Away fans from teams like saints have made their attendances respectable in recent years, great way to repay them.

indeed! This "offer" is as interesting to me as a double header at your gaff watching Wigan athletic first, but making us pay £25 for the privilege

It has been done wrong Saint Simon I don't argue that, but remember you can pay £24 for a stand seat at Knowsley Road, is that just daft for any away supporters? it is only £1 CHEAPER than everyone is complaining about? - we Quins RL have not won over many Quins RU supporters, I wonder in fact if the name has in fact damaged us, while London Broncos was a more general name for a Capital club, I just think the complaints have been a little OTT about a £1 dearer stand seat.

I think you're missing the point of the complaint to be honest.

Every other SL side's supporters will be paying £15 at the Stoop. Saints fans will be paying £25 to include a match they won't even be there to see, and a sport that most actively dislike for well documented reasons.

How much the tickets cost in relation to Saints tickets is irrelevant, it's the fact that Saints fans are being asked to pay two thirds more than every other away fan will, to miss a game of rugby union.

If it meant watching Saints then I would do it, yes, and without whinging. I'd wonder at it, obviously, but I hate soccer with a passion so I would probably wonder about it more than most. But I wouldn't moan about it. I want to support Saints and so that is what I would do.

So all this whinging is about a principle? That's even worse! Saints supporters cancel their hotel bookings, choose not to support their team, write 'snotty of St Helens' emails to QuinsRL and berate Quins supporters over a bleedin principle?

Spare me.

im going to london to watch a rl game, i should not have to pay more than any other team supporters for this game. other fans have only had to pay 15 pound to watch there team play. you talk stupid whwn you say you dont have to go. we have paid for the weekend so we have to go, otherwise i would cancel.

Depends whether you think "bleedin principles" are important I guess. I do, a few others seem to think that way too. You're very much entitled to think differently, so consider yourself spared as requested. Its not just Saints fans though, Quins RL fans are being asked to pay extra too remember and a fair few are equally miffed.

My gripe is why should RL fans (Saints AND Quins) have to pay an extra £10 for a union game they will in all likelihood not get to see even if they wanted to due to coach times etc? Especially since union fans get an extra game at no additional cost to their usual ticket? Do you not see why that might annoy some people to the point that they want to voice their displeasure?

You claim that you wouldn't be miffed if Saints ramped up prices by a tenner and put a union game on before a RL game - fair play. I find that exceedingly hard to believe, but I have no reason to doubt you. I know I'd be very miffed indeed.

Why am I missing the point when I have clearly said I agree, it is just that I think it is all getting a little OTT, it is relevant the price of tickets at Knowlsey Road, it is too expensive for a rugby league match!

If you are quite happy with Harlequins Union ambushing a league fixture and running roughshod over Harlequins League then OK its your minority preference. Its about standing your ground for rugby league, Imagine Harlequins Union using this opportunity as a club finance model and turning into a trend. Whinging is the only way of showing dissatisfaction over the situation...............where as the minority like yourself don,t seem to show any back bone.

sorry.......no excuse but I was bladdered........
as I said in earlier posts, I back saints fans for being annoyed but there really isn't anything anyone can do about it. I don't blame those fans who aren't coming down now......
once again, sorry for the drunken outburst.

is there any concessions.

So tell me. How is whining and berating people on RLFans message board showing backbone exactly?

If I have a problem, I go to the source of the problem. That isn't me or Quins fans or Saints fans or the Saints club. Or indeed anyone that you or I have any influence over whatsoever.

It's easy really. Either those who were planning to go continue to go so as to support the Saints and just make the financial adjustment accordingly, or they don't. I personally see it as spineless and childish to cancel hotel bookings and go off on tantrums over a tenner or a fiver or whatever it is. Bloody ridiculous in fact.

Sure, that's just me and maybe I am in a minority or maybe the majority is a silent one, who knows? But the reaction on this board and the Quins board from Saints fans is just OTT and that's pretty much all I have left to say on the matter.

It seems bizarre that London RL (I have a problem calling them Quins) have done this, especially as their tickets are usually such good value. I appreciate they may have been forced into it because they ground share (god knows ground sharing affected us in the past!!) but it's also not the first time prices have been jacked up. The grass car park next door put their prices up last year, just because there was a game on at Twickenham the same day. Sure, London RL probably have no jurisdiction over that either, but it does expose the fan to profiteering outside the control of the club.

As a Saints fan .....I never cease to be amazed at how small minded and fickle some of our so called supporters are. I tell you....if Saints had a couple of bad seasons.....half the people commentating on this issue....wouldn't even go to the home matches. If they are not moaning about Edinburgh...they now moan abouta clever suggestion from Harlequins to have a double header.
I look at the smaller football clubs fans travelling 300 miles to watch a low level of football and you sometimes cannot get our supporters to travel 20 miles.
I treat rugby league as a crusade and fully support any effort by Harlequins to increase their attandance and revenue. I do not like rugby union,but, what do I know.....I've never seen a live match. So 5 of us are going on the 10th April to watch both matches.....not to ridicule a game I've never seen live.....and perhaps chat to the union supporters and try to encourage them to stay for the league match

Never ceases to amaze me how people can completely miss the point.

Never ceases to amaze me the fuss caused over a fiver.

I wouldn't worry it's a vocal minority having a good old whinge about something. At the end of the day 99% of the people who WERE going to London will still be and you can bet a big chunk of those saying they are not going ( not all before I become PE number 1 for not joining the crying wagon ) probably would not have anyway!

Excellently put sir.

You in the habit of chucking fivers away then??
Chuck some my way

Well my Mrs reckons going to RL is throwing money away so I suppose I am in some respects LOL

Huddersfield Giants fans paid nothing last week due to hammering the facebook fan site for the Harlequins and everyone receiving free tickets

The Quins supporters can get their money back Crusaders are only charging £8 for their match against Quins!!

Quote ="Div"Our away fixture at Quins is a double header with Harlequins RU facing Leeds before our fixture against Quins RL. Tickets are £25 for both games. If you just want to watch Saints its ............er £25. What a rip off ! I wouldnt watch the RU if it was in my back garden ! What a con you have to pay for a game you have no intention of watching. The Official Club site says tickets are for both games yet the official club coaches will not arrive in time for the first game ! www.redvee.net/forums/showthread ... ia-Manager'" I noticed that Stevo quoted me in his column in the League Express this morning. He was wrong on one count though I WILL be there for our fixture. Nice to see he reads The Entertainers though.

Quote ="Div"Our away fixture at Quins is a double header with Harlequins RU facing Leeds before our fixture against Quins RL. Tickets are £25 for both games. If you just want to watch Saints its ............er £25. What a rip off ! I wouldnt watch the RU if it was in my back garden ! What a con you have to pay for a game you have no intention of watching. The Official Club site says tickets are for both games yet the official club coaches will not arrive in time for the first game ! www.redvee.net/forums/showthread ... ia-Manager'" I noticed that Stevo quoted me in his column in the League Express this morning. He was wrong on one count though I WILL be there for our fixture. Nice to see he reads The Entertainers though.

Picked up my tickets looking forward to it now still not going to the pre SL borathon though.