Apart from a few who will always take the bait dropped by the alts, most people know who is and isn't a real supporter of any given club and treat such posts accordingly.

Always a shame that in any discussion about one particular club, AN other club is always thrown in as a red herring.

All these posts could be summed up quite succinctly.

Harlequins RL have no fans, no money and are only in Superleague because the RFL say they can.

The end.

This from a Cronulla fan??? Well count me as a fan thus making your point factually incorrect.


That's right. We pay our players in magic beans and jelly babies.


Much like the other 13 teams then. It's called a licensing system. Of course that saved us from the being relegated every season. All those times we finished rock bottom of Superleague. For some reason none come to mind. Oh well thanks to the RFL for letting us stay up on merit anyway.

Agree or disagree?

Harlequins RL are a business??


A yes or no answer will suffice

Yes, obviously.


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Bazza that wasnt what your first post requested or stated

Yes it is a business but there are plenty of sporting businesses that dont make money

We have as much money as David Hughes wants to spend -very similar to Chelsea-I suspect there are a lot of clubs wishing they had someone like David Highes as a chairman.

No. Very few RL clubs are businesses. Harlequins definitely are not. Very few people buy a football, cricket, RL, ice hockey, RU, basketball or other sports club with the aim of making money?

Clubs should be run in a business-like fashion, but the main aim of nearly all RL clubs is not "maxmising the profit for the owners of the business".

Yeah, ok then

Not only are Harlequins RL losing a shiitload of money every day they are not even close to breaking even.

Would YOU bankroll that club??

You don't have to be Alan Sugar to see their is no way Harlequins will ever be a good investment for someone.


You might as well just repeatedly smash yourself over the head with a hammer whilst flushing wads of £20 notes down the toilet as financially back Harlequins.

The only similarity between Harlequins RL and Chelsea is that they are both from London.

The only Dave Hughes I've ever heard of is an Aussie comedian from a show called The 7pm Project


Maybe it's the same guy?

Lets face it you would have to be a comedian to invest any money into Harlequins RL

Thanks.

.....you had me at hammer
Bazza.....unlike the real world, where companies make money, sport is different. Apart from the larger European wendyball clubs who sell gazzillions of replica jerseys and get loads of TV cash, pretty much every other sporting club is run at a loss. RL in the UK is very unlikely to generate anything more than a pittance of a profit for successful clubs and if it does, 9 tiimes out of 10, the benefactor/suggar daddy/owner will pump this money back into the club.
An example would lets say be Wigan. An average gate of 15k with a ticket costing (IL stated 9.85 at quins as an average) 10 quid.
1,950,000 income...+ 1,500,000 from TV and lets say another 1,250,000 from sponsors, shirt sales etc.....4,700,000 a year income. Now, little old Quins have admin expenses of over 4 million, so you would imagine that a giant like wigan would have better players on better salaries, more staff in the office and higher costs overall......so let's say 700k more......there, see, Wigan, one of the best supported clubs in the UK, would struggle to make money........
Owning a sporting club is a vocation first........a pain in the ars3 second and never ever a profitable business. I would hazzard a gues that chelsea have cost its owner in excess of 1 billion so far........money he will never see again unless some other russian fool comes along and buys it from him.

Bazza....some of the biggest names in the worlds most popular sport are going to go under sooner rather than later....

Also, only 4 NRL clubs made a profit last year IIRC. Most of the Sydney sides are bankrolled by their Leagues Clubs. The sporting side of almost every team in professional sport loses money. It's not a business for the most part - Union, soccer, RL and RU are all similar in that regard.