Our erstwhile Chairman said we were to stop using Quins RL, as people thought RL was short for Rugby Lessons!

Harlequins Rugby League is a bit of a mouthful, though.

Tbh i think the name 'London Harlequins' would build you a bigger profile and help you to dinstinguish yourselves from the Rugby Union club.

The origional thread asked if we have to stay as Harlequins Rugby league

Not should we move back to brentford?
Purely do we have to stay as Harlequins RL in whatever guise that is
we had to change to harlequins with the move, and i do not deny that we could not be viable if we were not playing at the stoop

I personally get asked where we play? not just is it at Twickenham but is it London?
Questions come from people who are showing an interest in the game

Look at the origions of Harlequins RU
In fact the club are "the Harlequins of London"

Has the "HARLEQUINS BRAND" worked for us? dont really think so
What would be wrong with us includign LONDON somwhere in the club name??
And yep you are correct in France we are known as London Harlequins

Quote mickyb1234="mickyb1234" And yep you are correct in France we are known as London Harlequins'" And that should also be the case elsewhere so as to distinguish us from this more longstanding rugby league club (though they seem to have folded ): cowlingharlequins.wetpaint.com/

Quote mickyb1234="mickyb1234" And yep you are correct in France we are known as London Harlequins'" And that should also be the case elsewhere so as to distinguish us from this more longstanding rugby league club (though they seem to have folded ): cowlingharlequins.wetpaint.com/

It was made clear at the time that the RU club said we had to play as Harlequins if we were to be at The Stoop, they would not permit London Harlequins or anything similar. Given Mark Evans was one of the driving forces behind it, and he is still around at Quins RU, I doubt that position has changed.

And so it shouldn't!

When will people learn not to rise to rupe1's rubbish? Just let his little threads fall off the boards with 0 replies then then he might kindly disappear for good like he has from The Stoop - excellent.

....like you've just done



In answer to Rupe1.....I believe it was a condition of the move to TW2 that we took on the Harlequins Name in some shape or form. I am not aware of any clause that states we can/can't use London, but I for 1 am happy with the name. As a London Irish man, the wearing of the technicoloured shirt does rankle slightly, but all in all, I think the move has worked on vertain levels and should be maintained.

...well, as many of you will be pleased to hear, I've had enough of Quins RL and all it stands for......it's certainly not the venue or location area or Union association that I ever expected when 29 seasons ago I watched my first pro. club game in London.

Never liked Quins - the union mob that is - for over 60 years anyway.....and have always felt that the 'name' change was both suspect and highly flawed plus, as it's certainly proved to be, unlikely to add any numbers to our gate.

Furthermore, our management has been well below par as has the playing staff most seasons since the orignial Bronco owners were dispatched by the 'bearded' wonder kid!

Enough is enough and will not be a season ticket holder next season and even unlikely to buy any ticket to any game either....... the Club is a load of 'c...' and it's Directors a joke......

So after 29 seasons of Fulham, Crusaders - the only good marketable 'name' we ever had, Broncos and more recently Harlequins am off the game almost totally except for Wembley Cup Finals and on my annual trips to Perpignan and Sydney.

Ciao, all you 'round ball' wonders who watch the 'great game' but know so, so little about it and even less about the rules, the pain and the skills need.

Toodle pip!

This probably won't be the response you expected, but what has changed in the last few weeks/months to make you come to that decision?

Management has pretty much always been a joke one way or the other and the playing staff have been fairly constant results wise over the past 13 seasons since ESL came into being.........so what has changed and what would you consider to be the answer?

Cannot believe I read Stormin right

Sorry Homer but after 29 seasons and 14 in SL the Club has become a joke. with the directors happy to continue with 'mediority' and seemingly unwilling to make any real investment in an on going marketing & promotional programme and to be quite frank consider our link with both the Harlequins brand and the Union club to be highly flawed.

You ask why.now.....well the last straw was because of our association with a outfit who in order to 'win' are willing to 'cheat'........

Will continue to support and watch Rugby League but not QuinsRL....had enough.

By the way Gutterfax ...... suggest the sooner you are off to the 'Land of the White Cloud' the better, though think your sometime 'snide gutter snip' remarks will get you a real pounding down there ........ the locals do not like 'noisy' incommers.