as a born and bred northerner who has moved down south in the last 9 months and got involved mainly with the skolars it greatly annoys me to see fellow northerners back home slagging off league in london.
admittedly the attendances are a great worry and things do need to be done to improve them (and greater minds than moi will hopefully solve them) but having quins in SL is a no brainer for me to spread the word of this game. same with the skolars, who's on the pitch form is a worry at the moment, but whos work in the community needs to be lauded. there is a massive potential player pool just here in north london and it is being tapped into, but its not an overnight thing.
i just think a few more fellow northerners need to broaden some horizons and take a look at what many are doing for the greatest game down here. come down with your team, watch them against quins or skolars, and help support spreading the greatest game to one and all.
As someone who has spent the last 5 years living outside the sports heartlands, first in the north east and now down here, i'm a firm believer of spreading the gospel of league far and wide and those doing that job in non-heartland places have my upmost respect. lets support them rather than snyping. a game played solely on the m62 corridor is not good!

was in london this weekend and saw a few quins RU fans.
couldn't help myself... asked how they'd gone on and they told me they'd lost to london irish.
'london irish don't play rugby league!' ...the look on their faces was priceless


we stayed right near the valley and the train/tube links were easy to use.

Nice one .

You would have loved to be with me then.

Sat in an Irish pub, with a quins RL jersey on cheering London Irish......I have never seen so may confused "tea caddies" in my life.

They probably thought you were trying to take the mickey out of them but you weren't.