What's the 'point' of that in your one and only warm up game ?

Crowd of 6,032 btw

every1 thought quins had it in the bag.

All of the Championship teams have NRC fixtures this weekend. Surely three points are more important than a friendly? Quite a few of them also played midweek and I expect others will be playing midweek this coming week.

A decent enough game, but crucially also a decent crowd - now the trick is to try and retain some of the people who came along and get them back, the success of it can only be determined in the long run.



Of course it would have been much better for our sport for today to have been Quins v Bulls, maybe the same 2500 folk who bothered to turn up last year might have done so again.

Good game, it was all over when half-time came, when Manly walked out with their full 13.

It was stupid of Quins to play there normaly 13 in the first half, against the second-string manly squad, and then take off the normal 13 as Manly's came on.

Have you remembered to feed your whippets this evening?

Sounds like it was reasonably successful from a building awareness point of view , so well done , hope it pays off through the season

Quins started with the same XIII that started at Cas last week, making a lot of interchanges during the last fifteen minutes of the first half. (I think we used 21 players in all, including winger Jamie O'Callaghan who doesn't have a squad number. Manly had the same XIII throughout the first half and made seven (?) changes at half time. I don't know a lot about their players, but those starting the second half wore shirts 1-13, suggesting this was their strongest line up. At this stage Quins had their weakest permutation on the field, Manly got a couple of early tries, and although we began reintroducing some of our better players the initiative had been lost. Manly looked increasingly impressive as the second half wore on and it should be a hell of a game with Leeds next weekend. I just hope the prevailing weather conditions are kinder than in last year's windswept encounter with Melbourne.

got a surprising amount of coverage on skysportsnews, they were still repeating the highlights this morning. So I'd say its been a worthwhile exercise.

Let's face it both teams will have free weekends on CC weekends to get the game on - no stress

Two points are important – but developing the RL word is more important in the longer term.



It was good crowd with lots of people attending who would not normally. It's received good coverage – and was an entertaining game.