Joined: Mar 08 2002 Posts: 26578 Location: On the set of NEDS...
Ashulster wrote:A very good point, Im sure the club is bound to have money for that kind of thing.
Really? I'm pretty sure no club has the budget that it would need to do it any other way than steadily build a fan base.
Ashulster wrote:I suppose they need higher attendances to bring in the money for a marketing campaign..
Yup, pretty much.
Ashulster wrote:Do Quins get much coverage in the london media?
Nope, local Twickers paper gives resonable coverage, Metro does its bit but the Standard isn't and never has been on board.
Wellsy13 wrote: The differences between South Wales and London is that London has a much denser population vs area. The original club may have been formed in 1980, but the fact is they have moved continuously throughout this time and such have pretty much had to start again each time. Quins were pretty much started at the same time as Celtic.
Maximus Decimus wrote:Better than expected for the visit of Quins.
Only problem is, it doesn't matter if you have 17 Welshman playing in a state of the art stadium, if they don't start winning then they will very quickly drop off.
I think its a confidence thing at the moment. They have a decent squad and a great coach but their early enthusiasm has gone and the close defeats have affected their confidence.
At least they've got Wigan to look forward to next week.
spot on max. The body language of the players was painful.
Great set of fans the quins guys, a credit to rugby league. Two things: i apologise for my foul language (i was the gobby plymouth boy amongst you guys swearing at the ref and booing your kickers (worked once) and i'll see you all at the stoop for the second leg of the biggest derby in superleague!
Joined: Aug 13 2003 Posts: 20966 Location: The Shaky Isles
Attendance figures at Professional London Rugby League matches would be my chosen topic if I was ever to go on Mastermind. The reasons why London clubs have never managed to average more than 5,000 are many and well documented already, but in short.
The Media: They don't give a flying one...simple as that really.
The Name Changes: FulhamCrusaderBronquins.......
The Change of Addresses: The club probably spend more on re-directing mail than they do on Marketing.
Competition from other sports: Soccer and Union are the games that control most attention down here and that will always be the way.
Perception: Flat cap wearing whippet racing pigeon fanciers play League (and the BBC continue to enhance this perception with the commentary team on CC games)
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There are many more reasons, but I can't be bothered listing them. What I will say, is that there seems to be little or no marketing activity coming out of the club this year and that is very worrying. Yes, we are now seeing the fruits of many years labour with more cockneys in the squad and we are getting more competitive. We also have a great Game Day experience and the bands in the bars after the game are brilliant, but what we are not doing is letting anyone know about it.
The poster who earlier said that no resident of TW would be able to name 3 players was nearly right......they wouldn't even be able to name 1 and that's if they even knew we existed.
I don't know what the solution is, but I do fear for Harlequins Rugby League in 2015 if we still average less than 5,000 a game.
Joined: Mar 08 2002 Posts: 26578 Location: On the set of NEDS...
Jimmythecuckoo wrote:Did the club of the league dictate that though?
One of the few times during the season the Union club ask us to arrange a fixture around them (happens more at the business end of each codes season), they had a home Heineken cup fixture on the Sunday and wanted to maximise pitch recovery time.
Joined: Nov 27 2006 Posts: 398 Location: East Hull
GIANT DAZ wrote:be quiet ,fool !
Truth hurts
yfronts wrote:Lets all get given a million and another teams players and see how we go. How dare you Hull FC / Gateshead fans even have the nerve to show your faces is beyond me. Did you give Gateshead half a million when they re-formed ?
AlbertRosenfeld wrote:It is interesting how the Hull KR forum is invaded by certain minority of Hull FC supporters who are crude, abusive and stupid.
Stooper wrote:I've come on here to congratulate KR on a spirited performance and an unlucky result to find 5 threads of Hull fans gloating.
Rather sad if you ask me.
The Times Online wrote: Sean Long looks about as happy to be in a Hull shirt as a lifer awaiting execution.
Joined: Feb 07 2005 Posts: 4193 Location: Peterborough
Big Graeme wrote:One of the few times during the season the Union club ask us to arrange a fixture around them (happens more at the business end of each codes season), they had a home Heineken cup fixture on the Sunday and wanted to maximise pitch recovery time.
can't really be avoided then unless they could have changed the Celtic fixture round to have been away first.
I really think the Harlequins deal for RL really hasn't worked with regards to attendances. I went to Griffen Park a few times (I started going 2002, so I haven't counted any attendances before that if you played Griffen Park before then) and you seemed to get bigger crowds there than at the Stoop.
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can't really be avoided then unless they could have changed the Celtic fixture round to have been away first.
