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34025_1447092002.png THE ONLY WAY TO GET SMARTER IS BY PLAYING A SMARTER OPPONENT
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| Quote: halliquin "The whole quins debate is red herring and it may be nice that we now can blame that dastardly union lot for ruining RL in the capital. '"
I believe a great many people believe we are the rugby league playing arm of Harlequins rugby union. I believe there were initial reservations about cohabiting with outwardly the most rah-rah taint to it, but fans seem to have got over that now. The four quarters are worn with pride, and the issue would be same were we to have joined with Arsenal at Highbury and called ourselves Arsenal RL. We would have been associated with a strong brand name, but to all but the few in the know we would be considered a part of the larger organisation, not our own company.
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| I can't agree with you here. The problem is that with the exception of the first season and a half the club's guise as Fulham RL, our top division crowds have always tended to sit somewhere between 3 and 4,500. On occasions when we have had crowds above this, it has been very short lived. We have spent time in the top division of the came known as Fulham, London Broncos and Harlequins RL. If our crowds were no better when we were called London Broncos, then the real problem cannot be simply because we are "the rugby league playing arm of Harlequins RU."
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| London Routemasters, London Underground, London Taxi
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34025_1447092002.png THE ONLY WAY TO GET SMARTER IS BY PLAYING A SMARTER OPPONENT
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| Quote: Surreyben "I can't agree with you here. The problem is that with the exception of the first season and a half the club's guise as Fulham RL, our top division crowds have always tended to sit somewhere between 3 and 4,500. On occasions when we have had crowds above this, it has been very short lived. We have spent time in the top division of the came known as Fulham, London Broncos and Harlequins RL. If our crowds were no better when we were called London Broncos, then the real problem cannot be simply because we are "the rugby league playing arm of Harlequins RU."'"
It isn't the route cause, but it does not help with the perception that we are not separate from the union team. The second perception is that we play to poor crowds and the team itself is poor because it is a northern game. This is a commonly held view among people who enjoy sports and have no hostility towards the game, but Harlequins RL are recognised as weak, and who wants to go to see something that is regarded as weak.
Changing that perception is easy in theory, hard in that it takes cash to improve the squad, cash that is not available at this time. A truly competitive club who can honestly go into a season realistically challenging for play-off football will see crowds increase, not necessarily surge, but rise to previous levels.
Perception is the reason we are not attracting sports fans and the reason we have not retained fans who come to the bigger games is that we have had increasingly weaker squads mixed with no direction in the back office.
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| Agreed to an extent re perception. However I think that whatever name we have, the perception will not change until we have a concerted and seriously co-ordinated marketing campaign, and extra investment to get a marquee player or two to spearhead that marketing. Without either of those two things changing our name would be a complete waste of time.
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30950_1311692142.jpg Don't regret the rules I broke, when I die...
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| London Domination... Dur-nur-nur nur nur-nur nur-nur-nur-nah!
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12984_1386949992.jpg cadoo wrote:Rugby Union - for when entertainment just isn't your thing.:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_12984.jpg |
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| Quote: gutterfax "The name change will in all probability have to include the name of the 'town' they move to......and I don't think London fits.
Gillingham Grasshoppers? Medway Magic? Rochester Rabbitohs. Strood Scorpions...or Kent Invicta
The Chatham Dockers. Ah, good old Kent Invicta
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10172_1376829585.jpg Dan Sarginson: "This is a fantastic opportunity for me to join the biggest name in the competition" 18/10/2013
Tony Clubb: "This is a new exciting chapter of my life signing for Wigan and I couldn't be happier" 18/10/2013
Romain Navarrete: “I’m very happy to have signed for Wigan Warriors. As soon I knew that Wigan were interested, they were the only team that I wanted to sign for. To me, Wigan is the biggest Club in Rugby League and it will be an honour to pull on the famous Cherry-and-White jersey next year. I look forward to working with Shaun Wane and the players at Wigan.”:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_10172.jpg |
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| Milton Keynes Monsters, Milton Keynes Killers
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6679_1399761959.png [quote="dally messenger":1gysl9ow]was watching an nfl doco. on one of their teams and they used the term bomb to describe those long high passes from quaterback to running back and i think gibson took that idea, realized you cant throw the ball forward in RL and adapted it to a "bomb" kick we have[/quote:1gysl9ow]
[quote="eels fan":1gysl9ow]You poor poor obsessed fat ex vichyballin potato thieving stoaway.[/quote:1gysl9ow]:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_6679.png |
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| The Cockney Rebel!
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| how about rugby league has not future in london??
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| gates of 2000?
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| Quote: black and white "gates of 2000?'"
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| South London Storm?
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| New South England.
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| Quote: Tre Cool "South London Storm?'"
Yes, good idea - they are a club that nearly went down the pan in the off season, we have so much in common !!
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