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Post by pugwash on May 30, 2024 13:47:00 GMT
Think RU could work in that area where there is a bigger interest in it than where RL is popular. Like London Irish, who got kicked out of PL for financial problems? RU another sport killing itself for European trophies.
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Post by canterbury on May 30, 2024 14:08:15 GMT
Once the rugby team have moved in, I'm happy to help pay for the skip.
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Post by Mozzer on May 30, 2024 14:36:20 GMT
There's a thought. Maybe Sale could move there.
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Post by Stranded Hatter on May 30, 2024 14:43:43 GMT
Doubt RL would bring in money and it could be a costly exercise getting them into super league with no guarentee of getting decent crowds. Saying that whether people like it or not they have great potential in the future if they rose up the leagues to the championship and having a pop in the PO there. Younger fans with no traditions of supporting a london premier league team might swerve the train on a saturday and support their local club. At least they do not have ground improvements to take money out of the club. No matter how fans dislike how they came into being i think they,ll be around for years to come even with new ownership unlike harrogate and the like who are more or less in the league via there owners but have never kicked on with small grounds with little chance of expansion if they had sell outs anyway. Does he mean Rugby Union ? I assumed he did, I actually missed that he put RL and not RU
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Post by timberwolf on May 31, 2024 7:55:43 GMT
There's a thought. Maybe Sale could move there. Or bleeding wasps who have played across the land at loftus road, adams park and now in coventry at rhe ricoh. Most of their life they played at a small ground in sudbury near wembley until the game went pro. At least they only seem to be tenants at those football grounds and not like us where we seemed to be the poor relations of sale.
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Post by palmersears on May 31, 2024 8:04:30 GMT
There would be absolute outrage if a football club lived the same nomadic life that Wasps have. It's not as if they've all been in the same part of the country either.
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Post by mat1scfc on May 31, 2024 9:01:54 GMT
Stadium MK last night. We've only had 1 proper music event pre covid and then a few little shows which I must admit look crap with a tiny stage, then about 250 people in attendance.
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Post by HTC on May 31, 2024 9:28:48 GMT
There would be absolute outrage if a football club lived the same nomadic life that Wasps have. It's not as if they've all been in the same part of the country either. think that's a bit to do with rugby fans more generally.
Of the people I know into the game, most are primarily interested in the international game and/or involved with playing / coaching, rather than regularly attending club games. The one exception is someone originally from Bath.
Always get the impression that outside Bath, Gloucester, Leicester and maybe Bristol or Northampton, the crowds are largely made up of people who enjoy rugby generally, rather than being die hard fans of a particular club.
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Post by 1994hatter on May 31, 2024 9:31:48 GMT
Fleetwood have completed a takeover from their dodgy owner.
The new owner is the son of the dodgy owner.
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Post by timberwolf on May 31, 2024 9:50:31 GMT
Fleetwood have completed a takeover from their dodgy owner. The new owner is the son of the dodgy owner. Shades of oystons at blackpool. Must be a fylde peninsula thing.
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Post by Mozzer on May 31, 2024 11:00:57 GMT
There would be absolute outrage if a football club lived the same nomadic life that Wasps have. It's not as if they've all been in the same part of the country either. think that's a bit to do with rugby fans more generally.
Of the people I know into the game, most are primarily interested in the international game and/or involved with playing / coaching, rather than regularly attending club games. The one exception is someone originally from Bath.
Always get the impression that outside Bath, Gloucester, Leicester and maybe Bristol or Northampton, the crowds are largely made up of people who enjoy rugby generally, rather than being die hard fans of a particular club.
I think this is essentially true. The Sale message board always had a thread about how 'Your club' was getting in. 'Your club' basically being Burnage or Heaton Moor or Caldy or the actual Sale club (not the Sharks franchise) etc. Fair enough, if that's your thing. Live and let live. But it goes some way to explaining why some (and I stress some) of their fans never really understood our problems with the way some things played out. I had enough fair and frank exchanges of views with some of them at the time to know they really didn't get it at all. It's easy to be more sanguine about bad stuff when you're not as emotionally invested as we are with County. I certainly think that outside those places HTC highlights (maybe Exeter as well, but I'm not sure), you can pick up and put down a number of RU clubs where you like. Wasps failed, but primarily because they were mismanaged financially, rather than because they worked their way up the country from London to the Midlands. I reckon Sale Sharks could move somewhere else in the NW, as the de facto regional franchise, without being any more of a financial balancing act than they already are. Move to Preston, for example, and I suspect you've got enough RU fans in the catchment area willing to 'support' that organisation.
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Post by timberwolf on May 31, 2024 11:19:43 GMT
Could be correct there but also it could be the time thats being taken for the game at the top changing from a very ameteur one into a pro one at the top level that might be causing the problem. Took football a number of years to go pro and even longer for some to go even semi pro from being amateur or shamateur for that matter. I,m old enough to remember the names of Wycome Wanderers and Barnet being ameteur cup finalists at wembley. Hockey must be the last of popular team games to remain amateur but even those teams play in leagues now unlike even in the early 80,s when i finished playing the fixtures were more or less friendly games against the best opponents your fixture secretary could fix up with only the pride of winning was at stake.
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Post by atmosphere on May 31, 2024 11:41:42 GMT
Do people still pretend to like Rugby Union?
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Post by Nik on May 31, 2024 11:56:24 GMT
Stadium MK last night. We've only had 1 proper music event pre covid and then a few little shows which I must admit look crap with a tiny stage, then about 250 people in attendance. I don't understand the need for them to look good. If football banter stretches to 'we fill our stadium for music events and you don't' then I'd suggest those involved devote those efforts towards kissing a girl.
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Post by sk8ballboy on May 31, 2024 12:38:09 GMT
Barrow have appointed former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Stephen Clemence as their new manager
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