im not talking about playing games at a soccer ground and paying rent

im talking about a soccer club have a RL club attached. like wrexham have done with crusaders more like

id rather try getting soccer fans watching league than union fans.

brentford treated the RL club with disdain eg reseeding and making them lose home games.

Is there no collaboration with the union side? Does the partnership not benefit Quins RU if there are more paying speccies?

I will tell you why because he a strategic thinker heading up the game. He understands the power of Sky and the need to expand the game for them and indirectly us.

Difficult for a road sweeper in Yorkshire and a spanner mechanic in Lancashire to understand as they seem to be able to see no further than the back playing field.

an under achieving club in london & a failed club in s.wales dont sell sky dishes.nor does a club in france playing in a comp called SL when anyone outside catalan dosn't even know what sport it is.
by the way i'm garden maintenance not a spanner machanic

Expansion is important, but clubs that can regularly attract 10k plus crowds is just, if not more important.

lets get heartland clubs averaging 10,000 first before we think expansion clubs should

I think that was kind of his point.

As this is a sensible post [ strange for yourself but lets not knock it ] , I'll reply

Part of the expansion argument is that clubs from new area's will be able to get bigger crowds than current non SL heartland clubs because of the lack of competition from local SL clubs , however this then creates a problem for those expansion clubs when they dont [ as in the case of London ] , as they dont have a ready made excuse

What you have to ask is , would we rather have poor performing SL expansion clubs , just for the sake of saying we are expanding the top level of the sport , or would we be better having better performing lower tier clubs ?

Some on here suggest that only by being in the top tier can these expansion clubs build themselves , then the same people suggest that lower level heartland clubs should be able to achieve similar results without being in the top tier

Double standards methinks

Every club is different and has different problems , what is certain is that at the moment most clubs are clueless at marketing themselves

Quins are vital to the future of the game, no Quins Cats or Crusaders he top flight in then forget big blue chip sponsorship deals and future national exposure, the game will simply revert back to being a marginalised northern game. The game is doomed without a viable national presence in the SL

Starbug, it's also the player pathways.
We need a southern club, im not quite sure Quins appears to be it

I agree , but how long can they justify thier inclusion if they are unable to draw any sizeable crowds [ and yes I know they are the community kings of the RL world ] , when the RFL have set that as a criteria , and with the unlikely increase in Tv funding eventually they will run out of benefactors to bankroll them

Much as it would have many fans at both Championship and SL level knashing thier teeth in anger , the RFL should declare the Quins a ' special ' case and start to put monies into marketing them properly in the capital

So the answer is ?

Why should the RFL put money into a club like the Harlequins?

I mean the AFL/NRL wouldn't do it in Aus would they

Best way forward, finding the funds to do this might not be easy though.