Here it is, in full: www.league.quins.co.uk/news/12266.php

Here it is, in full: www.league.quins.co.uk/news/12266.php

Does anyone know how long Harlequins were talking to the RFL for?

How much of a fire did Brian Mac light under the RFL with his comments in the media last month?

Also, will 2011 be the first time that Quins have specifically targeted amateur sides inregards to increasing attendences?

Nope...they got free tickets in 2008 and stayed away in their thousands

I know i read something about it on here earlier in the week, but what sort of numbers are playing RL in the South East or more specifically the Quins catchment area?

Anyways, the future looks good, it seems as if Harlequins are assured of a license til 2014 and that its felt as though there is some groundwork to build on for the next 4 years.

Gutterfax, have you ever posted a positive comment on here???
We all know the troubles we have as a club, but your constant negative and gloomy attitude is boring and very predictable.
Just thank the Lord your not northern!!!!

Sounds very positive.

1. Yes. Many a positive post in fact.
2. But at last.....the club have openly admitted they need fans. What worries me is that they spent 3 times what they normally do on marketing last year and got SFA in return.

Still, it is all looking very rosey in the TW2 garden at the moment.......and I may well just top up the hangover I have this morning to celebrate!

Fair enough, well said

Quote ="BroncOnIon"Here it is, in full: www.league.quins.co.uk/news/12266.php'" That sounds very positive. It also sounds like your chairman has kicked the RFL up the backside with regard to promoting the sport. The RFL definitely needed a kick up the backside in this area. It is also very good news that they are enabling your chairman to become a 100% shareholder, especially given that IL was supposed to pay up by 2009. If they can't enforce their own rules then they should be held accountable for them to the benefit of the club suffering as a result. Here's hoping for a competitive Quins next season and more fans through the gates to ease the financial pain.

Quote ="BroncOnIon"Here it is, in full: www.league.quins.co.uk/news/12266.php'" That sounds very positive. It also sounds like your chairman has kicked the RFL up the backside with regard to promoting the sport. The RFL definitely needed a kick up the backside in this area. It is also very good news that they are enabling your chairman to become a 100% shareholder, especially given that IL was supposed to pay up by 2009. If they can't enforce their own rules then they should be held accountable for them to the benefit of the club suffering as a result. Here's hoping for a competitive Quins next season and more fans through the gates to ease the financial pain.

I brought 3 people last night and no one attempted to get their details............

I think Gutterfax has hacked your account PP, you should tell the mods

why does this not suprise me


I fail to see the benefit of giving people free access to the games and not canvasing their opinion......

Effectively saying that our licence renewal's in the bag's going to cause a few explosions over in Flatcapper Land

Things look a lot better now, I also appreciate the lack of overblown rhetoric, just plain facts.

I brought three people down and got them to email their details to the club as instructed, though when we got there we realised there was no neccessity for them to do that, in order to get in the ground.

Think they seemed to enjoy it (especially the free bread and cheapo Quins shirts at £8 a pop) but the atmosphere seemed a bit muted, perhaps because last weeks cup meant the full Wire contingent didn't make it down.

We've had statements from the club before on various topics. I hope for once that intentions are converted into actual actions this time around. Good news though, however I will only be applauding when things actually get done.

Agreed. As you say we've heard a lot on a whole manner of subjects in the past, so let's see what happens - hopefully something positive. I think in the wake of DH's announcement that every aspect of the club needs to be reviewed and dealt with, from the obvious recruitment of a decent coach and new players to promotion /marketing of the club to our relationship with our landlords - I won't say partners as I'm not sure our relationship with QRU is altogether different from the ones we had with our landlords at Brentford or Charlton.

There is now a much better chance to make our future more secure - lets hope its grasped and we can move forward as a club and that this doesn't just turn out to be another stay of execution, which is what then last couple of seasons have felt like to me.

When did The Welsh Psychedelic sci fi rockers sign for Quins??? Must have missed that one...................



I suppose we'll find out by 2014. However reading between the lines of DH's statement he's put the focus regarding greater "Press Coverage" of RL in the national media firmly in the lap of the RFL. I still maintain that England being crowned World Cup Winners would be the best way of getting greater national media coverage. A Four Nations Victory this autumn would be a great start............



I know a member of the London RL Refs society who got his free ticket in 2008. However, as well as his officating committments he also coached juniors in Northampton and was unable to use his ticket to attend games that often.

However, there is a school of thought that if you make people pay for tickets they are more likely to go to events. But is targeting the "community" game the correct route to market?

I suspect that this route to market is part of any payback for RFL "assistance" in other areas highlighted in DH's statement.

I just hope that the club markets the season tickets at the right audience's, one of those being the 500,000 plus residents of the London Borough of Richmond, the London Borough of Hounslow and the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.

I think we need to look beyond the immediate catchment area as well. If we look at areas that are say within a 45/60 minutes match day drive of The Stoop we should also look at areas such as. Sutton, Epsom, Aldershot, Basingstoke etc

Agreed, any where not too far down the M3, M25, A3, places like Guildford, Woking . Also why not do a bit of promotion at Waterloo station in the run up to home matches? Came through there one morning when I wasn't cycling in to work and Sarries were doing some promotional stuff there, think it was ahead of one of their games at Wembley. I dunno, have a few players in their kit, cheerleaders, give out some freebies (car stickers, posters), even have tickets for sale (perhaps with a voucher to be redeeemed at The Stoop) for a freebie for a mate. Thousands go through Waterloo every day, good way to raise awareness maybe ?

and why not the uxbridge area i can drive to the stoop in half an hour

Errrm.... Uxbridge is within my proposed catchment area of being within a 45/60 minute drive !!!!

Fighting a losing battle at the Stoop as no-one in the local area gives a flying F*** about RL.

DH's announcement said nothing about the club moving forward. It will still be called Quins, it will still be at the Stoop and crowds will decline into oblivion

Rough guess....but I reckon there's more than enough people in this area......all within 30 minutes public transport access to Twickenham.

Roughly 1.5 million.

www.league.quins.co.uk/news/12266.php says: "... the launch of season tickets which you will receive details of next week." Anybody received anything? I haven't.

www.league.quins.co.uk/news/12266.php says: "... the launch of season tickets which you will receive details of next week." Anybody received anything? I haven't.