So us having Man Utd , Man City ,Liverpool , Everton ,Wigan Athletic ,Bolton ,W1g4n worryiers ,Warrington wolves ,Saint helens and Salford on our doorstep isnt a draw for our potential fan base is it ?

Not forgetting that travel between the furthest apart is around 40 minutes by car , whereas its 3 days to get from one side of the ' smoke ' to the other

Exactly.

rlhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/feb/20/harlequins-castleford-leeds-super-leaguerl

Not sure if this has been posted or not but the picture on the guardian website says it all. Don't want to re-hash all the same arguments but things are clearly not working out at the stoop.

Maybe the same argument but it is also the same excuses i'm sure you'll agree? I'd even push to say it's harder to gain fans in the heartlands for some clubs as they like RL yes but will already have club aleigences, should a fan down south get into there RL then Quins RL stand out as there one option?

I know it's easy saying but as has been mentioned earlier you need to get those kids playing RL in the area into the Stoop! Only say what 1/20 will make the academy or what have you, so you need ot make sure at least 5 out of the rest are going to the ground on a regular basis.

b]This is very true....]once a child or person discovers RL then more than likely they'll follow the local team....which would be Quins RL in London....unless of course the person is a glory hunter and decides to watch the Sky games which tend to be Leeds, St Helens or Wigan every other week. Then they tend to begin following these teams as distant support - as they have no reason to dislike a local neighboring team]. ]


I completely agree....Quins job should be 95% aiming at getting these kids to come to games and they shouldn't be charged for this. It must be going on....but more effort is needed to turn the parents and families towards RL so that they are willing to spend their money on RL and not RU and football etc.

If I was to suggest that stand in the picture down the side of the pitch wasnt open would that suprise you?

Brilliant journalistic licence to take a picture from the corner of one stand that isn't open of the other stand that isn't open!!!

I see more W1g4n , Wire and Saints shirts in Leigh during the week than Leigh ones

We are almost exactly in the middle of Manchester and Liverpool , and both are easily accessable by bus and there are large numbers of fans in the town of all 4 clubs

Yes you can catch a bus outside my house that will take you directly to either Bolton Wanderers and W1g4n athletic

Dont forget that because we dont have problems with parking and dont have a transport system like the tube more people probably travel by car up here than down there

And even though we have 2 of the top amatuer clubs less than half a mile from the LSV , very few of those players both junior and senior ever come watching Leigh Centurions , it seems to me RL is either played or watched , not both , so even though Quins have helped in the development of several southern originated players , it doesn't follw that lots of people playing will equate to people watching

What the answer is I can only guess , and that is it requires money , lots of it

While carefully making sure that the stand which is open isn't included in the pic …

But surely it is slightly worrying that they only need to open one stand in a stadium with a capacity of around 10/12 thousand , wouldn't you say ?

yes

Yup, which may have been the point of the picture! Had he shot teh centre of the open stand looking pretty full wouldn't of shown the story really would it!

That's why we open two!

Was there anybody in the other one ?