ComeAllWithin
Rugby => ComeAllWithin Board => Topic started by: @ on Monday 28-Mar-2022, 22:49*
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I think that they are giving away free tickets to local residents.
I think it is on the RFU site
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I've already told you...
No you haven't!
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This is why this board needs a new administrator.
David O'Keeffe has clearly given up.
You are Colin Robinson and I claim my £5
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Is this the right room for.....
I've already told you...
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Is this the right room for.....
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Yes it is big nose!
This isn't proper bickering.
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But presumably the RFU get some money for putting this on. What sort of "vision" turns down free cash? To me it's like the Army/Navy. I have no affiliation to either so why would I bother. But if other people do and generate money that the RFU then uses to promote rugby, I can't say I have a problem with the fixture.
No quite. It is mostly harmless and I don’t have a problem with it existing, but they are really the only things that the RFU hosts beyond England games.
It just seems a shame that the only “accessible” rugby events at HQ make the world seem like nothing has changed since about 1950.
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Well, and you too, I'd have thought! Or are you suggesting you'd been hacked? 😁
No I just don’t like being spoken to disrespectfully by someone hiding behind a keyboard.
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Until those involved aren't making a profit, I guess. Which also answers your last sentence. If the RFU weren't making money on the event, I doubt it would be at Twickenham.
Not that I have any issue. For me, it's much the same as the BTS concert that was supposed to be at Twickenham. Of very little interest to me but if others enjoy it, there is minimal disruption to local residents (beyond the fact that we all moved to Twickenham knowing that there is a bloody big stadium there) and it helps to fund the RFU then what's the problem?
As I say, there isn’t a problem. It just seems like a) it doesn’t make massive amounts of money as the stadium isn’t fully open and b) it doesn’t do anything for the future of rugby, which raises the question of how long it remains worth hosting it.
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I'm assuming this is something to do with whoever it was that wrote things on posts I'd done.
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Well, and you too, I'd have thought! Or are you suggesting you'd been hacked? 😁
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Did he just say "Blessed are the cheesemakers"?
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No it isn't.
Yes it is big nose!
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But presumably the RFU get some money for putting this on. What sort of "vision" turns down free cash? To me it's like the Army/Navy. I have no affiliation to either so why would I bother. But if other people do and generate money that the RFU then uses to promote rugby, I can't say I have a problem with the fixture.
Pretty much where I'm at. If the two unis want to play at Twickenham and stomach the cost of hiring the place then it makes sense for the RFU to keep taking the revenue.
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But presumably the RFU get some money for putting this on. What sort of "vision" turns down free cash? To me it's like the Army/Navy. I have no affiliation to either so why would I bother. But if other people do and generate money that the RFU then uses to promote rugby, I can't say I have a problem with the fixture.
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I do wonder how much longer the Varsity match needs to be treated as some kind of "event".
Until those involved aren't making a profit, I guess. Which also answers your last sentence. If the RFU weren't making money on the event, I doubt it would be at Twickenham.
Not that I have any issue. For me, it's much the same as the BTS concert that was supposed to be at Twickenham. Of very little interest to me but if others enjoy it, there is minimal disruption to local residents (beyond the fact that we all moved to Twickenham knowing that there is a bloody big stadium there) and it helps to fund the RFU then what's the problem?
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I'm assuming this is something to do with whoever it was that wrote things on posts I'd done.
Anyway, back to the original point -- I do wonder how much longer the Varsity match needs to be treated as some kind of "event".
I don't particularly have anything against it, it just seems irrelevant in the world of modern professional rugby -- or indeed to anyone generally interested in going to an event or a big sporting occasion.
It's not been the case in several decades that these two teams have any kind of position in the rugby world that makes them interesting, and we are 30 years past anyone caring if Oxford or Cambridge is better at rugby even if you went to either of them - or indeed Hull (as we know Oxford is a complete dump).
I vaguely understand the Boat Race as now having become a bit of an "english summer fixture" but it's mainly an excuse for a certain demographic of people in london to go drinking by the river - but again I wonder what the tv audiences for it are like now in a multi-channel digital world where we're not all starved of sport to watch.
It would seem slightly less 20th century if we kicked the varsity match out and put on a tournament that was more relevant to growing the fan base of the sport - or growing participation.
Again, I'm not bothered if the varsity carries on (before someone accuses me of being "upset") -- but even as a dull old bloke who's 50 and went to a posh school and university - it feels utterly irrelevant. Sadly, replacing it would require the RFU to have some kind of vision.
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Some bickering is enjoyable...in moderation.
Agreed. Also I'm hampered not knowing the relationship between people. If Person A calls Person B "big nose", that can look insulting if you don't know the two are friends and this is just banter. In this case someone complained about the thread descending into bickering, otherwise I'd probably have left it.
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No it isn't.
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Some bickering is enjoyable...in moderation.
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I've removed the bickering that this thread descended to. Can we stick to the forum rules regarding posts please.
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After the last match the Clubs did a survey about what people thought should be done about the match bearing in mind it has been traditionally mid-week in December and crowds have been declining for years. My input was:1. It would be better played at the Stoop as the crowd could fit in there and give the game some atmosphere; 2. Midweek no longer worked as people were not going to take an afternoon off for the game anymore; 3. Ticket prices were too high bearing in mind the standard. I would expect most people who responded said the same things. So it has been moved to the Spring now and on a Saturday in the hope of increasing attendance. But it is still down for Big Stoop (so no atmosphere and the venue 1/4 full) and the ticket prices , in my view, are eye wateringly expensive for the game. It looks like only the Lower Stand at Big Stoop is available and the higher end of that is £50 per seat and the bottom end £35. Too much.So I am not going this year. I appreciate they probably have to be high because of the cost of hiring Big Stoop-so, for heaven's sake, play it somewhere else where the prices for seats can be lower and the ground can be full.
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