Agree on points 2, 3 and 4, although points 2 and 3 are really the same, unless you are having a pop at opposition fans for not traveling down in as greater numbers as they have done in previous years. Also "Is it time we just dumped them off is not even a sentence in the English language.

I'm going to ask you a serious question. You might take it the wrong way or think i'm having a personal dig at you which I am NOT.


But why the hell do you support Quins RL??

Do you enjoy seeing a side that will clearly never win anything?

Do you enjoy paying to travel to the Stoop and sit in a 3/4 empty stadium?


I honestly can't see why ANYONE would go and watch them.

If you like RL then get a Sky sports package and watch the decent games on telly. Or down the pub.

So to Australian standards there would only be 4 teams in the Super League.

With Crowds that average over 10,000

There are plenty of smaller clubs in the so called RL 'heartlands'.

Why not try and develop them instead of wasting time and money setting up clubs in areas where it is obvious to anyone that they won't succeed?

Because the NRL realise's what a side like Melbourne brings to a TV bargaining agreement.
Melbourne are a side that's not in Rugby League's heartland (NSW and QLD) and they still manage to attract a season average of over 10,000.

Yes but the Storm are a little different in as much as they have some quality players and they have actually won things... fairly or otherwise.


Being owned by News Ltd helps too of course.

Hypothetical what would have happened if the London Broncos won the Challenge Cup then a few years back?

We will never know because it didn't happen.

Hard to say... would it have been the catalyst that would have made RL in London a success?

Personally I don't think so.

The juniors are there. Like Melbourne (have a look at where the Storm are coming in the U20's).

The current coach is probably the one to keep there, but get an Australian Defensive Coordinator sort out the defensive defiances (Look at what Nathan Brown's done with Huddersfield).

And who know's it they might push for something.

As I keep telling you PIPPS, its 6 years, ie as long as they have been Quins RL and a bit before.

Before that there was nothing in terms of development, only a first team full of bunch of Aussie backpackers.

One day you will get this simple fact into your thick head.

He is a shocking coach. Even when you factor in how poor the Quins players are.

I didn't know you knew Rob Powell, Phippsy. When were you coached by him?