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Quinswatch: It’s grim down south

Monday 3rd October: Harlequins A v Exeter Braves in the Aviva Premiership ‘A’ League. Kick-off advertised as 7.30pm, actual 7.45pm. Result: Harlequins A 22 Exeter Braves 38. Almost by chance I visited the Harlequins official website mid-morning yesterday and noticed for the first time that the [...]

October 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Quins-watch: a case of making best use of one’s time

Sunday 2nd October 2016. Aviva Premiership – Wasps v Harlequins at Coventry. Result: Wasps 47 (5 points) Harlequins 18 (0 points). Yesterday was a singular success. In weather more reminiscent of a July or August summer’s day rather than an October one, we had set up a family outing involving [...]

October 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Rising

Saturday 24th January 2016: Aviva Premiership Round 4. Harlequins v Saracens at the Stoop, kick-off 3.00pm. Result: Quins 17 (4 league points), Saracens 10 (1 losing bonus point). It is a fact that, from every spectator’s viewpoint, all sporting events – great or small – spring from the wider [...]

September 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Money and sport

What has struck me recently about some of the developments in the world of sport is the fact that, as a branch of the entertainment business, its governors and administrators are constantly wrestling with the fundamental issues of attracting the paying public, television (or online) viewers and – [...]

September 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Rugby may be going the way of all sports

One of the uncomfortable home truths coming home to roost in world sport in the last five years is the extent to which the powers-that-be [and in that description I include both sports administrators generally and those club owners (in team games) and personal managers (in individual sports) who [...]

September 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Quinswatch (Match 2): even the radio is misfiring

Aviva Premiership 9th September 2016: Sale Sharks v Harlequins at the AJ Bell Stadium, kick-off 8.15pm. Result: Sale Sharks 19 (4 league points) Harlequins 10 (0 league points). In my lifetime I have twice driven up Manchester way in order to attend Harlequins away matches against Sale Sharks – a [...]

September 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Well at least I enjoyed my day

Saturday 3rd September 2016: London Double Header at Twickenham Stadium. Harlequins 21 Bristol Rugby 19. Harlequins 4 Premiership points: Bristol Rugby 1 (losing bonus point). As regular readers will be aware, for the past eight years I have refused – both as a matter of principle and out of [...]

September 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Lunch at Sussex

Yesterday I returned for the second day of Sussex v Kent and lunch at which Martin Corry spoke for the Wooden Spoon charity. Any notion of a dodgy wicket was dispelled by Kent amassing 496 in which virtually all the lower order contributed. Sussex closed at 42-2 trailing Kent by 274 runs. The game [...]

September 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

That crystal ball thing

It’s now only four days and counting down until rugby union’s 2016/2017 Aviva Premiership season begins and so those of us who are occasionally moved to comment or report upon it have begun sharpening our pencils and making our preparatory notes. Although rugby is still basking in the warm glow [...]

August 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Don’t hold your breath, anyone …

Saturday 20th August 2016. The Stoop, Twickenham. Second and final official pre-season match: Harlequins v Glasgow Warriors. Result – Harlequins 22 Glasgow Warriors 17. These days the Harlequins club chooses to call its season ticket holders ‘members’ and bombards them with emails and [...]

August 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

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