: Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:14 am  

Absolutely fantastic day out!

: Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:23 pm  

Cala Millor Rhino wrote:

Sometimes these things just happen, you also should take into account that the majority of the dragons team played last week, where as how many of the warrington players played in the international.

Two did.

Meanwhile, Warrington had a game on the Sunday while the likes of Mogg, McGuire, Bell, Ryles, Carlaw, Greenshields etc had a weekend off.

: Sun Jun 21, 2009 8:04 pm  

returned from Barca, must say what a turn out from the Catalans supporters and also the travelling Wire support. Thought the Wire were lucky to be only 10 - 6 down at half time you could have scored on a number of ocasions. We knuckled down in the second half and finished moves off. Great atmosphere both in and around the ground made this a special occasion although the right result for the Wire

Your club must have done a really good job with the marketing of this game to the Perpignan based Catalan fans, well done.

Look forward to the next trip to Catalan.

: Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:51 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

Absolutely fantastic day out!

Great to hear, unfortunate results though. Fans are very disapointed. Not sure the stadium was the best choice: looked largely empty with twice as much as the number of supporters in Perpignan . It certainly did not help the team to feel the home support...
Hopefully the lacklustre of the result will not affect the interest of the locals in the game and the Dragons for the next time

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:13 am  

lpage wrote:

Great to hear, unfortunate results though. Fans are very disapointed. Not sure the stadium was the best choice: looked largely empty with twice as much as the number of supporters in Perpignan . It certainly did not help the team to feel the home support...
Hopefully the lacklustre of the result will not affect the interest of the locals in the game and the Dragons for the next time

Unfortunate results? Ok Catalans lost but Catalonia won and played some great rugby.
Maybe the supporters should be asking the players for answers not the club. The players just seemed to stop trying 10 minutes into the second half.
You say Lluis Companys wasn't the best choice, but how many stadiums were there to choose from?

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:27 am  

Catalancs wrote:

Unfortunate results? Ok Catalans lost but Catalonia won and played some great rugby.

You cant say the result did any favours, a win would have looked better and might have brought a few more along next time. (hopefully there is a next time)

Catalancs wrote:

You say Lluis Companys wasn't the best choice, but how many stadiums were there to choose from?

You might know a bit more about these grounds than me but.......

Estadi de la Nova Creu Alta 20k
Nou Estadi 14k
Camp d'Esports 14k
Mini Estadi 15k

there were a lot more there too, I think the ground did look a bit empty in places but I feel were nit picking, 18k in spain and we still find something to moan about!!

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:31 am  

marvwoodburn wrote:

You cant say the result did any favours, a win would have looked better and might have brought a few more along next time. (hopefully there is a next time)

There were two games on Saturday and the Catalonia-Czech Republic game drew a large crowd. A lot of people after the game were talking about the first game.
True a Dragons win would have looked better, but they were outplayed.

marvwoodburn wrote:

You might know a bit more about these grounds than me but.......

Estadi de la Nova Creu Alta 20k
Nou Estadi 14k
Camp d'Esports 14k
Mini Estadi 15k

Nova Creu Alta, Camp d'esports and el Nou Estadi aren't in Barcelona.
La Nova Creu Alta is in Sabadell.
El Nou Estadi is in Tarragona.
El Camp d'Esports in is Lleida.
The mini estadi is next door to the Camp Nou, but there are two things. Firstly, was it even a choice? Would Barça have even entertained the idea?
I know there was a game there yesterday. Secondly looking at the capacity that means that around 3,000 fans would have been denied the chance to see the two games. Those could have been 3,000 potential new fans.

marvwoodburn wrote:

there were a lot more there too, I think the ground did look a bit empty in places but I feel were nit picking, 18k in spain and we still find something to moan about!!

To be honest I didn't pay too much attention the empty spaces as I was too busy watching the games. Some of the Rugby played by Catalonia and both Super League teams in the first half was excellent.

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:55 am  

Catalancs wrote:

There were two games on Saturday and the Catalonia-Czech Republic game drew a large crowd.

but how many would it have drawn had it been played as a stand alone game?

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:58 am  

Cala Millor Rhino wrote:

but how many would it have drawn had it been played as a stand alone game?

Not many. Don't understand why you asked the question though?
It was played before the 'main' game as a way to show Catalans that there is a league and national team in Catalonia. There was lots of publivcity for the league and the international against Morocco in July.

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:19 am  

Catalancs wrote:

Not many. Don't understand why you asked the question though?
It was played before the 'main' game as a way to show Catalans that there is a league and national team in Catalonia. There was lots of publivcity for the league and the international against Morocco in July.

I don't understand why there are "international" games with Catalonia. Is there a refusal to build a Spanish team? The use of the term international is a bit questionable and seems to me like making a political point about Catalonia being a country. What's your views?