Reading the Rugby League papers this morning I see they have posted another huge loss, in the region of 2 million pound for the second year running.

Now they owe Ian Lenegan around 2 million pound and David Hughes a further 4 million pound as they have underwritten the losses but how long is Mr Hughes going to keep that up as I assume Ian Lenegan isn't funding them anymore due to his position with Wigan?

Harlequins Wakefield and Salford out.

Toulouse Scorpions and Widnes in.

Only one out of them three have qualified to apply at the next round of applications.

Scorpions NO
Tououse NO
Widnes YES

Any point to this post other than asking what appears to be a direct question to David Hughes? nobody from rlfans is going to know the answer are they.

.....Would be a backwards step for the league.

OK, Leeds, Harlequins, Wakefield and Salford out.

Toulouse, Leigh, Scorpions and Widnes in.

good one

Whoosh!

leeds out saints out wigan out

toulouse barcelona and paris in

How would it? Out of the three teams to leave, they offer nothing other than the beneifts of having RL in the capital, which as Harlequins is being run terribly.

maybe the op should take a look at his own clubs finances!

Lennegan owes Hughes 2 million quid- as announced at the fans forum

When you have a big money backer you are not in debt-Unfortunately for lots of clubs they dont have this luxury

Quins will get a Franchise

Average losses for a SL club?

My thought too

It's a sad state of affairs down at the Moon and no mistake.


And whats even more sad is that things aren't going to improve.


Barry McKenzie has said for some time now that if Harlequins RL were a horse it would be gently led out into a field the other side of the M25 before having a bullet popped behind its ear to put it out of it's misery.

Bazza would know following the easy beats of the NRL-How are the crowds down shark park bazza

I see Bazzas valiant attempts at labelling the Stoop [i(still)[/i haven't caught on - much like his many other brilliant suggestions.



Keep going Bazza, everyone loves a tryer.

What a surprise, NO ONE down south is interested in RL, the sooner the RFL realise this, and get rid of the Fulham-harle-bronco-quins in favour of proper RL teams, in RL areas the better. All you morons can call me a flatcapper all you want, but Fulham, london broncos, paris st germain, celtic crusaders, harlequins have all failed miserably. 'Expansion' has almost ruined our game!!!

The debt is very small compared to this club. Surley they must be finished if Harlequins are news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10237268.stm

The debt is very small compared to this club. Surley they must be finished if Harlequins are news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10237268.stm

Quote ="Scorpions for SL"The debt is very small compared to this club. Surley they must be finished if Harlequins are news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10237268.stm'" Let me get this straight... you are comparing one of, if not the biggest sporting team in the whole world, with a massive turnover, and a huge fan base, to a team with 3000 fans, a turnover of a few million, whose only reason for existence, is to make a small time union team a bit of money in their off season. yeah pretty good comparison

Quote ="Scorpions for SL"The debt is very small compared to this club. Surley they must be finished if Harlequins are news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10237268.stm'" Let me get this straight... you are comparing one of, if not the biggest sporting team in the whole world, with a massive turnover, and a huge fan base, to a team with 3000 fans, a turnover of a few million, whose only reason for existence, is to make a small time union team a bit of money in their off season. yeah pretty good comparison

The point remains that the debt is not a problem as long as someone is prepared to underwrite it, a bit like that Leighton Samuel did at Celtic Crusaders.

or Rob Crossland at Hull KR

I would suggest that the 'quins finances are in a far better state than most other SL clubs and certainly better than SL wannabe's!!!

That's not true. I'm 'down south' and can assure you am very interested in RL. Granted i spent my first 25 years in wigan but living down here, my wife is now interested in RL and i have converted several members of her family. Will be taking 12 people up to the quins v wigan game.