It's a no-brainer you condescending fool, there is no downside to it.

I am consistently told that football fans are not the market that the club should be attacking and that playing on a Saturday is the right thing to do.



I have long argued and lost the debate that we should not compete with football but try to work around it and attract fans to both sports.



Saturday RL forces a choice in where people go, I for one have that choice and choose football.



Its all very well people banging on about 'if you were a RL fans then you would go to the games', well that may be the case but if I was a true football fan I would go to the games too. Sadly its currently not possible to do both for all but 6 weeks of the RL season. That is a fact but not one that will win any allies on this board



Saturday RL is not working, surely that is there for all to see, crowds were better on a Sunday at Brentford, away support over the last season or so has dwindled (another reason for Saturdays)



There is no easy answer but in fairness the club has chosen a path of Saturdays and it has to make it work, it hasn't yet but the clock is ticking and something has to change



On pitch results would help though !

I agree soccer fans are more likely to get the RL bug than RU fans. Our original base was the Fulham FC season ticket holders who came to the first game for free and some of them are still with us. Ditto 1996 when ads were placed in football programmes and they came in numbers.

Is that true or are you believing it to be true. Im planning on going on Sunday this week, Fri agianst Bradford, Sun Cas & Crusaders, Mon for HKR, Sun for Melbourne, Sun for the Reds



You stick with your belief. Your sun in the east stand moan has more substance

Yeah I remember seeing them in Hammers programmes now you mention it, made me curious enought to go along to the Valley and see what London Broncos was about, having previously only watched RL (mainly international matches) on telly

Its wasn't a moan. That is what I thought the club said after polling the fans for their opinion. Didn't realise it had changed and as it was never publicised it had changed the thought of a season ticket had not crossed my mind.



Maybe the fixture list is worth a look then to see how many I may be able to make.



That comment was a genuine understanding of the game day policy



You are right that the sun is a good moan though

Oh, how very cordial..............but aren't you missing the point ?



HOW CAN BEING ON TALK SPORT BE A PROBLEM ?? YOU EITHER GET NO MORE SUPPORTERS OR LOTS MORE SUPPORTERS !!

how many tune in to our BBC show. can't imagine a comercial broadcaster being too thrilled with that.

Fields of Dreams (again).

The club have tried so many times that it must hurt, but the media will not cover RL in London. The only way to make commercial media play ball is to be topical (as in a national story) or become a customer and as the club have already spent a fair % of this years marketing budget on Oyster Card Holders I would suspect that Talk Sport may be out of their league.

For crying out loud, don't you people understand ?? We're not talking about an advertising slot on Talk Sport. We are talking about inviting Alan Brazil or Ronny Irani (?) down for a game in the Summer against Wigan or Leeds, giving them a few bottles of champagne and letting them have a good time. They will do the rest because they enjoy the sport.



Failing that, just arrange a two minute slot to talk to them on air about Quins and Rugby League in the South.



Honestly, 1 minute of either of those two talking about Rugby League down here will be far more beneficial than free tickets, poster campaigns and any other hair brained ideas you may have.



Theory is great but reality is better and the reality is that a large percentage of Football fans will enjoy Rugby League. They just need someone that they trust (eg Alan Brazil) to tell them.

,,,,,,do you think that every sports journalist from every media outlet in the SE hasn't been invited to the stoop? You can invite all you like, but if they won't come after the 5th invite....you start to sound desperate. The RFL invited the world and his wife for the WWC warm up game last year....but if they don't/can't come you can't hold a gun to their heads.



A perfect example would be the guy who wrote a great editorial on League in the Sunday Telegraph in October 2008 ending with the statement..."I am converted". Many invites later and he still hasn't been to the stoop......what do you do?



In an ideal world the press would be made to cover ALL sports...but if the state funded broadcaster can pick and choose what they cover then how can you dictate to commercial media.

Yes I agree with you

However, has anyone actually tried getting a presenter down to the Stoop ? If they have and there has been no response then why isn't the Club listening to Talk Sport every day and when Rugby League is mentioned (which it is about 5 times a day) why isn't someone phoning in to discuss it. Why aren't supporters ringing in when Quins are mentioned because however boring and repetitive that Station may appear to most of you, one minute of air time [ucould[/u start a bit of a chain reaction and be the catalyst that is needed.



I think in business terms it's called being 'pro-active' so instead of coming on here and moaning about how no one down here loves Rugby League, why don't people do something apart from whining.



Anyway, Hemel Stags u18s are playing Crusaders u18s at Penine Way in Hemel on Sunday at 1.30. Good luck to them.