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<blockquote data-quote="powerfulduck" data-source="post: 575408" data-attributes="member: 58567"><p>Firstly yes there are small rugby clubs in Birmingham, Kings heath RFC for example by me is fairly close by but it there's only about 100 people involved including spectators. It's the only club in an area with a population of 100000 so that's a ratio of 1 in 1000 are interested, hardly awe inspiring. Another bone of contention I have is that we never had exposure to the sport in schools, I attended a run of the mill mixed secondary school that had 300 kids per year with roughly a 50/50 split in gender and we had 3 football teams and a netball team for the girls. The football teams were reduced to one team of 11 for 150 boys between the ages of 11-16 and nothing else. It was much the same in the other schools around the area, the only schools I know of that played Rugby or Cricket were wealthy Private schools. If kids are denied access how will the sport ever grow? Birmingham is a city of 1million people and I know of 4 schools that play Rugby that's criminal. With regards to the franchising it's something I don't like simply because I've adopted Moseley as my team and they have a fairly rich history but attendance is approx. 800 people per game and talking to guys who were around back in there heyday I'd rather see Moseley resurgent.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="powerfulduck, post: 575408, member: 58567"] Firstly yes there are small rugby clubs in Birmingham, Kings heath RFC for example by me is fairly close by but it there's only about 100 people involved including spectators. It's the only club in an area with a population of 100000 so that's a ratio of 1 in 1000 are interested, hardly awe inspiring. Another bone of contention I have is that we never had exposure to the sport in schools, I attended a run of the mill mixed secondary school that had 300 kids per year with roughly a 50/50 split in gender and we had 3 football teams and a netball team for the girls. The football teams were reduced to one team of 11 for 150 boys between the ages of 11-16 and nothing else. It was much the same in the other schools around the area, the only schools I know of that played Rugby or Cricket were wealthy Private schools. If kids are denied access how will the sport ever grow? Birmingham is a city of 1million people and I know of 4 schools that play Rugby that's criminal. With regards to the franchising it's something I don't like simply because I've adopted Moseley as my team and they have a fairly rich history but attendance is approx. 800 people per game and talking to guys who were around back in there heyday I'd rather see Moseley resurgent. [/QUOTE]
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