C'mon PP, if there's one club and bunch of fans that have no right to criticise Rovers for working the rules and playing the margins on eligibility it's Quins - talk about people in glass houses. Progress in recent years doesn't delete over a decade's messing about and special exemptions, covering up massive neglect of junior development. I remember the years at Griffin Park when it was Kolpak-a-go-go, I've never seen so many Aussies and Kiwis on dodgy passports.

(Guess I don't need to declare an interest here mind, it's somewhat obvious...)

Well said

nah our away support is dreadful (the peeps that go are great- just that theres only a couple of them)
and is truly embarrassing to SL. Ive said before if our fans went to just one home game a season we'd bring around 200-300 a game.
We dont
Its the same 50 week in week out that do the away trips.
Yes they are all long trips and yes many are on a friday night, which both add to the diffiuculty in building an away support culture.
but the sad fact is almost all our fans choose to miss half our games cuz they dont feel the journey is worth watching us.

again, im not saying people should go to every away game, - time, cost, distance, getting back at 3,30am on a friday night and having to take a day of work to get to the games, but that still leaves a whole host of fixtures (like Hull KR on monday) that people can get a train there and back - only £20 cheers paddock - where there will still be the same old faces in the away stands.

A fair few people on here go to as near as all the away games but the vast majority of our fans dont go to any which, just goes to the argument that we have the worst supporters in the league.

Don't buy into that at all. We now have licensing and "home grown player" rules with the specific intention of trying to bring more English players through to have a chance internationaly. I think you could say that Quins have bought into it whereas 10 - 20 years ago we couldn't. Are Hull KA buying into it?

Fortunately we have moved on. HKR don't really have any excuse.They are hardly an "expansion" club are they

Not me ,I trod on mine whilst clog dancing.

Dobson was not 100% fit against Hull,though when he is 100% he is a bloody handfull.

You are Sam Tyler,and I claim my £5.

Harlequins fans having a go at Hull KR? You couldn't make it up!
I would concentrate on your own tin pot club if I were you.

True, but it is great looking down the table at you lot. Ho Ho.

For now that comment may well come and bite u in the arris....... Watch this space

A massive neglect in Junior development?

For the past 7 years our former youngsters have been playing in SL and the Championship for other clubs whilst Quins have blooded player after player season on season in SL.

Have you ever bothered to look at the Amateur scene in London and how Quins have worked with the clubs to develop players who are now playing at the top level, one of them even getting International Honours.

How many of HKA's youth products are now playing SL elsewhere and how many are playing for England?

Andy Ellis???

1?

Well done.

So Rovers fans are slagging Quins off who have several players playing all over SL yet the HKA fans can name one that they have produced.

You must be so proud.

jon wilkin
frankie mariano
kirk netherton
liam whelam
chaz i'anson
scott spaven
off the top of my head

Kirk Netherton has not got a club.

So basically Rovers have less than 10 products playing around the UK, many of them in the Championships yet the poster thought he was in a position to laugh at Quins excellent youth set up?

Classic Dwarf man style behaviour, it is rubbing off on the fans now as well

tbf he did say recent years progress doesent cover up over a decade's messing about and special exemptions, covering up massive neglect of junior development meaning now you are doing well with junior development but thats only just come about in the last few years

And that is why I took exception.

How long is 'the last few years'?

Players playing all over the UK now came through Quins Youth ranks more than 5 years ago.

They were producing top players when Rovers had gates of 1200 and would of been grateful for any of their cast off's.

It is disrespectful to condemn a club's Youth structure when the guy has no idea of what is in place in London.

If Rovers have such a good youth setup then why is their team full of Aussies ?

Don't let simple facts get in the way of these Rovers supporters, it's not their style.

i never once said we had such a good youth set up?

But you have tried to defend a guy who came on here slating ours.

Perhaps you should have left him to dig his own hole mate

suppose i was defending our youth set up not that poster because its not that bad. we have quite a few home grown players playing first team at the moment. it was always going to be tuff for us to get good youth players when we where in the championship especialy with hull on our door step who could offer them players better deals and futures. but now we are starting to get a fair few coming through and we should have many more playing across super league over the next few years if we dont keep them

Then change the rules, not criticise a club for acting entirely within them, lets face it your club has been given a free ride by the RFL for years, just because your London based.

I must have imagined him, on my TV, playing for Widnes then