Just looked for Quins away fixture as promised my daughter i would take her this year after last years called off game and it appears we have to go there on FRIDAY 9th July. Is this just me or is this a crap day for an away day trip to London. Always thought they played on a Saturday at home when not on TV.

Also, we play them at home in March, doesn't appear to be on TV and that is a Friday night. Again dont understand why this isnt a Sunday

Any ideas?

maybe a bit of tit for tat?. theyve made us travel down their on a friday so weve returned the favour

Ideal for me, dont work friday nights and my mate can come up from brighton and meet me there.

You would think in their parlous financial state they would go back to Sat or Sun pm's. I did e mail just after the fixture list came out asking the reason behind it, but had no reply, even Peter Hood said he had no idea why either when I asked him.

We havn't missed this fixture for years but we simply can't get there on time to see it. Thats 5 tickets plus all the ale we sup that will be lost to Harleqiuns. I bet there are loads of folk in the same situation as us. The club is just chucking money away.

I'm sure both clubs are aware that a friday night fixture will attract less opposition fans than a saturday or sunday fixture, and I'm sure both teams must have had reasons for having to play on the friday night.

At a rough guess:

Quins RU are playing at home that weekend? EDIT: in JULY? Don't be stupid Adey...



Bulls know Quins bring two men and a dog anyway, so the game will almost certainly run at a loss, and its a quite a bit cheaper to open Odsal on a Friday night compared with a Sunday? EDIT: or more likley the far more sensible suggestion from Highlander below...



EDIT: pretty crap post really!

I thought this was obvious when you see that Easter is the next weekend. By playing on the Friday you miss out on ?100 away supporters but you allow the squad a full 2 days extra preparation/recuperation time before Leeds on Thursday and the follow up game on Monday

So obvious that I missed it, not thinking when Easter was, but yes that makes even more sense.

But Easter isn't in July





(Yes, I know that that can explain the Home fixture!)

Good thinking, that'll be one of the reasons!

It is a crap time for an away fixture v London. As usual, the fans come last.

Not unless there is a rare celestial event whereby we don`t get a full moon between the back end of March and July

I just had a quick look at Harlequin's home fixtures (at present)- mainly Saturdays, a few Sundays, one Monday (Easter) and one Friday (us).

I have no idea why. Maybe tit for tat (very shortsighted businesswise if correct). There has to be another event on either at Twickenham or in the area on Sat.

This is a real shame because it would have been good to have a summer weekend in London wrapped around a game of rugby. Whilst I could probably manage to get there in time, my wife would have to use up holiday to get away and that is a bit excessive. Although we do it for the Catalans game so maybe...

When they are a home game on Sky it tends to be the Saturday anyway

I've been to Quins/London every year for about 8 on the trot now. I won't be going this year if it stays on the Friday night, as I don't intend on paying for a hotel room and I don't want to be getting home at daft o'clock on Saturday morning. Nor am I taking the Friday off work in order to travel down there.

If they move it to a weekend afternoon, I'll go.

I have posted on the Quins board about this and some of the respondents don't seem to give a $hit about the away fans. Ive been every year (on occasion twice in some years including the aborted attempt last feb) but I am so fed up about it I am not sure I will be going again. Until I calm down anyway.

I think Quins want to try a Friday night game and bad luck for you they have picked the Bulls game. Still I use up a lot of holiday going to al the Friday night games we have up North. Motorways including the M25 aren't to bad easrly Sat morning!

Why don't they try it for someone who would not bring any fans? There is two teams that srping to mind...

Huddersfield clearly being one, so did you mean Crusaders or Catalans along with them?

They should have tried it with Hull KR, since as all the world knows they always take 327,000 to any away game regardless...

Ok for me - living in Bicester now so easy trip for me and get home in decent time. But still hoping to get to Saints opener this year as well

Three teams then...

Oh, I've had an interesting reply to my email about this...


..oh no, make that no reply. My mistake.

So, another load of numpties who haven't bothered to check the football fixtures for that weekend...