: Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:14 am  

Meefy wrote:

Best game of the Heineken Cup so far today at the Millennium Stadium.
Looks like the gamble to switch grounds paid off with 27000 attending.

Excellent game & well worth the £15.00 I paid for me & my son to go. the Glawsterr fans certainly did their bit to crank up the atmoshere, although only opening the middle & lower tiers helped. Vainokolo was pertty anonymous when he came on I thought

: Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:34 am  

With Sale selling out Edgeley Park for the first time (IIRC) for the visit of Munster, is the Heineken Cup finally starting to capture the imagination and interest of English and Welsh fans in the same way it has the Irish and the French in recent years?

: Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:13 am  

Andy Gilder wrote:

With Sale selling out Edgeley Park for the first time (IIRC) for the visit of Munster, is the Heineken Cup finally starting to capture the imagination and interest of English and Welsh fans in the same way it has the Irish and the French in recent years?

Possibly, although I think the pricing helped with the Blues game, I'll reserve judgement until after I've seen the crowd for the Biarritz game at the Arms Park in December.

: Sat Oct 25, 2008 1:07 pm  

DAIHAPPY wrote:

Possibly, although I think the pricing helped with the Blues game, I'll reserve judgement until after I've seen the crowd for the Biarritz game at the Arms Park in December.

With maximum points from 2 games, that should also help boost the crowd. From memory its about a 12,500 capacity, so really anything under 10,000 would be a disaster.

Be interesting how much they get against Leicester in the EDF today.

: Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:41 pm  

Meefy wrote:

With maximum points from 2 games, that should also help boost the crowd. From memory its about a 12,500 capacity, so really anything under 10,000 would be a disaster.

Be interesting how much they get against Leicester in the EDF today.

9815, according to be BBC. I suspect that it'll be much higher for the visit of Bath on Friday night, I remember going to to see them play in a friendly about 10 years ago & we ended up building our own terracing out of a pile of breeze blocks under the hospitality boxes at the River Taff end, there were that many in the ground. Victor Obugu got sent off that night for being chopsy, so that dates it.

: Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:59 pm  

DAIHAPPY wrote: Excellent game & well worth the £15.00 I paid for me & my son to go. the Glawsterr fans certainly did their bit to crank up the atmoshere, although only opening the middle & lower tiers helped. Vainokolo was pertty anonymous when he came on I thought he was not anonymouse this weekend in Bath

DAIHAPPY wrote: Excellent game & well worth the £15.00 I paid for me & my son to go. the Glawsterr fans certainly did their bit to crank up the atmoshere, although only opening the middle & lower tiers helped. Vainokolo was pertty anonymous when he came on I thought he was not anonymouse this weekend in Bath

: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:29 pm  

Knaresborough Rhino II wrote: he was not anonymouse this weekend in Bath

Knaresborough Rhino II wrote: he was not anonymouse this weekend in Bath

: Sat Nov 08, 2008 3:19 am  

aussie's wallaby's play italy today

: Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:21 pm  

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/welsh/7709020.stm The thing that gets me thinking here is that the same day England are playing New Zealand. What are England going to do if the clubs refuse to release the players because it falls outside of the international window.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/welsh/7709020.stm The thing that gets me thinking here is that the same day England are playing New Zealand. What are England going to do if the clubs refuse to release the players because it falls outside of the international window.

: Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:09 pm  

On the BBC news today at teatime the Rugby Union international friendlies Wales v South Africa and England v Pacific Islanders got a mention but nothing about Englands Rugby League World Cup game in Australia so i was told earlier on.