+- +-

+-Newcomers Start Here

+-Harlequins/Rugby Links


+-Articles


Author Topic: Some History of the Loyalty Wall  (Read 959 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

poorfour

  • Lions Captain
  • ******
  • Posts: 3682
Re: Some History of the Loyalty Wall
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 08-Jul-2018, 15:52* »
Am on the loyalty wall, but still have mixed feelings about subsidising Saville etc.  particularly to the extent that it is portrayed as saving people from redundancy.   It loyalty, charity or stupidity.  I still can't decide. Some combination of the three probably.

Saville and Quins' other backers have bankrolled the club to the tune of £10m or more over the last 20 years, with no realistic prospect of earning it back in the short term. Might they have been able to stave off relegation by acting earlier? Maybe. But it still went down to the last kick of the last game. Should they have been prepared to bankroll a larger operation than the club needed during our year in ND1? Maybe, maybe not, but faced with reduced income it's not unreasonable that they should cut costs rather than run up the debt. There's no moral obligation on them to spend money on Quins, and it's likely that they ran up more debt in winning ND1 than our ND1 peers or they would have done in the Premiership.

The loyalty wall was a recognition that fans were prepared to share some of the pain of that year. In my view, both the club and the fans can be proud of it.

 

+-User

Welcome, Guest.
Please login or register.
 
 
 

Login with your social network

Forgot your password?

+-Site Statistics

Members
Total Members: 1165
Latest: LewesianQuin
New This Month: 3
New This Week: 0
New Today: 0
Stats
Total Posts: 120769
Total Topics: 6426
Most Online Today: 82
Most Online Ever: 4089
(Sunday 10-Oct-2021, 12:56*)
Users Online
Members: 4
Guests: 71
Total: 75