Well done........but I draw a line at supporting Quins RU......London Irish is my team and always will be in the "other code". Many's the time I wish that we had become the "Exiles RL"........further to travel for home games, but I bet you £1 to £50 we'd have bigger crowds by now. Nothing Like a bit of ethnic minority marketing

So you go to Reading for your RU, I leave Reading for my RL

The club site have just announced that we are teaming up with EXP Sport regarding club sponsorship...........judging by their success record with the RU side this has to be a positive step for QRL....good stuff

This is very Good news, Even Listy might think this is a positive step

Yep. Lets hope something comes of it...

hi all

im new to the quins but find that their media and marketing leaves alot to be desired, and is what could used affectively to draw more ppl the the club

considering they are the only SL team in london you never see that point pushed or advertised

i cant always make the games and check the match report and action galleries but find that all you get is a rubbish picture of the score board and the action galleries havent been updated since the dancer from britains got talent appeared there.

do they or have they got rid of the club photographer if so remove the action galleries as it just looks like someone cant be bothered to update the site.

just believe they need to explore different avenues to bring more ppl in and do more for the ones they already have.

Mmmm.....are you new or are you just on a fishing expo?
I am sure the mods will let us know if your IP address appears on any other "id's"...
Anyway, giving you the benefit of the doubt, the site does appear to have been less attended recently, but the news feeds are still coming in. Photo's are the least of our troubles though TBH.

another Brain fart from me.

Quins RL want to draw some of the Quins RU support right ?

Im sure the Quins RU wouldn't mind nabbing a few Quins RL supporters too, right?

How do we get those stubborn sods that refuse to watch the other codes to watch each others games ?

It's obvious (end of season of course)

Quins RL v Quins RU

1 league match
1 union match

BATTLE OF THE CODES

market it to death around the area.

Would be good fun, it's a win win situation for the Quins money men

Whose end of season?

Game, Paddock.

ok so i don't get tripped up

Whenever it's reasonably appropriate to arrange such a fixture

Good idea and I think early in their season would be best. A true local derby(sorry skolars)

It would be a laugh but too gimmicky IMO. Don't think the Union lot would be bothered watching it.

Its not like they are short of supporters also tbh.

Whats going on with the South Stand btw? Are they actually building a half and half stand?

Yes

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My idea of hell.

You lot are always discussing the subject of marketing on here so a little question

You are the clubs marketing manager

You have 2 staff and a fifty grand budget

What do you do with it ?

Blow it all in one big blow out to bring new fans in

Divide up over the season chipping away

The aim is normal walk through turnstyle fans not your corporate types

You have access to as many free tickets as you want

Do you want to defect and move to London?????

Unfortunately I can't see it ever happening - can't see it fitting on the calendar at an appropriate time for either team, Quins RU would have lots of players either on England/England Saxons tours at the end of the season and neither them or us would probably want to risk potential injuries in such a game.

Paddock saying whose end of season would be a debate would just show everyone how stubborn the RU lot really are. we would have to risk our players at the start of the season as we need the advertisement more but they would still be too stubborn to agree to it as they have got it all already.

50k? Wouldn't buy you much of anything mate.......
I would spend the money on flyers and leaflet drop every house in the borough with an invite to come to a game for free (on production of a utilities bill). With this data, I would then write to these people IMMEDIATELY after the game and ask for their thoughts with another invite for 4 tickets for £20. Thereafter, continue to offer these people cheaper tickets until they become regulars.......
As for the Marketing Manager and the two staff





we don't have a marketing manager....let alone two staff to help them.

I'd give out posters to local businesses (shops, restaurants, cafes) in the surrounding area.

They would get new posters to display well in advance of each home game and as an incentive to display them would also be entered in a raffle draw to win a box for the game (and budget depending, other prizes).

The aim would be to both increase local awareness and also expose us to potential new sponsors.

Walk round our local area and you wouldn't even know we exist.

I know nothing of marketing, and I'm not sure if you could get this done with 50k.

Leaflet drops, including printing and distribution to 250,000 homes would pretty much do your £50k. The Volunteers used to do the "dropping" when we were in TW8 and that would save a few quid.
I suggested a framed fixture list in every pub in the area as well as posters in shops/cafes.
Lastly........and I may have mentioned it before.....CAN WE PLEASE SPONSOR TWICKENHAM STATION! Thousands of LOCAL people use it every day...........and they stand there waiting for trains. The Brit Oval sponsor vauxhall station.

In order to attract punters, it would need to be at the beginning of the RL season

Given that the 2 seasons overlap and - assuming Quins RU weren't in any playoffs or cup matches - the RU players would have a full season behind them (which already has more matches than an RL season) and given the same percentage of injuries that we have now, plus the already mentioned International commitments, what sort of match do you think you would get?

As a dual season ticket holder, it wouldn't interest me that much - you'd see 2 teams struggling to play the opposite game and winnig their own.

As I've said before, a lot of union supporters aren't interested in RL (for various reasons, before someone starts playing the "everyone hates us card"icon_wink.gif.

There are a number of RU supporters who see the summer as recovery time - to do all the things not done in the winter when supporting the RU team - as well as holidays and other summer sports (cricket, cycling etc)

I think the Quins RU catchment group is probably largely covered and while offering incentives such as the recent email campaign will bring in a few more, that's never going to be the bulk of any new support.

www.wiganwarriors.com/news_full.asp?newsid=4941 well done wigan a very good idea

www.wiganwarriors.com/news_full.asp?newsid=4941 well done wigan a very good idea