Re: Wembley Stadium today.. : Sat Mar 31, 2012 9:51 pm  

From where i live in the Black Country, our game starts at Widnes,simply because it is the closest Superleague Team to me....then we go north....We will never match the Union Game in terms of numbers,,,if anyone looked at the game at Wembley today,it was absoloutley great in terms of marketing and promotion...Wasn*t a bad game also.....(Am i allowed to say that,,Whoops)..!!

Re: If you must discuss Union, do it here II : Sat Mar 31, 2012 9:53 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

Day out at rugby union popular in south. Well I never!

The rfu know how to put on an event

Re: Wembley Stadium today.. : Sat Mar 31, 2012 10:30 pm  

Some people have a willy measuring competition....Sl fans have a chip on shoulder measuring competition.
MY CHIPS BIGGER THAN YOURS

Re: If you must discuss Union, do it here II : Sat Mar 31, 2012 11:32 pm  

Anyway, let's not turn this into the now regular 'union is great, rugby league is poop' spiel.

I wonder when Sale Sharks are going to tell us all what their massive news is.

Re: If you must discuss Union, do it here II : Sat Mar 31, 2012 11:46 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

Anyway, let's not turn this into the now regular 'union is great, rugby league is poop' spiel.

But it's not fair...the RFU have friends in high places and we RL types are just poor put upon working class types...

Catalancs wrote:

I wonder when Sale Sharks are going to tell us all what their massive news is.

They've managed to lose less money this year?

Re: Wembley Stadium today.. : Sun Apr 01, 2012 9:48 am  

Mild mannered Janitor wrote:

Many who attend RU games go to it for the event / occasion. A bit like horse racing to a certain degree. You know, the local racecourses get your avid followers and pro gamblers, the show piece events like The National and Ascot get the people who just want to go to be there, as well as the real sports enthusiasts.

Personally I don't have any problem with this, yet there are some who seem to think this is to be derided.

Why is it that that too many RL fans are too worried about the atmosphere or "how bad it will look on TV"? I have read on this forum in the past of how some fans would not be attending certain games as there would not be much of a crowd there It's a good job not all think that way isn't it

Let's face it, the stereotypical RL fan is passionate about their sport. Unfortunately the stereotypical RL fan tends to have a chip on their shoulder about lack of national coverage and then a few will try and compare RL to other sports.

If you like RL, great, enjoy it. If you don't like RU, fair enough. But do yourself a favour and dont compare them. It's not a like for like comparison.

I'm not comparing them, however I like an atmosphere at a game. Considering there was 84,000, it was very quiet. That's just Union though. The game wasn't too bad, last 10 being the stand out.

Re: If you must discuss Union, do it here II : Sun Apr 01, 2012 10:14 am  

Catalancs wrote:

I wonder when Sale Sharks are going to tell us all what their massive news is.

new coach?

Re: If you must discuss Union, do it here II : Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:33 pm  

Just to put some of the misconceptions on here to bed.

There were NO free tickets for this game. Ok, corporates and such, yes. But to the general public - no. They were given out to customers from places like Aviva, but Aviva paid for the tickets first so it isn't completely free. Free in terms of the fan was given it, maybe. But the club will be making the same amount of money.

McFly at half time - they would have played about 4 songs. That might have got maybe 5,000-10,000 people in there. Living in Manchester I can tell you they've played the Apollo recently which holds 3,500 people. I'm not a chart follower anymore but McFly aren't one of the big names anymore and tend to play theatres more than arenas or stadiums so it's not like they got any superstars of the moment.

Saracens average attendance - yes, sometimes they only get 6,000 at home. Their fans hate Vicarage Road. Have any of you ever been? I haven't but I've seen it enough times. It's an old fashioned stadium in which one side got closed down due to health and safety, the rest is faded and grey, Watford isn't meant to be the nicest of places. They're moving to Barnet next season in a 10,000 capacity ground. The real test will be filling that near to capacity every game. But like someone has said, it's going to Wembley that's the experience. Do you think the Super League Grand Final would get over 60,000 every year if it was held at a rubbish venue? No, I really don't. They never shut up about "Old Trafford in October" when you're watching Super League. If it was held at a rubbish Rugby League ground every year, St Helens fans would sure get bored of losing in every final, that's for sure.

Posh boys day out - I can't really comment on everybody. There's no point in going over old rubbish as it will go around in circles as it has for 150 years. But as a working class Rugby Union supporter I really don't think yesterdays game was anything like that. Rugby Sevens - now that's where you want to be making those sort of digs. Probably the worst excuse for Rugby there is, thousands of p!ssed up posh Aussies and Southern lads in their mid 20s just there for the drink. Yesterdays game was really marketed at families I believe. Don't forget - Harlequins nearly fill The Stoop these days and get massive crowds when they play at Twickenham themselves.

Either way - they got 84,000 people there for a club game and a Rugby League forum with 4 pages of people arguing about it. It obviously worked.

Re: If you must discuss Union, do it here II : Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:42 pm  

Shark J wrote:

Just to put some of the misconceptions on here to bed.

Not a chance on here

Re: If you must discuss Union, do it here II : Sun Apr 01, 2012 8:00 pm  

Shark J, that thread you mention is comparing the marketing prowess of the RFL and RFU, not the union game at Wembley.
Gutterfax, grow up.

How embarrassingly amateur of Sky Sports to say, ad nauseum, that the attendance record for a club rugby game had been broken. Ignorance is bliss I suppose.

I notice how no one has talked about the actual game yet.