... I am going to start watching football again.

I don't mind losing and losing by alot if we have a young team out on the park (like vs Leeds the first year we were Quins). But they have been depressingly bad at home for 6 or so games.

Plus
- the programme has gone bad so bad I have stopped buying it.
- why the hell is Tony Clubb playing for the reserves?????? MoM for them this week.

PS I am sure I will end up getting a season ticket and cheering them on but it has been so depressing...

Well you aren't alone in your thoughts, I've said as soon as they said Tony played in the reserves that he shouldnt be there.
Someone said punishment, punishment for what? Something must of happened in training, as against Salford he was one of the pick out of a load of rubbish.
Alot more deserved to be dropped before him.
iirc, Tony would play left ? The position most of Hull's tries came from.
This what happens when you drop someone who generally is quite stong in tackles, he misses a few but he's quite strong when he tries, and thats what Tony gives to our team, heart. Just like Louis and Rob.
We've been playing boring rugby since the start of the year, bar a few, Warrington for example.
We won the first games we played boring.
If we can't win games, at least try and keep home support up? Keep the crowd a little entertained, as it's getting boring and repetive, we all know what happens when we get the ball, when Dorn gets the ball on the opposition 40 on the last tackle, or on any tackle, we all know what's going to happen. So do the opposition now.
It's stupid. ;/

If all I did was to turn up at 2.45 and leave at 4.40, and not go into the bar to have a drink & chat with fellow fans, I wouldn't bother driving the 70 miles or so to see the standard of rugby we are currently witnessing!

When I first started watching the Broncos, a dozen or so years ago, it wasn't to see them, it was to see the opposing teams (Leeds and Wigan initially) whom I'd seen and admired on TV. Somehow these initial contacts "matured" into becoming a Broncos/QuinsRL fan.

So, if we're really so bad, and at present I agree we are, I suppose that I could just go back to square one, revert to being a rugby league fan rather than a QuinsRL fan, be selective on which games I go to at the Stoop, and start enjoying watching the game again.

Plenty of the matches shown on Sky are well worth the subscription and very few of them involve QuinsRL.

NOTHING would make me start watching soccer.

But if we played home games on a Sunday you could do both



Sorry couldn't resist it

Even after the west ham millwall game

Everyone is surprised Irons and Lions had a tear up

That is what i've been saying.

four years apart and no one expected that. it was completely out of the blue

Whilst I'm frustrated (understatement) by Quins at present, I'm not going back to football. At least not full time.

Followed Reading for nearly ten years before finding TGG. I'd much rather sit in a friendly family atmosphere with my pint, having paid £15 to get in and enjoy an entertaining fast paced, honest sport. Not £30 to hear nothing but swearing, racism and abuse, being herded into a concrete tunnel to have a drink before returning to see a 6-footer go down crying when someone treads on his little toe.

Went with my 'faction' to see Reading v Birmingham in May and while it was a good day out, some of them were shocked at the behaviour of the Neanderthals around us. Took them to Quins v Bulls and they all commented on what a fantastic day out and sport it was and asked when they could come back.

Don't be silly, they don't actually touch eachother, they just fall over crying from the wind.

My point remains



RL really is a great sport and I kick myself that I didn't find it earlier.

Half a season of bad results and the not only do Quins fans stop watching their team, they watch an entirely different sport.

Perhaps this should be linked to the ongoing discussions about bums on seats.

I'm surprised anyone came back after 2004, although beer, continual staff changes, a love for the game and impractical optimism keeps me watching year after year.

We were reasonably well rewarded in 2005.

To be fair we won more games at the end of 2004 than the end of this season.

what is this strange thing called foooootbaaal you talk about?

never heard of it

Its a variation of 'wendy ball' where a lot of softies moan and shout at a ref if they don't get their own way! (Oh hang on that was Danny Brough....)

Its very hard and very frustrating following Harlequins RL when the results go this way, I certainly am not going ot give up on them though, even though my soccer team (no prizes for guessing who they are) have had a surprisingly good start to their season, I am most definitely a Quins fan first and foremost, used to have 2 season tickets at White Hart Lane as well, but Rugby League is my game now, can't see me going back now that I have experienced this sport. Even after the RL stops, I then become a New England Patriots fan and follow the NFL over soccer.

If Quins are getting you down, then look forward to the 4Nations, England at least have more than a 1 in 4 chance of winning that.

Keep the faith all

Dont worry mate. When we hear about our super duper squad for next season we will soon convice ourselves that we are top 4 material and settle down for the winter with no recall of what happened these last 3 months