A great start last year including their trouncing of us,they tailed off towards the end of the year. Squad more or less the same as last year and in Orr, Dorn, Randall and Purdham they have good skill players in the correct areas. I think they will push for the 8 but fall just short again.

1 Chris Melling - FB

2 Jon Wells - WG, FB

3 Tony Clubb - CE

4 Tony Howell - CE

5 Will Sharp - WG, CE

6 Luke Dorn (vc) - SO, FB

7 Danny Orr - SH

8 Karl Temata - PR

9 Chad Randall - HK

10 Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook - PR

11 Luke Williamson - SR

12 Chad Robinson - SR

13 Rob Purdham (c) - LF, SO

14 Oliver Wilkes - SR

15 Ben Kaye - HK

16 Matt James - SR

17 Danny Ward - PR

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19 Jason Golden - LF

20 Ben Jones-Bishop - FB

21 Luke Gale - SO, SH

22 Andy Ellis - HK

23 Ryan Esders - SR

24 Luke May - CE

25 Dave Williams - PR

26 Lamont Bryan - CE

27 Jamie O'Callaghan - WG

28 Ben Jones - PR

29 Adam Janowski - PR

should not be in SL in my opinion along with the crusaders, their attendances are shocking. bring back leigh and chemics. wont do better than last year 11th place finish IMO.

Leigh had the worst ever season in SL and were spouting rubbish about 10k plus crowds and their first game in SL drew less than 5000 at home. They brought absolutely nothing to the game on or off the pitch. They have a great stadium now, but that's not the be all and end all.

The Crusaders are a different matter and I worry for them but they've got the licence so see what happens this and next year.

london provide a lot more to the league than quite a few clubs but I'm not really seeing the development from joining quins which is disappointing.

Actually Halifax had the worst ever season in Super League when they finished the 2003 season with 0 points after having their single victory cancelled out by a 2-point deduction for financial irregularities.

Leigh managed a whopping 5 points by comparison.

I remembered that after I posted but what the hell, Leigh offered nothing at all the the league. What exactly would they provide now, new stadium aside?

No higher than 8th IMO...
Although Quinns can play some exciting rugby at times and can turn anybody over when in the mood...
I just hope come Feb the 7th we show no complacency when they come to the HJ...Unfancied teams just love to spoil the party,just ask Wigan 1st game last season(Wakey)...And us a few years ago 1st game V Salford...

they look a bit short on quality, for me they won't threaten the play offs.

Gareth Haggerty is a huge loss, literally.

They'll start like a house on fire, give somebody a good spanking along the way, hopefully not us this year then it'll all go wrong. Their fans don't seem overly keen on McDermott, so if they did start badly, he could find himself under pressure. It sort of looks a squad that lacks class, i'm sure they'll work hard, have good ethics, and in folk like Dorn always carry a threat, but sort of lack that moment of brilliance that decides games.

pretty strapped for cash, and agree that the link up with quins ru has not had the benefits that lots of folk down here had hoped. what is lacking is marketing and promotion. there is no lack of talent coming thru in the south, but it does need time for kids to realise that rl is a viable career, just the same as union. however, looking at the crowd at twickenham for the quins wasps match (over 76k) then there is still a good amount of work to do to convince the london public that quins rl can provide the entertainment, and the success that they crave

Can see 10th for Quins, they should have enough to finish above Salford and Celtic and possibly a few more.

It baffles me how they can get 10,000 for Aus V NZ, but only average 3,000 for Quins RL league games. As for Leigh in 2005 (as mentioned above) they weren't shy of the odd 3,000 attendance figure but peaked to 7,000 for games against us and Wigan.

Simples. The vast majority were Aussies and Kiwi's from the London area. Not Quinns RL supporters.

Harlequins RL actually remind me of us a few years back, a team studded with a few quality players surrounded by 'team players'. Managed to get a few playoff appearances in the past much like ourselves. Thankfully we have an amazing support home and away generally and crave success and will be expected to push on from last years challenge cup win whereas Harlequins RL need to get some good support drummed up from down south before they can progress to the same level. Some major signings for them should put them on the map, maybe a lockyer type signing, such as Johns did for us.

Where did you get that squad list from?

I totally disagree , I have recently moved down here and am now involved in the Quins Scholarship and the work going on down here is first class. It is easy to use attendances as a measure to if a club is successful or not but the clubs presence is key to all the development that is happening. The South has huge potential for supplying the home nations with playing talent and the youth playing down here has impressesd me no end and is equal and in some cases better than their Northern counterparts. The Quins are the top of a strong Southern pyramid and admittedly attendances are not great but I have every faith that they will grow with the club establishing itself at the Stoop. The recent record sponsorship to me highlights the clubs growing presence in the capital. I think we all need to stop knocking the hard work that goes on at the smaller clubs and remember that our Garden was not that green not so long ago!!!

Well said

Financially the club appears to be steadying the ship-Players such as Hill, Maclinden, Paul(high earners) have left and not been replaced. We brought in 2 Aussie second rowers last year who underperformed massively, hopefully they will offer something this year- The pack will go OK. Clubb at centre is a little worrying. With a smallish squad(talent wise) a few injuries knocks your chances. Last year we were sat 4th with what looked like an easyish run in and lost 11 from 12.(after injuries to Howell, Purdham, Orr, Tamata)

Plenty of London born players in the squad which is an aspiration of both Mcdermott and Hughes(chairman)

On the plus we've just signed what has been described as an unprecedented shirt sponsorship in RL with WIN(value wise) and as BB has mentioned youth RL is growing year on year-LMS, Clubb being the first to come through the programme.

Injury free possibly bottom end of the play off's