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'Quins boss predicts "European Superleague"
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<blockquote data-quote="gingergenius" data-source="post: 234705"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Prestwick @ Dec 22 2008, 09:07 AM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=367910" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>Was it <em>really</em> anything else? :lol:</p><p></p><p>In England, its different. The clubs are too big, the geographical differences too great to surmount. When you've spent most of your living life turning up to Sixways, to a large and modern stadium, to watch a team competing with the best year in year out and are then told "sorry guys, you've got to travel to Gloucester now to watch <em>them</em> play if you want to see the only West Country side in top flight action" that probably would end the dream in the most cruel and despicable ways. </p><p></p><p>If regionalisation happens, either forced by the RFU or the Clubs (through financial circumstances), then expect a large increase in people forgoing going to club matches and just throwing the money they saved into trying to watch England once a season or something.</p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Exactly. Rugby attendances are going up gradually, but we'll lose all those fans if we have regional framchises.. and no fans means no money.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="gingergenius, post: 234705"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Prestwick @ Dec 22 2008, 09:07 AM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=367910']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> Was it [i]really[/i] anything else? :lol: In England, its different. The clubs are too big, the geographical differences too great to surmount. When you've spent most of your living life turning up to Sixways, to a large and modern stadium, to watch a team competing with the best year in year out and are then told "sorry guys, you've got to travel to Gloucester now to watch [i]them[/i] play if you want to see the only West Country side in top flight action" that probably would end the dream in the most cruel and despicable ways. If regionalisation happens, either forced by the RFU or the Clubs (through financial circumstances), then expect a large increase in people forgoing going to club matches and just throwing the money they saved into trying to watch England once a season or something. [/b][/quote] Exactly. Rugby attendances are going up gradually, but we'll lose all those fans if we have regional framchises.. and no fans means no money. [/QUOTE]
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