Give that we now have 2 CEO's rlhttps://www.league.quins.co.uk/club/office_staff.phprl maybe those who want to should email both of them. paulb@quins.co.uk was Mr Blanchards (and Mr Browns) email address....so I assume that gusm@quins.co.uk will get through to Mr Mackay. petraw@quins.co.uk always gets me a pretty quick response..........and if you work out that it's first name and first letter of surname, then I suspect that jasonl@quins would be the guy most interested in money on offer.....it should get you to the finance guy. Amazed that callyh@quins.co.uk hasn't responded....unless she's busy filming the next installment of the viral campaign (wonder why they didn't bother with the promised follow ups?????) There's always the telephone..........if you have a spare 20 minutes to wait for it to be answered...or you could put pen to paper and lick a stamp Seriously, as inane as some of the comms the club receive may be, there should be a response mechanism in place...even if it's just to fob people off

Give that we now have 2 CEO's rlhttps://www.league.quins.co.uk/club/office_staff.phprl maybe those who want to should email both of them. paulb@quins.co.uk was Mr Blanchards (and Mr Browns) email address....so I assume that gusm@quins.co.uk will get through to Mr Mackay. petraw@quins.co.uk always gets me a pretty quick response..........and if you work out that it's first name and first letter of surname, then I suspect that jasonl@quins would be the guy most interested in money on offer.....it should get you to the finance guy. Amazed that callyh@quins.co.uk hasn't responded....unless she's busy filming the next installment of the viral campaign (wonder why they didn't bother with the promised follow ups?????) There's always the telephone..........if you have a spare 20 minutes to wait for it to be answered...or you could put pen to paper and lick a stamp Seriously, as inane as some of the comms the club receive may be, there should be a response mechanism in place...even if it's just to fob people off

I sent an email and got a reply (below)


Hi Aaron

Apologies for the delay in getting back to you.

The following players are still available to sponsor:
Chris Bailey (Tier A)
Karl Temata (Tier B)
Nick Kouporitsas (Tier B)
Jason Golden (Tier B)
Chris Melling (Tier B)
Olsi Krasniqi (Tier C)

Here is a breakdown of what is included within a player sponsorship and the associated costs:
Home = £800 (Tier A), £600 (B), £400 (Tier C)
Away = £300 (ALL Tier's)
· Sponsor/Player Mixer at Team Run at the start of the Season to present player with playing shirts · Signed Certificate
· 2 x End of Season Dinner Tickets (home sponsors only)
· 10% off End of Season Dinner Tickets
· 6 x Stadium tickets (away sponsors only)
· Player and Sponsor social held during the season
· Sponsor name included in every Match Day Magazine
· Sponsor name included on the official Harlequins Website
· Sponsor name mentioned with any announcements of their player at any home game
· Players signed playing shirt

If you have any further questions please don't hesitate to get in touch. I can be contacted on 020 8755 5760.

Kind Regards

Joe

Player Sponsorship is in the hands of exp sport not directly from the club, The girl who used to look after it has left which may be part of the problem.

I suspect that some of the 1,000,000 GBP + losses the club experience this year will be down to outsourcing a pretty easy thing like player sponsorship.......
I can understand it if the company involved were actually trying to sell the sponsorships, but it looks like they are just happy to sit there and take payments if required.....TW2 towers really does need a shake up......

Hannah has indeed left, I had a call from a Celia Beale of EXP Sports this morning.

Maybe you just see my posts in a different light now the shackles of moderation have been loosed

Why would the club outsource what accounts to running a simple spreadsheet and banking cheques? A retired volunteer fan or office manager could do that with a spare 20 minutes a day. Jeez.

Because they are TOO BUSY organising the next phase of the Massive Marketing Campaign we were promised in 2010...

The club need a marketing professional in place who receives 2/3 of their income from wages and 1/3 from RESULTS DRIVEN BONUS SCHEMES.
It's easy for a marketer to make mistakes, book the wrong advert, create a viral that doesn't work etc when they know that they will be getting their usual amount in the bank every month. Take a % away from them and offer it back, with maybe the opportunity to earn even more and the mistakes become more important to them personally.

I understand that DH wants a more professional organisation, but unless the club (him) has 150k to spend on a top flight marketing manager with oodles of experience and connections, then the person they have should be incentivised to get results.
I get no sense of urgency from the club regarding getting more fans...no passion and no real commitment.....just silly little gimmiks that do nothing.
As I am sure everyone's grandad may have told them.....there's no substitute for hard work.

Quins RL marketing is probably one of the hardest jobs in sports marketing in the UK, but unless the person employed is 100% behind the club, the ideals, the future and the need to drag joe public to games and prepared to work 7 x 14 hour days a week to do it, then they may as well start work on their CV in my opinion.

You pay peanuts you get monkeys.

... and his Greek spellingNick Kouporitsas (Tier B)'"

I think we should have a 'Nick bin' this year, for every spelling mistake and mispronunciation. I hear the Leigh PA got it wrong 3 times, in 3 different ways!