Harlequins perhaps the first club faultering
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 8:44 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 388266.stm
The Rugby Football League has urged Harlequins to make more effort to attract crowds to the Twickenham Stoop.
Attendance figures will be one of the criteria used to determine clubs' suitability for the next round of Super League licences to be awarded in 2011.
Harlequins played to average home gates of just under 3,500 in 2009 and the RFL feels those figures are disappointing... (continues, click link)
But this got me:
The Rugby Football League has urged Harlequins to make more effort to attract crowds to the Twickenham Stoop.
Attendance figures will be one of the criteria used to determine clubs' suitability for the next round of Super League licences to be awarded in 2011.
Harlequins played to average home gates of just under 3,500 in 2009 and the RFL feels those figures are disappointing... (continues, click link)
But this got me:
interpret that as either they have special treatment or a blind eye... or they can be like everyone else."They have got a good team on the field and I do believe if they get it right off the field there is no reason why they can't get good crowds and be a full paying member of the Super League."