It's only alive now thanks to regular transfusions from Uncle Kens pocket

It would seem the only way to make it fit anywhere other than a traditional rugby league area is to throw lots of money at it.
If someone (and that shouldn't be the RFL by the way) is happy to throw their own money at it instead of paying supporters I suppose that's their prerogative.
However a viable club should not be made to suffer, for what is in my opinion a total sham.

if you put an elephant in somewhere like the sea, how long until it will develop the skill to swim? It won't it will die, as without frequent cash injections would London and crusaders.

It's a Super League franchise we are going for, not Northern City of Culture!

But most people round here only see Quins as an attendance and a score, nothing else - so that is what you MUST be judged on by the RFL. No wonder they feel the need to point it on in the press with some of the fans up here (many different clubs, not just us).

And if you look at how many of these southern clubs have come about in the last ten years or so, you will see what a growth it has been for them. Many of the clubs round here have been around for longer than we have been in SL. I wonder how many of them will say they have had the support of WTW over that period, against how many of the London League teams have had support of Quins RL/Broncos etc..

Not as straight forward to compare apples with pears, or apples and pears and stairs....

But can't you see, they are actually achieving something locally down there in the community. Kids round here grow up on the game, they get to know about it from an early age. Kids rugby down there has been a recent thing in comparison. They are doing what they can to build a good structure in place. And that means that they are growing stronger year on year in the amateur levels. (As they are in the Midlands and the SW too - without a SL club)

(Don't get me wrong - SL should be P+R, but under the current structure it is not)

A lot of what is happening in the non-heartland areas is that the RFL are setting up development offices where community coaches are going into schools, setting up partnerships to deliver rugby league coaching and opportunities for kids and teachers to get involved with rugby league, and to point them towards amateur clubs in the region. Those clubs are run by volunteers, those players are playing at an amateur level and having to pay their own transport to games (often up to a couple of hours away for fixtures due to location issues). The players that do well at that level are then looked at by Quins academy and Quins coaching staff in the same that scouting occurs up here. But the cash that the RFL are putting into the area, as far as I know is into community coaching, assisting growth in the amateur game which then helps a pathway to lead to opportunities elsewhere.

I am advised that there are now more players playing amateur RL in the Lomdon region than the whole of Yorkshire, Cheshire, Lancs and Cumbria put together.

So the game is growing in London and much credit must go to Quins for that.

And despite all of these confident and happy messages about London RL, no one bothers to go watch them.

Curious.

The comments about Rugby League in London were in response to various comments on here about how we must automatically be seen better in the community than Quins without much knowledge of what actually goes on round there.

Quins as an on the field entity are not as good as we are over the franchise period, they are not as good as we are with regard to attendances as we are over the franchise period - which should put us further ahead in an application regardless of what the RFL decide on community.

Flogging a dead horse springs to mind.

Take a junior side down for a weekend and see how games you get, last time i did we played the same team 3 times.

Not knocking the efforts made in London but past experience tells me otherwise.

Fair enough. Some excellent points made here. Nice to see a well structured and balanced argument, instead of the usual finger-pointing 'my club is better than your club', that we sadly so often see in RL. Great to see so many young Englishmen in your squad too, you should be heavily commended for that

Good luck for the season, except when we play us again! I won't have you putting 50 points on us again!