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dyniol53
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I agree with GPR above. The “product” isn’t really the rugby, it’s the stadium experience and the price tag of the hotel. That’s client entertainment. It’s really depressing but it is the way of the world. In a previous job, I had to “entertain” three different clients three nights in a row in a box at the O2 arena watching U2, a band I do not like and neither did the clients - but it secured their biz for another three years so the agency was happy to pay the tens of thousands it cost upfront. However, I DO agree with your point generally that Welsh rugby is so top down and reliant on success of the national team that IMO we’re only ever two successive 5th place six nations campaigns away from a terminal decline. If/when that happens the money will dry up and there will be 5x versions of Cory Hills going to Jap, Eng, France in a vicious cycle for both the regions and national team.
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Yes, the corporate clients will buy in whatever the 'product'. How the hospitality money is utilised by the WRU is the big question. Will it be filtered back to support the professional game or re-invested in the WRU's, "diverse commercial portfolio"? I can imagine a scenario where the commercial success of the WRU as a business no longer requires them to have anything to do with rugby. In fact their accountants are probably telling them that it makes too many 'losses' and they should ditch it in favour of a 'Golden Era 1970's Theme Park' a la Disney World, complete with Gareth Edwards, Barry John, Phil Bennett lookalikes. Sorry, I'm rambling, but you get the point..,
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Fscarlet
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Didn't want to start a new thread but there will be full capacity at the Principality Stadium for the Autumn internationals.
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Welsh Rugby Union: Bank debt rises to £22.9m despite £400,000 profit for financial yearSee the full article here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/58658672 Please control responses when you read 'The WRU is
putting a lot of faith in the £46.2m hotel development which the
governing body says is designed to create long-term financial returns
for Welsh rugby. '
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dyniol53
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Ospreys lose at home to a side 11th in English Prem
Attendance for European cup opener 4,664 Cardiff’s half-and-half team understandably mullered by Toulouse, attendance 10,007 Scarlets having to pull out of the fixture, doubts about how we’ll shape up this week. Welsh rugby not in a good way the WRU need to realise this fast
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KID A
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Why would the WRU do anything about it? They NEVER have They NEVER will We need to go nuclear and insist our 4 x pro clubs separate from the amateur game (in terms of WRU governance), request we are in a competition that is run by clubs not Unions and start formal proceedings to join a 2 tier English competition. This has been evident for 15 years. Until this happens, we are on a downward spiral to a domestic level that is barely professional |
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Wales doesn’t have the talent, or the support for 4 pro teams. It’s too late anyway. The Welsh game’s beyond saving. Bleak and not what anyone wants to hear, but true.
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I’d like to see 3+1, Dragons in RFU Championship. Make them a development side and they can play opposition they might actually beat.
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KID A
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That's where we need to be!!! I'd give my right arm for a place in the English championship with a potential for promotion. The finances would be tough though so I expect there are too many sticking blocks. But the URC is killing the Welsh 4 pro teams. Imagine going on away trips every other weekend. Does everybody remember away trips? Football fans have fortnightly away trips. We have been robbed of them. |
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Agreed, at this point I’d just like the chance to make the Prem. But I really think 3+1 Prem/Champ would work. Dragons are an odds and sods castoffs from everybody else team with a promising talent or two at a time. They just don’t have the base to make a full proper squad. We’d be best off using them to pull new talent through unless we see that mooted U23 league come through.
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I still wake up late at night and think of what might have been when tim stimpson hit that jammy penalty1
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Dic Penderyn
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Well said.
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Just think, next season the SA sides will be in Europe. Those logistical issues aren’t really needed on top of covid and French sides prioritising the TOP14. If we think this season is chaotic………just imagine the next one.
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Watching Slammed - I wasn’t aware of what was going on at the time as I was barely a teenager. But what was the actual reason Mike Ruddock left 1 year after the ‘05 grand slam.
The official story was “contract negotiations” and “player power” but it seems pretty odd or at most a half-truth That he then went to go live and raise his family in Ireland makes it doubly weird to me
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Don't forget that Ruddock's wife is Irish. I also think he was offered a coaching job out there.
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