Quote Chorlton RL="Chorlton RL"If we're talking stadiums why haven't Saints, even Bradford, been included in this poll? I hate this obsession with stadiums, particularly as Leeds achieved an A grade... an A grade for Headingley!?
Anyway, I can't believe folk are still gunning for Wakey to have the drop. Ok, Belle Vue is run down and the club needs to move, but the community stadium is well on the way. Wakey's ground is much further along than Cas and Salford's and not too far behind Saints. Wakey also have a terrific youth set up, better, in fact, than a lot of other clubs. Wakey have also been building examplery community initiatives. Wakey are also now serious play off contenders year on year. The attendances might not be breathtaking, but improvements have been made and in a new stadium with modern facilities I can see the attendances continuing upwards. In comparison to other clubs it seems really unfair to still suggest that Wakey should be cast out of SL.
I think that Quins should be dropped. I think the club needs to spend time in the Championship to build up the fan base, build a new infrastructure in a new part of London and drop the Quins brand. It was glaringly obvious from the off that a RL team wearing the colours and bearing the name of an Onion club was never going to work and it still hasn't. The club needs to either team up a lower league football club, ala Cru, or start a fresh in a new part of town. Heck, move to Brixton and tap into the Black community. Put it to the aspiring youths that not only could they eventually play for the London club in SLin the future, they could, depending on their parents etc, play for England or even the Jamaican national side.
However, I can't see the RFL wanting to remove SL presence from London, so Salford should be up for the drop.'"
I am going to show my mate at work this on Monday, He will laugh His socks off at the reference to Brixton. Junior sides in London do target Brixton not just the Jamacian/African/Barbadian/st kitts/ bermudian etc community. Think You will find Harlequins do too.
