I know, I was using sarcasm to make a point.

Michael.

My philosophy exactly! It a bit like footballers in bygone days running a few laps of the pitch at morning training - just work off your hangover, you don't have to sleep it off! If I fancy a few beers I don't care what day tomorrow is - just set the alarm clock and get on with it. A big mug of strong black coffee with my breakfast before leaving home, a pint or two of water after I arrive at work and I'm ready to go.

Feeling hungover really is the lamest excuse of the lot for complaining about Sunday fixtures. If it's that much of an issue just drink less.

Sorry, pressed the wrong button.

They haven't always had big crowds but consistently stuck to Saturdays as traditionally Sat afternoon is when sport is played/watched, including Rugby and Football.

Fairly certain that you'll find that pro RL was for 100 years a Sunday 3pm sport until Sky's money came along.

Quins RU put together a brilliant strategy based around having circa 700 rugby union teams within a fairly small radius of their ground playing Saturday mornings, as well as 100+ years of heritage of playing out of the same ground, in the same colours, under the same name. Go figure.

Also, imo, soccer fans have far more in common with RL fans than with RU fans. So whatever you say, Quins RU are not fishing in the soccer pond. We should fish in every pond avaialable to us and I would welcome soccer fans with open arms, particularly those looking for a summer sport outlet (and those that are family oriented)

No, only for about 40-50 years. Professional sports on Sundays were not legal until sometime in the 1960-s. When RL first switched to Sundays, to avoid clashes with soccer, it was initially illegal to charge for admission. The get-around was to allow entry only to those who bought a programme first.

And there were floodlit mid-week evening games.

Spot on. This is how the 'of Erith' clan got into RL .Now its at the point where RL takes precedence to football. Must be lots of other football fans looking for an exciting, cheap and family friendly sport in the capital during the summer. Who knows, some of them might even be fully converted in the way us lot were. Football season's nearly over so surely its time to start some new promotions to get folks in? We've waited 3 seasons now and apart from a very few the RU fans seem to be either indifferent or hostile to the presence of RL at the Stoop.

cheers for the accuracy BO, but I'd still say that 50 years of practically every team playing on a Sunday up until 1995 (and most teams preference for it now) makes that tradition.

Somehow offering the QPR, Fulham, Chelsea, Reading etc fanbases an offer on the rest of the season once football ends would be a good place to start - the soccer clubs would be seen to be getting their season ticket holders a deal/favour....the only problem I foresee is the soccer clubs fearing losing their fans to us? But if Quins can come up with a good enough reason and a contra deal.....

Which school did you go to where 1967 to 1995 is a gap of 50 years?

Michael.

Tiresomely pedantic mate - BO wrote this {BroncOnIon wrote: No, only for about 40-50 years} so I am taking his words at face value. What does it matter - whether it's 30 odd from 1967 to SL or 40 odd to today (when Sunday is still more prevalent) it's a long time and most people supporting the game now (other than Quins/Broncos/Fulham fans) grew up watching on Sundays. So that is our tradition. Not Saturday as WQ suggests.