By Florida
October 2 2025

Silence, nothing but silence. It gets to you, eats at any lingering hope you have that a club may reappear somewhere. The worry is compounded when valuable IP disappears from the internet with not even a whimper. That is where we find ourselves, nothing from the new owners since the sad loss of Jordan and the the london-irish.com site disappeared, not a single update to recognise this and let us know it's being worked on.

Then, without a word of warning the site returns (briefly) and there's news! We've partnered with a ticketing provider this provide tickets. I'll be honest, I have been quite skeptical of the likelihood of our return for a while and the first announcement in a while being a ticketing platform when we lack team, stadium, training facilities, coaches or league was less than inspiring. That is not the only news though, if you keep up with all sources of rugby news you may well have listened to a podcast with featuring the chairman of the Tier2 board who stated we have just started discussions about joining the Championship. He was keen to stress we're just at the very beginnings of these conversations, but I feel it's a positive sign. It's a brief glimmer of hope that I welcome.

For those that want a listen you can find the podcast here, it's a long one, the interview with the Tier2 chairman starts at about 22 minutes, he discusses us a good 20 minutes later. Of you have the time it's well worth a listen

A glimmer of hope?

Discussion started by The Craic www.londonirish.org , 02/10/2025 12:53

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02/10/2025 12:53

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waltham
05/10/2025 12:50

I'm quite puzzled as things stand. We are encouraged join waiting lists on TIXR for "season tickets" prior to October 31st and also to pre-sign up as potential investors via Republic Europe (no dates yet).

There does seem to have been "some" sort of activity (e.g. initial discussions with The Championship) with a declared intent to be back in time for the 2026/27 season
but not much more.

I'm guessing (hoping?) that there are some significant activities going on in the background and that there'll be some sort of announcement soon.



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waltham
21/10/2025 16:02

I see the offy is showing as up for sale once again (minimum bid is $10k as previously). All a bit odd that there seem to be occasional messages on X and from Republic Europe (the crowdfunder involved) but nothing at all more concerete.

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