Re: Areas in London where RL should target : Fri May 05, 2017 4:14 pm  

There is no room to build anything on the far side, the second pitch is too close

Re: Areas in London where RL should target : Fri May 05, 2017 4:42 pm  

Could they not just get rid of the pitch to the side? The footprint of Trailfinders is more than big enough to meet SL standards and as a west Londoner, from a purely selfish perspective the location is bang on

Re: Areas in London where RL should target : Fri May 05, 2017 7:04 pm  

So the brand new 4g pitch that was finished about 2 months ago, why would they get rid if something they have just spent a fortune on

Re: Areas in London where RL should target : Sat May 06, 2017 6:09 am  

Why the hell did they build another 4g pitch in the first place ? makes no sense to me. Thought the idea of having a grass pitch there was so both teams have grass to train on in preparation for away games , complete waste of money. So where do they train for away games ? Ealing common ? or do they just stay on the 4g pitch , would explain there poor performances away from home I suppose.

Re: Areas in London where RL should target : Sat May 06, 2017 9:09 am  

We need to get promoted before we worry about all this. If we get promoted this season then we need serious consideration as to where we go from here ie RFL talks to remain at Trailfinders with discussion at the end of that season. We would need to stay up in SL but it has been a see saw of up and down for the lower teams and we cannot afford to leave trailfinders and find the following season we are in the same position again plus it is a great ground to play in. Very neat and loads of facilities. Great gym and training facilities also. I cannot see us getting promotion this year therefore it probably won't be a problem to worry about at the moment. There are enough real situations to tackle before we think of what might be / what could be. We need a consistent team week on week, we have great guys with bags of personality, we have guys who play as individuals and we have the guys who slog it out week on week and give it their all but until they play as one unit we will suffer with the results. There is not one bad bloke amongst them they just need reassurance that playing as a team they will go further.

Re: Areas in London where RL should target : Sat May 06, 2017 9:42 am  

Agree that super league is probably at best a few years away but that ground is not even at championship 1 standard let alone championship. Easy for us to say what should be done as its not our money but for me it wouldn't cost a fortune to get it to championship level. First get rid of those stupid pods where the coaches are and house them over where we are now and keep that stand for coaches , officials , staff , players family and friends, build a shallow stand something similar to salfords small one along that side and have a similar stand like the away stand at the entrance end. That surely wont cost the earth and it would be a nice little ground for championship rugby.

Re: Areas in London where RL should target : Sat May 06, 2017 11:17 am  

agree from small acorns

Re: Areas in London where RL should target : Sat May 06, 2017 4:12 pm  

All forgetting one vital thing, it's Ealing trailfinders ground not ours. Why did they build a second 4 g pitch, because that's what Ealing wanted, it's all weather and you can play as many games as you want on it year round. What we have is good enough for the level we are playing at. I think the most we can hope for on any expansion would initially only be temporary, there was lots of talk when we first moved here re local planning permissions.

Re: Areas in London where RL should target : Sat May 06, 2017 6:54 pm  

I think where all fully aware that its Ealing's ground and they can do what they want but surely like us they want to progress and have a nice little ground there proud to call home. As for the 4g pitch again there choice but I just don't get the need for another one , as you say its all weather and will last for years so why two? is it in case you lose one ? Surely money could have been put to better use and again i still don't know if or where we train on grass for away games , not just us but Ealing as well.

Re: Areas in London where RL should target : Sat May 06, 2017 10:20 pm  

Talk to Ealing about that. The arrangement at Ealing with trailfinders is not that straight forward, am sure there are folk on here better informed than me, reality probably is that Ealing rfu are happy playing where they are in the league they have openly stated that they are not looking to get promoted to a higher level, not just because of facilities, but they don't want to go up and come straight down so have a realistic attitude