Re: How can we get London to fall in love with RL again? : Wed Feb 04, 2015 11:11 pm  

Think you'll find London Welsh will be moving back to the smoke once the Lionel Road developement in Brentford is finished.

Re: How can we get London to fall in love with RL again? : Wed Feb 04, 2015 11:40 pm  

Honkytonk wrote:

Don't forget Rosslyn Park, Blackheath and Ealing. They all get a decent attendance. County cricket does not really struggle. The Oval and Lords are always packed for the T20 and a fair few one day games. $ day games I grant you but that is true everywhere.

The article in question was referring to Premiership clubs to be fair to the author.

Re: How can we get London to fall in love with RL again? : Thu Feb 05, 2015 2:52 am  

CrusaderPete wrote:

Think you'll find London Welsh will be moving back to the smoke once the Lionel Road development in Brentford is finished.

They could move to Denmark and probably attract more fans than us!

Re: How can we get London to fall in love with RL again? : Thu Feb 05, 2015 10:07 am  

CrusaderPete wrote:

Think you'll find London Welsh will be moving back to the smoke once the Lionel Road developement in Brentford is finished.

Which is a missed opportunity for us.

Re: How can we get London to fall in love with RL again? : Thu Feb 05, 2015 11:11 am  

The Chronicler of Chiswic wrote:

Which is a missed opportunity for us.

A MASSIVE missed opportunity!

Re: How can we get London to fall in love with RL again? : Thu Feb 05, 2015 12:51 pm  

Not sure about L Welsh moving back. They seem to be pretty settled at Oxford.

Re: How can we get London to fall in love with RL again? : Thu Feb 05, 2015 1:32 pm  

Honkytonk wrote:

Not sure about L Welsh moving back. They seem to be pretty settled at Oxford.

Not at the prices Firoz Kassam charges them. The crowds will go down once people realise they can see Moseley and Doncaster, instead of Sarances and Leicester.
A certain Ian Lenegan is involved with Oxford United too.

London Welsh will come back to Old Deer Park, as long as ODP passes the Minimum Standards Criteria for the RU Championship.

Alternatively, the other rumour I hear is that the Richmond Athletic Ground is to be done up and a share between London Scottish and London Welsh mooted (Scottish have their own Premiership ambitions). Richmond would then move to ODP.

I'm not sure if any update to the Richmond Athletic Ground would satisfy Super League criteria, I've not seen any plans as yet.

I always thought the Lionel Road site was dead in the water?

Re: How can we get London to fall in love with RL again? : Thu Feb 05, 2015 3:28 pm  

drone


quote="gutterfax"]Sums up the mentality and aptitude of your average RL fan.......I think you'll find that there are a great number of Union clubs in London, including Saracens and Harlequins. The fact that London Irish moved to Reading has more to do with the fact that the ground and clubhouse they own (purchased in 1931 for £1,300 and now worth an estimated £100,000,000 ) wasn't up to scratch or big enough to take decent sized crowds. Wasps have moved purely because they were shipping cash by the bucketload and are now in charge of their own destiny and london Scottish/Richmond will soon be back at the top table having being funded by the sale of scrum.com to ESPN for £millions. London Welsh are a basket case but still manage to attract more fans than we ever could.......

Laziness is the reason London Broncos never attracted decent crowds.......Hughes has dropped cash everywhere except in terms of marketing. Will the penny ever drop? Doubt it.
Here's a heartfelt suggestion. Put me on your ignore list. I know I am repetitive....but not as regular in my comments as the club are in managing to make the same mistakes time after time.
If you or the club want ideas for marketing and promotion, then PM me.....I now charge for my services and unlike the numpties employed by the club over the years, I work on a reward/consequence scenario......I deliver, I get rewards, I don't deliver, I get my contract ripped up.
I'm not starving! [/quote]

Re: How can we get London to fall in love with RL again? : Thu Feb 05, 2015 11:15 pm  

Nah, Lionel Road is dead in the water for us, but is still on for Hounslow Council and Brentford FC & their "preffered share" partner, London Welsh, it was all over for the Broncos as soon as the Welsh put in their claim for the ground share. Not that MacKay or Hughes did much to convince the Bees Chairman, Cliff Brown, that we were the ideal partner.

I believe contracts were exchanged with the contractor's, Wilmot Dixon in December, London Welsh may return to their old ground until Lionel Road is finished as indeed Brentford will remain at Griffin Park.

Re: How can we get London to fall in love with RL again? : Fri Feb 20, 2015 2:01 pm  

I've now found a link to the Richmond Athletic Ground possible plans, from Dec 2014. http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/rugby/r ... 41596.html

I've now found a link to the Richmond Athletic Ground possible plans, from Dec 2014. http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/rugby/r ... 41596.html