news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 509461.stm Interesting comments, sure alot of our blinkered friends from the North will disagree.. Raises a question though. Do you think Quins will be exempt from having a licence revoked at the end of the 3 yr period? Even if attendances fail to raise dramatically.

news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 509461.stm Interesting comments, sure alot of our blinkered friends from the North will disagree.. Raises a question though. Do you think Quins will be exempt from having a licence revoked at the end of the 3 yr period? Even if attendances fail to raise dramatically.

In a word: Yes.

Quins will never get booted out of SL, even if their crowds were that of a man and a dog.

To get attendances up we need a winning team on the pitch! Even if its only for home games(backed up by our PR office etc. who seem to be going well now).
Our chairman can only afford to put enough money in to cover the minimal costs which means we can't sign the quality players who will have a big impact on the pitch. We have some promising players coming through the Academy who will not be ready for 2-4 years I guess which may be too late for 2011. So unless IL sells up to someone with a few bob we are going to be in a dangerous position IMO. Another French team is on the cards, and although Celtic wont turn any trees up this year, the 'away' support will swell their attendances to mask over their own lack of support. So for us to stay in I think someone else has to drop to let the new French team in, and if you think Widnes are a shoe in that makes two teams to go out and then we really are in trouble. Prepare for the Widnes Whining to reach a new pitch next season folks.

This oft heard mantra is a load of rubbish and anybody, club or official body who believes it should not be in charge of a box of crayons.

League in general is an alien sport to the south, much like Ice Hockey, American football, and curling are, sure there will always be a hard core for any of these sports made up in the main of ex-pats from the original sports homelands and those who genuinely take an interest, but for the sport to take off in the general populus psyche it needs to be bedded in over many many years.

Anybody new to the sport coming along to a Quins home game currently sure as eggs are eggs will not be that worried about not coming along to the next match, and instead spending their cash on something else.

Sad but true.

TBH my enjoy of league comes from watching NRL in Australia and New Zealand. Watching the Warriors at Mount Smart is awesome and being part of a 30,000+ crowd to watch the Bulldogs take on the Roosters was amazing.

Harlequins is the closest I've got to that.

Just meaningless platitudes for the media. Reminds me of Winston Churchill's famous remark during the war - 'send all help short of actual assistance'.

No one is immune from the current financial crisis : ask MUFC or Liverpool. Thank god that David Hughes is an oilman, he may just be able to keep us afloat. If we had a success team that won its home games that would be half the equation to success and would go a long way to solving the 'bums on seats issue'. Could we take an insurance policy out on David just in case. I for one would put in a £1 a week.

So Homer - how did you get into it? Personally I played a lot of sport and when I stopped playing and went to watch league and have never left it because it's a great sport!

Would be good for the game to have a succesful london team, but on the hand, whats point in having a franchise system if some teams are going to exempt from it!

And me! The first live game of RL I saw was a thriller and I was immediately hooked. It is essential in my view that we get some entertaining and exciting games on the pitch.

I saw one game and was hooked. Mind you that was one out in Paris so the whole weekend helped.

"Once we get people there, they will come back because it's a great sport." might hold true if what we were dishing up right now was anything like a great example of the sport. Sorry but it ain't and hasn't been for months.

Slightly different route and reasons, but, yeah I [and the family] were hooked after one game, doesn't go against what I have said though because I had at that time no other sport I could [safely] take the family to [Didn't really want Becks standing in the shed like her old man had done
Some absolutely fantastic exciting, result unknown, games over the years kept me involved, but never have I felt as I do now.

why on earth has mr lewis come out and said this for just shows thet you guys will not booted out of super league. i like quins youve a got a good stadium and facilites and the youth system seems to be working now and is improving. but for me to be in the top tier league for rugby league which is super league you cant simpily just carry on getting crowds of 3 1/2 thousand. now if you guys say get a average crowd of 4 1/2 k and are showing geniune improvement and you can attract big crowds for the bigger games then id keep you in but at the moment quins would be dropping down to the championship.