I don't like north London, it smells there. But it's better idea than Gillingham.

Gus out (GOUT), in any event.

Coming from the sh*te hole of London that's a bit rich!

"gritty south London" haha - I think we are getting down to who will have us, even this week Gus still claims there are still several offers, yes????

North London:



South London:

Terrible. Sun shines right in my eyes.

And the pitch is even more flooded than the Stoop was a couple of weeks ago.

Because I have a differing opinion to your doesn't mean it's not correct.


....ah, so because we now have even fewer fans than beofore, your solution is to move again.....guess what, we've moved a few times before and it hasn't worked.

Business and marketing are like sharks and swimming......and youknow what happens when a shark stops swimming!



Move again?



cover up past failings by moving?




I though accessability wasn't the problem?



I don't follow London Welsh......I voice my concerns over the shambolic way in which the club I do follow is being butchered.


Good win tonight....will have to wait a few more weeks to get my hands on a decent London broncos shirt!

My understanding was The Hive was merely a temporary home for Barnet till they moved back to their home borough, however unlikely that looks. Whether any of this has changed since Barnet got relegated from the Football League I do not know but as I said, my understanding was it was going to be temporary.

The criteria for a franchise spot was a ground with a minimum of 12,000 seats at the last round of selection. A mark above 5,000 isn't even half of the 12,000 minimum. Of the discussed venues I've seen named on here in the past, only Brentford meets that 12,000 and does so by just scraping past that number.

I'm also quite sure that a big thing was made about old grounds in the last round of selection and forced Saints and Salford to move into modern stadia, you could argue (and rightly so) that Brentford's ground is definitely not modern whereas what Orient lacks in numbers (their capacity is just over 9k) makes up for in the fact that three of the four stands have been rebuilt since the turn of the millenium so are in the modern category.

I'm just dealing in speculation and "what if's" but the only other venue I can think of is Saracens' Allianz Park. However, that is only a 10k capacity (which has shocked me), is modern and the pitch is plastic so there would be no getting kicked off to play elsewhere.

Moe I'm not sure if there are going to much said about ground standards if the new structure for Super League is accepted, not many Championship grounds are up to standard and with the current popular solution?? four teams will go up to SL1 after teams have played each other in the first part of the season. I'm sure that I read once about The Hive that there was no availability to extend.

Saracens yes but are we back to the same position we are in currently competing with union?

And you have to bus in the fans because of no trains ans buses dont they?

Yes! we are in a no win situation now, just think if we had invested in some land way back after we first left Fulham, if the RFL could buy Odsal, why did they not look at owning a ground in London then and making it a HQ for the game.

Or alternatively, just think if we had bothered to try and grow a crowd at The Stoop.

oh but

walkways
too affluent an area to care
sometimes the sun gets in my eyes

all bollox....the club never tried to get the buy in from locals and that is why they are sloping off to pastures new with their tails between their legs. The funny (sic) thing is,I honestly think that the really believed changing the name back to London Broncos was going to go someway to sorting out the crowd issues????

The bad workman blaming his tools ?

I get attacked on here for speaking my mind, especially with regard to the attempts (sic) to make any progress at the club made by the CEO....apparently he's not making a complete hash of it....70 pies sold last Friday....give the guy a medal



Simply put....if I had suggested in 2009 in my infamous 20 point opus, that we revert back to the broncos name to clear up confusion and move to Kent or 3,500 seater training ground, I'd have been laughed off the forum.....fast forward 4 years and it is now being deemed acceptable.

No effort has been made to engage the locals in Twickenham.......it is yet another move to cover up the total inability for the club unber the ownership of DH to identify and target an audience through below the line marketing strategies that are quantifiable.

In today's current financial climate the RFL should be looking at its Super League criteria. The Hive seems to be coming along nicely:

The Panorama from the bar / restaurant


Main Stand


And it can't be worse than Cas or Wakey!

It looks better than Odsal and the RFL own that!

I'm trying to see where people have come out in support of Gus or go on about him not making a hash of certain things on this forum, or have deemed a move to Kent acceptable?

On the hive stadium wikipedia page it mentions the broncos potential future at the ground

Some comments from BarnetSteve on The Barnet forum:

South underhill moving. Next year and corners being filled to make a bowl within the next few years. Negotiations with london broncos under way but they arent the only ones looking to groundshare, and if they come then membership will cover bronco games.

In the conversation I had about groundshare the guy said it was extremely likely that we would be groundsharing with a different sport. I said I'd heard about Broncos and he confirmed they were keen and negotiations were underway but it wasnt a done deal and if it didnt happen they werent the only option. We had a brief chat about the rumours that Tony had recently been looking at Wasps but I'm not convinced they are one of the interested parties as the Hive would be too small and I dont think the pitch would cope imo.

Thanks for the update. The Hive looks the least bad option as things stand at the moment.

Interesting, chronicler. I am based in Chiswick and cycle to games at the moment. The Hive is 24 stops on the tube....worthwhile for a committed bunch of players, doubtful if some of the current team merit it....

Is 24 stops on the tube a problem? I come in to watch each home game from Cambridge. Why whinge if only coming in from Chiswick, FFS?

Hive = 3,500 seats....it signals the level of ambition at the club.....regardless of where those seats are!

Would it be too difficult to rationalise what you say, in the context of the figures you constantly regurgitate, something like

Hive = 3,500 seats, which given our current attendances is more than sufficient, particularly as ground capacity is over 5k. Hopefully the club will be aiming to fill this modest capacity week in week out, paying a reasonable rent for the privilege and investing in marketing and brand awareness, and in due course be looking to develop the ground further to meet increased demand. That would signal the level of ambition at the club.