Oh and the view from the corporate boxes on the lower tier are rubbish, can't see any high balls due to the middle their overhang!
Well, IF they sold Twickenham and IF they then went on to build a new stadium an ideal location would be anywhere along HS2 and plan a station for the stadium site.
Who knows the price but having the stadium outside london may improve the appeal.
The stadium itself is not too bad apart from big queues at bars, tiny leg room, overpriced food, huge lack of cup return points, not enough ladies loo facilities and of its raining you get very wet queuing for the train home!
Apart from that it's great 🤔
You forgot to mention overpriced seats, or was that a given?
Some of his points are valid. It isn't a great stadium, the facilities are rubbish, transport is a pain at the best of times.... However selling it and leasing it back would be daft!
His article is can basically be summed up as 'I find it difficult to get to Twickenham so please build me a stadium somewhere more convenient'
Having said that, Twickenham is an awful stadium in a nice part of town, the opposite of Wembley which is a nice stadium in a rubbish part of town.
https://www.therugbypaper.co.uk/latest-news/37455/former-labour-mp-calls-on-rfu-to-sell-twickenham-stadium/
Former Labour MP calls on RFU to sell Twickenham Stadium
Posted on 9th July 2020 by admin in Guinness Six Nations, International Rugby, Latest News with 0 Comments
RFU headquarters at Twickenham
FORMER England winger and Labour MP Derek Wyatt has called on the RFU to sell their crown jewels – Twickenham Stadium.
Wyatt, the Bedford try-machine who was capped once in 1976, believes such a controversial move is necessary because of the transport difficulties getting to and from English rugby’s HQ and the cash crisis affecting rugby.
“The way in which you can solve the crisis we’ve got at the moment is to sell Twickenham, if you can get a fair price, and lease it back. Then, while you’re waiting, build a new stadium in a transport-friendly location,” he said bluntly.
“For most of us it is a hassle getting to Twickenham at the best of times let alone on a Friday night like for the Argentina game in November.
“The rush hour out of London starts at 2.30 on Friday. You could get there by train, but you’d have to stand on the roof because the trains are packed on Friday and the tubes are packed. What day of the week were they when they signed that deal with television? It’s bonkers.
“Afterwards, it’s worse. At 10/10.30 in the evening in the pouring rain, how do 80,000 people get home? Does anyone ask that question at Twickenham? It seems to me they don’t.”
The Argentina game, the second match of the four-match Autumn series, is scheduled for November 14, and is the first evening kick-off at Twickenham since the ground hosted matches at Rugby World Cup 2015.
Wyatt adds: “Don’t be arrogant in thinking you can always fill Twickenham.
“We are going to have higher taxation to pay for the pandemic, and there is going to be less money in our pockets for the next five-to-ten years.
“I don’t think a family could afford to come, and even if they could, the facilities aren’t there.
“They told us they were going to fix the facilities for women at the 2015 World Cup, but what happened to that?
“They spent £15m on the stadium but where are the women’s toilets, the baby-changing facilities and the playground for children?
“The RFU have just become a money machine and it is running out of money. Maybe it’s time to take a bigger decision.”
I think that you/we/I are giving this person far too much time and coverage.
You forgot to mention overpriced seats, or was that a given?
Ah yes but that is supply and demand with a large side of capitalism.
If sponcers such as my employer spend big for association and us rugby folk spend big for tickets, the price I was offered seats for at the 6nations were £170 at face value, then they will charge as much as people are willing to pay.
The stadium itself is not too bad apart from big queues at bars, tiny leg room, overpriced food, huge lack of cup return points, not enough ladies loo facilities and of its raining you get very wet queuing for the train home!
Apart from that it's great 🤔
I don’t disagree but is there a better equivalent stadium in England?
Wembley is too far for me to walk to. It’s nice enough inside and the view is mostly good but it has the same transport, overpriced food, queues etc as Twickenham. Building a new stadium somewhere else and making HQ redundant isn’t environmentally friendly either.
The stadium itself is not too bad apart from big queues at bars, tiny leg room, overpriced food, huge lack of cup return points, not enough ladies loo facilities and of its raining you get very wet queuing for the train home!
Apart from that it's great 🤔
And, wow, is it ugly. From the outside it has all of the charm of a multistory car park with a job lot of cheap green portakabins plonked on top.
Has this man never been to Paris or Rome to watch Rugby, both are terrible stadiums in the middle of nowhere, the Aviva and Murrayfield also arent the easiest places to get to and The Millennium is in Wales. I dont understand where he thinks the RFU could build a new stadium even if they wanted too. ;D