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I think you'll find the board have been trying to find new investors for a fair while. If we sack the board we'll have no club the day after given our financial position. Strangely enough there isn't a huge queue of people looking to throw large sums of money down the plug hole that is professional RL in London. These ain't exactly the best of times economically either.

Release the players irrespective of contract length. Unless you can find a legal means of terminating their contract the only way to do that is to pay their contract up. If we do that how on earth do we afford replacements?

Low wages and high bonuses. I suspect we are already amongst the lowest payers in SL to be honest (with the exception of a few key players.) In theory this is a wonderful idea but in reality players offered two contracts will sign for the team who offer them higher basic pay. Given we already struggle to compete in the market, geographic reasons still cause a fair few targets to reject us even without money coming into it, moving to lower basic / high bonuses would cause even more problems. (I heard an interesting whisper yesterday that one SL team are currently struggling to recruit for next season - not us - as players offered contracts by them and anyone else are signing for the other team as there is a whisper going around RL players that said team has serious financial issues. Players talk to each other and if we are paying low word will soon go around try to avoid Quins.)

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Quote: mickyb1234 "Tony Rae was in the stands today hmmmm'"
Mainly because ACT Brumbies have been on an end of season jaunt to France.

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Quote: Halfdan of t'wide embrace "............................. I suspect we are already amongst the lowest payers in SL to be honest (with the exception of a few key players.) ...........'"


In a recent Interview (I believe in August 2009 RLW) David Hughes admitted Quins were towards the upper reaches of the salary cap.

Whilst the league position is not good we could after all be a Crusaders or Brudfud.

You also make a valid point regarding new or future investment in Quins RL.

As Crusaders Chief Executive admitted in a recent interview they are failing to achive their 4,500 gate "break even" target this season and are also on the hunt with RFL assistance for new investment. Hence their move to Newport RFC for next season

Quote: Halfdan of t'wide embrace "No, sack the BOARD or FIND NEW INVESTORS ....... who need to know the game and understand marketing.'"


Your definitions of "know the game" and "marketing" are?? Do new investors need to know this?? Or to have the help of experienced professionals in these fields to help them make these decisons??

Quote: Halfdan of t'wide embrace "We seriously have to pick up our game if we even think we are going to get a licence, next season is just so important, but if we have not found an investor by now, not pulled in the crowds are we going to do, the one unfortunate thing is the way the amateur and school RL has developed and grown, but we as the Professional club have never seem able to turn those around to be supporters and become fans?'"


As has previously been pointed out by others there is a gap between those who play at the amatuer level and those being fans at the professional level. My own view is that it's not about turning the RL amatuers into Superleague paying punters it's about making inroads into the local population, ([iBorough of Richmond pop approx 180,000, Borough of Kingston pop approx 158,000, Borough of Hounslow pop approx 220,000[/i) making professional RL offordrable and accessible to a new viewing audience, some of which may be the RL amateurs.

What the amatuer game in the South can give us is a greater pool of potential professional playing talent. As anyone with an understanding of of the RLC (Rugby League Conference) will testify national league and superleague clubs are now recruiting both the adult and youth team players to their clubs.

The issues are not easy or quick to solve but as long as progress is being made and evidence of this can be shown to the licensing body at renewal time then Quins will remain a Super League side.

Again if supporters spoke with one voice they could work with the club to help ensure a superleague future for Quins RL, perhaps by targetting the half a million people who live in the Borough of Richmond the 2 adjoining boroughs........ to start with.

Keep the faith.

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Quote: "I heard an interesting whisper yesterday that one SL team are currently struggling to recruit for next season - not us - as players offered contracts by them and anyone else are signing for the other team as there is a whisper going around RL players that said team has serious financial issues. '"

Do tell who, misery likes company!

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Quote: poplar panther "I heard an interesting whisper yesterday that one SL team are currently struggling to recruit for next season - not us - as players offered contracts by them and anyone else are signing for the other team as there is a whisper going around RL players that said team has serious financial issues.'"
Crusaders or someone else ?

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Quote: The Lambeth Quin "In a recent Interview (I believe in August 2009 RLW) David Hughes admitted Quins were towards the upper reaches of the salary cap.

I have mentioned before that I heard this somewhere. Essentially it means we are paying the same wages as Saints and Leeds etc. and the best we BM can recruit are the present underperforming players?

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Considering we lost Hill, Paul, McLinden etc. I shudder to think what we spent on Robinson and Williamson.

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Quote: PTB "Considering we lost Hill, Paul, McLinden etc. I shudder to think what we spent on Robinson and Williamson.'"

Hopefully, no where near what we were spending on thoughs 3.
We need another McLinden. Or the man himself back, if he's got back his fitness playing RU in Aus(highly doubt that) icon_wink.gif

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Quote: LondonBroncosFan "After that display- in a game we should have won and threw away. Thats the nail in the coffin for me- Brian has to go.'"



told you that last season but i got slagged off for it,,,he wasnt even a great player and his coaching is even worse.. icon_razz.gif

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Quote: "he wasnt even a great player and his coaching is even worse.. '"


What relevance has his playing ability got to do with his coaching ability? Shall we start at the top teams in RL or football and go through each of the respective coach/managers playing ability- Potter, Ferguson for starters, Mclennan, Benetez..........

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Quote: RIGSBY "told you that last season but i got slagged off for it,,,he wasnt even a great player and his coaching is even worse.. Alot of teams would be happy with BM as coach.
IMO, his tactics aren't great, his signings are to much 'for the future' as fans, we like building for the future but we want NOW as well.
His signings are strange, Lister said from the start, signing Dorn to replace Hill was a huge error as Orr seems to be injury prone. To late for all of this now. Whats done is done.

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Quote: PTB "Considering we lost Hill, Paul, McLinden etc. I shudder to think what we spent on Robinson and Williamson.'"
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The trouble with recruiting from Australia has been the collapse of sterling against the Aussie Dollar. In October 2006, around the time that Scott Hill left the Storm, £100 bought AUD 250., currently £100 will buy AUD 185. Therefore you either spend more sterling to purchase to same level of Aussie goods and services, or you spend the same amount of sterling for a potentially inferior product.

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Quote: PTB "Considering we lost Hill, Paul, McLinden etc. I shudder to think what we spent on Robinson and Williamson.'"


I expect they are on decent money but don't think they would collect all of their money as they are really only defenders. I rate both of them highly and think they are doing a good job as defenders but they have not been signed to score tries. icon_cool.gif

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Quote: zenon "
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The trouble with recruiting from Australia has been the collapse of sterling against the Aussie Dollar. In October 2006, around the time that Scott Hill left the Storm, £100 bought AUD 250., currently £100 will buy AUD 185. '"
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AUD198.66 at the moment:
newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/fds/ ... efault.stm

I do remember it being about 250 though, when I went there in 2004.
Quote: zenon "
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The trouble with recruiting from Australia has been the collapse of sterling against the Aussie Dollar. In October 2006, around the time that Scott Hill left the Storm, £100 bought AUD 250., currently £100 will buy AUD 185. '"
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AUD198.66 at the moment:
newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/fds/ ... efault.stm

I do remember it being about 250 though, when I went there in 2004.


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Quote: BroncOnIon "
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AUD198.66 at the moment

BBC is an inter bank rate, which you or I could not get for our holiday money. I was giving a comparison of the change in tourist rates, which as a regular visitor to Oz I am more familiar with. (This afternoon M&S are selling at 1.87 with no commission). Whatever historic rates are used, the fact is that Australian imports are 33% more expensive than they were three years ago - as I know by the cost of my NRL grand final ticket!

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