Given the state of the second half it surely is up to the coach to change direction and tactics makes you think doesn't apart from those making high level decisions in the club. Second from bottom is my prediction and out of the cup next week, plus falling crowds. It is a crime given the supposed calibre of the individual players in the current squad that we are where we are in terms of league position, wake up DH, Gus otherwise forget SL in London after the next license review. However on a positive note prefer Orient to the Stoop.

Found the answer; Answer: 115 yd = 105.156 m for the football pitch. Assume today's game on the main pitch around 85 - 90 metres!

Brisbane Road is not a Superleague standard Ground and doesn't have a capacity of 10,000.



Interestingly, championship clubs need to average 2,500 fans per game to be considered for a licence.....we are currently on 2,702.....



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Do you really believe that doesn't happen in a game?

Despite allegedly spending up to the salary cap the reality is that we have the under 20s backline of O'Callaghan, Channing, Sarginson and Dixon all in with Robertson playing at fullback. This has partly come about because no out and out centres were purchased and because players with a long history of missing games were signed or retained. However this backline could have been peppered with experience by bringing in Melling and Dorn.



The use of substitutes yesterday was shameful in giving potential match winner Luke Dorn a five minute cameo and leaving young Ben Bolger to run up and down the line for no reason was an insult. I would have selected four from Lamont, Rob T, Sam B, Ben B and Wheeldon to relieve the guys against a big Bradford side rather than play with 15.



I would suggest that the gate was reasonable given that the club has lost the majority of the floating support and even some of the core support because David Hughes has failed to appoint someone supporters believe in. I don't want to go away anymore because I am fed up of this sour faced incompetent. But I am even more sad than angry. It is like being a football supporter knowing that you will concede three goals a game as a minimum and that it will be a shock to beat Salford or Bradford.

Knew we were doomed when fans started chanting "easy easy" at 16-0 up

Sums it up for me really.



I'm afraid to say I could see the result coming at half time - we'd squandered a good start and let them back into it with a couple of soft tries. As mentioned, subs policy increasingly bizarre - Did Dorn come on again after his 13 minute spell straddling the end of the 1st and start of 2nd half? What is the point?



Credit to Bradford I thought they produced a very efficient and well drilled second half performance. They wore us down and capitalised on errors, which we committed a multitude of. Everyone seems to be bagging Hicks and I think he had a pretty shoddy game but I don't think any of his calls materially affected the result. Bradford were on balance the better side.



We are halfway through the season and have 2 wins. We are 10 points off the top 8 which was laughably supposed to be our target. Shameful. This is a results-driven business and Rob Powell has shown he cannot achieve those results. How he's still in a job, well, I can't explain it.

Same here, 50 minutes there 45 back compared to 4 hours round trip via train to the Stoop. Really easy journey down the A127/A12, even folk coming from Southend would get there in 1hr 10 minutes or so. Theres a good potential fan base in Essex as the only pro sports to compete with all the way along the Thames corridor and up through Chelmsford etc is football and to a lesser extent speedway (who race Friday nights anyway).

Enjoyed the game if not the result but judging by the reaction and mood of those around me i would say the day was a success plus its our 2nd biggest, albiet low, crowd of the season.

Speedway lol

Moving to a football club still presents the following issues



- Being kicked out in the summer a la Griffin Park

- Having to play home games on sundays (most of the time, one would assume)

- In Orient's case, it's not SL-license worthy?

- No idea on rent figures but it could conceivably cost more than The Stoop, which is a purpose built rugby facility.

Why isn't orient SL quality? Would be one of the best grounds in the comp and 10k a pretty arbitrary number TBH. Not like we've ever got anyway near it?

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10k ground is the minimum, but as you say, we have only ever reported 1 SL crowd of that size.....and 10,000 of them were either on the way home or in the bar when the game was on





Gotta love the posts saying East is best on here......I repeat, that was the second lowest gate for a Bradford Superleague game in 17 years.....AND apparently was achieved with advertising in the local papers and the buy in from the hosts, who promoted the game heavily