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townboy
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Wasn’t having a go at his time with us,just pointing out that a Merger wasn’t really going to happen,like wise with Parks playing at 10
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reesytheexile
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Mrfwon
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Says the man that left us high and dry with a mouth-watering offer from the WRU to take the Wales job after Gats had already laid the foundations of the most successful Wales manager ever Two years down the line, and after a poo stint, he's been found out, and comes out with comments like this All the best Wayne, we all thought you were a genuine Scarlet, but you jumped the ship at the first opportunity, and then you drove straight into a brick WRU wall
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Mrfwon
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100% agree with what you are saying, but truth be known, this one game won't save Welsh rugby going forward. If this game generated the revenue equivalent to the Super Bowl, I'd back it 100%.....however, it doesn't, and won't save Welsh rugby. Welsh regional rugby as it currently stands is unable to generate enough income to be self sufficient, enough so, that it doesn't rely on the income from the WRU. Until our regions are in a position where we're self-sufficient/self-sustainable, and aren't reliant on benefactors or WRU income, we're going to be having these same conversations in 5 years time......if we're still here that is.
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Huwbach
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I wouldn’t be against some sort of super team to thrash the pants off Leinster in Europe, even if only for a few years until we make some coin 😁
But seriously the financial situation can’t be fixed quickly. We are playing well, the ground has good atmosphere but we seriously need to generate more income.
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GPR - Rochester
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For sure the Scarlets & lets face it most clubs could do better. However bearing in mind the financial constraints post covid in addition to the total lack of support & forward planning of the WRU I have to say that my visit on Saturday was top quality. i was very fortunate to have been a guest in the Quinnell lounge pre & post game and the whole day's event was very well presented & professionally run.
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pillory
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PRB/WRU is asking the regions to simply do better at commercial.
But getting the skills who can connect you to major businesses, reinvent the marketing plan etc itself requires investment. Chicken and egg situation. I'd expect to see the WRU, being a much larger organisation, in many more networks, take on/share some commercial capability for the regions.
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Wasp
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There’s a lot more we could do in terms of personalised digital marketing. I know that professionals in that field have pitched it to the club and might do so again, but the club has been very risk averse in the past. The attractiveness of the product with 9000+ in the Parc is increased for everyone. Spectators, sponsors, TV audiences etc.
If anything happens to the Os, we simply have to invest in marketing to the casual fans and businesses in the area. And we have to professionalise our retail marketing. If only to say we’ve tried it!
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We're still still here, but I wish we were in an Anglo-Welsh
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RR1972
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If the regions had better kick off times and more Accessto
Their best players they could do better commercially. The wru refusal to release players who have played literally no rugby for the last few weeks is a diagrace
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lofty evans
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Totally agree...the Scarlets get their international players for a few games a season and for me it's absolute tosh...its Gatland saying their mine and my my my players and you can't have them...its been like this for years.....and then the WRU have the audacity to suggest to get our marketing right...JUST FICK OFF WRU. The attraction of seeing the international players playing for their club side is always a selling point.....its a fact of life I want and you want to see the best players possible.....I don't get this non release of Welsh players and the excuse of don't want them injured....so I will say it again eff off WRU and Gatland.....the one thing I've learnt watching rugby is match fitness and match hardness and having the successful teams play regularly with the same players week in week out. The Scarlets of 92 had more or less the same 15 week in week out with a few tweets for injury, the Welsh teams of the 70s who worked and played for Wales and were incredibly successful must look at the way the Welsh squad are claimed, contained and restricted to their clubs as a bit of a laugh and sums up the WRU as they own the players..... |
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In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"
"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us" |
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reesytheexile
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Edited by reesytheexile - 20 February 2023 at 12:16pm |
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sospanman
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I read a great deal on here about "WRU income", "WRU funding", "WRU money". Let's not forget, take away regional players and that will be irrelevant - apart from "WRU hotel income/debt".
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Seagultaf
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I totally agree. The WRU audited accounts have a note explaining the more than doubled level of debt, attributing £50M of this debt to the money borrowed to build the hotel. They have also spoken recently about the pressure they are under to reduce their level of debt. And in another press release spoken about the cost of servicing debt, including repayments and interest at just under £5M per annum. Which coincidently is pretty much what they are saying they need to reduce the funding of the regions by. I really hope the Scarlets board are challenging them on these points. The obvious solution seems to be, to sell the hotel to clear the debt and then focus on their core business product, which is rugby!
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ladram
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Didn't Nigel Walker categorically state that not a penny of WRU money go into the building of the hotel?
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reesytheexile
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We could have a core of SF forum members taking turns to sit in a little public relations kiosk just over the Loughor Bridge with the sign “ All is forgiven.The Scarlets welcome all old Ospreys fans ” pinned above it ? It would be very popular with the Jacks I imagine 😉😂
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