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Anyhow good luck lads, personally I wouldn't trust Rimmer one bit or believe a thing that comes out of his mouth

Cheers Les

I know not that many Dewsbury supporters post on here. However unless I have missed it, I would be interested to know if they will be attending The Giants game at was once their stadium. Also have they friends or contacts that intend to do so. ?

heard it's just Rimmer and Wood meeting at Birstal burger king for lunch

What a load of rubbish, NRL havnt a clue how to run a competition !!! Teams in Birmingham and Manchester, my Harris. We have RL geniuses in the likes of Wood and Rimmer who obviously knows better, Dewsbury is the way to go and grow the game. Brighouse and Ramsbottom next, they will show the Aussies how it's done

Hi Guys, I havnt read all of this thread but I know there has been conversation about future grounds and SL acceptance. Contrary to what you may think there are some of us up here in M62 land that would love to have you in SL. However we have certain influential people in our game that are too stupid to see that. So I offer you this suggestion. Have you considered re locating to Brighouse, Cleckheaton , Heckmondwike or such places. But keep a London Base and keep the name London and say you intend to return mid term but only when you have the perfect stadium. I can assure you that if you did this, you would be guaranteed a place in SL.

Agree these things work both ways. However just from a Wakey perspective, they could not keep up the intensity of the first half when they were clearly the best team. Normally they kick on even stronger in second halves but faded instead. Plus Leeds stepped up too. Even game and just small margins dictate who wins.

I may be wrong on this one and stand to be corrected. I am under the impression that a stipulation of SL is that you run a reserve side. If so , Huddersfield have said they will not run reserves but just use Dewsbury for that purpose. However will that one work if I am correct ?

I don't that is really the point, if you cant get fans to a club why move it to an area that is even more saturated with established clubs

Nothing scientic but just a aa route planner to the respective town halls in the following places from flair stadium. Wakefield 5.2 miles Leeds 10.1 miles Bradford 10.1 miles Huddersfield 11.0 miles Let's be realistic Huddersfield have suffered in crowd growth and with the best will in the world they will lose some supporters with this move. So they will need to replace some and develop others. I would imagine they will not get much growth if any going in the directions of the three places above that have established SL clubs. So other than Huddersfield itself which has not been fruitful, just leaves Dewsbury itself and maybe the likes of Batley.

I would bet money on some eventual new name and branding. Obviously not for a year or two but once things start to settle down, things such as that will gradually start to change. I would also imagine if they settle in at Dewsbury and the move works well, their appetite for a return to Huddersfield will also disappear.

This training centre that Huddersfield have, Lund Hill ?, who owns that and is it shared with anyone else ? Just a thought, because those pitches next to the Dewsbury ground which they will own are ideal as a training facility. Depending on the Lund Hill circumstances ,could it be beneficial to end that and train on a facility the actually own .

on the face of things I am struggling to see how this benefits Dewsbury. I suspect the upgrade will be minimal and obviously some LED boards. However they will now be having to pay rent in a stadium they once owned. On the Rugby side , Huddersfield have stated they will not be running a reserves side, but using The Dewsbury team to play their reserve players. I don't see this as a benefit and as the years pass, Dewsbury will be basically Huddersfield reserves. Ok they say they are not buying The Dewsbury Club only their ground. However what will the Dewsbury Club be. They won't own a ground, Their team will be basically Huddersfield reserves , nothing ,much left really only a name. Let's not forget they once had a 'benericial shared partnership' with Sheffield eagles, how long did it take them to wipe their identity from the merged club. My bet in five years time or less, Dewsbury as a club will be gone, just like the Sheffield Eagles.

If moving a SL club to another town to play in a championship ground works, I could see the model being replicated by other clubs that are not happy with their current stadia. For instance, Cas could move to a better stadium which is not being used that much not far away in Fev Hull FC at times have had issues with the football side, could a move to play at Goole be the answer

This game is getting more powder puff than football