"The club in general, not just under Mr Hughes ownershiphave repeatedly failed to see the formula is= Increased awareness etc........otherwise it's increased awareness of what?


"April 4th, 1996....9,638 roll upto the Valley......17 years later and 1,136 bothered to go to Esher......."

Says it all really.............and many many reasons I guess as to why it's come to this

If you question GF, you appear to be somehow automatically a defender of Gus.

Excuses are for failures......and believe me, we've been fed every excuse under the sun as to why we've failed to attract fans....

Prior to the start of the 2011 season, Harlequins Rugby League had finished in 10th and 11th place in the 2 previous seasons and even over the 15 years of SL the club had only finished in a Play-off position twice with 2nd place in 97 being the pinnacle of their achievements....in those 15 years and some 200 "home games", the team experienced 1 sub 2k gate when Sheffield attracted on 1,960 to the Stoop in 1999.

Since January 14th 2011 the team have played 32 "home games"...10 of which that have been sub 2k.....8 of these have been at games that HAVEN'T been moved..........

but you keep on finding excuses as to why we couln't get more than 1,500 to a game regardless of if it was movedat a weeks notice or not....

They are basic stats...they can be read any way you want them to be, but they are pretty accurate and the main theme is that regardless of KO time, day of the week or Venue, they show an alarming drop in attendances in the last 2 and bit seasons...and no matter of analytical mumbo-jumbo will change that.

The Venue for the first 68 games played at the Stoop since 2006 was the Stoop...was about 3,750 (counting the double header as a 2,860 gate).....the venue for the next 13 was the stoop and averaged 3,124......the year after, 2 on the roads and 11 at the stoop averaged 2,807 and this year, of the 6 games thus far, the 4 at the stoop have averaged 2,111 a pop........

Kick off times and the recession are smoke screens.....the ST is as cheap as chips and the club have piddled about with game time since I can remember.....



yeah...attendances at pretty much every other pro sports club have maybe dropped by about 5% accross the board........London Broncos have dropped close to 50% 4.77587890625:5