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Re: What puts you off watching Rugby on the telly?
Georgia are 12th in the world rankings, above Italy. One of the sides just outside the "elite". Shows the eggers disappear in droves when its not quality opposition.
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LordKenwyne
8k fans for panama and apparently welsh rugby is hemorrhaging support hahahaaaaaa
sad I've got to laugh at the football but people on this forum just turn me off
I remember there being tiny crowds for games such as samoa years ago. Me and my mates as kids had the run of the stadium sat in about 50 seats each more or less doing full laps of the stadium.
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ken smith
Why doesn't that apply for football then?
It’s difficult to explain, I guess it just feels like a typical rugby international is too much razzmatazz these days, an event to be seen at. A club game is more about the game.
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TH63
It’s difficult to explain, I guess it just feels like a typical rugby international is too much razzmatazz these days, an event to be seen at. A club game is more about the game.
Yes. Jonny Owen summed it up saying that it is an "event" and you and he are correct.
The six (5) nations is an institution which many countries worldwide are envious of.
It has its place in the sporting calendar and long may it continue.
People just need to get some perspective.
By the way apart from the off few clubs, club rugby is shite. RU has not coped well with going professional.
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Wales played well , some exciting youngsters coming through
Kurtley Beale is a world class player who can play anywhere in the backs and hooper is quality
As for the Aussie scrum half ? Best number 9 in the world
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Yes they only sold 65 thousand for a friendly,I wonder how many theWales FA will sell for their friendly against Panama 15 thousand if they're lucky?
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Ianto13
Yes they only sold 65 thousand for a friendly,I wonder how many theWales FA will sell for their friendly against Panama 15 thousand if they're lucky?
You're seriously comparing Australia in rugby with Panama in football?
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Ianto13
Yes they only sold 65 thousand for a friendly,I wonder how many theWales FA will sell for their friendly against Panama 15 thousand if they're lucky?
In rugby Wales are a relatively big fish in a very small pond so have been fairly successful through our entire history.
In football we have punched above our weight recently in being in and around the top ten in the world but, 1958 and 2016 aside, we have been constantly starved of success. No wonder we don’t pull consistently big crowds.
If the situations were reversed, ie the football team playing in and regularly winning a European 6 Nations tournament every year, playing a series of home games against top world sides every autumn, playing in every World Cup without having to qualify, local media saturation, and a general culture of going on an all dayer for the rugby, then I’m sure things would be very different.
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Lets face it. A Wales Rugby International is and always has been an excuse for a p!ss up.
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Ianto13
Yes they only sold 65 thousand for a friendly,I wonder how many theWales FA will sell for their friendly against Panama 15 thousand if they're lucky?
In fact, let's do a true comparison.
Australia - 3rd in egg chasing rankings. Football, that would be a game against Portugal.
Panama in football are ranked 49th. In egg chasing, that's the MIGHTY Guyana.
I bet you'll now claim the eggers would get more than 15k playing the MIGHTY Guyana, having stated they'd play youngsters. Quite frankly, a second team wouldn't be needed to stuff Guyana, sixth/seventh would do...
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Barry Shitpeas
In rugby Wales are a relatively big fish in a very small pond so have been fairly successful through our entire history.
In football we have punched above our weight recently in being in and around the top ten in the world but, 1958 and 2016 aside, we have been constantly starved of success. No wonder we don’t pull consistently big crowds.
If the situations were reversed, ie the football team playing in and regularly winning a European 6 Nations tournament every year, playing a series of home games against top world sides every autumn, playing in every World Cup without having to qualify, local media saturation, and a general culture of going on an all dayer for the rugby, then I’m sure things would be very different.
And even with all that, more people play football, more people watch football domestically, more football teams... christ, even Warburton wanted to play football rather than egg but wasn't good enough to play for us...
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Hilts
Lets face it. A Wales Rugby International is and always has been an excuse for a p!ss up.
True, but for a lot of city fans the same applies, I don't think I've seen a city game sober in the last 43 years. It's all part of the day out, meeting your mates in the pub in the morning, having a good swig, off to the match and back to the pub after, I fecking love it. Take that part away from the matchday experience and it's not half the fun.
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A mate had a spare ticket and dragged me to an egg game a few years ago.
Got bloody covered in spilt alcohol due to muppets popping off to bar every few minutes one guy went and came back with beer 6 times! it does make you wonder what was the point of even getting a ticket, he could have stayed home and got bladdered for less - not like he was watching the game.
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ccfc_is_my_life
A mate had a spare ticket and dragged me to an egg game a few years ago.
Got bloody covered in spilt alcohol due to muppets popping off to bar every few minutes one guy went and came back with beer 6 times! it does make you wonder what was the point of even getting a ticket, he could have stayed home and got bladdered for less - not like he was watching the game.
Why would what someone else does bother you sp much?
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ccfc_is_my_life
A mate had a spare ticket and dragged me to an egg game a few years ago.
Got bloody covered in spilt alcohol due to muppets popping off to bar every few minutes one guy went and came back with beer 6 times! it does make you wonder what was the point of even getting a ticket, he could have stayed home and got bladdered for less - not like he was watching the game.
This is the reason a lot of true rugby supporters don't bother going to internationals anymore, the drinking during the match spoils it for them. I never ever drink in the ground down the city, plenty of time for that before and after the game.
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dembethewarrior
Why would what someone else does bother you sp much?
Well, having been covered in alcohol was kinda the problem...
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ccfc_is_my_life
Well, having been covered in alcohol was kinda the problem...
You've made about 50 posts on it before mentioning that mind..
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dembethewarrior
You've made about 50 posts on it before mentioning that mind..
And? What does that have to do with the price of fish?
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ccfc_is_my_life
And? What does that have to do with the price of fish?
You hate rugby. So you'll nwver have a positive view if it...every experience thereafter will be a shit one.
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Hardly; my view was shaped by the disproportionate attention given to a second class sport over the real sport of Wales well before then.
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Could you imagine being allowed to have beer down the city in th stands
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ccfc_is_my_life
Hardly; my view was shaped by the disproportionate attention given to a second class sport over the real sport of Wales well before then.
I suppose I can watch cardoff and football in general and not let it bother me.
I must be strange.
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Probably, everyone is strange in their own way.
"Dembe" as in the character off the Blacklist?
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Panama are in the World Cup Finals, we are not?
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The sport itself, the crazy notion that rugby is a sign of Welshness etc...
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Ianto13
Panama are in the World Cup Finals, we are not?
Panama sure as hell wouldn't qualify if they were in the European section.
Again, how many eggers would turn up for a friendly vs Guyana? Answer, less than those who turned up for the Blues - Leicester game at CCS.
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Ianto13
Panama are in the World Cup Finals, we are not?
Loads of shit teams make it though. Weak argument really.
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ccfc_is_my_life
Probably, everyone is strange in their own way.
"Dembe" as in the character off the Blacklist?
Correct