Ospreys Scarletts merging
Region for North Wales
Who would have thought it.
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Ospreys Scarletts merging
Region for North Wales
Who would have thought it.
Doesn’t surprise me, they screwed up regional rugby when they brought it in. it was at the expense of clubs that has been going for years. I stopped following rugby after the demise of the Celtic Warriors. Premiership clubs are in a financial mess, Pontypridd, for example, are trying to crowdfund £100,000 to keep going. But it’s ok, cos Wayals are winning.Originally Posted by dandywarhol
The two most successful regions? Don't the WRU own the Dragons, and the Blues go from talking about a sliding pitch to selling up to having to drastically cut the budget. I get wanting to expand into the north but either rip up the links to old club sides and have South East, South West and North regions or merge the Blues and Dragons.
Or is this my biased football head saying that Newport County and Wales' Women may want a bit less egg on their pitch?
I can’t see scarlets fans accepting this if anything it should be the blues and dragons who should merge
WRU already own the Dragons, soon to own the region up North. Nearly at their end game of an Irish style model of ownership.
Scarlets and Ospreys merger? They could call the new region the Redbirds
Either way, you’ll get fans who won’t buy into a merger. The warriors were the only region that properly tried to merge, took the names out and started new, but even then fans wouldn’t travel to the other club’s ground. Look what happened when the blues moved to the ccs, attendances plummeted.
I don’t get it, why do they keep merging? Surely, Llanelli and Neath are rivals? Where would they play? Why don’t they just go back to normal clubs in the places they are....weird.
Not sure that is true. Blues attendance at the CCS were pretty much what they are now overall- with some games being 20k plus.
They should have stuck with it but they old timers who liked a pint in the city arms pre match had too much power.
I don't think it should be a merger. Bin the Ospreys and call the new team the Scarlets. That way you only isolate one group of fans.
I think if they go with two super clubs (Scarlets and Blues) and use the North and Dragons as development teams they have a pool of talent that can regularly compete to knock out stages of Euro tournaments people would watch.
There was a bus of us trying to get to get tickets for the Scarlets QF last season from CF38. Sports fans can easily be bought with on field success and a free scarf.
Gwent Dragons.whatever happened to them ?
They should go back to the way it was. Swansea, Cardiff, Newport, Pontypridd, Pontypool etc. We feel affiliation to our cities. Who feels affiliation to made up regions.
That won't work. Ponty are on the verge of collapsing, Neath already gone.
They should have gone North South East and West when they first went regional. Worst thing they did was give in to Pontypridd etc.
Ospreys are the ones on the shakiest ground so it makes sense to bin them.
I don’t know why they didn’t follow the Southern Hemisphere model, it works really well.
Exactly.
I'd love to see a mid district team that people could buy into as a progression onto the Blues.
What's that ?
Yep, send ‘em all down there👍😂
As an outsider looking in it seems as though it’s been buggered about with so much that a fan’s identity with a side has been eroded. How can you automatically start supporting a manufactured club? Seems impossible in my eyes.
Why dont they all :
merge onto one team
play 6 times a year ,
get a load of ladies in with daffodil hats to scream and wave .
set off fireworks,
pipe in music for false special atmosphere.
sell drinks in wibbly wobbly plastic glasses for a fiver .
Never catch on 🤪
The Osplets? Or the Scarspreys?
Training in Swansea and playing in Llanelli apparently. Makes no sense.
Also playing league games in Llanelli and European games at the Liberty.
What about ‘Down the Swanii’?
That’s the swanii way is it? Well, they do sing rugby songs at the Liberty mainly so maybe it’s a go er
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