What is the path GF?

The continued obsession with developing players ourselves whilst totally ignoring the fact that without Davd Hughes and his money, this young talent wouldn't have a team to play for in SL. Not knocking development, but the total lack of any marketing for years, followed up with the ham fisted way marketing is being attempted this year just point to the club knowing they have got a licence next time around and crowds, regardless of the revenue they would bring in, don't matter.
If I am wrong and crowds do matter, then they are doing a really good job at disguising it.

I don't think we have much choice to develop local players given the rule changes. However, what frustrates me is the lack of investment in experienced quality around them. The only time we got decent crowds was in '97 when we were 2nd in the league and also enjoyed good crowds in the World Club Championship. We certainly won't build crowds on the back of the current squad.

In Robinson and Williamson we invested in proven quality which hasn't paid off.

Dorn is Dorn- a poacher

Randall is probably one of the best hookers in the league on his day

Temata one of the best props in SL.

Sadly we have a coach who is intent on going up the middle hence why we have no quality centres, wingers etc. He certainly hasn't replaced the skill and guile of Hill and McLinden

This predicament that the club find them in can be dated back to when the Broncos moved to Brentford and something went wrong at board level when it came to dishing out cash for marketing and promotion. 2 play-off teams and yet no real effort to attract any fans. We move to TW2 and are under no illusions we are supping in the saloon of last chances and yet the club continue to let itself be run by 1 man and his chequebook.

Sorry, but if we had moved to Quins with a 5k base instead of the 2,000 (generous) we had, then we may have kicked on, seen gates rise in 2006/2007 and had a few more quid to fork out on players/coach.

As it is, the club are now 100% reliant on DH and like all good addicts........will do whatever our "dealer" requires.
Mac has to go now. Even if we go the rest of the season getting spanked, it will give the club and the players time to plan for 2011.....where we will really need to hit the ground running both on and off the field.

If the club do get a licence next year, then the RFL must LAY DOWN A TARGET for self sufficiency....and I still believe that 6k averages are the number needed for that. So, we need to double the gates and have a PLAN IN PLACE BY SEPTEMBER.
There is no point in discussing the names of players we need and the coach we want if we are reliant on DH. We must be able to stand on our own 2 feet and we will never be able to do that until the apron strings with DH are cut. By all means errect a statue to the man, but do it for work in developent of RL in the South East.......and not for blindling thowing cash down the drain.
Field of Dreams marketing doesn't work......and the RFL and Lewis are just as responsible for our situation with comments like "quins deserve better crowds".......Bollox. Nobody deserves anything.....you have to earn what you want....and quins RL do not deserve better crowds at the moment.
Bloody depressed (in case you couldn't tell).

How can any marketing team sell the product that we witnessed today?

I cant remember seeing such rubbish week in week out in the time I've watched London RL-They are dreadful. In attack they are dull and dont even have a go and try and entertain.

I was talking to some Man Utd fans about who will take over from Fergie-I mentioned the "special one". The response was intersting in that they said he will win things but not in the style of play the fans would like-and dismissed him out of hand

Easy, market it to the visiting fans. HKR's had a ball yesterday.

Almost a serious point this, the RFL market the "Magic" weekend mainly on the basis that visitors to Edinburgh will watch their team and have a fun weekend. With our present squad there's no point in trying to get new Quins RL supporters so we should be trying to get as many away fans here as possible as a way of increasing income.

Of course next weekend's "Rugby United" is absolutely the wrong way to go. But that's dictated by Quins RU interests, not ours.

Not a bad idea.....we could market it on the lines of...............

"Where were you when the first man landed on the moon? When England won the World Cup? Where will you
be when your club get their all time Superleague scoring record........Join us at The Stoop, where scoring records are made and home hearts are broken......"

First laugh I have had in ages on here, amongst Briali1's bile.

Unless she is posting slagging me off.

No room on the HKR forum for Your postings to Your new best friends

Just out of interest where is there to park around The Stoop? A lot of away fans prefer to drive to games than rely on Club coaches or public transport.

There's the Rosebine car park on the main road just along from the Stoop or you could park in the college grounds next door for a fiver.