thu Jul 30, 2015 11:09 pm  

The Chronicler of Chiswic wrote:

Bye-bye dreams of SL, hallo Championship 1.

Part time by 2017....maybe 2018 at a stretch. Still, at least the club will exist.