: Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:59 am  

jbuzza wrote:

Somehow I doubt the name has any impact on the crowd size.

Correct. Laughable suggestion.

The Quins brand is a failure. No, really

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:28 am  

willowred wrote:

RL in London doesn't work and i dont think it ever will, your attendance against the Crusaders was nothing short of embarrasing and something needs to be done and quickly to try and get bums on seats. I also agree that it must be awful for your top players to play infront of crowds so low

Here comes the brains of the outfit!!

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:50 am  

Prince of Denmark wrote:

He told me he'd tried to book a ticket online but the website wouldn't allow him to do so and had initially implied the match was sold out.

We didn't go yesterday - voting with the feet at the online booking sham and failure of quins rl to reply to my email about difficulties with the online booking.

Will be there for the Rhinos game, but I'll be booking my tickets from the Rhinos (only cost £1.50 online booking fee plus ticket cost and they respond to queries!) - not my first choice as would have preferred to sit in AC (so Mrs ER isn't too far from her fellow Quins supporters).

How many more games we'll bother with this season I'm not sure.
It's a real shame, because the product is good and the Stoop is a good ground in which to watch RL. The online booking system is good too - when it works.

The club need to sort quickly the basics of enabling people to part with money to watch a quality product.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:53 am  

Essex Rhino wrote:

Will be there for the Rhinos game, but I'll be booking my tickets from the Rhinos (only cost £1.50 booking online and they respond to queries!) -

How can that possibly be right that can book at ticket for a HOME game cheaper with the away team

Its just gets sillier

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:55 am  

Chris Brown wrote:

I may have missed it but where are we in terms of Ian Lenegan's investment.

Does there come a point where he has to have no financial interest under RFL rules and when is that ?

IL pumped 600K of his own cash into the club this year under an existing agreement (which was for the past two years). He should no longer be the major share holder by the end of the season (before anyone says DH is the major shareholder he is Chairman, the two are not mutually inclusive IL still has 60% of the shares).

Unless of course things have changed in the background.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 12:05 pm  

Here is a thought why don't a few fans bang their heads together like with this banner and do their own little marketing thing in their own time.

Fans shouldn't have to i know but what about a few getting together round strategic points round London
Oxford st, Piccadilly, Victoria, Shepherds bush, Earls court and promoting it.

Some flyer's, some enthusiasm, some team spirit and i agree that the Harlequins name should never have been adopted.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 12:12 pm  

nnl01 wrote:

IL pumped 600K of his own cash into the club this year under an existing agreement (which was for the past two years). He should no longer be the major share holder by the end of the season (before anyone says DH is the major shareholder he is Chairman, the two are not mutually inclusive IL still has 60% of the shares).

Unless of course things have changed in the background.

My understanding is that Ian Lenegen still has his 60% shareholding in Quins RL, but under the agreement with the RFL to buy Wigan Warriors he has to "dispose" of his Quins shareholding by end of October 2009.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 12:15 pm  

Wire_Yed_79 wrote:

Here is a thought why don't a few fans bang their heads together like with this banner and do their own little marketing thing in their own time.

Fans shouldn't have to i know but what about a few getting together round strategic points round London
Oxford st, Piccadilly, Victoria, Shepherds bush, Earls court and promoting it.

Some flyer's, some enthusiasm, some team spirit and i agree that the Harlequins name should never have been adopted.

You've said it yourself, there is no reason why fans should have to do such a thing. The people working at the club are a joke and a complete embarrassment and are slowly killing us.

And its a load of rubbish that we should never have adopted the most recognisable brand in world rugby. We just aren't using it right. The Broncos were more anonymous - people thought they were are a basketball or american football team.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 12:16 pm  

nnl01 wrote:

There was supposed to be half price tickets for this game for those that came free to Wakefield, if if 100 had cam back it would have been a start but the offer didn't materialise. (A)Pathetic.

Agreed, and this is something I am angry about. The two friends I brought to the Wakefield match on the pair of free tickets loved the experience and wanted to come to the Celtic & Leeds matches on the discounted ticket offer. They never received any further information from the club despite being told that the club would contact them with information on how to get their discounted tickets for yesterday's game.

I am emailing the club about this and several other fiascos. Any response I get I'll reproduce on here.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 12:17 pm  

Surreyben wrote:

Any response I get I'll reproduce on here.

Why even suggest something that will clearly never happen?