: Sun Oct 18, 2009 9:21 am  

BroncOnIon wrote:

'cos we're SPECIAL

Shame it won't be Parra, it would have given us another chance to see what we nearly had in Feleti Mateo.

I wonder who our round 3 whingers will be this time? In the end we did badly out of our home game v. the Bulls being postponed for so long that we'd lost all form and they'd started playing, so let's hope for a mild Feb. 2010.

I saw a fair sized chunk of the oz GF...and from what i saw Felati had a bit of a stinker......knocking on..drop balls...stray passes...having said that I,d love to see him back here..........even if he still played badly he,d fit right in...

: Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:34 pm  

Roofs wrote:

Yeah but there's a hell of a lot more RL fans in general up here.

I notice that Australia V New Zealand drew a bigger crowd dwon here than our national team could get in a heartland county last night. Sure England were palying France not Aus or NZ, but if the England football team can draw massive crowds to Wembley regardless of the opposition or the likely lack of entertainment, then Yorkshire should be able to provide a bigger turn out for England RL with all those RL fans "up here" than London does for an international RL match, Aus and NZ ex-pats or not.

: Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:57 pm  

Bronco1979 wrote:

I notice that Australia V New Zealand drew a bigger crowd dwon here than our national team could get in a heartland county last night. Sure England were palying France not Aus or NZ, but if the England football team can draw massive crowds to Wembley regardless of the opposition or the likely lack of entertainment, then Yorkshire should be able to provide a bigger turn out for England RL with all those RL fans "up here" than London does for an international RL match, Aus and NZ ex-pats or not.

But it doesn't.

So what do you think needs to be done about it? Maybe bring Gutterfax straight back from NZ to sort it.

: Sat Oct 24, 2009 11:04 pm  

Bronco1979 wrote:

I notice that Australia V New Zealand drew a bigger crowd dwon here than our national team could get in a heartland county last night. Sure England were palying France not Aus or NZ, but if the England football team can draw massive crowds to Wembley regardless of the opposition or the likely lack of entertainment, then Yorkshire should be able to provide a bigger turn out for England RL with all those RL fans "up here" than London does for an international RL match, Aus and NZ ex-pats or not.

Aye, what an easy sell, a cold October night, a trip to Doncaster on a Friday night, to see a team we stuffed a few months ago...

When you consider that we had Australia v NZ, on a Saturday, with an open bar, with the game promoted well to the local imports, I can see how you can compare them...

: Sat Oct 24, 2009 11:52 pm  

Cracking game watched by 12,500 potential qrl fans. Lets hope data was collected and will be used.

: Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:15 am  

Quins got a couple of plugs throughout the game. Hearts on a half time

: Sun Oct 25, 2009 11:46 am  

gutterfax wrote:

Cracking game watched by 12,500 young and very noisy potential qrl fans. Lets hope data was collected and will be used.

10% of them would be brilliant.

: Sun Oct 25, 2009 11:51 am  

Cracking game watched by 12,500 potential qrl fans. Lets hope data was collected and will be used.

GF Im assuming you watched it in NZ -did you get to a local with your Quins top on?

: Sun Oct 25, 2009 2:10 pm  

BroncOnIon wrote:

10% of them would be brilliant.

Would help us get to the 5,000 mark if they do! Next round of franchises in mind we should try and get as many back as we can, seeing as they now know the way to the Stoop!

: Sun Oct 25, 2009 3:03 pm  

Bronco1979 wrote:

I notice that Australia V New Zealand drew a bigger crowd dwon here than our national team could get in a heartland county last night. Sure England were palying France not Aus or NZ, but if the England football team can draw massive crowds to Wembley regardless of the opposition or the likely lack of entertainment, then Yorkshire should be able to provide a bigger turn out for England RL with all those RL fans "up here" than London does for an international RL match, Aus and NZ ex-pats or not.

South Yorkshire is not a heartland county, and Donny's not an RL town. Also Oz v NZ is a much bigger game, a proper test match. I think both attendances are pretty good.