And that tells you no one wants to go to Hull on a bank holiday Monday...

As for your other "facts" care to produce evidence or is it more of your BS?

Why do you feel the need to compare yourselves to Quins constantly ? Is it short man syndrome ? Everyone knows that Quins are not the benchmark for Super League, so, as you like comparisons, lets compare the HKR experiment to other clubs shall we.

Quins away games since 2008


2008 2008 2009 2010 2011 Ave

Wigan 11453 14977 18605 15012
Leeds 14557 13912 12684 14350 13876
Hull FC 13313 12269 15592 13965 13785
Wolves 7444 11678 11506 10209
Bradford 8428 7813 7153 12354 8937
Les Cats 15000 6225 8324 6152 8925
Saints 8533 9359 10399 6050 8585
=#0000BFHull KR 8084 8284 7874 7612 7139 7799
Tigers 6268 7049 5862 6393
Giants 4176 6356 5336 5289
Wakey 5016 5079 4371 5412 4970
Salford 3367 2672 3020
Crusaders 3009 1122 2066


So in reality you could argue that the HKR experiment has failed, or is at least failing, as 1) its hard core support (assumed to be the ones that turn up v Quins) has fallen year on year since 2008 2) its average attendance v Quins in the last 4 years is nothing to write home about compared to the bigger more glamorous clubs 3) its non England qualified playing staff has increased year on year.

The experiment has had 100 years plus to flourish but has failed and I ask the question, isnt it time that Rovers finally bit the bullet and accept they are never going to be as big as Leeds or Wigan or dare I say Hull FC ? If it makes you feel better to comapre yourselves to Quins then fair enough but that just papers over the cracks in the HKR experiment.

Oh, and as one of the 20+ who bothered to turn up, I would like to say how I enjoyed the match, the HKR fans in general were excellent (not the head bangers as the taxi driver suggested) and despite defeat a great day out was had.

Are you being serious?

TWENTY??

Well done to the 20 loyal fans of Quins and thanks for making the big effort to get to the game.

As fro PC plum it was actually our highest crowd against Quins for 3 years despite have the worse team in 3 years. Go figure! Looking at those figures it seems Quins are even more on the nose for most clubs this year than last.

Can we rename Quins 'the London Experiment'? It does sound cool

Hmm, reckon at least 800 or 900 people from Leeds would have been happy to spend their day in Hull yesterday if the fixtures had worked that way.

So Fulcrubronquins did not give away thousands of free tickets for the Cas home game then?

Did they?

I was told (by a friend that I believe and trust) that the Experiment gave away something like 4000 free tickets, but the crowd was only about 4400+ (IIRC), which, as I said earlier, means that a lot of people in the capital were given a free ticket but even that wasn't enough to tempt them there.

Re our crowd yesterday, I guarantee that the following teams would have had less in the exact same scenario: Cas, Wakey, Salford, Crusaders, + clubs like Huddersfield and Catalans would have had a similar crowd to us. Therefore, if we're a failing 'experiment' (a club with our history is anything but an experiment IMO) should be kicked out of SL, then so should all the preceding clubs.

I gave up there

I guess their only option now is to start offering people cash incentives to go?!

There were 2500 pairs of tickets available....I believe about 1000 pairs were claimed. Don't see why you are preoCcupied with it roofs.....they have no fans, they know it, the rfl know it and sky know it.......they will still be one of the first names on the list for three more years.
Great innit
Any updates on who is registered/deregistered in east hull this week btw

I'd consider going if they gave me a free ticket, 2 free beers, a light meal and £30 cash.

So Big Grahame owes me an apology then because the 'thousands of unclaimed free tickets' story was pretty much correct then.



What annoys me is the fact that London are (and everyone knows it) guaranteed a lifetime franchise. IMO they shouldn't be and should be treated exactly the same as everyone else.

Nothing wrong with our registering / deregistering policy - we don't make the rules.

Are you calling Roofs (most trusted mate) a liar?

Hey Jet Black, when you said Gutterfax is taking a break, did you mean he's been banned?

No, because that means then that 3000 were unclaimed, I thought I'd been told 4000 but I may have got it slightly wrong.

Im shocked

you mean put through the same franchise criteria as every other club wishing to apply? quins get marked down for crowds. hkr get marked down on ground, locality to other clubs, probably amount of none british qualified players and also not getting the required average of 10k. is that what annoys you?

Yep. He had a bit of an episode after putting up with the nrl nazis for so long. He got spanked and few days in the cooler........no biggie though, the break will do him good

Me too.

You're on a temporary ban. What exactly do you think publicly flouting that with a new account is going to achieve? A reduction in the sentence for good behaviour?

Guess again

Did they decide to ban you on principle GF?