4k each should do it....nice little war chest there .

Come to think of it, Standing order for around £100 a month over 3 years from 2,500 and there you have it.....£9,000,000...more than enough to buy IL out. Elected board of 7, full ballot of every shareholder....ease the pressure on Mr Hughes and every penny accounted for by the board. If anything, it would stop the £1,500,000 loss every year if the board were given live rolling accounts updates on a monthly basis.

Each shareholder would get a box for 1 game each season for 19 guests....that would add 5k to the seasons average immediately.
The board would have no say in player acquisition, but would offer guidence on how much a player should get in respect of the cap and the finances of the club.

ALL backoffice staff would have to re-apply for their jobs, be given KPI's and be expected to meet them. (Don't fret...I wouldn't apply )

Shares (1/2500) with a starting value of £3,600 could be sold privately, so IF the club was to start to turn the corner and become self sufficient and IF a wealthy backer were to come in, I would suspect the investors would get their money back at the very least........

If you wanted to price qualify this little pipe-dream...£3.30 a day is all it would cost you.......that's less than the cost of a pint in most London Pubs.
....oh well, I suppose I can dream

Harlequins/Broncos/Quins etc will never work IMHO. The club has been running in one form or another for 30 years and has been nomadic throughout then, never really settling in one place for too long or with one name.

Look at The Skolars. They've played in Tottenham for the majority of their existance and have made links with schools in the area and have produced a number of mini's teams in the surrounding areas and have seen the benefit of having a base to work from due to the amount of London born players that have come through the clubs ranks.

You all go on about the attendances at Quins now but maybe fans have gone off the club due to the men upstairs? Every couple of years the club seemed to be changing name or changing home ground and I'm sure, once loyal followers have stopped going to the club due to the distance they have to travel.

A Super League team in London is difficult because technically they have millions of people to aim at but yet get such a minor percentage through the gates. You look at the northern teams and I would say that the vast majority live in the town of the club and were born there whereas London is huge compared to say Castleford, Wakefield or Widnes.

I'd like to see a London Super League team thrive but sadly, under the Harlequins guise I see this failing. Its the identity of a RU team and always will be, QRL or any other London Super League team need their own identity that they've buil themselves, not borrowed/stolen from a RU mob based in spitting distance from the Kick 'n' Clap Church. In an ideal world, a RL fanatic with money would get together a good set of staff and marketing people and make a London team (that includes the title London). Looking at the grounds in London, they're all mainly football stadia. You have Crystal Palace, QPR, Brentford, Charlton, Leyton Orient and Barnet too choose from plus the Olympic Stadium. The ideal base would be QPR (*waits for everyone to go mad about leg room*), Charlton or Leyton Orient. They all have decent travel links, are close to Central London & the West End and are decent sized grounds.

So instead of being second fiddle to an RU team we would be the inferior partner of a football club......oh what short memories some people have. I wish people would drop this argument of moving on and sharing a football stadium as it`s been tried before and does not work. What happens is each year we get kicked out for about 8 weeks during the peak summer period and have to play `on the road`, while the football club insist that the pitch be re-seeded before their start to the season.........it kills any support for RL stone dead. We have a great ground at the Stoop with great facilities which all the visiting teams/supporters enjoy. Whilst there is no denying that building crowds is a problem (all bar the top teams are experiencing similar difficulties) it would be madness to move on and start from scratch again.

Hmm....so the ideal scenario is someone with money (Branson ?), marketing people (Virgin ?), a team with London in its name (Broncos perhaps ?) and a football stadium (Charlton ?).

There are no easy answers but location is the least of our worries especially when we have in the past managed to fill the Stoop (admittedly smaller ground in those days) .

I don't buy this argument whatsoever. Skolars attendances are generally static between 270-350 depending on how many supporters the visitors bring. They have a miniscule number of season ticket holders.

As for producing minis teams - there's a whole host around Quins RL - New Malden Magpies, Elmbridge Eagles, Richmond and many others including, further afield the superbly structured Medway Dragons who are producing players for us.

Talking of Skolars' presence in Tottenham being able to give them London born players coming through the ranks, what about our success with that with Louie Mac, Tony Clubb, Ben Bolger et al?