you wont get it.

QUINS RELEASE ON SITE
"When we were notified of the proposed change, we did express concerns that this would seriously disrupt our travelling supporters as many had already finalised their plans based upon the original date of Saturday 18th July.

Whilst being sympathetic to this fact the RFL still chose to move the fixture and, under our franchise agreement, we are obviously obliged to fulfil the fixture".

RFL COMMENT
Harlequins didn't believe many fans were making the trip" AND "Harlequins believed that those fans making the trip were staying for a week"

Someone is shall we say, being economical with the truth here.

I have burnt many bridges well and truly over this and I wasn't even booked to go out


I can honestly say that if this whole sorry episode ensures that SKY never do this again, then the loss of contact (s) will have been worth it.

I still say for any member of the club to say we don't have many travelling fans, whislt patently obvious, is also bang out of order.

What riled me most was the patronising comment that we should be flattered that Catalans v Quins is regaded as an attractive fixture. Surely no more so than Huddersfield (having their best SL season) at home to Warrington (resurgent under Tony Smith following a nightmare start) or the clash of two relatively big clubs (Bradford v Wigan) both of which were already scheduled for Sunday afternoon and could have been broadcast instead.

When every home Catalans fixture has been played on the original date announced at the start of the season since they joined Superleague three and a half seasons ago there was no reason for anyone to suspect this would be an exception.

Exactly! We're supposed to be flattered about the game being moved! What utter b******s! See that some Wire fans are worried their Barca trip might go the same way! As for people spending the week in the South of France maybe some will but I'm sure most would be going on Friday or Saturday to return on Sunday. Would be great if a nice 'Up yours Sky' banner could be held up at the Leeds game (televised)! Or maybe some kind of chant including the words Murdoch, Sky, satellite dish, stick , up your, a**e?

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To the toonage of She'll be coming round the mountain



You can stick yer effing sky dish up yer a*se
You can stick yer effing sky dish up yer a*se
Don't you move our effing derby
move our effing derby
stick yer effing sky dish up yer a*se

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this situation is a bad one,feel right sorry for the fans left in the lerch here,does anyone have a figure of hoiw many was going?

i have booked to go barca to watch the wire against them with 3 others if that had been changed i would have been knocking on someones door at the rfl looking for me money.

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With the current economic climate and the Euro/Sterling exchange rate how many can afford to do that? We might be Pimm's-drinking yuppies, but we're not that rich! i wasn't intending to go anyway, but if I had I'd have booked to leave Friday morning and come home Sunday afternoon.

A. Club had no choice but to agree to the fixture change. They may have made representations to the RFL & it's broadcasting partner regarding travelling support but it appears that these have been ignored.

B. The RFL and it's broadcast partner would not have done this to Leeds, Warrington, St Helen's or indeed any other Super League club bar Celtic Crusaders.

C. The RFL has to work with supporters and it's broadcast partner to ensure that this kind of debacle does not happen in future seasons.

D. How much do Quins get paid for appearing on a televised match as the away side?????

E. If Quins fans spoke with "one voice" could this debacle have been avoided??

A. Agreed

B. Very much agreed

D. Probably not as much as the home side

E. Probably not we would have been ignored anyway!

Quality!

Definitely.

And as loudly as possible at home to Leeds in a couple of weeks time, I think.

Coming from you Listy thats funny

What I don't understand is that I have just watched highlights of the Dragons Leeds game with perfectly acceptable coverage from a French broadcaster. If the reason for the switch is that Sky cannot get their gear from the North of England to the South of France by Saturday why can't they use a feed from the French or use their gear?

Of course those that go, could run on the pitch and disrupt the game, say stand on the half way line each wearing a t shirt which would spell the words

SHAME ON SKY - you would only need 10 fans.

Mmmm - a night in Perpignan knick!! Still it would save on having to pay for an extra night in a hotel (probably be nicer than the Hotel de la Loge).

What would you have to do to get deported - that would save on the rescheduled expensive air fare.

Ask the England football fans who have been deported from every corner of europe

no bottle

errrm let me think watercannon, batons, teargas......not a lack of bottle, just wise, intelligent and leave that to the footy fans

Clearly a comment from someone who hasn't seen the french riot police in action.

I'm not suggesting a riot, merely standing on the half way line for 10 minutes or so.

I'd help out but my asbo forbids me setting foot in Languedoc Roussillon.

I hardly think the riot police would get involved, even if they did, I'm led to believe that you can build up a tolerance to tear gas and adrenalin can kill the pain of a baton charge.

Mmmm,sounds like a normal night out in Kingston to me...

Look this isn't even worth joking about! So far this year we have had a fan try to set his top on fire and warrington fans abusing the hearts. What would have happened to quins if a burning top had landed on the pitch? Idiots are creaping into the game.

Lets just leave any kind of stupid behaviour to football fans and use our intelect to come up with ways of showing disgust!