A team from OUTSIDE the wastelands trying to succeed by trying new things? Perish the thought.....BAh HUMBUIG even!

We've tried expansionism, which as every parochial flatcapper knows, does not work.

Why not try contractionism? Ban the game from everywhere outside a 4 mile wide corridor centred on the M62. To further encourage the contraction of the game, every fan of the greatest game should pi55 and moan and b1tch at anyone who lives more than 5 miles away from them and expresses an interest in the sport. What???? Doing that already?????
Umm reduce the sport further by banning all teams with attendances regularly below 5000? So that would leave just 'Ull, Leeds and Saints.

THAT'LL make Yorks and Lincs the top countries in the game surely.

Obv Lancs not Lincs. Not that it makes any diff to me. You northerners all look the same anyway.

I'd take the million quid they give Quins a year and spend it on Jnr and amateur RL in the whole area. It would be far more effective in our main goal of spreading the game and creating a bigger Jnr base. The Quins are clearly not the reason kids start playing RL in London, spend the money better, kick the failure that is Quins RL into touch and spend the money where it actually makes most difference. Unless of course someone can provide empirical evidence that having Quins in SL actually makes a difference to Sky viewing figures.

JB you lummox. Kids play the sport in the hope of reaching the heights. CLEARLY they already do this in large numbers in Lahndahn.
What das kapital is short of is spectators / viewers / supporters.

The problem is all tastes and kinks are well catered for in Cockney headquarters. 26 excessively tattoed, gimlet eyed northerners and colonials running into each other in converging straight lines over and over again is of limited interest to the spoiled pearly kings and queens.

To get stabby cockneys though the turnstiles you would have to give away free knives at half time or something.

Depends where you are. Especially considering where Twickenham is. Otherwise it's like slagging off Scousers for failing to turn up regularly at the Galpharm.

Of course he didn't realise, he's too busy shouting about his opinions to actually read what people say.

I know and he even underlined the bit he didn't understand

As Mark Twain said "It's better to keep quiet and have people think you stupid, than to talk and confirm it"

exactly...i am saying the more casual observer is enjoying the product on the telly. what quins need to do is encourage them down to the stoop on a saturday or a sunday. but, having more kids and amateurs playing, and more tv observers, then there is the potential for it to happen. quins need to tap into it, and this is the problem area, as they don't seem to be able to

Since professional RL was re-introduced to London in the 80s the team has found homes (in no particular order) at:
Craven Cottage
Brentford
Chiswick
The Stoop
Hendon
Crystal Palace
The Valley

Why would anyone think the answer to the poor support is yet another move?

One day, and it may be a long long time away, the penny will drop that Superleague , along with quite a few other sports is about EYES ON THE BOX and sod all with who goes through the turnstiles.

Sky couldn't care less simply because they don't anything from it.

What they do get is a big wad of cash from advertisers, and subscribers the length and breadth of the country who watch and are very interested in the game (contrary to misheld BBC beliefs).

If Sky were not making money from SL then they wouldn't pay for it.

The largest "market " is London so if they are getting the figures for viewing there and the subscriptions that they want, is it a failure?

Looking on the website the cheapest ticket to go and watch Harlequins is £15.

Thats £15 for a poorer quality seat (the most expensive ones are £30 so the website says)

This will be similar to your view (probably with the same amount of spectators there too)




If you want to save money (and you have a laptop) why not open the image above, go outside in your garden (alone), sit on an uncomfortable plastic garden chair and look at the above photo for 80 mins whilst drinking a warm can of Morrisons 3% proof lager and getting your neighbours 3 small children to shout 'We are quins RL' over the fence at you once every 10 mins. Thats about as exciting as a trip to the stoop on Quins RL day is.


Why fork out £15 (not including bus/train/tube fares if you live in London) to sit in an empty stadium where you can hear a pin drop (in an uncovered seat thats not on the halfway line) watching poor quality rugby league when you can watch games on Sky (dare I say ones that involve better and more interesting sides than Quins to watch) for the price of a couple of pints in a pub?


Its a vicious circle. No one goes because the atmosphere is so poor and the atmosphere is so poor because no one goes. And the reason no one goes is because 1. The team are useless and 2. There is no atmosphere.

Sorry but those are the facts.



Quins RU are playing Leicester Tigers today at 5:30.

You look and see how many people turn up for that.....despite the game also being shown live on Skysports 2 (Coverage starts at 5pm)


They will get more fans for one game than Quins RL will get for 4....at least