What about Wembley? Just get yourself to the Stoop for Quins home games and support your local pro RL team. It takes max. an hour from Barnet if you go round the M25. I live north of Hemel and I do it in 50 mins by car and 1.5hrs by train.

it was a joke





25 miles local

yes. 25 miles is local everywhere else but in the minds of British people. And its way more than 25 miles if you go round the M25. Its 40 miles each way for me, and ive never found it a problem. There's about 15 lanes round by Heathrow now!

Crowds are not the only measure of success. Quis have a good team and loads of development is going on their. Maybe not many are going but at least with its presence people know our game exists in london therefore its profile is better for it.

One thing is sure, crowds wont increase if they are removed from SL.

I might be wrong but I seem to recall Quins RU crowds were poor 10 or so years ago? Apologies if im wrong their but thats my recollection? So were Huddersfields. The kids who have started playing in London are the next generation of fans but as of yet they are not the ones who decide if they can go.

But a lot of our fan base isn't even based locally!

I and many others travel from Reading, we've got some from Slough, Bracknell, Oxford....the list goes on.

We're just Rugby League fans in the south and we support our local team. Maybe we could tempt some more exiles to come regularly and convert them

yeah im a warriquins fan

Which was one of the reasons you were given a licence

You either have a massive catchment or you dont

Not having a ' go ' but you cant have it both ways

Might get shot down but I have seen some green shoots of renewal at Quins. Some aus/kiwi voices returning/ More kids and average age reducing in our core support.The sport deserves a london fan base as fanatical as the M62 corridor.

M62 M1 M25 corridor sounds a little better to me

Why people moan about where they sit when at ALL the home games so far this year we have had away supporters in front of us and we are on the half way line!!

very good point, they are the next generation and when they are old enough to travel on their own and have disposible income then quins will be better for it.

a question for quins supporters do juniors in the local amatuer clubs get cheap/free tickets?

3,000 at Crusaders, off you go...

Not bad that yeah? Early doors and they haven't won a match so i think 3,009 is respectable.

Fulham/London/Quins formed - 1980,london population = (2007 est) 7,556,900


Celtic Crusaders formed - 2005,Bridgend population = (2007 est) 39,205

hmmm............not really a fair comparison

Better than expected for the visit of Quins.

Only problem is, it doesn't matter if you have 17 Welshman playing in a state of the art stadium, if they don't start winning then they will very quickly drop off.

I think its a confidence thing at the moment. They have a decent squad and a great coach but their early enthusiasm has gone and the close defeats have affected their confidence.

At least they've got Wigan to look forward to next week.

hence the wink

better than Quins, and thats with much shorter history and much much smaller population to draw from, and worse SL form this season

yet more evidence that London/Quins just haven't promoted themselves properly all these years

Yes, that's it - reduce the cost of season tickets (who knows what long term damage that will do) and continue to rely on away support.

Well done, you!

So reducing the ST prices once in the last 20 years is the answer



Nowt to do with the product on the pitch then that is bringing in healthy numbers of home supporters in

Oh come on, they can't give Huddersfield any credit, your crowds are always boosted by away support and you win because of dodgy refs.

be quiet ,fool !

Surley the media in the south of England is not much help to the Quins cause.

For a major competition like super league their attendance is so poor, there isnt much point in changing what they have, they need to have sustainability and a massive marketing campaign! London is vital!

Where does the money come from for that?

A very good point, Im sure the club is bound to have money for that kind of thing. I suppose they need higher attendances to bring in the money for a marketing campaign..

Do Quins get much coverage in the london media?

So you've used an entire region for the population targeted by Harlequins, and a town for the population targeted by Celtic Crusaders?

Yeah, fair comparison.

Population of Twickenham (Quins) vs Population of Bridgend:
39,750 vs 39,429

Or...

Population of London Borough of Richmond (Quins) vs Population of the County Borough of Bridgend (Celtic):
180,000 vs 133,900.

Or...

Population of West London (Quins) vs Population of South Wales (Celtic):
1.6m vs 2.1m

The differences between South Wales and London is that London has a much denser population vs area. The original club may have been formed in 1980, but the fact is they have moved continuously throughout this time and such have pretty much had to start again each time. Quins were pretty much started at the same time as Celtic.