Great idea.

Big Brother, rugby league style. Get in some really annoying wannabe idiots - a model, a few homosexuals, couple of immigrants, a fat lass, a lad with muscles, a chav and a few others - chuck 'em into pre-season training and see how they do in SL. Would be the most entertaining telly ever, though it might have to be rated 18+ for gore and violence.

Or Wigan, as they prefer to be called

On the point of trying to get Aussies and kiwis in London to watch the London broncos. I hate the sport, but I work in Stockport where London Irish played sale sharks on Friday. There were paddies coming from all directions (I work on a railway station) to be bored by London Irish. Maybe this could be a marketing way for London broncos? I'm not a Londoner, I just want London rl to succeed.

No.

Oh right. That's that point discussed and dismissed by the brains of the operation then.

they came from everywhere jonny but i think there was only 5500 on/.

If you opened a Chinese restaurant in Wigan, would you then use your limited marketing budget and resources to try and target the local Chinese community?

That's a ridiculous comparison. Surely if you set up a pro RL teamin an area that doesnt have one, attracting people who have an interest in RL would be a good start? Like local youth and amateur teams however few or small?

That was my thinking, I lost interest when a Chinese restaurant comparison was used.

Is it another fiddle?

Will they still be playing at the Stoop or moving?

Personally i'd look to Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire rather than London but still call it something 'Londony'

Pro/semi pro teams in Hertfordshire

Football - Watford, Barnet(technically), Stevenage
Rugby(any code) Saracens

Pro/semi pro teams in Bedfordshire

Football - Luton Town

It cries out for something different here

Quins have one more year at the Stoop in the bag and are currently negotiating for a further 3 years. 200k per year to rent.

They are looking at all options. The ultimate goal and this was stated by the CEO and chairman at the fans forum yesterday was a 15000 ground owned by London RL.

Yeah, of course that would be a good start. Attempting to attract a bunch of Aussie or Kiwi ex-pats while ignoring other groups would be a terrible start, and is exactly what London Broncos did last time. One of the things that infuriates me the most is when people talk about basing expansion clubs in areas where they can 'get ex-pats involved'. These people are not guaranteed to be RL fans or even sports fans, even if they are their presence will almost certainly not be a long-term one in the area, and either way they represent a tiny minority of the sporting public and potential fan-base. There's no sense at all in starting a club in a new area and then spending the whole time trying to get displaced fans from old areas to go and watch, in fact it's utterly stupid and defeats the entire point of expansion. As you say, targeting amateur clubs would be a good idea since they represent a latent RL fan base. The ultimate aim though should be to market towards the entire local sporting public. Their ethnicity and place of origin shouldn't come into it.