Was quite positive to see that a whole page in the Quins RU programme v Newcastle was given over to "The other members of the Harlequins Family" (their words) and listing our fixtures over the summer and general "Give RL a go" theme. Where as we all know that the consequences of this getting extra bums on seats will be minimal, it was nice to see a page given over to us.

A bit of a pity that this wasn't in the programme when another London side was playing, maybe we would have had some extra fans

hey at least there was something in there, and good to hear

Another London side - are there any?

Hopefully they will do the same for Reading Irish in the play off.

Are they playing that in the Big-House across the road? If so, there may well be 20,000 tea-caddies there with nothing left to do over the summer by the end of the game.....could be worth targeting them.

Nice one RU boys

No its being played at The Stoop. 2,000 "visitors" expected along with the
10,600 homesters.

I think that the page on us will be repeated for the game v Irish.

Do we do the same for them?

Do we need to?

Mmmm...I can't help thinking this is a mistake (again). Evans turned down the chance of a 40k gate for the Heineken Cup game v Lienster in the hope of getting a 16th man type atmosphere going......and they blew it. As much as QRU are financially stable, 27,500 more tickets at £20 each is a fair chunk of cash to turn down.
As a London Irish fan, I hope to be their cheering on my team whilst wearing the oppositions colours

The Stoop is their stadium and these games are the rewards for all the effort the club has put in. its right to leave it at the TS.
Also it creates scarcity which drives long term demand rather than play in souless half empty twickenham

Not sure it will be that black & white; what are the relative operating costs of hiring Twickers (not small I've heard) and then resulting profit or loss. Plus the risk associated with getting it wrong and the chance you could be left holding the baby. Plus Twickers/RFU might not be amenable to having it on that date or Premier Rugby don't want it. etc etc. Bit more pink, grey, brown, blue & green methinks....

I heard they made no profit from the game on the 27th Dec. Granted, they sold tix @ £10 and they didn't lose money either, but it was a break-even project aimed at data collection & profile raising. Job done.

Excellent point.

Also the point that Bath and Leicester crying "foul" that the winner of the Quins v Irish semi will have an unfair advantage having played a semi at the same stadium as the final.

As part of "The Quins Family", I note that Jon Wells has used part of his [iRugby League World[/i column to congratulate Ugo Monye on his selection for the Lions. I wonder if they'll get any complaints?

I'm sure a certain Mr. Schofield will put his two penn'oth in next month....