Point 1. The London RL have pumped money into the East End. The club had a successful attendance in Kent, rather than many at Twickenham.



Point 2. I'm not on about a ground, I was mentioning tranining facilities rather than any possible sole RL ground.



Point 3. You can get to France, thats a fact. I never debated where was closer, I was stating a fact. You can get from East London to France. The large majority of people, RU enthusiasts mainly, say that Twickenham is a pain to get too. Its not just my opinion, its shared by many.

This brings us back to the subject of turd polishing.

Good thread this, Moe embarrassing himself again

Sorry Simon M.....Look away now if you are that sensitive.





If my thoughts below sound a little condescending, that's because they are.......just to clarify it NOW rather than later, when Jaybs tries to rescue you.



So, based on the fact that you know the names of more clubs near where you are based, rather than the names of clubs where you aren't, bundled together with the "pretend" fact that your "pretend" free tickets were taken up in greater numbers than the "pretend" free tickets handed out in West London and or Medway, you believe that a move East is the way forward?

Using your logic....and I do use that term as loosely as I dare, the club should have moved to Welford Road in 2000, given that's where they got their biggest gate of 1999....

We could have become the Perpignan Broncos in 2006, give that's where our highest home gate of 2005 was....





The Bit in RED Bold reminds us that all of your previous efforts on justifying a move east have revolved around any such shift involving marketing, whilst totally ignoring the fact that the club have not marketed themselves anywhere else. I would suggest that rather than a costly move to pastures new, the club actually spend some money marketing where they are currently before upping sticks.







Twickenham Stoop is one of only a handful of purpose built Rugby Stadiums in the country. It is approximately a 10 minute walk from an rail line that is served by 20+ trains an hour and is in an area that is served by 25+ bus routes....in addition, it is in the shaddow of a stadium that has no problem getting 82,000 people through it's gates 7 or 8 times a year. As for Northern fans......as I have shown over the years, with my obsessive hobby of crowds at London games, the "away" fans that you speak of, often enough, are residents in London......when Wigan, Leeds or Saints play us, there are very rarely any more coaches than for other teams in the car park......yet these teams attract on average 1,500 to 2,500 more fans......where are they hiding these 75 seater coaches.....20+ of them









Maybe not, but come back when you have a decent set of arguments for a move east other than to cover up the mistakes of the last 17 years by moving somewhere else to repeat them again, rather than facing the problem head on and doing something about it!



By the way.......THIS IS NOW A DERAILED THREAD............you were a tad premature with your assertion earlier that only made you look like an IDIOT.

which is it?

No, this time you are spot on mate.



Where the Club is based is fine. All the claptrap about RL being working class sport, can't work in leafy Twickenham etxc., is total .



We've had good crowds in the past, so there's no reason whith a decent product on the pitch backed by great marketing that we can't have good crowds again.



Every other arguement is a smokescreen.

What moving ground has to do with "getting rid of Powell" is beyond me!



The decision of the ground we play at or if we do in the future though may be out of our hands as a Club and again we can go on until the cows go home, but we are just a very small percentage of the few fans we have left anyway!

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it's a brilliant plan.....we move to brisbane road for 2013 and just don't tell him.......

Baldrick, that plan is so cunning you could stick a tail on it and call it a weasel!