Re: Still clapping the players off the field? : Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:48 am  

I see your point,but originally when the likes of Roy Lester (personal friend by the way) set off to promote the game down South with Fulham.You were a new factor in the game and others got on board to that.You can't dispute you were handed a help all the way ticket.

How many years ago is that? So to see what was started, to see were it's at now,after that help in hand.Shows no progression.

Probably as stated too many hands in the pot..But couldn't you see that happening or were you just blind to it?

Re: Still clapping the players off the field? : Fri Mar 20, 2015 3:48 am  

CrusaderPete wrote:

I opened with Yawn, because it's the same old same old GF.

We were gifted the chance of top-flight footie a good ten years too early, and those that took over the club never took the opportunity.

I am NOT going to abandon my club because of their mistakes!

It's not your club.
It belongs to David Hughes who is owed closer to 15 million than not.
The people who never took the opportunity didn't understand what they had.......we weren't 10 years early, we were 100 years too late.
do you honestly believe that London Crusaders a la 1994 would exist now if we hadn't become broncos?

As for the yawn.....Gutterfax was right and more precisely right than you, rupe1 or any of the other idiots who declared the union tie in wouldn't deliver.......simply put, if we had 10,000 fans, we wouldn't need hughes.

Re: Still clapping the players off the field? : Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:44 am  

Rather familiar thread drift.

Re: Still clapping the players off the field? : Fri Mar 20, 2015 4:17 pm  

Well the Fulham Club were always dependent on Fulham FC's interest, which they lost as attendances dwindled.

The Broncos' well we wait to see don't we, at what point Hughes loses interest, attendances having already dwindled.

The Crusaders, well after an initial helping hand from the RFL, trundled along by the grace of their fans, often by the skin of their pants, yes GF, London Crusaders a la 1994 would still be here without the RFL/SLE/Brisbane & Sky hi-jack! Who knows we may have gone down a further level there again we may well have EARNED promotion by now and be an established SL club with gates of 5k to 6k. Remember our last season we finished 3rd in Div' 2!

I never stated Union wouldn't deliver frankly I have no way of knowing whether they would or wouldn't, I simply never went to a Quins RL game because I 'effin well HATE Harlequins.

Yes Mr Hughes is the current owner of MY club.

Re: Still clapping the players off the field? : Fri Mar 20, 2015 6:05 pm  

Jim Pooley wrote:

It's not your club.
It belongs to David Hughes who is owed closer to 15 million than not.
The people who never took the opportunity didn't understand what they had.......we weren't 10 years early, we were 100 years too late.
do you honestly believe that London Crusaders a la 1994 would exist now if we hadn't become broncos?

As for the yawn.....Gutterfax was right and more precisely right than you, rupe1 or any of the other idiots who declared the union tie in wouldn't deliver.......simply put, if we had 10,000 fans, we wouldn't need hughes.

The union tie-in didn't deliver so what on earth are you talking about?

I couldn't stomach watching a team calling itself Harlequins and wearing its colours and its quite clear many other people felt the same.

Re: Still clapping the players off the field? : Fri Mar 20, 2015 6:19 pm  

rupe1 wrote:

The union tie-in didn't deliver so what on earth are you talking about?

I couldn't stomach watching a team calling itself Harlequins and wearing its colours and its quite clear many other people felt the same.

No its not but don't let facts get in the way of your bitterness

Re: Still clapping the players off the field? : Fri Mar 20, 2015 7:07 pm  

am quite interested that folk stopped going to watch the team because they changed the name!! did you stop watching rugby league full stop or did you go watch the Skolars?
If its the latter fine, if its the former then how sad! you could call the team Kevin for all i care, would not stop me watching em play. I never once uttered the words "come on the quins" I stuck to "come on London" but i kept going and kept supporting MY team!
If your way of protesting against how things are run is to not turn up then fine, but dont whinge abour dwindling crowds.

Re: Still clapping the players off the field? : Fri Mar 20, 2015 8:40 pm  

Can't say I was overjoyed with the Quins name, but having no club union loyalties I ran with it. TBH I never liked 'London' or 'Broncos' much, but these days the name is the least of our problems.
As per earlier post though, I do think a massive opportunity was wasted at the Stoop.

Re: Still clapping the players off the field? : Fri Mar 20, 2015 9:30 pm  

Never stopped watching because they changed their name Mickey, after all I went from London Crusaders to London Broncos with only minor swearing. I'm sure some of the Fulham fans did the same when the club became Crusaders. I stopped going because the club decided to "merge" identity with an institution that embodied snobbery and class discrimination for most of it's history, only changing their tune when the "Puntmonkies" went pro' and realised their weren't enough toffs in West London preparred to fill their stands on cold winters days and nights.

And yes, the Skolars recieved my dollars.

Re: Still clapping the players off the field? : Fri Mar 20, 2015 9:37 pm  

mickyb1234 wrote:

am quite interested that folk stopped going to watch the team because they changed the name!! did you stop watching rugby league full stop or did you go watch the Skolars?
If its the latter fine, if its the former then how sad! you could call the team Kevin for all i care, would not stop me watching em play. I never once uttered the words "come on the quins" I stuck to "come on London" but i kept going and kept supporting MY team!
If your way of protesting against how things are run is to not turn up then fine, but dont whinge abour dwindling crowds.

To be honest I was all set to knock it on the head with the Harlequins link up, went to the first game, could see it was still the same players more or less and decided to stick with it. Never bought any multi pastel tat, never chanted the H word or the Q word ( I must have sat somewhere near you as I used to hear another shout of 'come on London' on a regular basis ) , made a point of always wearing an old London shirt to games. Never expected the tie in to work, absolutely gutted about the collapse of the team and support since the Broncos relaunch. Will support the team til it ceases to exist, will applaud when it is deserved, will criticise when it is deserved ( Craig Gower copped it once at Gillingham!) - hoping they're wont be too many times it is so bad I either stay in the bar or bugger off with half an hour to go!