Joined: Dec 09 2001 Posts: 8840 Location: South [and now West ]of the M62 by 500 miles
belgianxiii wrote: Next year you need to be averaging over 4k and gaining another k in attendence the following year. You've had 4 years as the quinz now, time to get a better crowd.
That's not to say that it is your fault, the fans' fault or that your board is not looking into it (I know they are).
Could not agree more about growth, there are numerous reasons/excuses behind the lack of growth and all of them must now be stopped and learnt from. The club in various guises have made incredibly stupid decisions which have alienated what in truth is a fairly neutral fan base towards the sport in London.
The club have to get the sport into the psyche of enough people to build a loyalty element, each and every alteration to playing days, seating arrangements even burger vans and beer prices will in some way alienate a floating supporter into doing something else with his/her time and money.
There is a balance to be struck between being a club in business and being a club built for and with the fans and the community it serves. If Quins cannot get it right this time around, then the idea of a top flight club in London needs to be looked at very seriously.
Sarcasm helps keep you from telling people what you really think of them.
Joined: Jan 23 2006 Posts: 7392 Location: Looking for a coach that can coach
Quote:Just for the record anything under 5,000 paying home spectators is poor in my opinion , what do you think is a reasonable fan base to expect a top grade RL club to attract after 20 odd years ?
Based on your criteria of 5000 home paying spectators that could rule out Quins, Reds, Celtic, Cas, Wakey in recent times HKR, Hudds, Wire at Wilderspool.......
So who are you proposing forms the league with Wigan and Leeds?
What's the relevance of 20 odd years? Should Cas have a crowd that is 5 x the size of Quins based on their 100 years of existence?
Joined: Dec 09 2001 Posts: 8840 Location: South [and now West ]of the M62 by 500 miles
gutterfax wrote: <snip>
You ruin whatever valid points are to be made by simply being abusive mate.
Never forget that a large proportion of current Quins supporters are Northern born and bred...........................................if I was a Yorkshireman looking to relocate down South for work I would think twice about coming to the Stoop and supporting the local club if I thought I was to be treated every time as a flat capped whippet botherer.
Sarcasm helps keep you from telling people what you really think of them.
Joined: Mar 09 2004 Posts: 33944 Location: watching out for low flying geese
Big Graeme wrote:You think the club has wanted to move everytime? In the past we've been at the mercy of soccer clubs, they'd have us for a couple of years but as soon as things got a bit sticky for them we'd get the elbow, now the club has a stable base we get whinged at for that.
In reverse order
Not whingeing , just joining in a discussion on the internet
Is this base any more stable than any other base before ?
At the mercy of a landlord is always dodgy , ask W1g4n , or even ourselves at Leigh , in a nice shiny stadium not owned but run by the council , are we better off in it than having a lease at Hilton Park ?
No
kcab sfrawdder
Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity
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SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done But he with a chuckle replied That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done, and he did it!
Joined: Aug 13 2003 Posts: 20966 Location: The Shaky Isles
Homer wrote:<snipe>
Didn't break the AUP did I?
dally messenger wrote:was watching an nfl doco. on one of their teams and they used the term bomb to describe those long high passes from quaterback to running back and i think gibson took that idea, realized you cant throw the ball forward in RL and adapted it to a "bomb" kick we have
eels fan wrote:You poor poor obsessed fat ex vichyballin potato thieving stoaway.
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Joined: Mar 09 2004 Posts: 33944 Location: watching out for low flying geese
wire-quin wrote:Based on your criteria of 5000 home paying spectators that could rule out Quins, Reds, Celtic, Cas, Wakey in recent times HKR, Hudds, Wire at Wilderspool.......
So who are you proposing forms the league with Wigan and Leeds?
What's the relevance of 20 odd years? Should Cas have a crowd that is 5 x the size of Quins based on their 100 years of existence?
My opinion not my ' criteria ' , I dont have a criteria for entrance to SL , never have had , never will have
Why have you forgotten about Bradford,Saints and Hull ?
When has HKR's SL attendances been below my supposed criteria ?
Or Cas,s ?
You seem to think I am looking for an argument , I am not
I mentioned 20 years quite simply because that is a reasonable amount of time to have found somewhere to call home and to have built up a reasonable fan base
Many of your fans cite constantly moving as the reason this has not happened , I agree , so surely the aim should be to find somewhere that you can call home and yet I have read on here that some are suggesting you move again
kcab sfrawdder
Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity
Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike
SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done But he with a chuckle replied That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done, and he did it!
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