Quote ="gazemous"You are looking at it completely wrong. Sure Quins crowds are a measure of success, but they certainly aren't the only measure and nowhere near the key measure.
Viewing figures for RL in London are higher than most other areas of the country, I'm happy to be corrected, but I believe Super League on Sky gets more people watching it from the south than in the north. This, coupled with the number of amateur teams around London, the number of Londoners coming through to play Super League and international level shows the game is spreading to areas that aren't the heartlands.'"
Quote ="kinleycat"probably not true unless thats just because there are more sky boxes in the south, also up north we actually go to watch SL rather than watch at home or in the pub'"
Of course we can't decide for sure unless we had figures, a quick glance of Google reveals nothing. Either way, the 'more boxes' argument is utterly stupid - do you think people accidentally stumble upon a two-hour programme on a Friday or Saturday night and sit there in front of it without acknowledging or enjoying it?
Quote ="gazemous"
As for attendances at Quins. For me to get to a Quins match, it would take around an hour and a half from my house in South London. To put this into perspective, when I lived in Birmingham it would take me an hour and a half to get to a Cas home game. Indeed, I could get to a Cas home game in under four hours now, so even though Quins is geographically a small distance from me, time wise it's the equivalent of a 100mile journey in the north of England.'"
Quote ="kinleycat"
attendances = cash, cash = a viable business, no cash = bankrupt'"
How does this relate to my travel ability? Of course Quins need better attendances to survive, that has nothing to do with the success of RL in London though, which is the point under discussion.
Quote ="gazemous"
Now, how many Cas fans go to away games? Significantly fewer than go to home games. This is due to proximity of the home ground to their home. If travelling for less than an hour is enough to put 90% of the Cas fans off watching their team in Hull, you can start to understand why the whole of London isn't moving en masse to every single Quins game.'"
Quote ="kinleycat"
a damn site more than the miserable fifty or so london fans that bother to come, if you can attract a few thousand to the stoop, and it takes about 2 hours to get there, why not take the same amount two hours up the M1?'"
Because they're not attracting people two hours away to The Stoop, they're focused more on getting the locals in and people from West London, not people in the South East of London! Plus, I'm not sure how many RL grounds you can get to from central London in two hours. Your point makes no sense.
Quote ="gazemous"
The realistic target area for Quins home fans in Richmond. That is a population of around 200,000 people, making it around the same size as Huddersfield. Having a team in London is great for the game, but just because they're in London, don't believe the Stoop is around the corner from Oxford Street and easily accessible to Londoners, because it's not, and as such, people won't make as much effort to get there and instead focus on local amateur games and watching SL on TV - and those are the real measures of the sport's popularity in London'"
This man speaks sense, you should listen to him
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