slightly different, but I see where you're coming from.
Finances are reliant on crowds and/or a benefactor.....the London Lot have a benefactor and therefore are OK. The homegrown player issue is more about the growth of the game internationally....it all depends on what's important to you as an individual...club or country. Personally, I would like to see all clubs with 5 overseas players and a minimum of 10 that have come through their own academy.......but I am a game first, country second and club third guy.....

Well, there are a number of reasons, it was a public holiday. All Harlequins fans are asthmatic, and it's currently not safe to go outside due to the current smog warning level. Also, would you go to quins when you can get the Doritoes in for Leeds vs Reading? And, I don't think you're understanding here 'Dave', you are being very racist towards the french, people in france, especially in the South, cannot afford to go to the capital this week. It's also, obviously Friday the 13th, isn't it?

Idiot, how could you not know?

No one cares about RL in London, sorry, except the 3 million kids playing at school level before they join the peckham boys or whichever gang.

I Still dont believe the rumour that has no evidence what so ever, from the 35 london fans that SKy say there has to be a london team. They should be kicked out before Wakefield

And quite a few here would like to see you merge with Cas, try sticking with something you have clue about.

only 3,008 at wrexham today and half of those were in the away stand.
i suppose it's not a concern for the RFL and sky as long as they sell satellite dishes but surely less than 4,000 supporters of 2 expansion clubs is a major worry and doesn't do our game much good?

So a full THOUSAND more supporters in Wrexham than London.

Things at Quins are worse than I thought

Where are these 3 million kids who play RL in the capital that we hear about?

Yeh, but 9,000 turned up to see these two play this evening... but you are right, get em merged and turn this 9,000 into 4 or 5k overnight as many from both sides will not support a merged side... what bloody great idea, it seems that low crowds are all the rage with the RFL at the moment! Who needs these 9k x 2, 19k x 2 and 24k crowd derbies anyway, when we can have the league leaders playing in front of 3k at a nice ground in North Wales or Quins playing to 2k in one of the globes biggest city market-places!

No but I am sure the RFL know what they are doing... after all, the guys that runs things once turned one of the globes biggest annual sporting events into a slightly bigger global event than it was before he arrived... he is clearly a genius!

PS. I understand that this Sky want expansion at all costs is really and apocryphal tale... what they want is great games played in full stadiums and if that means Leeds, Wigan, Wakefield of Cas instead of 2k in London or 3k in Wales, they are happy!

The welsh franchise has been in existence for 2 years. The london one for 20 years

It is quite a bit longer than 2 years if you are crediting Quins with 20 years (actually, it is more like 25 years BTW).

I understand that the slight majority of this crowd were made up of the former league leaders supporters... as you would hope TBH. Still, Crusaders are doing well, they are unable to find a sponsor despite RL being the second most watched sport after football on the Sky platform and are owned by two people have taken the club into administration once and look increasing likely to do the same with another sports club that they own. They have a nice ground... well, at the moment anyway but that is possibly going to be up for sale soon.

having been to watch fartown at both london and welsh franchises i have to say that the fans of crusaders and quins are very enthusiastic about the sport and i hope these clubs can succeed,it's just a shame that so few people in those area's seem reluctant to support them. with less than 2,000 home supporters at wrexham and only just 2,000 at the stoop i feel sorry for those fans who follow the game whole heartedly

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It was a poor crowd, and an even worse performance, there's no way two ways around it.

Catalan is always a poor drawer for us, the same goes for everyone else in this league. We've been in bad form, and have been playing boring, mundane Rugby for the past 4 years, so anyone who expects double figures are kidding themselves.

It's not that bad surely?

Lol, ha sorry meant to say 5 figures.

I'm sorry, but how can you compare those two games? Cas-Wakefield is a full on local derby, Quins-Catalan isn't and never will be. This is probably our least popular game with crowds, whereas Cas-Wakefield will be the highest. That's not a fair comparison to make.

A better one would be that Castleford had 4,000 to see them play Catalan. Now for a true Rugby League town, that's a far worse crowd than ours today IMO.