Gooday, I have just complained to the BBC about Harry Gration and his inability to say anything good about Quins R L without a barbed comment. This is not what is expected of a presenter and why should the guests have to defend us. How about getting something going, after all we have put up with the snide comments for long enough. Join me and complain and if you cant be bothered I will update when I get a reply from the Beeb.

Nice first post...you'll fit in nicely on these boards.

Thanks, I am going to start on The Rugby League & League Express, how can the cover totally ignore the top points scorers in the table and of course we have played a game less, so i wont mention that only Leeds have conceded less points than The Mighty Quins.
P.S For all those like me who read the forum for ages- get involved no-one bites

er....have you met Listy


When we win the Grand Final and Challenge Cup double and then crush the NRL champs in the WCC, as well as providing 11 of the starting 13 for England, who then go on to hammer everyone in the next world cup....we might get more than 2 minutes on the SL show, 1/4 page in the RL Press and a whole 3 column inches in the Evening Standard....


Gave up on the Press/Media a long time ago......we are the Milwall of the RL fraternity.......No one likes us and we don't care (well, most of us don't care)

nobody cares about us so why should they cover us

Harry Gration is a kn*b. He wets himself talking about the big clubs. He does it even more if Cas or Wakey do well.

He would much prefer to present the programme wearing a flat hat, scratching himself profusely and have a couple of whippets sat at his feet. Ideally listening to Ray French tell an anecdote about playing on a snow covered pitch.

Give me Clare Balding any day. No bias and a better taste in pullovers.

Our match wasn't even mentioned on the front page was it?

Here's one to light the blue touch paper - sadly, media companies pander to their known audience. There's not a lot of us, hence we're not considered giving major coverage to. i.e. very few League Express and the like are sold down here, so why give preference to Quins RL.

Same for Super League show. Not excusing HG, who should be more impartial and spread his love. But it's predominantly watched by northerners. So the coverage ends up being biased.

It's a bit of a vicious circle really - media tends to focus on where it sells, it's easier after all. Hence less exposure for us. Which in turn makes it harder to bring more people to games. Repeat ad nauseum.



Until we get more expansionists in the press, we're a bit stuffed. Bill and Phil on Sky seem better balanced individuals. I enjoy their blogs as they seem to think outside of the box.

All of which makes the online Mirror mistake all the more odd. They are official partners with RL (they know they will get sales spikes in the M62 corridor when they run things like the excellent supplement) - so they should know better....but again, no surprise it's Quins they make the mistake with....

Its right that the SL show is mainly aimed at northerners so there teams get most of the limelight, watch it when we play catalans dragons and they barely show one try.

It'd be nice if BBC London News, or London Tonight/London Today on ITV gave us some more coverage but hey ho.

Just watched boots N all online and to give them credit, they gave Quins a lot of praise, after mentioning Warrington were terrible, they applauded Brian Mac and our pack for playing so well. Barry McDermott especially praised us, saying that Brian Mac is delivering on his pre-season promises.

One other thing Barry Mac mentioned that was interesting was that Chad Randall offered to give back his wages after the Wigan game because of his mistake. Anyone else heard this as well? or is it just him exagerating a point.

the story was lifted straight off the wire and whoever uploaded it to the web made an error, hardly an example of systemic bias.

if anything it just shows how far league has to go to raise its profile.

Cats coverage is due to copyright.

I have emailed tonights Boots n'all asking for some credit as opposed to Salford/Wire were crap. Did this before I watched the on line show where as Sogs says we got some praise. Let's see what tonight brings.

BTW is Rammo back on the radio tonight?

sogspurs wrote: Just watched boots N all online and to give them credit, they gave Quins a lot of praise, after mentioning Warrington were terrible, they applauded Brian Mac and our pack for playing so well. Barry McDermott especially praised us, saying that Brian Mac is delivering on his pre-season promises.

One other thing Barry Mac mentioned that was interesting was that Chad Randall offered to give back his wages after the Wigan game because of his mistake. Anyone else heard this as well? or is it just him exagerating a point.

No he's mentioned this about Chad before both on the online and tv Boots N all. And i'm not 100% sure but think even Stevo said something the same on Sky too.

As for BBC London News/London ITV todays programmes i have in the past e mailed them if they can give us a mention, i never got an answer back from either of them.

Thers is also a reporter on BBC Breakfast, Mick Bushell is his name. He does the sports for them,but he also does what is called an alernative sports slot. Well they were looking for ideas for this slot and asked people to e mail in. I had noticed that last year he had been to Quins Union so i wrote asking if he like to come back to the Stoop and do a bit on our side of the Club,just to show there was two types of Rugby beening played out of the Stoop.

and yes you guessed it already i didnt get an answer from any of the above.

Old news.
The BBC will only ever give us coverage once we give them something newsworthy.......which we never do.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO
,,,,,.......sorry, nearly started a marketing rant. It's just all these other posters repeating what I and others have already posted 1,000+ times....

Every media outlet should be alerted and PRed with everything and anything that goes on at the club, especially PA - where the nationals get a lot of their sports coverage from.
The club doesnt. Why should media outlets chase them.
Quins RL dont do anything newsworthy and has no fans. so who would be interested in it.

FTR what should the beeb etc be reporting

Yep, it was mentioned in "League Express" the issue after the game.

Going back to Harry Gration - I loved his attempt at "praising" Quins on this week's SL Show - "They look like they might have a half-decent team." To which Terry Matterson snapped back: "I think they've got more than just a half-decent team!"

Good ol' Harry Grates-on. Talk about damning with faint praise.

Wish we could say that the SL show had a half-decent presenter.

TBH i can't wait until tonights Boots N All. I just want to hear Wiggy blame every one from the man on the hill with his dog down to the toilet cleaner for everything that went wrong with Wire on Saturday, and then bang on about the job TS has got there to do.



Or could i get a big shock and he say well Wolves were bad but just how good were Quins and are they a team that rest of SL should be wary off. We know Stevo will if can get it in, before he goes off on a rant about TS doing Wire and England job.

I presume it was your email Eddie read out. He seemed to think the point you were making was unfair!

I think the email had the desired effect though as prior to reading it out they did praise quins performance and what was happening at quins.

Well done.

Nice one

Not me guv - someone else with a similar view