But if so many kids are playing RL in London now, why aren't the crowds reflecting this?

how many people playing the game has nothing to do with people going to watch games, i played the game for years in different teams, and at my calculation only 5 or 6 out at least 120 i played with watch pro RL. a few more i know go to big matches but not regular games.

Because usually if you start playing a sport at a young age it's because you are interested in it. Therefore if you become interested you usually want to go and support a local team. Therefore, with Fulcrubronquins being the only SL experiment in London you would expect any kid playing who wants to watch a live game to go watch FCBQ. So, if thousands of kids in the capital are playing RL (as we are told), wouldn't FCBQ's crowds have gone up even just a bit in recent years rather than down?

remember parents have to take the kids!

No, there's absolutely no reason that kids playing RL in London would have any relation to the number of people watching the Harlequins club. The only reason kids support 'local clubs' is because their parents take them. If the kids playing in London have any interest in watching the game, which is unlikely, then they will probably support sides like Wigan or Brisbane. There's no reason at all that they would want to go and watch Harlequins.

That doesn't make any sense, because that's like saying most the kids playing RL in Hull will probably support Wigan or Brisbane, but I'd say that 8 times out of 10, if you see a kid wearing an RL shirt it's either Hull or Rovers.

Not if teenage years tbf. Well, I used to get the bus to Rovers anyway.

But surely overall that means then that Quins have a big advantage over the Hull clubs because they have more people to draw from, e.g. the amount of Australians living in the capital?

Well from what Nige said tonight , I can see them taking a more ' hands on ' approach to Quins , they cannot afford for them to fail now

The RFL have never let you down yet GF, they'll always bail you out and you are forever guaranteed a franchise, nothing to worry about.

I still don't understand why Sky are allegedly so in love with FCBQE - no-one else cares about them FFS.

In all seriousness it is an absolute joke when a real RL club like Fax continues to get shafted whilst this experiment wrongly keeps an SL place that they never earned in the first place.