On the Move 2013 : Sun Feb 15, 2009 8:24 am  

Noticed a media report saying that the RFL was in discussion with the London Olympic management over the use of it's Stadium in 2013.....as a RL World Cup venue.

Perhaps they will make it a condition of any future SuperLeague licence in London that the holders play out of the stadium. Sorry Quins but have always been of the view that The Stoop is not the ideal venue for a SuperLeague team.......the bars are ok but the TRANSPORT LINKS are disgraceful.

At least the Olympic Stadium is going to be well served by tube, rail, bus and parking Any views

On the Move 2013 : Sun Feb 15, 2009 8:24 am  

Noticed a media report saying that the RFL was in discussion with the London Olympic management over the use of it's Stadium in 2013.....as a RL World Cup venue.

Perhaps they will make it a condition of any future SuperLeague licence in London that the holders play out of the stadium. Sorry Quins but have always been of the view that The Stoop is not the ideal venue for a SuperLeague team.......the bars are ok but the TRANSPORT LINKS are disgraceful.

At least the Olympic Stadium is going to be well served by tube, rail, bus and parking Any views

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:39 am  

Loon.

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:45 am  

Am sure in the standard a couple of weeks ago that it was stated the use of the stadium post 2012 could not fit Football or Rugby both codes as the running track will have to stay.

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 10:15 am  

Transport links! Pretty much on the M4, M3, M25, 40ish mins from M1, SWT Twickenham 10 mins away only thing is that we don't have a tube nearby!

Any new club playing out of a big stadium with small crowds would just be lost.

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:03 pm  

Great idea — throw away all the work that has gone in to building a community presence in the local area at one fell swoop.

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 2:07 pm  

Our future is to stay allied to the Quin's.
The stadium is perfect for our needs & hopefully, we will get more interaction with our Union counterparts.
As for terrible transport links, whats wrong with 6-8 trains an hour from Waterloo with an average journey time of 20-25 minutes. (I know that there have been problems with track maintenance but that is countrywide.Hence the reason I have not travelled to Castleford today.)
Also, Richmond Tube Station is only a few minutes away & the motorway network is close by.
As for talk of uprooting again. NO WAY!!!!!

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:30 pm  

so lets make it harder for away fans to get to the games eh?
What a stupid idea, the Stoop might not be ideal but where is? at least with the stoop links to the M way sytem are pretty good, M25 M40, (lancs based teams0 and M25/M1 for Yroks based teams

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:34 pm  

Last season there was talk of possibly London Skolars moving to the Olympic Stadium post 2012.

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:38 pm  

PTB wrote:

Great idea — throw away all the work that has gone in to building a community presence in the local area at one fell swoop.

With the club's history, that makes it a given, then.