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| Quote ="gutterfax"Agreed. We should be booted out straight away for a team nearer the M62. If the RFL won't act immediately, every SL club should move their games at Home against Quins to a Friday night to further inconvenience their already small travelling support.
I would suggest that you get out your Atlas buddy. Including Scotland and France, Harlequins RL fans are looking at 9,500 miles of travel a season if they wanted to go to every away game. Add into that the the railway system in the north usually involves a last train leaving for London at about 8pm and you then have additional costs for overnight stays etc........
I have started running coaches for the club and we took 300 to Wales and Wakey reckon we brought the most they'd ever seen two weeks ago. The key thing is Friday nights are impossible as it would involve days off work, getting back to London at about 3am and then another 1 or 2 hours trying to get home via the night bus network.
As someone has posted on here, you have 4 "LONG" trips a season if you go to MM, France, Wales and London, whilst the nearest away game for us is Crusaders 161 miles. I have mates who travel over 72 miles to HOME games FFS.......
Oh and when it comes to Londons population, it's 8,000,000 people with a lot more on offer in the way of things to do and other attractions on offer.
We don't rely on away support for our pi55 poor home gates so why this preoccupation with travelling fans? In fact, why are people outside of the clubs own fanbase and management even worried about our home crowds?'"
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| Quote ="odemwingie"Because part of the thread is about Harlequins crowd, there was a discussion about it. I am not willing to discuss with people who throw our insults though.'"
I didn't know it was your insult. 
Not arguing....just pointing out that Friday games are impossible for London fans to attend, we are trying to get an away trip thing going and that we cover 9,500 miles + a year following our team.
At home, the gates are unacceptable and I have said as much many times to the club and on here,,,,,,,but to slag us off for not taking time of work and either spending money on a hotel or getting home at essentially 4.30am, just to attend a Wigan game ona Friday night is just crass and childish ([size=59and another example of anti-expansionist drivel posted by some Widnes fans mascquerading as wigan fans to watch superleague)[/size | | | |
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| Quote ="gutterfax"I didn't know it was your insult.
Not arguing....just pointing out that Friday games are impossible for London fans to attend, we are trying to get an away trip thing going and that we cover 9,500 miles + a year following our team.
At home, the gates are unacceptable and I have said as much many times to the club and on here,,,,,,,but to slag us off for not taking time of work and either spending money on a hotel or getting home at essentially 4.30am, just to attend a Wigan game ona Friday night is just crass and childish ([size=59and another example of anti-expansionist drivel posted by some Widnes fans mascquerading as wigan fans to watch superleague)[/size'"
I meant too say out insults 
I am not concerned about your away support, I said the other day I respect fans who travel but yes your home support is not good enough. | | |
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| Quote ="odemwingie"I meant too say out insults
I am not concerned about your away support, I said the other day I respect fans who travel but yes your home support is not good enough.'"
He's already said more than once that their home support is poor. RL has been around the capital for a while, but not at the same place, so any attempt to increase local interest will only really work once they find a ground to stick with. You need to remember that down here RL is almost unheard of. There is nothing like a hundred years of history, no heroes to follow in the footsteps, no attraction to new speccies to get them away from wendyball and yawnion. The London away support will always be poor, but I for one hope they can slowly increase their fan base, and be a success. | | |
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| Quote ="Smooth Stu"He's already said more than once that their home support is poor. RL has been around the capital for a while, but not at the same place, so any attempt to increase local interest will only really work once they find a ground to stick with. You need to remember that down here RL is almost unheard of. There is nothing like a hundred years of history, no heroes to follow in the footsteps, no attraction to new speccies to get them away from wendyball and yawnion. The London away support will always be poor, but I for one hope they can slowly increase their fan base, and be a success.'"
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| Quote ="wiganrlforever"Unfortunley I cannot see it happening'"
We've been playing at our current location for 3 seasons. What do you expect? You have had x number of years in your current guise at locations not dissimilar. We have been shunted all over the place and finally found a realistic solution that we can call home. People bring it up all the time, RL has been in London 30 years and gone nowhere etc, but the fact is we have had no consistency whatsoever. Why have you had the chance of 100+ years to develop and we cannot? Evans transformed Harlequins RU from what we effectively are today into a dominate force in world Rugby Union. Nothing suggests that he cannot do the same for us. | | | |
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