Where can I listen to the game?

From a guy at the stoop...



"Well, the RFL have offered London support and assistance until 2014 and basically guaranteed that support on all technical levels in super league like developing youth etc...chairman stressed there is no financial support"



On a potential move...



"That may be the case, also everything Quins in the shop is £10 or less including the shirts being cleared out for £5??? Maybe rebranded along with the move!"

Nob!

The full statement...

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no money...no bail out and for the time being, no move.

And I am delighted to be able to tell you tonight that the discussions with the RFL have been extremely constructive and positive and whilst difficult at times, we have agreed a partnership approach based on a range of Technical, Physical, Marketing and Financial support to help ensure the future of the game in the region.

Selective posting. You are also a knob!

No support for the club.......plenty for the development of the GAME.

How's the building going?

Hmm, my arguement is still this - why aren't these developing players going to watch their local professional team (Quins) to learn from the best in their geographical area

Don't know is the answer. They were offered free tickets in 2008 and they didn't come.....maybe it's because they have lives and playing RL one day and then watching it live the next might upset their wives, partners, kids etc....

Also, 2 players developed by the clubs system are now heading norf......rome wasn't built in a day roofs......but it did burn down pretty sharpish!

Face facts, QRL (and the Broncos before them) have single handedly blazed a trail in the SE....now it's up the games governing body to continue the work.

Well we could have started by not playing on the very day they played on.

Come on everyone. Lets cut London some slack. 4 different identities and 30 years to develop interest in the game down sarf is nowhere near enough time now is it to attract more than 2500-3000 to a game. lets judge them after 50 years at least. Some team in Super League is gonna get the boot in 10 months time. Guess this means that London have already secured a franchise based purely on where they play. i will be following the fall out with great interest.

I can help answer this, as someone very active in the London amateur game who doesn't often attend Quins.



1) They might be my local club, but they're 90 minutes away, and I doubt many amateurs in St Helens go to watch Hull every other week. Northerners just do not understand the size of London in terms of time differences. I didn't until I lived here either. Gutterfax is right that any significant growth in crowds has to come from the area around the club - Twickenham and Richmond.



2) Amateur RL is played on Saturdays. So are many Quins games. It's actually physically impossible to do both when that's the case.



3) Many southern clubs aren't even in London - Portsmouth, Hemel, St Albans, Ipswich, Hove, Swindon, Oxford etc (although I think Oxford to the Stoop is a shorter journey than Bromley to the Stoop!)



4) Friday night games are completely impossible for anyone living in my neck of the woods. There simply isn't time to get there after work.



5) Even if Quins play on Sunday, the wife makes it very clear that after leaving her with the kids all day Saturday while I ref, any attempt to centre the second day of the weekend around rugby is doomed to failure. And the kids aren't that keen to spend 3 hours travelling to watch a game they don't appreciate (yet).



I think trying to draw in the amateur clubs is a good idea in principle, but unless you can address the match times, and make it almost irresistably easy for clubs to head for the Stoop (provide coaches from their clubhouse, for example), then there'll always be limited uptake.

Is the quote I gave not just a summary of that? Don't see where you get nob from?



See Hughes said without support may have left... Leighton Samuel said the same in 2007!