Why comment then?? How about leaving this topic to people that DO find it interesting!?!!

Find what interesting? Repetition

cant you just dig up an old thread? we go through this 5 times a month

Its still a massive cause for concern though and warrants a new thread IMO. If it doesn't pick up we are finished, and that will have a huge impact on the rest of SL too.

Believe me....I remember a thread entitled "blame london" that was almost as long as the Chris Joint voluntary tackle saga

is that based on experience or principle

Both.



Seriously I just can't see it. Remember gonna your place years ago for a CC Q/F tie. Just over 4000 (inc 1000 we brought), don't reckon you'd have more then that for the same round this year really.

Sorry, but thats rubbish. Fact is, if things don't pick up in the crowd department, another license will be IMPOSSIBLE to obtain, regardless of how many other boxes we tick.

There is no reason why they shouldn't do and ignorant numpties like Roofs should be ignored, but its down to the fact that the club is being mismanaged and has been for a number of years; the right person is yet to come a long, and I hope they do before its too late

thank god we get points for other things in the licence criteria then


Fans forum tomorrow.....I bet I am looking forward to it more than the club officials. I have a list of questions regarding marketing and attendance.......should be a bloodbath (if big mac gets hold of me)

I cannot ever see Harlequins getting a big fan base, it would be great if they did but I feel it is unlikely.

I just don't think RL will kick off in London, how long has there been a club there? 20-30 years?

Not saying I wouldn't like it to, but It's just a pipe dream, and has been for a long time.

Will be worse if Nanyn gets hold of Listy

Why you so worried about quins? at least we're in the top 5, got home grown players throughout the squad, got a good stadium. Id worry about celtic and salford if i were you. By far the weakest franchises in SL.

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!

Listy can out run Nanyn, jeeze even I can

Are you struggling to read?

Because the people responding are the same as always and its been frankly done to death.

Lister & Gutterfax both have their own axes to grind and the other (predictable) comments are from people who will never acknowledge anything good about Quins or the game outside of the heartlands.

They seem to putting a decent team together on the pitch but their downfall has been their utter inconsistancy. If they get that sorted then there is no reason why they can't get 5000+ regularly, why not?

Indeed. I think this is another forgotten factor, we've been disappointing and not really doing much to encourage people to come back (the thrashing at the hands of Cas at home springs to mind) - a decent, half successful side and people will want to start returning to watch top class RL. We've been playing a more exciting brand of rugby on occasions - albeit not regularly.

And mostly away from home.

Apart from against Huddersfield