Cymry Llundain

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Radley Rambler
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Re: Cymry Llundain

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Enhancing the Club’s commitment to Oxford:

Since September 2012 London Welsh has played all its key matches at the Kassam Stadium in Oxford. Over the course of the season so far the crowd base has grown dramatically from that seen in the Championship. Base crowd levels are now around 4,500 to 5,000, but have been as high as 7,500 for the opening game against Leicester Tigers. The upcoming fixture against neighbouring team London Wasps scheduled for Saturday 29 December (3pm kick-off) is expected to attract the biggest crowd of the season. This support from the local communities, schools and rugby clubs re-enforces the Club’s decision to move to Oxford. Having already started to build an active community rugby programme in the Oxford area the Club is pleased to announce that it has embarked on the search for new training facilities in the area as well as laying the foundations for a rugby academy programme.

The key investor in the Club over the past few years has been local businessman Kelvin Bryon. London Welsh would not have reached the heights of the Premiership without his historic and continued support, both financially and across all operations of the Club. As the Club progresses into its next key phase new investors are being targeted from the Oxford area and beyond, including businesses, entrepreneurs, and lovers of rugby. The Club is intent on widening its investor base and solidifying its new roots in Oxford and further afield and is seeking to raise additional funding in this next phase of its development with more ambitious plans further ahead if all goes as well as one would hope.


Commenting further on these matters, Bleddyn added

“For a professional club to survive in the modern world of Premiership rugby it requires the support of enthusiastic and committed investors as well as the full backing and following of a supportive fan base. Our new fans and supporters in Oxford, as well as our established and loyal following from Old Deer Park which remains very much our spiritual home and the continuing base for all our Amateur, mini and ladies' rugby teams, need to know that we are committed to both retaining our position in the Premiership and to developing our participation and engagement in all aspects of rugby and community sport. We are keen therefore to ensure that we have in place the necessary investors for the next phase as we seek to build on the momentum thus far generated during our first four months in the Premiership. We will do all we can as a club to ensure that we are successful in achieving this goal&quot.
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Does this sound like they have their eyes on the stadium? Or is it more the training facilities being the 'next phase'?
Or at least getting a new hybrid pitch like Swansea?
That's one interpretation or perhaps they might choose to look in Oxfordshire for a new site for a stadium to force the hand of the current stadium owner? I understand that if LW stay up in the rugby Premiership, they receive a very substantial payout from the RFU which may give them the wherewithal to look at this option.
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Re: Cymry Llundain

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Over the course of the season so far the crowd base has grown dramatically from that seen in the Championship. Base crowd levels are now around 4,500 to 5,000, but have been as high as 7,500 for the opening game against Leicester Tigers.

A url link please, though of course because the supporters mix no one has any idea of away support.

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