: Fri Sep 18, 2009 12:08 am  

16. The Skolars. Again, a topic on which I have been very vocal over the years. The annual game between us is now geared more towards our North London Cousins than us and as such, I believe that they should seriously look at reciprocating this assistance during the season by playing Leigh Centurians, at the Stoop in a double header. Logistically, this can be arranged now if the RFL are made aware of the plan. The games should be marketed HARD and it should be billed as the London Rugby League 30yr Birthday Double Header. I would fill the south stand with free Kids tickets and by fill, I mean fill it. No stone should be left unturned and no avenue not explored/exploited. If the club are going to go down the dance/yoof market again, then this would be the game for it. It should be marketed as a festival of Rugby, with maybe an amateur game on first.

The game in the city maybe towards Skolars but its quins who show the hard working in marketing this fixture on the day.



A double bill match would bring nothing to either side. Skolars would still play in front of a couple of hundred.

While they miss out on match income of bar anf food.

: Fri Sep 18, 2009 6:34 am  

Skolars play in front to of 300 every week. I would suggest that Quins reward them by ensuring they don't lose out....gate receipts of £3,000 and no more than a £1,000 on the lost profit from residuals.
We play them in the London Challenge which does us no favours, but helps them and their owner.....swings and roundabouts my friend.
I would have an entire day of RL with an u18 game, amateur game, C1 game and SL game, with a beer festival, kids activities and loads of other stuff going on.

: Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:18 am  

gutterfax wrote:

Skolars play in front to of 300 every week. I would suggest that Quins reward them by ensuring they don't lose out....gate receipts of £3,000 and no more than a £1,000 on the lost profit from residuals.
We play them in the London Challenge which does us no favours, but helps them and their owner.....swings and roundabouts my friend.
I would have an entire day of RL with an u18 game, amateur game, C1 game and SL game, with a beer festival, kids activities and loads of other stuff going on.

Gutters. it is in the City, where the money men are and we don't take advantage of it!?* we are missing a big trick at this game. Why don't we try and sell sponsorship, boxes etc, it is beyond me!

: Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:15 am  

poplar panther wrote:

Gutters. it is in the City, where the money men are and we don't take advantage of it!?* we are missing a big trick at this game. Why don't we try and sell sponsorship, boxes etc, it is beyond me!

Because the Capital Challenge, whilst great for the game in general is organised in association with EFT securities.........I believe there is quite a strong link between Skolars and this company and that the day is heavily slanted in favour of them. I am not knocking it and neither am I suggesting that we should move their pre CC final event (even though I believe that they fell well short of their target this year), just a Day of celebrating RL in London, with games at the stoop, invites to every registered player in the capital, every school team......everyone we can think of.
dids858 was worried about Skolars losing revenue, but I countered this with quins ensuring they didn't. A decent crowd (7,000+) for this event would cover any "insurance" offered to Skolars.
It was only an idea to try to raise the profile of the game and with it being our 30th birthday, we have the perfect reason to push this...NOW!

: Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:46 am  

How about this:
A day, Saturday if possible, in mid summer.
From 11am, a kids mini tournament played on the Richmond college pitch.
12pm West London Sharks v London Storm
2.00pm London Skolars v Leigh
4.pm Final of Kids mini tournament
5pm Quins v Wigan
7pm. Awards ceremony, presentations and interviews follwed by band.

Invite every ex-player we can find, every ex-employee, every ex-sponsor. Get Fosters and VB on sale.
Invite every school with a registered team and every player from every amateur club. I don't care if they say they are busy, physically drag the media into their boxes. Branson given first dibs at sponsoring the event.....
£5 in for everyone.
Get it planned now (ie, ask for the buy in of the clubs involved, the rfl and SKY). Get it publicised.
There are enough rugby league fans in the capital to fill the stoop, so what is neded is to give them a real reason to come and give it a go.
Get Wigan and Leigh involved...try and get as many of them down as well.

This would take a massive amount of work and commitment to pull off, but I honestly believe that if the RFL and the away clubs play ball, this could be a really successful and productive event.
You never know, Rupe1 and SB might even attend

: Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:56 am  

I'd turn up at 4.55 to watch Super League.

HTH.

: Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:07 am  

Dave Lister wrote:

I'd turn up at 4.55 to watch Super League.

HTH.

Missing the point Listy. This wouldn't just be about Quins, but a proper London RL celebration. I am sure that people would come and go throughout the day, but the main aims would be to celebrate 30 yrs and raise awareness.
I wouldn't be able to attend......but I am sure a fair few would. HTH

: Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:54 am  

gutterfax wrote:

How about this:
A day, Saturday if possible, in mid summer.
From 11am, a kids mini tournament played on the Richmond college pitch.
12pm West London Sharks v London Storm
2.00pm London Skolars v Leigh
4.pm Final of Kids mini tournament
5pm Quins v Wigan
7pm. Awards ceremony, presentations and interviews follwed by band.

Invite every ex-player we can find, every ex-employee, every ex-sponsor. Get Fosters and VB on sale.
Invite every school with a registered team and every player from every amateur club. I don't care if they say they are busy, physically drag the media into their boxes. Branson given first dibs at sponsoring the event.....
£5 in for everyone.
Get it planned now (ie, ask for the buy in of the clubs involved, the rfl and SKY). Get it publicised.
There are enough rugby league fans in the capital to fill the stoop, so what is neded is to give them a real reason to come and give it a go.
Get Wigan and Leigh involved...try and get as many of them down as well.

This would take a massive amount of work and commitment to pull off, but I honestly believe that if the RFL and the away clubs play ball, this could be a really successful and productive event.
You never know, Rupe1 and SB might even attend

Definitely get Sky involved on this one, Show the Skolars game in the after noon and then our game in the evening as that weekend's SLgame.Call the whole thing the London RLweekend, festival , whatever!! Come on Sky you owe us one for the Catalans away fiasco this year!

A day like this WILL take a lot of work but as our season is now over there is plenty of time to start planning this event. NOW!

: Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:55 am  

gutterfax wrote:

Missing the point Listy. This wouldn't just be about Quins, but a proper London RL celebration. I am sure that people would come and go throughout the day, but the main aims would be to celebrate 30 yrs and raise awareness.
I wouldn't be able to attend......but I am sure a fair few would. HTH

Couldn't care less about London RL. Harlequins RL and Super League for me.

Super League FTW.

: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:07 am  

Dave Lister wrote:

Couldn't care less about London RL. Harlequins RL and Super League for me.

Super League FTW.

Get real. Quins RL needs London RL as much as they need us. The Admirals, for example. Do you not care about them? They provided Clubb and Scarsbrook with their footing in RL.
By all means, just turn up for the SL game....you will be a statistic on the gate and your beer money will still generate revenue. I still say there are easily 12,500 RL fans across the region and if this was planned now (ie the weekends fixtures are set prior to the open draw) then, if played in late July, after the wendyball world cup, you would have over 9 months to market the event.
The 8,000 gate against Wigan a couple of years back involved 2,750 + travelling fans, so we could safely expect the same. Leigh may well bring 500+, so there's 3,250. Add the 2,500 odd hard core QRL fans and we are nearly at 6,000. Next up are the amateurs and the schools...another potential 4,000......and then you have the occasionals, the curious and the corporates....not too hard if planned correctly