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Do you think it might be in London then? Or will they just change the date?

....I heard they were just gonna scrap the playoffs and give the titles to Cobras, Dundee and Jets....

tell you the truth i went to watch the DVS a couple years ago and didn't like it...it was too big, too empty and the track put us far from the action.....

I'd rather see a high school 2500 person packed bleacher creature stadium where bad passes go into the crowd....I'd bring the cowbell

not even sure you guys have any of them over here....

If you're looking for something like that, BritBall should be played at Milton!! :P

So long as it's not at the shameful new wembley disaster I'll be happy...
But yea this is the excuse the sport needs to move from DVS, despite the stadiums limitations the geography appeased most and we'd "developed a relationship" with the venue, this goes to show exactly what that relationship meant to them so the opportunity to relocate to a more suitable venue is there, it's just a case of hoping you can get a venue of appropriate intimacy that can house a 110+yd field (the farce that playing a final on an inapporpriately sized field has been), be relatively modern in terms of PA system, scoreboard etc etc....
Maybe Cassidy group will purpose-build such a venue!!

We should go back to the velodrome at Leicester, plastic pitch, cycle track round the end-zone but reasonable size, a la DD's high school.

Bring back the good old days!

Ray :lol:

Saffron Lane is now in a very bad state, I'm afraid

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=26695

although a development plan for housing was defeated in Sept 2006, which presumably means it will be allowed to stand and rot indefinitely, because once someone on the council wants it for housing, nothing will ever be spent on it again; but I can't see a housing development of that type going forward in the current market or for several years to come.

However it's completely unusable as it stands, I'm sorry to say.

No one has used Saffron Lane for years as Loughborough University and Braunstone Leisure Centre have better facilities now.

They could you the Leicester Tigers stadium at Welford Road though - its prob the most central location for all teams.

too bad they couldn't use RAF lakenheaths stadium......nice pitch, scoreboard etc.....

If anyone wants to see some HS games this year I can sign you on base. its a great atmosphere!!! w ecan have a few drinks at the club or something then crash at my house

I'd be very surprised if Welford Road was available at any affordable cost, on any useful date. Fixture congestion is a serious problem in Rugby Union, and they regularly sell out 16,000 plus, so I would think it is priced 'according' and I would assume they would want all the concession income plus a share of the gate as well.

Personally I think that Northampton's Franklin Gardens would be a super venue for an event like this, bright new 14,000 all-seater stadium with plenty of parking, but again how the commercial side would work, I have no idea.

one of the factors that made don valley so suitable was that it could accomodate four teams at once in the basement changing areas. there aren't many facilities that can do the same.

realistically, what are the attendances like at BritBowl?

personally, I'd love to see the Cats play one more time at Milton Road, before the Supporters' Trust are out-manouevered or run out of money. That was a super little park, just the right size with a very nice pitch and 'just-about' enough changing rooms. However I suspect that all the ingredients for a nostalgia-driven disaster are contained in that simple statement....