That's disgraceful.

I arrived at Twickenham BR at around 12:30 ish and left by the "Event" gate at the right hand side (as you go out) of the station. At the time I saw 4 promotions girls, 2 running around trying to see if anyone qualified/wanted a special offer flyer and 2 who where more interested in discussing what they did and who they did it with the previous night, who were stood by the main entrance.

I stopped off at the "benches" outside the main entrance to have my sandwich & crisp lunch which took me around 10 minutes. The 2 girls running around were doing their best to pass out the flyers, to new arrivals whilst the other 2 (outside the main entrance) appeared to find it a chore to move from the spot they were stood to engage with anyone. During my 10 minute "lunch break" I was not once approached by the promo girls, but when I left towards the Stoop I was offered Sharks/Crusaders tickets by the spivs. When I said I was off to the Stoop they replied "I can do you a £10 deal for the game today, mate" which I politely declined.

As I've said previously with regards to the gate someone is being "economical" with the true attendance figure. And whilst the promotion was well intentioned, it wasn't from what I saw well executed.

I thought the point of this offer was trying to entice Union supporters? It ended up being a free for all. Hull fans were using them too.

That is class !!!.................the ticket touts offering deals for Quins RL games !!

Yeh that amazed me too, just before the super rugby fanzine I saw a tout saying "tickets for today's SL match" and noticed it was for our match. I thought he was just going to be trying to dupe unknowing union fans, as they could have come to the turnstile, paid £10 half of which going to charity!

One thing I didn't think id see for a long time was a tout at our games!


Who on here thought we saw a close and entertaining game at the stoop on Sunday, and who thought we watched a poor standard of rugby with (bar 20 minutes or so) no one wanting to win the game?

Particularly interested in the views of neutrals or newbys if any are on here?

How so - you had to show your Crusaders Sharks ticket to get a £10 ticket for our game.

I'm fairly sure just producing that leaflet at the ticket office got you in for £10. Could be wrong though.

do quins fans think that the stoop and the brand of harlequins is the future for your club and a london super league franchise as it seems crowds are just getting worse and not progressing, now im not having a go coz i really want a london team to be successfull and get the big crowds but surley these crowds must be very concerning for the future of the club.
and well done quins on a good youth system and bringing through some really good young players now and having less overseas players then most so well done

If touts are starting to sell tickets we must be on the up and the place to be!

Quote ="daftdad"If touts are starting to sell tickets we must be on the up and the place to be!'" Maybe we should recruit a couple of them as advisers for this job? www.league.quins.co.uk/vacancies/13298.php

Quote ="daftdad"If touts are starting to sell tickets we must be on the up and the place to be!'" Maybe we should recruit a couple of them as advisers for this job? www.league.quins.co.uk/vacancies/13298.php

As a Quins regular with a South African background I was quite surprised myself with the number of Sharks/Boks supporters at the Hull game. Just a shame we threw the game away. Must admit I thought I'd see many more Kiwi's at the Stoop than I did!

Buying my ticket, there was a couple of Shark's fans in front of me who were asked to produce their Twickenham tickets

Personally I'm less convinced now than I was five years ago, purely for that reason. But the only better option for "London RL" would be to have "our own ground" in which we are the sole ball sports club and have a secure favourable lease of some sort. Going back to squatting at football grounds or utilising track & field grounds is not the answer. The Stoop itself is ideal for Superleague rugby, but it might be better for us if it was in a different part of London.

[size=200If Harlequins RL had employed me in 2006 as marketing manager then we would be averaging 6,000 fans a game and that's a FACT![/size

...well, it's no less b0ll0x than that spouted by our last 2 CEO's and our last Marketing Manager



....I know it seems like it's all for nothing, but to walk away AGAIN would be pointless until they've spent some money at least trying to get fans.

GF how is that fact?

Clearly it isn't a fact as we know it didn't happen. It could, however, be a fact the GF's CV was thrown in the bin

re-read the post


I said it's no less fact than the tripe offerd up by the 2 CEO's and Marketing person the club have employed and lost.....

GF-If Harlequins RL had employed me in 2006 as marketing manager then we would be averaging 6,000 fans a game and that's a FACT!

Is this a figment of my imagination

May I suggest you read Michael O'Hare's excellent "Mythbusters" article in the May edition of Rugby League World. He outlines the issues of RL in the Capital and as a nation sport far better than any rant on a RLFANS thread could.

And the line afterwards...

....but hey, selective use of a quote has never been my thing



Listy...on the Hull fans using the "offer"...I believe we have 300+ hudds fans as members of our facebook site

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Selective use of quote







I thought you always talked bollox, big letters or not.

Fair enough....but whilst I've been talking b0ll0x the club have really made great strides towards self sufficiency through increased attendances, whilst my career has floundered....oh, hang on...it's the other way around

GF what would your CV contain that would win the club over as the preferred choice to lead the marketing dept?

I am willing to work for 20k a year