Everytime someone asks what I'm doing at the weekend, I tell them I'm going to watch a Rugby League match. They ask who it is. I reply Harlequins. They reply that they thought that was a Rugby Union club. I reply no, they have two teams. I'm not sure why that's especially confusing, they seem to grasp it quite quickly.

Same goes with the way we advertise our games - it is made blatantly obvious what people are going to go and watch - COME AND WATCH RUGBY LEAGUE IN LONDON etc. That is the way our club will be advertised regardless of its name. The link to Harlequins is an excellent bonus.

People read far too much into things. The marketing we use is pretty simple and clearcut.

Bitter Spurs fan

I don't know if I should weep or laugh.

Well obviously I am only refering to very recent history.

Isn't all the above patently obvious to all concerned?

Quins need a winning side, media exposure, PR and better players.

Then they'll get a better crowds, simple really.

According to a lot I have read on here during the past 48 hours, no!

Harlequins will always be associated with Union. If any union team plays in quarter they're usually called something something harlequins.

I think it was summed up best when little kids thought Harlequins RL stood for Harlequins Rugby lessons.

Wrong. Harlequins are associated with Union to League and Union supporters. Harlequins are associated with rugby to the uninitiated.

doesn't matter.........will be a different name at a different place in 2012....all depends on what league they are methinx. If the Licence is granted in July....I suspect an announcement not long after.

To the majority of the uninitiated rugby means union.

I posted this in a different forum near the start of the season. I still stand by it. (If it works...)
'Yes, I also would like to see the club in a new purpose-built stadium with lots of facilities for the fans. It would sell decent pies, be on a major bus route, have a tube station just down the road, have a gigantic car-park for the many thousands of new fans and be easily accessed from anywhere in the UK. The lush turf would be graced by the studs of 17 full internationals (chosen by the finest manager/coach on the planet from the squad of 32, all on £4,000,000 per annum) and watched by 62,267 cheering fans week in,week out. Think of the atmosphere, the bonhomie, the joie d'vivre and the worlds a better place already.
The only problem is that it's unlikely to happen for another year or two. So, let me see, what have we down at the Stoop?
1) A really nice stadium
2) Not a lot of people bother to turn up - spoils the atmosphere a bit - but whose fault's that?
3) A half decent squad of players that generally try their utmost despite being decimated by injury etc for most of last - and other - seasons
4) Managers that contrary to some of the stuff written and spoken really do seem to have the best long-term interests of the club at heart.
5) A chairman who's spent Gawd-knows-what of his own money to keep things ticking over.
6) Relatively easy parking
7) Relatively easy access from most parts of the UK
The Name and Colours of Harlequins. What's wrong with that? Instantly recognisable name and shirt the world over. It's still London and anyway, everybody knows that the Broncos play in Denver or possibly Brisbane. Or maybe they're wild horses? Plenty of those running around down here in the South.
Ok, rant over. It's just always the same old thing. 'Everything will be wonderful once we have a new ground'. Well, as History has shown - IT WON'T! Meanwhile, for the reasons mentioned above, why not make the best of what we've got, turn up in numbers, support the team even if they're being thrashed and talk about it in the bar afterwards. Even with the lads in the Blue, the White, the Red etc shirts. Anyway, you get my drift.
Probably see some of you tomorrow. Only a 196 mile round trip from down here in sunny Dorset, and, you know what, I CAN'T WAIT! Yee-Hah!'
Holy ! It did! Boy, I'm good with IT, me.

Just out of interest , the claims of needing a winning team or of winning some silverware to ' engage ' the support , how many major trophies did Warrington win between the forming of Fulham and 18 months ago ?

I have to agree with curt here, mention Harlequins to anyone apart from someone who is already a RL supporter then they automatically think "the Harlequins union" you tell em they have a RL team and if they have any recollection they say "oh yes did they not used to be called the bronco's or something" I am not saying we should go back to being the broncos, altho I do think we suffer from not having London in the name somewhere.
The stoop has everything we need in a stadium apart from 1 thing! we have to pay to use it, sadly thats gonna be the case everywhere, so we should be trying to make the best of it

I think you miss the fact that Warrington is in the middle of a rugby league supporting area, there are countless amateur sides all around that have been there for years and we have a history of 130+ years.

If you start a 'relatively' new team you need ways to generate money/fans, a winning side is THE best way to do it.