good. im pleased about that. when we played each other there were some good games between the two of us. is good to have both uni's in south west london playing again. hopefully kingston can get a side going too.

If they had the games on the same day, one after another, perfect but unfortunately they've all been on the exact same time...

You could still have the other game on the big screen in the background. Then no-one has to miss anything!

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I was in the club yesterday discussing the measures that have been posted on here re. advertising the club and games. These have been taken away to be looked at. In the meantime polar panther would you like to come and collect a poster from the volunteer table for the cafe you mentioned and ask them to display it. Anyone who wants a poster for their workplace, local pub or anywhere else can also collect form the table. This covers two of the inputs immediately. Bear with the club, there is an awful lot going on behind the scenes which they are not able to openly discuss at the moment. Have faith in them. Everything will be evaluated and lessons learnt. On another issue of how to spead the name of Quins RL. Petra and I visited a very friendly pub called 'The Bloomsbury' in Staines Road, Twickers, just been refurbished and the landlady has agreed to show our games against Wigan and Catalan on SKY and will also supply free nibbles to anyone wearing their Quins tops. The tops are to encourage a game type atmosphere which hopefully will rub off on the locals and get them interested. If enough fans go along it could become a regular meeting place to watch games on a friday / saturday evening. Everyone has asked the club to get in the faces of the locals - this is a way we can all help to do it whilst enjoying the challenge.

The Bloomsbury is located handily for a short walf from Strawberry Hill and Fullwell stations and is also serviced by a number of buses, including the 110 and H22. [url=http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=514634&y=172739&z=0&sv=TW2+5BB&st=2&pc=TW2+5BB&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srfSTREETMAP[/url

On Friday, July 3rd, trains (32 mins) leaving waterloo at 18:13 18:35 18:43 and 19:05 will get you there in plenty of time.
The H22 bus runs from Hounslow every 12 to 15 minutes and the journey takes 15 minutes. The 110 runs every 20 minutes.

The club have really made an effort with this and I will be emailing the awaycrew list I have and putting it up on facebook. For those of us who can't make away games on a regular basis, this is an opportunity to get "our own pub" and I would urge you all to get down to the Bloomsbury on Friday 3rd July......

As the old saying goes......"use it or lose it"

would [url=http://www.rhcamra.org.uk/branchpubs/twickenham-the-bloomsbury00.htmlthis[/url be the one??

Looks nice.

Thats the one and it really is a very friendly place

Tup in Twickenham always showed live SL and had our shirts hanging on the walls

Look forward to buying you a pint and chatting about stuff..............

I'll be the fat lad in a tee shirt and Barca cap. Laura H from Supporters Direct will be about that weekend and I've asked here to pop along as well.

ok see you there, but mines a lime and soda don't drink beer.

That's great news! Fed up of trapsing round London to try and find a pub that will show League. Would also make a great change to watch some games with people who are interested, rather than the missus who seems to prefer reading the paper instead. Looks like a nice place...the CAMRA tag means real ale I'm guessing? Mmmmmm

just quins games or all the usual Friday and saturday games on sky ?

all games if enough interest but will put nibbles on for quins games

If I lived near I would be up for it

do the bear and ragged staff not show league snoopy?

Train to Victoria, to clapham, train to Strawbs......few beers, 11pm depart home at 1am......
If you were a true fan you'd be up for it


You're as bad as listy

Maybe us lot on the East side will get our own pub sorted one day. Theres enough of us I reckon, we're just a bit scattered about

Listy wouldn't like the eastend...too many people to disagree with

Was working on the Tup for the rearranged Catalans game - they said they would put a BBQ on if enough were going. As I am now going to the game anyone else care to run with this or are you going to use this new ruba a dub.

This is great, yes in a city the size of London we need a few spread out) but this is local gives us a focal point and more importantly will help spread the word. I for one will be making my way along .... never ever touch free nibbles though

I think another opportunity the club are missing out on, is the "Webb Elliss" (Weatherspoons Pub) in Twickenham.
On our matchdays, I have been asked by punters in the pub on several occasions, what match the Quins were playing as they didn't realise that there was rugby at the Stoop on that day.
I explained to them that it was Rugby league, so why not come down & give it a try & a few of them have.
When I have used the pub on Quins Union game days, the bar staff all wear Harlequins Team shirts to help promote the event.
I asked the Manageress on one of these days if the staff would be willing to wear our Rugby League Team Shirts on our home game days & she said that they would have no problem if the club donated them some shirts, but found out the sizes first, as the female staff all had to wear Large Size shirts irrespective of the persons size.
Just an idea, don't know if it will be of any help?

I thought this when in the pub the other day. It would be good if we could get a corner of the pub or something along those lines. The staff (they seem to have a high turnover there) always ask me too.

Also, I thought we missed a bit of a trick yesterday - handing out flyers for the match to the literally hundreads of Lions supporters, for £5 tickets would have been a winner IMO.

Are there any pubs in central London that cater for league? It would be great for there to be somewhere central for the mildly curious, ex-pat Aussies and relocated northerners to go meet up and chat about league.

Twickers is a bit of an effort to get to, it would be grand if there was somewhere on the tube map...

sorry

I had an idea for a marketing campaign if somebody's good with computer design (that means you Steve @ Code 13

). We seem to struggle to appeal to all of our target audiences all together (londoners, aussies and northerners in London). But an ad with say 5 or 6 pics of our players (either mug shots or in action) in individual boxes in a line with their name and home-town underneath it. Eg Tony Clubb, born Gravesend (or wherever!).....Louie Mcarthy Scarsbrook, born Isle of Dogs, London, Danny Orr born Castleford, W Yorks, Luke Dorn, Born ?, Australia etc. And a slogan above of Harlequins Rugby League London's team - Your team. Or something simlar/better. Would show that we're a serious club representing all RL fans and it can be weighted toward the London players to give us more local credibililty. Not sure what it would cost to put in papers, TNT etc. though.