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<blockquote data-quote="Brodizzle" data-source="post: 146452"><p>I regretted using the word 'bribe' as soon as I posted the post. I will look up on it when I'm not at work but I remember reading somewhere that NZRU had made deals to gain the support of NH hemisphere teams, which involved tours to thier nations, once again...I will search for what it was that I was reading later...</p><p></p><p>This is the World Cup we are talking about, they would attract bumper crowds from overseas and the locals will get into it if not for the huge marketing or even simply the novelty, the Pacific 6 Nations has nothing of the prestige of the World cup, to be honest I didn't watch a game of the tournament...</p><p></p><p>The stadiums over here, except for maybe Adelaide were large stadiums, even Subiaco is around 43ish thousand.</p><p></p><p>I am working under the assumption that the growth in people supporting rugby will rise therefore the standards for previous world cups in terms of capacity must be raised and also for the minnow games you can see at the moment (besides against the 3N sides) that they are getting better, so I would assume they would get better and by 2011 there would be much closer pools, with your Namibia's having a good chance to topple your England's, that would attract a fair crowd.</p><p></p><p>On a side note the new Carisbrook will be a disaster me thinks, last time I was over there a 7,000 turn out was a good turnout for a Super 14 game, other supporters preferring to simply watch it on Sky, how do they expect to fill a 30,000 stadium?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brodizzle, post: 146452"] I regretted using the word 'bribe' as soon as I posted the post. I will look up on it when I'm not at work but I remember reading somewhere that NZRU had made deals to gain the support of NH hemisphere teams, which involved tours to thier nations, once again...I will search for what it was that I was reading later... This is the World Cup we are talking about, they would attract bumper crowds from overseas and the locals will get into it if not for the huge marketing or even simply the novelty, the Pacific 6 Nations has nothing of the prestige of the World cup, to be honest I didn't watch a game of the tournament... The stadiums over here, except for maybe Adelaide were large stadiums, even Subiaco is around 43ish thousand. I am working under the assumption that the growth in people supporting rugby will rise therefore the standards for previous world cups in terms of capacity must be raised and also for the minnow games you can see at the moment (besides against the 3N sides) that they are getting better, so I would assume they would get better and by 2011 there would be much closer pools, with your Namibia's having a good chance to topple your England's, that would attract a fair crowd. On a side note the new Carisbrook will be a disaster me thinks, last time I was over there a 7,000 turn out was a good turnout for a Super 14 game, other supporters preferring to simply watch it on Sky, how do they expect to fill a 30,000 stadium? [/QUOTE]
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