....posters on the Network Rail system and a viral campaign that...well, as far as I can make out, didn't get viewed by many people other than EXISTING FANS



Catalans (2,971), Huddersfield (2,800) and Salford (2,663) up next.......

So, as radical as this may seem....why not sell tickets to a St Patricks Day Bash (salford game March 14th...1st home game after storm) at the Storm game? £5 a ticket, cash sales only...........Irish Bands, Guinness Promotions etc etc....

I applaud the efforts being made by the marketing team, but I believe 5,000 oyster card holders are about as much use as a chocolate teapot and a complete waste of money. Are they a good use of funds...can they be monitored/assessed for effectiveness.....will they add 1 fan to a gate? Mmmm...let's see.

If you target a game to run a loss (financial) at, then you target a game we might win and Salford looks increasingly like our first chance of competition points this year.

You should be trying to attract the massive Australian community in London to your home games not the Irish. Guinness? Most people stopped drinking that back in the late 1980's!!

As for your idea about getting Irish bands to your ground, I think Westlife, U2 and Stiff Little Fingers are all busy

Probably the worst post ever.

Gutterfax's post or my reply?

Why would you want to try and get the Irish along? You play Rugby League not hurling or Gaelic football! More Australians are into Rugby League than the Irish are. London is full of Australians. Try and attract them to your games maybe?

I stand by my comments about Guinness

Your reply. Every ignorant Northener with no idea about anything trots out the Australian line.

Your comments about Guinness are so wide of the mark its funny, but then I suppose its normal for you.

But the Irish community in London tend to be at their strongest in the North West? And your club is...South West? And of course they are more into Union than league...hence the union side 'London Irish'? I would also suggest Gaelic football is more popular with the Irish community than Rugby League. So with respect it looks like the OP doesnt really have much of an idea about who to target. Sure, other people like St Paddys day. But I'm not sure why they would want to spend it at Twickenham Stoop.

We have Australians living not far from me and they are all massive league fans. It's bound to be the same in London.

What are you rambling on about? Where has the OP mentioned anything to do with the Irish community? Do you think all of the people celebrating St Patricks day in bars around England are Irish? Well done for spectacularly missing the point.

I have already said other nationalities like St Paddys day. but then again Australia day is also popular with other people than Australians. But it's fair to say the MAJORITY of people who celebrate St Patricks day are Irish or at least have Irish ancestry.

You are missing my point I think. To get bigger crowds to your place you need to target the people that would be most likely to come back again. Selling Guinness at 50p off a pint, blowing up some green balloons and having a few people riverdancing on the pitch isn't going to bring them back again is it?

Keep digging. You really have no idea at all do you? If I was you, I would avoid trying to criticize the ideas of those who call marketing their profession. You honestly think that Australia Day is anywhere near as popular as St Patricks Day with non-Australias?

The majority of people who celebrate St Patricks day are Irish? PMSL. Absolutely priceless.



Nope, but we need to try things to get them there in the 1st place, especially those that have been before. Your original idea with regards to Australians has been done to death and does not work, fact. Keeping them there is the problem.

Please reassure me that the OP's profession isn't marketing??!! Does he work for Harlequins RL? That would probably explain why hardly anyone turns up to your home games!!

So let me get this right.....you think that the majority of people who celebrate St Patricks day AREN'T Irish???!!! So what are they? Mexican? Nigerian? Welsh? South African?

You get funnier and funnier!!

Oh dear.

You've clearly never been to a pub on St Patricks Day.

You do know where London Irish play their home games don't you?
You do know where they played their home games for a short period before this don't you?
You do know where their home ground was before all of these moves don't you?
You do also know where the London Irish Amateur RFC club play their home games don't you?

Small clue, the answers are not North London.

oh dear indeed.

Quote ="Iolo"So let me get this right.....you think that the majority of people who celebrate St Patricks day AREN'T Irish???!!! So what are they? Mexican? '" Yup: www.tomzap.com/patrick2.html

Quote ="Iolo"So let me get this right.....you think that the majority of people who celebrate St Patricks day AREN'T Irish???!!! So what are they? Mexican? '" Yup: www.tomzap.com/patrick2.html

I know from reading An Phoblacht that the republican Irish (or the guy who wrote the article) are know fans of the 15 a side game

Go away. Your ignorance of everything is only exceeded by your inability to grasp my original point. The fact that Listy now owns you should be enough to make you retreat from your keyboard.....or even better, Burn it

Yeah, we all drink cider here.

"Know" fans?
Has the standard of education at Troll Comprehensive got that bad?

As for [url=http://www.anphoblacht.com/An Poblacht[/url not being into Rugby Union, I think you will find that you are referring to rules 21 or 27 of the GAA charter.
21 stated that membership of the GAA was denied to anyone serving in the British forces (Instituted in 1886/amended in 2001)
27 stated that "Any member of the association who plays or encourages in any way rugby, football, hockey or any imported game which is calculated to injuriously affect our national pastimes, is suspended from the association"...this was removed in 1971.

By the way, if you read An Poblacht you need your head examining.....

It was the mouthpiece for the Provos and since the troubles ended has tried to re-position itself as a political paper. Have no doubt...the cover fee that used to be paid for it paid for bullets.....it is a disgusting rag........

Loads of Aussies are aware of Quins, they simply don't care.
Not all Aussies like rugby in the same way not all English people like football.
The Irish love their Rugby (union) so why not tempt them over to the darkside

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Why don't we try and tempt all the Italians too ?
maybe the Lebanese. I think badgering the Aussies now is a waste of time, they simply don't want to watch a lower class of rugby (By that i mean SL not Quins)

Also the Aussies. Kiwis and Saffies may work in London but a lot of weekends they are off to different places - weekends away in Europe or in the UK. I know I have worked with a few.

True, and I've had a few...

Did I just say that?

Ignorance is bliss

Maybe for him, but it's agony for us

The Oyster card thing is a complete waste of time. 5000 random Londoners?!? I go into pubs in Harpenden / Hemel and there are S*racens posters in loads of them. There was a huge roadside S*racens ad poster by the train station in Berkhamsted. They dont own their own stadium and they have no fans, but they no what they are doing and it works. We dont have clue.