The club hasn't ever to my knowledge executed an "intense" marketing campaign. So we don't know how well it would work. There's no reason to suggest that a successful, well marketed Harlequins Rugby League club wouldn't be as appealing as a successful, well marketed All New London Broncos 2012 RLFC (or whatever we are called next).

I could say it might stand a better chance as Harlequins Ruby League is associated both with the sport we play (Rugby League) and our location (Quins It totally baffles me this complete bonding by a few with the Harlequins name the quicker it goes the better, it has been a complete anchor around our necks and add that to performance on the pitch it leaves us in the position we are in.'"

I wrote it and it wasn't silly. Sure Saints were a good team and we couldn't have expected to beat them. Problem was that our team wasn't of a standard that could compete with them at all. To get the QuinsRL venture off to a good start, we had to compete. We weren't capable of that and should have known it. I'm sure that fixture was chosen to give the new venture a bumper send-off. Back-fired totally. Next season, let's start with a home game against Widnes, Wakefield or Bradford [
Erm, I actually wasted some of my time reading that, and seems like a load of mainly reasonable people being mainly reasonable. What's your beef?

Maybe the Union club could have done more, but they're not a charity. Fact is as usual we royally stuffed this one up alone - no attempt at marketing beyond the sporadic half ars*d, and appalling performances on the field. We needed different outcomes in those two facets of the business, and might have had a chance.

Any new name will also fail unless both are addressed (and we'll waste yet more time/resources starting from scratch yet again...). Brand has never been the main issue for this company, it's a massive straw man - it is, and has always been, poor execution.

161 games played as Harlequins Rugby League, 100 of these were losses with 56 wins and 5 draws. Points difference of
-1,417 and a seasons average of 19.5 competition points are all factors in why the club have failed to pack'em in since 2006. I doubt very much that our jersey or name had as bigger influence than the depressing stats above