I went to Market Drayton fc a couple of years ago and while I was talking to the manager he said you don't need planning permission for a temporary stand as long as you take it down every year which seems what bath rugby do. As for trailfinders they would probably groundshare elsewhere as the criteria to join the cartel is ridiculous with the amount of hoops they'd have to jump through

The stand at Bath is on a long standing agreement, Bath don’t just chuck a stand up and then pull it down at the end of the season

Sheffield have had to apply for planning consent for their temporary stand at OLP.

Guess it's down to the council then not that trailfinders would be allowed to the top division with temporary stands anyway

Why not? Bath are!

Apparently the toilet situation, with the players using the same toilets as fans was cleared as acceptable by the rfu! Quite odd. The extra toilet block built for the “away team “ was not essential.

Bath were already in the top flight when the rules came out so it doesn't apply. There was also a rule of having first choice on pitch which most didn't have when sharing with a football team. it was only when London Welsh were willing to take the rfu to court did the authorities relent. It is said that if bath get relegated they would not meet the criteria was told there was/Is plans to share with Swindon if this ever happens.

Not really sure where the sharing with a football team comes in, the reason Bath have to take the temporary stand down is due to use of the land and the cricket pitch. The land they play on has restrictions as to fair and equal use, unlike Trailfinders. So pretty sure any temporary stand at Ealing would need approval even if it was to come down after use, I have no links only word of mouth from Ealing residents with links to the club, it has been discussed with the local authority and is an option.

For the superior sport I doubt even a temporary stand would get us to super league standards, so either an exemption or our nomadic existence kicks in again. Realistically do we need a 10k stadium? No! A 5 k maybe but would the RFL accept that?

FWIW could never see Bath RU sharing with Swindon Town

Maybe we could be a team that doesn't have a home ground and play games at different stadiums in the south. 13 games not massively difficult to sort out. When we play Salford, Wakey etc we could host that at Ealing



Some Aussie teams don't have home grounds

Yeah we could stay permanently on the road like Toronto !

...and ignore the cap too?





Being nomadic during the season is marketing suicide, especially with DH holding the purse strings. Much better to get permission to erect a 2,500 seat temporary stand and fill the place with 5,000 fans for all games........do that for a couple of seasons and then if need be take Wigan, Leeds and Saints OTR, but realistically no other team averaged more than that in the capital, even before" the Gus years".......3 Event games to fill a 10k stadium.....but let's rewind..........Sheffield this week.

Groundsharing with a football club is seen as a problem due to tv coverage even though half the league were groundsharing. any club wanting promotion were not allowed. Exeter had the urinals measured at their ground(22 cms apart apparently) the rfu tried their hardest to stop exeters promotion. As for Bath the rec wouldn't pass the criteria so I assume Swindon is their nearest option.