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looks like a good crowd.

gutterfax wrote:

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

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

The Chronicler of Chiswic wrote:

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.

jbuzza wrote:

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.

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.

nadera78 wrote:

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.

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.

Get on Brisbane Road.

Free S/T's for all at Newham Dockers, Barking & Dagenham Bulldogs and Medway Dragons. Giving free tickets to Medway boosted the attendance at the on the road game at Gillingham and with their being a train link from Stratford into Kent, its not a long drive for the kids parents anymore.

Advertise (yep, that dirty word) the East End as a family friendly area. After all we have a big event here this year. Advertise that the Dad & Lad can go and watch the Rugby, whilst Mum & Daughter hit the Westfield shops.

There was also enough interested football fans, encourage them to come along for a discounted rate if they're Orient S/T holders either for one game, a package of three or S/T's.

Moe Lester wrote:

Get on Brisbane Road.

Free S/T's for all at Newham Dockers, Barking & Dagenham Bulldogs and Medway Dragons. Giving free tickets to Medway boosted the attendance at the on the road game at Gillingham and with their being a train link from Stratford into Kent, its not a long drive for the kids parents anymore.

Advertise (yep, that dirty word) the East End as a family friendly area. After all we have a big event here this year. Advertise that the Dad & Lad can go and watch the Rugby, whilst Mum & Daughter hit the Westfield shops.

There was also enough interested football fans, encourage them to come along for a discounted rate if they're Orient S/T holders either for one game, a package of three or S/T's.

BroncOnIon wrote:

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.

not if you forget that the ground was built on marshland and is very prone to waterlogging hence the bad playing conditions when the seasons overlap....

sanjunien wrote:

not if you forget that the ground was built on marshland and is very prone to waterlogging hence the bad playing conditions when the seasons overlap....

Since the pitch was re-done at the DW, the pitch there has been top notch for both sides.

Father Ted wrote:

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

No.
Old Deer Park is on crown land and cannot be developed.

Plus Richmond Cricket club have first call on that area, so I've no idea how that would work out. They play on a Saturday and have mini cricket on a Sunday morning.

You could try Richmond Athletic Ground, around the corner, but I don't know what goes on there in the summer.
Plus we'd have to top and tail the season, in order to fit in with the RU season.