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| Quote: TonyGee "For me the main problem with London is they could never decide what they wanted to be and where they wanted to be it. Opportunities have come and gone and now they are back to square one, or even worse off than square one. its only an opinion but taking on the name harlequins has only produced positive results for one of the two rugby teams sharing that name. They no longer have a brand and if you talk about Harlequins in London then there is only one club people are thinking about.
Now you have what amounts to a side show for the union team with Decreasing crowds ( I may be wrong here ) and no real chance to sell the club to the city of london. The problem is that the club needs to do something and settle, but they cant have many chances left. Its all well and good saying we need a club in london, and i would agree with those sentiments. But what we need is a club in london that is easy to identify and can be sold to the public as a club in its own right. Look at what the crusaders have done, surely with a target audience of Millions something similar should not be out of the reach of a london club.
But as things stand they are failing in pretty much every department, And you can only get away with the " look at how many people are playing RL in London " excuse for so long. Its not as if Quins are the only people in the area setting down roots for the game.'"
Yeah, according to my pocket calculator Crusaders will have -294 fans by their 4th home game.... They are still in a bubble but the air would appear to be leaking out pretty fast given that it was only 6700 agin Hull who travel enmasse.
QRL are in trouble, no doubt, but their 1st home game against Sts had over 8000 iirc.
All that said however, i would strongly agree with your previous statement. Problem is - and it has been said before - that was London Broncos, but that is unfortunately history. If as the consensus would appear QRL is heading for the end of the pier itself, then where and how is that identity achieved? |
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Problem is, people look at as, say London and it's 'millions'.
Twickenham itself has a population just shy of 40,000. You can see the RU stadium from ours...it's a tough market to crack.
People have suggested following some of the London Union teams and moving ]out[/out] of London to a smaller, closer knit community with good facilities and less competition, such as Oxford or Swindon. I could see it working more than 'trying' to be London.
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Didn't seem to be a problem for the London Monarchs to engage a fanbase from all over back in the 90's?
If your saying Quins RL catchment is only 40,000 then they def don't belong in SL!
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| Quote: JB Down Under "Didn't seem to be a problem for the London Monarchs to engage a fanbase from all over back in the 90's?
If your saying Quins RL catchment is only 40,000 then they def don't belong in SL!'"
A different sport with a larger demographic. |
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| Quote: The Curtism "A different sport with a larger demographic.'"
Really, in the UK?!!  |
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| Quote: JB Down Under "Didn't seem to be a problem for the London Monarchs to engage a fanbase from all over back in the 90's?'"
They had the support of the NFL and gave away a huge amount of tickets, when they started charging people that crowd suddenley vanished. |
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| Quote: Roofs "Really, in the UK?!! ![]()
No, in London.
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And then folded pretty quick and then folded after a year of bumbling around the country.
At least we just bumble around the capital.
When we became Quins I thought that it was only a matter of time before we fully merged into the Union team. IMO pretty good for a marketing and infrastructure standpoint if not anything else.. That looks very unlikely now and the future of league in the capital could go either way.
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| Quote: Big Graeme "They had the support of the NFL and gave away a huge amount of tickets, when they started charging people that crowd suddenley vanished.'"
Am I right in thinking that they played their home games at Wembley, whilst the Scottish team played at Hampden Park? If so what happened to both?  |
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| Quote: Roofs "Am I right in thinking that they played their home games at Wembley, whilst the Scottish team played at Hampden Park? If so what happened to both? ![]()
For the first few years, yes. Then Tottenham and Chelsea footy grounds and then they went on a tour of the country playing smaller and smaller grounds, both teams were cancelled when the NFL pulled the plug.
It prooved you could get people to watch if you chucked freebies at them and spent millions on advertising, as soon as they had to break even and charge people the crowds vanished.
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| Quote: Big Graeme "For the first few years, yes. Then Tottenham and Chelsea footy grounds and then they went on a tour of the country playing smaller and smaller grounds, both teams were cancelled when the NFL pulled the plug.
It prooved you could get people to watch if you chucked freebies at them and spent millions on advertising, as soon as they had to break even and charge people the crowds vanished.'"
Ah right, cheers. Guess that would probably suggest then that despite the NFL clearly having huge popularity over here, a London NFL franchise is probably still a long way away (if ever really). |
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| I would say the majority of Quins supporters are feeling pretty low at the moment. Our team isn't performing, we aren't getting the crowds and no-one seems to like us  |
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They all seem to enjoy the match day experience. (And not just for the fact that it is a guaranteed win)
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Got to move again imo if they want to survive. Somewhere nice and posh, not too far from london
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