Re: How can we get London to fall in love with RL again? : Tue Feb 03, 2015 8:26 pm  

jaybs wrote:

Interesting letter in the RL weekly press this week, pointing out there is only One RU Club left in London now,

Sums up the mentality and aptitude of your average RL fan.......I think you'll find that there are a great number of Union clubs in London, including Saracens and Harlequins. The fact that London Irish moved to Reading has more to do with the fact that the ground and clubhouse they own (purchased in 1931 for £1,300 and now worth an estimated £100,000,000 ) wasn't up to scratch or big enough to take decent sized crowds. Wasps have moved purely because they were shipping cash by the bucketload and are now in charge of their own destiny and london Scottish/Richmond will soon be back at the top table having being funded by the sale of scrum.com to ESPN for £millions. London Welsh are a basket case but still manage to attract more fans than we ever could.......

Laziness is the reason London Broncos never attracted decent crowds.......Hughes has dropped cash everywhere except in terms of marketing. Will the penny ever drop? Doubt it.

brian2 wrote:

Your posts are uniformly depressing, repetitive, negative and arrogant. Stop telling us what the problems are - we all know, stop describing the solutions which may have worked 15 years ago - daydreaming/wishing is nice but serves no useful purpose and make a few positive suggestions about going forward?

Here's a heartfelt suggestion. Put me on your ignore list. I know I am repetitive....but not as regular in my comments as the club are in managing to make the same mistakes time after time.
If you or the club want ideas for marketing and promotion, then PM me.....I now charge for my services and unlike the numpties employed by the club over the years, I work on a reward/consequence scenario......I deliver, I get rewards, I don't deliver, I get my contract ripped up.
I'm not starving!

Re: How can we get London to fall in love with RL again? : Tue Feb 03, 2015 8:31 pm  

jbuzza wrote:

I went to watch Richmond RU on Saturday. Reasonable crowd in attendance. Rob Powell is apparently defence coach there now BTW.

Once way of ensuring there are plenty of tries I guess

Re: How can we get London to fall in love with RL again? : Tue Feb 03, 2015 8:56 pm  

Andover Boy wrote:

Once way of ensuring there are plenty of tries I guess

I was in a shi77y mood until I read that. Cheers

Re: How can we get London to fall in love with RL again? : Wed Feb 04, 2015 2:02 pm  

poplar panther wrote:

Strictly speaking Saracens are in Hertfordshire according to their postal address and Richmond is only on the borders of London. London is 95% a football city and that is the real problem, Even County cricket struggles.

In which case, Twickenham is in Middlesex, so Quins are not in London.
They have a TW postcode.

You'd have to look at Barnes at being in London with an SW13 postcode.

Re: How can we get London to fall in love with RL again? : Wed Feb 04, 2015 2:12 pm  

poplar panther wrote:

Strictly speaking Saracens are in Hertfordshire according to their postal address and Richmond is only on the borders of London. London is 95% a football city and that is the real problem, Even County cricket struggles.

I thought Saracens were now at Copthall which is London NW4.

Re: How can we get London to fall in love with RL again? : Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:09 pm  

Don't forget Rosslyn Park, Blackheath and Ealing. They all get a decent attendance. County cricket does not really struggle. The Oval and Lords are always packed for the T20 and a fair few one day games. $ day games I grant you but that is true everywhere.

Re: How can we get London to fall in love with RL again? : Wed Feb 04, 2015 5:42 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

Sums up the mentality and aptitude of your average RL fan.......I think you'll find that there are a great number of Union clubs in London, including Saracens and Harlequins. The fact that London Irish moved to Reading has more to do with the fact that the ground and clubhouse they own (purchased in 1931 for £1,300 and now worth an estimated £100,000,000 ) wasn't up to scratch or big enough to take decent sized crowds. Wasps have moved purely because they were shipping cash by the bucketload and are now in charge of their own destiny and london Scottish/Richmond will soon be back at the top table having being funded by the sale of scrum.com to ESPN for £millions. London Welsh are a basket case but still manage to attract more fans than we ever could.......

Laziness is the reason London Broncos never attracted decent crowds.......Hughes has dropped cash everywhere except in terms of marketing. Will the penny ever drop? Doubt it.
Here's a heartfelt suggestion. Put me on your ignore list. I know I am repetitive....but not as regular in my comments as the club are in managing to make the same mistakes time after time.
If you or the club want ideas for marketing and promotion, then PM me.....I now charge for my services and unlike the numpties employed by the club over the years, I work on a reward/consequence scenario......I deliver, I get rewards, I don't deliver, I get my contract ripped up.
I'm not starving!

Many marketing companies work via the net don't they now.I know you are in New Zealand but why don't you offer your services on a commission fee if you would be so successful?

Re: How can we get London to fall in love with RL again? : Wed Feb 04, 2015 7:45 pm  

gardener wrote:

Many marketing companies work via the net don't they now.I know you are in New Zealand but why don't you offer your services on a commission fee if you would be so successful?

So you think I should come up with the ideas and then pay to implement them and only take a fee on a commission basis? I think I might give that one a miss

Re: How can we get London to fall in love with RL again? : Wed Feb 04, 2015 9:17 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

London Welsh are a basket case but still manage to attract more fans than we ever could.......

Have you seen the sort of crowds they have been attracting recently ? Frankly abysmal. Ring any bells ?

Re: How can we get London to fall in love with RL again? : Wed Feb 04, 2015 10:40 pm  

jbuzza wrote:

Have you seen the sort of crowds they have been attracting recently ? Frankly abysmal. Ring any bells ?

3,183 average....we can only dream of such numbers.
They are playing 50 miles away from their home and are the easybeats......Gus moved us 12 miles up the road and delivered 1,250 fans.