So it's clearly the warm welcome the transient population receive down the 'moon' that makes them come back time and time again then?

Everybody gets a warm welcome, unfortunately most of the transient population are too busy pretending to be Wallabies fans down the pub. London RL fans are real RL fans, they have to be otherwise they'd be in the pub pretending to be rah rah's too!

These 'London RL fans' ..... are these the ones that are camouflage experts?

Because anytime I see 'highlights' of a London Harlequins RL fixture all I see are lots of empty seats.

It's obviously all the missing Ockers who claim to be into their RL but spend all their time down the pub pretending to be Wallabies fans.

Just because quite a few of the London based Antipodean community like their footy it doesnt mean we want to pay to watch Harlequins try and play it.

I like Scotts porridge oats too... but I wouldnt go and sit in the middle of a field in Scotland somewhere and watch them growing it.

I can understand the homesickness, being a Wire in London. Never really had it myself but the lack of people who talked about rugby or even heard of 'league' did get me down did get me down a bit.
Watched Quins plenty of times and as much as i love watching the rugby at the Stoop it's not the same atmosphere, saying that 3 empty stands does that. Maybe it is the same for the players, they just don't get the same intensity.

I hope Quins can sort it out though

good grief

I can see why London might be more attractive than up North, you can go anywhere without being recognised, just go out to the shops without signing autographs, and as others have said, being comparatively rich and young in london would be sweet!

Being from the shire you will feel right at home in a stadium with a small crowd, underperforming team and no atmosphere! You might struggle to find aussie flag to drape yourself in and a Lebanese to beat up though to make you feel like your really back in Cronulla!