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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Rothman2 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 hours 59 minutes ago at 23:32
Thanks Trailfinder

That was a great period for Championship Rugby and it borders on criminal how that was not built on.
Also nothing compares with club rugby at proper Rugby grounds.

 Incidentally, in addition to having the football ground audited, we had to have a second ground audited, just in case the first choice was unavailable. Even then the panel voted on it and it was tied at 5-5 before under immense pressure from the media they allowed our promotion. This was our second promotion to the Prem (2003) but the atmosphere at the football ground was no comparison to what it was at Clifton Lane in our first year up there (2000/01) with 4,000 shoe horned into Clifton Lane to see us beat Saracens in the Prem. Then all back to a raucous club house ( as per example videos posted above 10 or so years later) 
and still to this very day)

So we also know exactly how it feels to win the league, get rejected and  then have to go and play at a football ground and do it all again the following season.


This is why I believe there must be a change at the top of the game. The powers that be had a great opportunity even back in 2014 to do something special but didn’t build on it.

A new broom is needed, not as Trigger hilariously referred to in Only Fools and Horses, which, according to him was about 7 different handles and eight new brush heads.
In essence, a new broom must be completely new not the “same one or even a modified version”, otherwise it would just be the same protectionism, just different people administering it. 

To make wholesale changes to the structure or anything else must be done by a new small elected committee totally unconnected with the current regime.

I sincerely hope you get promoted this year and wish you well.


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My strong suspicion for Ealing is it’s near impossible to get council planning permission for a park bench let alone a 10k seater stadium (despite there being ample space, although access is probably the biggest obstacle). Not to mention the injustice of having to spend millions just for the sake of it. 

I actually do agree that ongoing investment in facilities is essential but a 10k stadium is just arbitrary. I’d rather Ealing remain in the Champ than were forced to move, I suspect that they are hoping the criteria will be further relaxed. 
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Originally posted by Kimbo Kimbo wrote:

Originally posted by JZSmith JZSmith wrote:

Originally posted by Kimbo Kimbo wrote:

Originally posted by titans.chris titans.chris wrote:


I can't see Ealing being allowed into Prem 1 so there will be no promotion. There will be some technicality preventing them or they will just loose out to an improved Newcastle side in a playoff. (Cynical I know). 


Which would just intensify the stench.
If (very probable) Ealing win the league, they should be promoted.
No ifs, buts, or playoffs.

Sadly Ealing will always fall foul of the minimum ground capacity regulation which I believe is Ealing's capacity +1.
Which, of course, should be totally irrelevant.

Absolutely Kimbo but in Ealing's case I would suggest that according to Sweeney and his mates they will always be one short of whatever the entry criteria is be in ground capacity or anything else.
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