The North London derby being played at the same time, the problems with public transport getting to Twickenham and the team's 0% record this season are never going to help to push the attendance above the 2000 mark.

Answer the question.

Sorry, but that is a set of excuses worthy of a 5yr old...all that was missing was "the dog ate my ticket"



1. The North London Derby would have little interest for anyone in West or South West London. It would have been watched by about 1,000,000 on Sky and 60,000 at the game......pretty big place London.
2. Public Transport is fine. Yes, a bit of engineering works is a pain in the butt, but, tubes ran to Richmond and all the bus routes in and out of Twickenham were as usual......I showed in another thread there were plenty of routes in and out of Twickenham for fans.....we just don't have enough fans.
3. 0% win rate is 0% win rate......this is still our team and as we have won absolutely Sweet Fanny Adams since we joined the Superleague, there is little or no room for fair weather fans.....if I only wanted to see my team win, then possible Widnes and Wakefield at home would be the 2 games I'd bother going to......being a London RL fans has little to do with "winning"

This incarnation of the club, we were informed, was the new begining, yet people who live withing 5 miles of the ground have gone on record as saying that there has been no activity to raise awareness in the immediate region.......Evening Standard, the clubs official media partner has no mention of the game on their site, neither has TNT, another "Sponsor"....as for best of Richmond, another sponsor, they don't even mention us in their directory........although our landlords to get a mention
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By all means excuse the club for it's failings that are out of its control, but don't use public transport, a soccer match across town and a slow start to the season as an excuse.......1,970 was a disgrace for the second outing for a "new" club.

In business, you speculate to accumulate.......time for someone to get the cheque book out and pay for some top level promotional activity.

Will you still have a club in the Championship?

Nope.....
DH has said he's offski in a few years and without either a viable business plan, sponsors and a fanbase of over 5k, the club will either fold or be propped up (as it should have been IMO) by SKY/News Int as is the case in Melbourne.

I'm ashamed to say I didn't attend, but that was because I had a back spasm and couldn't walk.

The answer is I don't know and i don't think anyone does, it would need some market research in the area we look at, but it is clear as I have said over & over again that The Stoop is not going to work for us and again as I stated clearly in the last comment we don't know if they want us, they seem currently to want to take the money off us and run! Some think I have something against The Stoop, I loved it first time around and I felt it was best we returned this time or we may have folded at that time, but it is simply not working.

I'm sure no one can deny that the attendance at the weekend was a total disgrace, it will give the northern negatives something to moan about, what is the problem, is it just that we are a losing team? the transport problems, but they seem to happen most weekends in London, where did those who came to the St Helens game all disappear to?

If there was a decent product to market would that help the situation?

Don't all laugh at once, but didn't DH state when announcing that he was in it for another 3 years, that we would be getting marketing support from the RFL?