So Brentford, under their cash-splashing new owner, have bought a piece of land in Lionel Rd, Kew. This is where they previously tried to develop a stadium with Barrett Homes before the developers pulled out because it wasn't big enough for a 20,000 seater with houses alongside. Now it seems they're aiming for a 15,000 seater and some houses. 15,000 is exactly what Hughes and McKay say they're aiming to build too, isn't it? www.westlondonsport.com/brentford/break ... road-site/

So Brentford, under their cash-splashing new owner, have bought a piece of land in Lionel Rd, Kew. This is where they previously tried to develop a stadium with Barrett Homes before the developers pulled out because it wasn't big enough for a 20,000 seater with houses alongside. Now it seems they're aiming for a 15,000 seater and some houses. 15,000 is exactly what Hughes and McKay say they're aiming to build too, isn't it? www.westlondonsport.com/brentford/break ... road-site/

Football club......summer time......relay pitch.......Broncos kicked out for 2 months......nuff said.

The only way it will ever work with a football club is one in the lower leagues who may be willing to have installed the same pitch as Widnes Vikings use, which by the way after the early problems seems to have settled down and been accepted, then no problem and it can be used every day of the year!

I should say it's not actually in Kew, but next to Kew Bridge station.

Its Brentford, Hounslow as much as the residents around there wish you to think they live in Kew or Chiswick lol

Applied to Brentford's old pitch but not necessarily to a newly-installed one. Wigan don't seem to have any serious problems except for Premiership football regulations and Dave Whelan's ego.

But we'd have to be proper partners, not tenants, to make anything like this work.

I hate us being tenants anywhere but I don't rust football clubs. They shaft you at every opportunity and must be the the most self centred sporting clubs there are. Pity we cant get a share for our own security.

I think London Welsh may get there before us!

3 way partenship!! cue another rebranding maybe "the brentford irish broncos"
I could not see a prob with a shared venture, issue with the pitch is rubbish, wigan seem to cope ok,

London Welsh have a binding contract to play at Oxford if they are in the Premiership. At least that is what the local media have been saying in Oxford for some weeks

It will be years before this is built. London Welsh will be bust by then, and so will we, probably.

This move has been long mooted, and the main player has finally agreed a deal for the site. I still see a possibility of them coming to us and asking Hughes to pump in a few million for a long-term lease for the summer months and office space, esp given the numerous financial problems football clubs and rugby clubs have had shortly after moving to new facilities.

Much more likely in the short-term is a move to Old Deer Park for the smaller fixtures and On The Road Games for the bigger names in Super League. You'd like to think we could sell out one stand and have the other few thousand standing, most of the away fans want to do that anyways and so do some of us apparently.

Can't see us using Old Deer Park. We have major overlap with cricket season. London Welsh always had problems at end of union season if they got into playoffs.

Are AFC Wimbledon still planning to build somewhere?

If L Welsh are off to Oxford couldn't you improve their former place at Old Dear Park or has that gone now?

See above, not only is Old Deer Park probably nowhere near SL standard it cannot be used during the cricket season.

is it still 1,000,000 per 1,000 seats?

DH could buy 1/3 of the ground, with an option on the other 1/6........5 million now.....get the attendances up to a sustainable level....buy the rest later?

BTW....56 scheduled home games at Griffin Park....we were asked by the RFL to take the game to perpignan in 2005....I believe that we also volunteered to take one of the games to welford road, so 3 other games we were FORCED to take games elsewhere.....this tenant myth is just stupid.

Are we certain to leave the stoop at the end of this season?

Do you think the club are capable of finding another ground ?

let's face it...we couldn't fill this at the moment...

looks like a good crowd.

Out of curiosity, when was that taken? It looks in a lot better nick than when we were there.

Can't be that recent because there are sports club buildings either side of it now. The lease for that site was up for sale a couple of years back.

Does anyone know if the club ever considered the Hurlingham stadium back in the 1980's? It was knocked down about a decade ago but it had a bigger stand than the Chiswick Poly at that point.

It was a largely tongue in cheek comment, more to do with a ground in the local area that would be more suited to our numbers of supporters rather than the logistics of actually getting us playing a summer sport when there is already a summer sport happening within a good throw of a cricket ball.

Apparently we did have a brief look at Hurlingham, but there would have been no possibilty of developing the ground and access wasn't that brilliant. As far as the lease on Chiswick's concerned, it would have made a good centre for regional development, but that would take forward thinking and intiative from us and the RFL so that's a non-starter.