You find it funny to poke fun at someone that can't afford to travel to games anymore? I thought more of you tbh.

5 Aussies, 3 locals who ended up spending our money in China town today because we couldnt get seats to a game that had under 4k on the gate.

And you can seriously tell me this club is going places?

another non return...

Thats right, Rugby league is more foreign to melbourne that it is in london.

However, you will see things changing on this front with the development of their junior programmes and NYC team containing locals.

What does this mean?



Thank you.

from [url=http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,26756144-23214,00.htmlMelbourne Storn tear through Harlequins 34-10 in London trial[/url

Is the purpose of this game to try and attract London's Aussie ex-pats? If so, that's just totally bizarre considering this has already been tried in the London Broncos days and failed, and presumably the Aussies already know about the club and aren't interested in watching weekly. Even if they were attracted and came regularly, it wouldn't really gain anything for your club, it would just be an artificial inflation of support for a brief period. I still don't understand why this game is played and allowed to interrupt the Super League season, or why you want to play it. To be honest, it just turns your club into a bit of a joke.

Let's be honest here...I know little or nothing about Rugby League and even less about Australian sporting preferences....but 3,600 is a disgrace....
Polish the turd all you like but guess what you are left with

Is it an illness?

I suspect it was to do with the two paras before

[iHarlequins coach Brian McDermott was satisfied with the way his younger players stepped into the void.

“Without getting too excited I thought they were pretty good,” McDermott said. [/i

“We've got some structures and systems in place as well as we look for what the individual can do and I think that lot kept the integrity about what we did today.”

Maybe he was referring to the systems and structures at the club which are nurturing and developing players to play first grade. SO they can assess individuals in a major game scenario. And "that lot" were perhaps the youngsters he was referring to.

That's how I read it all on first glance.

Didn't enjoy the game. The conditions didn't help. And the fact the Jumbox pie stall was closed was a disgrace.

These days it depresses me to read our boards!

I sometimes wonder if this is a haunt of depressives anonymus!
How odd for our kids to play St Mary's one week and the Storm the next? Keep the faith. It is going to be an odd season so prepare for another roller-coaster ride ups and downs ( a lot on here will prefer the downs).

Why couldnt you get tickets? If it was pay on the gate.

I wonder if those 12,500 were made aware of the yesterdays fixture.

I'd love to see the reaction of those working on the gate, asking for 8 tickets next to each other. I remember in days gone by they couldn't scramble a single ticket together for the East Stand claiming it was sold out, yet it was over half empty

You couldnt buy anything more then a single ticket online before the game. How is that anyway to encourage fans to come to the game?

This coupled with the news that there was only 1 stand open, why would I bring friends down to an embarrasement like this? I even had one poster suggest that all 8 of us buy single seats and sit in different areas. Great day out with friends while I look at the unused 12,000 seats by myself.

For a club struggling to put numbers through the gate, they make it near impossible to buy a seat in a stadium over 3/4's empty. No matter the results on the field, marketing, pr and press they get, making it impossible to buy tickets is not going to win you any fans. I would use the word amature, however I know of amature sports clubs that are have better operations, that would be an insult to them.

I know I shouldn't laugh.

Hindy's right see may earlier account of paying on the gate! Who would want to come again? Solution for the future is make all the seats unallocated or at least just reserve the middle section only.

why is it so hard to buy a ticket if the union team can manage it?

I concur.

I have to say I found the whole of yesterday's experience really flat. There was absolutely no atmosphere, the game was played in virtual silence. Positives - Ronnie's pre match interviews with Cameron Smith and Billy Slater, plus Will Sharp getting another good try, and Ben Bolger continuing to impress.

Well done Skolars for showing that it is possible for a rugby league team to have not one but TWO shirts available to buy!!

I really like the Skolars away kit, it is classy and unlike any other league shirt I have seen. How difficult is it to get a kit out for Xmas let alone March!

I totally agree about their away kit - it's fab.

What colour is it? I saw a drawing of it posted on here last month that made it look like beige with narrow white hoops. I'm assuming that in the flesh it'smore gold or bronze or something.

I would say light gold/bronze and white hoops it sounds hideous but it really works. I think you will find pics on skolars.com. I will certainly get round to spalshing £35 on it, the home kit however looks
like a poor mans South Sydney shirt.