Is it me or are all the press releases identical? BBC teletext, Daily Telegraph, Quins website, NRL website. All virtually identical word for word.

Journalists = ctrl+c, ctrl+v
Lazy...but at least it's out there. Even the Telegraph had a match report

Gutterfax, so it was you in the pink dress......blond dreadlocks at the bar after the 'footie' but sneaking into the Shelia's loo



Still you have a good excuse, you managed to get a great quote



Well done ol' shemale

love the image...but alas, it was my missus in the loo who overheard it.
Still, quotes like that should be listened to and not just taken as read. Apparently the ladies involved were at their first game and have been in london for 2 years

I thought it was an excellent afternoon and was surprised (pleasantly) by the number of Aussies there. All comments I overheard were along the lines of 'great day', 'what a good way to have spent an afternoon', etc..

I think the issue of the perceived distance of Twickenham from Central London is one that marketting needs to find a way round (and not just for Aussies!). I live in Essex and up until three years ago thought it was too far to travel. But desire to see a live game overcame the reluctance to travel - and having done it once realised it's quite an easy journey really and we get to 6 or 7 home games a season. My partner is now a Quins RL fan.

There's obvously other exiled RL fans like me around, who once there I'm sure will come back again. Although I'm not too happy with 'all in one stand arrangement' as my tickets for Wigan (Jester) are not where I would have chosen to sit, but I'll reserve judgement on that until after Saturday. Also aware that topics been done to death.

Nice to see the stewards were as relaxed as usual on Sunday

Fantastic day. The prematch meal idea worked really well. Decent food, lots of people trying it out, and good pre-match interviews well done all concerned. I would've said there were around 7,000 there as well. Manly were magic in the second half - especially Steve Matai. It was good to see Jamie O'Callaghan score against Manly's full strength team.

What on earth was going on with the bloke on the PA system though? Jamie Lee-on? Michael Roberts? Our next home game against Warrington?

"Crowd full of Aussies, we've just a crowd full of Aussies..."

I was very impressed with Manly in the second half. And just a little disappointed with some of the errors we made for a couple of tries. Not sure they really needed any help as the speed of play and passing was excellent. We failed during second half really to hit them and put thenm on their back. Too often they dominated the collision or managed to land on their front despite two or three tacklers thus speeding up their play.

Thought we got penalised a lot in second half which was probably more being outsmarted than a dodgy ref. Still feel we look very passive at the ruck. Other teams seem in attack to make far more effort to suggest they are being slowed down than we do.

Would have thought a lot of the fringe players will have learnt what standards they have to aspire to and Brian will have learnt more about what work is required to support those players development.

Interesting comment.

During the regular season, we don't really see it. Yet, when we play a team who are the current Australian champions, so some would expect them to be better, that makes it the case. ie. Not the ref, but the others being better in the ruck.

But its not about marketing a friendly game to 400 Aussies, its about the numbers that come week after week to SuperLeague games

I would be fascinated to know how the club plan to turn this success into bums on seats week after week

I think we do see it but we are perhaps penalised evenly across a game say against Leeds or Saints. My comment is the contrast between the first and second half of this game. The ref was not inconsistent in his approach to what was happening but the difference in how we coped with the increased ruck speed when they had their first string on was.