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Guinness Pro 12 2014/15: Three changes for next year
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<blockquote data-quote="valley commando" data-source="post: 731842" data-attributes="member: 72217"><p>So based on what you said re franchises only in the larger towns and cities -: llanelli only have 6,000 more people than Ponty.</p><p>You say smugly that club rugby died with the advent of pro rugby, when in fact it died when the WRUin forced the regions on us, which nobody wanted then and very few want now.</p><p>The Blues average 8,000 at home. </p><p>Pre the regions in the 2001/2002 Celtic league Cardiff, Ponty Bridgend and Caerphilly, the average Cardiff crowd was 5,500, Ponty 4,070, Bridgend 3,150 and Caerphilly 2,300 a total of 15,020, so over 7,000 fans not interested in plastic regions and only an extra 2,500 on Cardiffs old gates.</p><p>With an East and West region the crowds would return and with the addition of the Gwent based clubs boost the crowds to as much as 20,000 plus for each home game for the East.</p><p>Although from a logistic financial and fans perspective this would make sense, perfect hair and the piemen will ensure it never does, so Welsh rugby will continue to be run for the minority and the piemen will get fatter whilst perfect hair continues to glance at his own reflection in every mirror and Cardiff shop window not giving a **** what anyone outside of Cardiff thinks or feels.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="valley commando, post: 731842, member: 72217"] So based on what you said re franchises only in the larger towns and cities -: llanelli only have 6,000 more people than Ponty. You say smugly that club rugby died with the advent of pro rugby, when in fact it died when the WRUin forced the regions on us, which nobody wanted then and very few want now. The Blues average 8,000 at home. Pre the regions in the 2001/2002 Celtic league Cardiff, Ponty Bridgend and Caerphilly, the average Cardiff crowd was 5,500, Ponty 4,070, Bridgend 3,150 and Caerphilly 2,300 a total of 15,020, so over 7,000 fans not interested in plastic regions and only an extra 2,500 on Cardiffs old gates. With an East and West region the crowds would return and with the addition of the Gwent based clubs boost the crowds to as much as 20,000 plus for each home game for the East. Although from a logistic financial and fans perspective this would make sense, perfect hair and the piemen will ensure it never does, so Welsh rugby will continue to be run for the minority and the piemen will get fatter whilst perfect hair continues to glance at his own reflection in every mirror and Cardiff shop window not giving a **** what anyone outside of Cardiff thinks or feels. [/QUOTE]
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