Harelequins ask RFL for bailout... : Mon Aug 30, 2010 3:34 pm  

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 952050.stm When are they gonna admit defeat? It's just not viable to have a RL team in London that can't compete with the toffs...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 952050.stm When are they gonna admit defeat? It's just not viable to have a RL team in London that can't compete with the toffs...

Re: Harelequins ask RFL for bailout... : Mon Aug 30, 2010 3:53 pm  

Having a Rugby League team that shares it's name/ ground with a Onion club and is yards away from RFU HQ was never a good idea.

Surely though there's parts of London they could be accommodated in, like where all the antipodean ex pats live. Or an area without a big football or onion club in it.

From what I hear the development work is starting to produce decent players and there's more and more taking the game up so I can't see them jacking it in yet.