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<blockquote data-quote="Peat" data-source="post: 596501" data-attributes="member: 42330"><p>For every club supporter who'd take the hump and decide they wouldn't support a region just because they'd supplanted the clubs in the Heineken Cup there's probably about... I've no idea of the numbers really. But there's 2.5m people affiliated with RFU clubs and only 1m people watching the Premiership highlights on the last count. There's like, what, about 100k people walking through the turnstiles most weekends? If that.</p><p></p><p>But the point is there's an awful lot of rugby fans who don't support a big pro club. They support England, and the team they play for, and maybe one of the pro sides. They probably don't support them that heavily. That's probably truer of some parts of the country than others, but certainly at my club, I've basically described everyone there. I've described most of the people I know at other clubs too.</p><p></p><p>Basically - there's enough casual rugby support in England untapped that a group of pee'd off club supporters might not be the end of the world. There probably wouldn't be that many of them if we followed the Kiwi model. However... that would require a pretty big change to the season I think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peat, post: 596501, member: 42330"] For every club supporter who'd take the hump and decide they wouldn't support a region just because they'd supplanted the clubs in the Heineken Cup there's probably about... I've no idea of the numbers really. But there's 2.5m people affiliated with RFU clubs and only 1m people watching the Premiership highlights on the last count. There's like, what, about 100k people walking through the turnstiles most weekends? If that. But the point is there's an awful lot of rugby fans who don't support a big pro club. They support England, and the team they play for, and maybe one of the pro sides. They probably don't support them that heavily. That's probably truer of some parts of the country than others, but certainly at my club, I've basically described everyone there. I've described most of the people I know at other clubs too. Basically - there's enough casual rugby support in England untapped that a group of pee'd off club supporters might not be the end of the world. There probably wouldn't be that many of them if we followed the Kiwi model. However... that would require a pretty big change to the season I think. [/QUOTE]
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