Quote: Prince of Denmark "Apart from a couple of games with Skolars at the HAC this was the first Quins pre-season game I've seen, so I'm not sure how much to read into the performance. I've watched enough football pre-seasons to know that an apparently perfect build up can lead to a major flop in the first league game, and an apparently shambolic pre-season can be followed by everything miraculously clicking into place on the big day.'"
I'm pretty sure it was 2008 when I saw Quins pre-season game at Celtic Crusaders. Crusaders were still in the Championship and they beat us comfortably. Having looked it up on the web we went on to win four of our first five Super League games that season. Similarly our big friendly win against Catalans (our first game as Quins) didn't lead to a championship season.
Friendlies need to be taken with a pinch of salt which I admit isn't always easy as we all like to see the side doing well.
