Why not?

surely most of the sudden increase in the fan base would have come from Bradford ? or am I talking out of my rear end again ?

So you are saying that Keighley were sustainable because the majority of their fanbase was made up of kids? Right.

Their "fans" quickly went back to Bradford when "Bull Mania" started too.

Well am not sure how big Keighley is in terms of population, so hard to say really...

Yes, because it's on their doorstep. They wouldn't have to travel over 3hrs for every away game, like we do.

What I meant was that a lot of kids want to watch SL rugby. This is evidence at Rovers. Before SL our fanbase was (I would say) predominately adult, but since promotion to SL you now see a lot of young people wearing our shirts and supporting the club. If Keighley had been granted an SL place they would have built on the big fanbase that they had in the second tier, and not lost a lot of kids to the Bradford bandwaggon.
Put it this way, they brought around 2000 to Craven Park for a Friday night game. Quins on a Sunday afternoon bring about 1/10 that.

In that case then they would have been more valuable to SL - if they took 2000 to Bradford, Leeds, Cas, Huddersfield and Wakefield (at say £12 each on average) that's £24,000 they would have contributed to the income of each club.

Because part of the terms of Sky's advent of the Super League was to have a London club in it. What would be the point of Sky/RFL creating a new Super League, if it was just gonna be full of M62 clubs? They could have just shown the league that was there beforehand.

That isn't exclusive to Hull KR, the same could be said for any club in this era.

(There is no way I am having that Keighley took 2000 to Hull on a Friday night unless a non-Hull KR supporter verifies this claim

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That isn't value to SL is it then, its value to a teams coffers for a tiny proportion of their overall income during the season.

2,000 is an unrealistic figure. The tiniest amount of income that would bring to the clubs, is nothing compared to the loss of sponsors and TV income that would be lost to the game, if it was solely M62.

What?!!

It was embarrassing - they outnumbered us by 2-1 on our own ground, what the hell would I make this up?!

Still not having it. Keighley struggled to get more than 5000 at home, never mind 2000 away.

No they wouldn't.

It was Good Friday (traditionally a good day for crowds)
Keighley needed to win to make sure of the Second Division title (IIRC)

Honestly, they filled a large part of our East Stand, like I said there's no reason for me to lie about it.

OK well you didn't mention it was Good Friday or paint that scenario, I suppose that is semi-feasible.

Oh yeah I forgot those details....

Stunned.....a RL paper paints London RL in a positive light and the HKA Massive are all over it like a rash



Some highlights so far;

still waiting for the proof of these payments...

Unlike East Hull eh...teeming with young local lads that team of yours.



Where would this million come from? No London club in SL...no uncle rupert paying pocket money...

why? Because our attendances are worse than they were as the Broncos? They aren't! Because we went bust as the Broncos, but are debt free as Quins RL? Because as the Broncos we were not regularly mistaken for an american football team....


There is no evidence that where we are, what we are called or who we ground share with makes any difference to the success of the club.
Failure to market itself on the other hand is patently obvious



and the other bloke who ran in 4 tries in an England shirt....we had a player in the England 4 nations Squad...hot many did HKA or Wakey have...the've been around a lot longer than us......Oh, by the way Katie.....50 posts and you still believe what you read on these boards...you'll fit in nicely

Did people used to mistake London Broncos for an American football team?

One question.


Why?

Just doesn't make sense - American football teams tend to draw crowds.

That was going to be my next line

Because the club failed miserably to market themselves.

Really.....The Monarchs went well for a while.......but then they went, as did the rest of that league....

you 2 are just like abbot and costello except without the funny bits



PHIPPS.....If you assertain that Harlequins standard of RL is too bad for you to contemplate actually attending a game and roofs, if your principles continue to prevent you from venturing any farther south than the other side of the Humber bridge why don't you stop posting on a subject which neither of you know anything?
F()ckin' trolls

to be fair tho' not many Londoners know much about the Quins ! the publicity & marketing strategies seem abysmal according to my mates in the south

plus,it costs money to cross the Humber Bridge and we all know about Yorkshiremen & short arms !

That's why the M18 was built, to avoid the tolls!

Myth 5: There would have been no SL without London
Myth 6: There would be less sponsorship in SL without Quins