With the club shop now closed in the Merrion Centre, I’ve put together a good and bad idea on how Leeds Rhinos can re-establish their presence in the city centre - leeds.rlfans.com/readarticle.php?article_id=1784

With the club shop now closed in the Merrion Centre, I’ve put together a good and bad idea on how Leeds Rhinos can re-establish their presence in the city centre - leeds.rlfans.com/readarticle.php?article_id=1784

In a staggering departure (having invented the tewrm 'sharticle' specifically to describe your work) I have just ticked 'article'. Why? Because there might actually be something in this. There may not be much market for a Rhinos museum (by not much, I mean near-zero), but there seems to ba an almost bottomless market for cafes in the city centre at the moment. "Cafe Rhino" with some club memorobilia, cake and coffee by day, Leeds Brewery ales by night and the odd Rhinos function/event might actually work.

This is not the standard I've come to expect of you Damo. Please restore balance by producing a list of 350 spurious and irrelevant (and occasionally factually flawed) reasons why this is a good idea.

Thanks in advance.

Has that been proof read?

Here's an idea for you Damo:

To spread the word of this great club why don't you hand out leaflets near barrel man at St Johns (most of the weirdest folk who hand stuff out are usually there).

I think it would be highly enteraning to see you approaching people and watching the lengths people will go to to avoid you.



Word up mutha.

this is the key bit

Could we not all club together and buy cakes to raise money to send Ian Kirke on work experience in Brazil?

Actually a cafe is a cracking idea. I shall also be ticking article instead of sharticle.

The cafe could have some of Damo's lists upon the wall, I miss Damo's lists.

I would go for a coffee and cake at Café Rhino.

Braaaa.

I can see it now.....Damo perambulating around the various cafes in the city centre, whilst wearing an old fashioned sandwich board extolling all that is good about the Rhinos. In yer face advertising with the personal touch. It s a win/win for me!

You could even show some entreprenurial spirit Damo, and sub contract a mornings work to that mate who borrowed £20 from you and never repaid. If he bitches about the hourly rate, simply remind him about the need for a prompt settling of debts if he wants to avoid excessive charges. The lad who wants to go to Brazil could accompany you with a tray of cakes, and the lot of you could salsa down briggate in fancy dress if you wanted!

The World's your oyster my boy.

I think a cafe/bar would be a great idea. The cafe bar at Headingley has done well so i don’t see why a nice cafe bar in the city centre wouldn’t do well. However to have one in the CBD would be very expensive. It maybe worth looking at the areas of the city that has a lot of flats and development in the process. The Granary Wharf is doing really well and a cafe would do really well down here with the lunchtime trade and also the evening trade.

As for having an actual club shop in the city centre I don’t understand why the club doesn’t team up with one of the biggest retailers to come out of Leeds, Marks & Spencer’s. With the Trinity development M&S is expanding and as people will have noticed they already have started selling non-M&S branded goods in their stores. How about a Leeds Rhinos concession in M&S or any Leeds department store for that matter such as Debenhams etc? Leeds is a boom city for shopping and I do think have a concession in a department store would work not just for Leeds but for department store. It will get extra footfall from Leeds fans who may then take a look around that shop where previously they wouldn't.

First of all I just want to thank everyone for the praise! I knew I couldn’t come back and just moan about whatever Wigan have done this week. Everyone will be pleased to know that I’m working on a list but this one will be a work of art and isn’t to be rushed. It should be epic and a WTF moment when it’s finally out in the public domain.

Now I’m going to be very busy for the rest of the day. I’ve got to find 20 kind people who could potentially invest in my radio idea. Some of you may not be aware that I’ve had to quit where I’ve been volunteering for the last year due to them messing me about with this. Anyhow I’m back on track and I have some very good support behind me.

Once again thanks and Article may actually beat Shariticle for the first time ever!

"and the only time I should be seen wearing a suit is for weddings and funerals" and job interviews, nice little read that, and the idea sounds like quite a good one, still it's a sharticle for me as I like the 3 gates at Crossgates

The Rhinos can have a better presence in the centre by moving Ryan Hall there

I imagine GH goes for just a short term lease on a low rent in a small unit. As mentioned, why not get a concession in M/S ,Debenhams,Top Shop etc.

I got some Catalans gear from a department store in Perpignan

If it was me that had to make the Rhinos have presence in Leeds i would try to get a deal with Greggs i would give them a shop at the leeds ground A Greggs shop would be better for the fans then a burger van we have the price of food and drink is a joke some eg. chips £1.50 one bottle of pop £1.50 were Greggs have Tempting Deals and a healthy menu Now what i would asked for is Greggs to have a Gingerbread rugby Man with the leeds kit on it a bun with leeds rhinos on it in all the shop in leeds city centre just asked your self how many greggs are there in leeds city centre ? www.british-towns.net/en/level_4 ... GetL3=9683 and have a poster of a player life size so you can see it when you come in the shop eg. Kevin Sinfield,Ronnie the Rhino full size

If it was me that had to make the Rhinos have presence in Leeds i would try to get a deal with Greggs i would give them a shop at the leeds ground A Greggs shop would be better for the fans then a burger van we have the price of food and drink is a joke some eg. chips £1.50 one bottle of pop £1.50 were Greggs have Tempting Deals and a healthy menu Now what i would asked for is Greggs to have a Gingerbread rugby Man with the leeds kit on it a bun with leeds rhinos on it in all the shop in leeds city centre just asked your self how many greggs are there in leeds city centre ? www.british-towns.net/en/level_4 ... GetL3=9683 and have a poster of a player life size so you can see it when you come in the shop eg. Kevin Sinfield,Ronnie the Rhino full size

Damo has just found himeself a job - running the Rhinos Cafe.

I seem to recall a similar venture by an ex-club employee of antipodean extraction didn't set the world on fire though ?

We had an ex player in the about 10 years ago had a bar in the the city centre

If I was involved from the word go then I’d give it a fair crack. That means I’d want to be involved in the planning process etc. I wouldn’t just want to be working at a poor café with the Rhinos brand slapped right on top of it. It’d have to be elegantly crafted together and paving the way for a culture that is world class. A café that not just Leeds Rhinos fans are proud of but the whole of Yorkshire are proud of too. I’ll leave it to the club to sort out..



Richie Blackmore?

I'm sure someone will know.

Thats the one.

I believe it was where Mike Ashley now sells the sort of polyester tat that his clientele wear for their court apperances.

Wasn't that just a bar? Besides which, I think there is more market for Cafe Bars nowadays. I could be wrong, and this is a very easy investment decision with somebody else's hypothetical money...

Yes it was Richie Blackmore,it was on the Schoefields centre I recall,I called in a couple of times ,guiness was expensive,but I liked all the RL pics around the walls.Things like that certainly promote the club to out of towners

I'm not entirely convinced that numerous combinations of cheap flour, sugar, lard and excessive salt constitutes a healthy food menu.

Although I have heard it said that the sundry pubic hairs and nail clippings add fibre.

Those will be the bits which are strategically protruding outside the cut edges of their infamous baguettes in order to give the visual impression they are loaded with nutritious fillings.

I think he means that the actual menu is healthy. It contains essential inks and laminates.

This makes more sense than it being a reference to the "food" which good salt-of-the-earth types like George Osborne won't touch.

Ah yes, I remember now.

He fled the country owing me money resulting in me sending the boys in to repossess our equipment.

I knew it would all come back to me.

Nice to see Article beating Sharticle by 3 points