Not that anyone pays any attention to me with regards to the club, but my initial thoughts are that this gives the club 1 last opportunity to sell themselves, the game and the experience to the local public.

I have no interest in the fans of London Irish, Sarries, Wasps or any other sport in the region. Neither do I have any desire to see transient bar staff become the "fans" that we rely on......

There are about 2,250,000 people within 20 minutes (journey time by public transport ) of the stoop. There is your audience.....it remains to be seen if anyone at the club has the ability or the desire to try and attract 10,000 of these as new regular fans to The Stoop over the next 3 years (if they get 3 years).

Staines to Clapham, Ealing to Kingston Upon Thames.....and in the name of everything that is holy..........don't wait until January 2012 before trying to come up with a marketing strategy........it should be in the planning stages NOW.

EXAMPLEhttp://www.richmond.gov.uk/boroughprofile2006.pdfrl

There are 36 Wards in the borough. Why not try to encourage locals along by leafletting by ward? Local Pubs need signed jerseys and fixture lists as soon as they become available.....Ideally not March

Got to be 5,000 businesses in the borough........get inviting.

Seriously....time to roll up the sleeves and get busy, because by March 2012 the London Broncos II will have had their chance...........

Lastly, get the RFL to fiddle the fixtures....Crusaders first at home, then Widnes 2 weeks later....no disrespect to those teams, but A CHANCE OF A WIN would be handy.
Wigan spanked us at GP in 2002, St Helens at the Stoop in 2005....both results were bad and we didn't see a home win until April both seasons.

BTW Listy.....David Hughes has earned our respect.

He might have earned it but he is quickly losing it by the way he is ruining our club.

What I'm 'pro' is the club actually putting down some roots and not moving the goalposts every five minutes. I don't think that's unreasonable.

Pointed out several times on this and other threads why I think the Harlequins brand should be the one to drive us forward. The Penguin has stated several different, but equally as applicable reasons. All of which you cannot counter, instead supporting this idealistic crap about some sort of "return to the good old days".

There seem to be 2 clear groups of people on here - those who can see the need for stability, continuity and a long term plan, utilising the most powerful brand in world Rugby instead of fighting against it. Then there are those who think that yet ANOTHER name change is the way forward, ANOTHER vision, ANOTHER plan, even though every single one of us would point towards the fact that our club has always struggled because it changes every 5-10 years. And this isn't even a new plan - but a return to a failed era of the club.

Marvelous.

I bet the flat cappers are ing themselves, and rightly so. Our club is becoming a laughing stock, an utter embarrassment.

He may be ruining it but it's his to ruin!

Bring on the Broncos

So disappointed in this. I hate the notion of obtaining some American-ised name that has nothing to do with the culture of London. As I said before, I don't understand why everyone is saying it's our own identity. No it isn't, it was a result of the Brisbane takeover.

I'd like to see what excuses will be made, when we're in the same predicament next year. It obviously won't be the result of being called 'Harlequins.'

What do you like so much about London Broncos? It's a stupid name that makes us sound like an American Football team, or worse, Ice Hockey.

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Well Dave, it has been very expensive for him to get us so far! I can't think of Any club chairmen throughout super league that have invested so much personal money, if he is so pathetic have you the financial clout to take over and invest your personal monies?? allowing him to stand down, I rather doubt it.

Re the question about why Quins RU fans have not taken to watching us. I suspect a lot of it has to do with practicalities. I come from a football background but when the ridiculously cheap RU season ticket was offered to us in season one I nearly took it up to see whether I enjoyed it. (I watch RU occasionally but have never been a regular attender.) The reason that stopped me was the thought of hauling in to Twickenham every other weekend of my life. It could be the same reason that stopped many of them trying us, plus the fact that the games we did get them down to weren't exactly good adverts for us.

As for why is this happening. Could it be anything to do with the board changes at Quins RU? The people known to be RL friendly have all moved on and there are pretty big changes occurring behind the scenes at the RU club. This may all be tied into that.

The reason Harlequins Rugby Union supporters are Not interested in us is still the class bias which anyone who reads their board regularly will clearly see, no way are they going to change! so we are only touch rugby, why do they keep coming taking out talented players then? why does Sky keep pushing money into Super League, amazes me how they read our forum!! they never wanted us in the first place and I think it was more us taking their name rather than using The Stoop! as many say they have no objections to us playing there and more so if we cough up rent!

I think we will find in the end that this is being driven as much by the Rugby Football League and even perhaps Sky as the real last throw of the dice for Super League in London. I have no problems what name we choose long as with are completely divorced from the Harlequins brand. People do not like the American name of Broncos, what are the Bulls, Warriors, Vikings and Crusaders etc, it was just a branding to try and make it more attractive to younger supporters and the new modern strips! I have more problems with some of the stupid ground names they have in the North, Coliseum?? is that because it is falling down!!

Since no-one appears to have taken any notice of it, I'm going to re-quote PTB's post from last weekend. Which is the best argument I've read for staying as Quins.

Or you could quote this season's 1,766 home gate against Crusaders!

Would be nice to have a few of the calibre of that 2001 line up in the squad now!

Sorry can't resist - so apart from all of that , what have Harlequins ever done for us ?? David Hughes - he's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!!