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Rugby World Cup 2019 Japan will be the Worst Wcup ever in history.
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<blockquote data-quote="nickdnz" data-source="post: 614350" data-attributes="member: 38640"><p>First of all great post. I remember reading high participation figures for the USA but when looking it up I found this <a href="http://www.irb.com/mm/Document/NewsMedia/MediaZone/02/04/22/88/2042288_PDF.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.irb.com/mm/Document/NewsMedia/MediaZone/02/04/22/88/2042288_PDF.pdf</a> (from <a href="http://www.allblacks.com/news/15864/Rugby-growing-around-the-world-player-numbers-jump-by-20-percent" target="_blank">http://www.allblacks.com/news/15864/Rugby-growing-around-the-world-player-numbers-jump-by-20-percent</a>). I can't work out the disparity in figures, but I'll assume yours is correct.</p><p></p><p>You say the Top League is going nowhere. I don't know where you want it to go. Having 5,000 as an average attendance isn't amazing but the Pro 12's average crowd attendance is only 9,000 and not so different from the ITM Cup. Japan just set three home field match attendance record for Japan rugby this year (all of which were over 20,000). You are comparing the national game to the club game...</p><p></p><p>'If the companies decided to pull the plug' would result in a scenario no different to the position USA are in. How are people in attendances 'made to go'?</p><p></p><p>I guess 5 years qualifies as 'years' to me. For all the potential USA may show, until their is a professional league it is just that, potential.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Does Russia have a better run union than the USA?</p><p></p><p>Well in some respects yes. They have less resources and less interest and yet they can field several professional teams in worse conditions than the United States. You could argue that USAR is better run in terms of promoting rugby and gaining interest, but seem remarkably unable to benefit from it. If USA rugby has 450,000 active participants (more than New Zealand and Australia combined) and yet still haven't launched a pro league...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nickdnz, post: 614350, member: 38640"] First of all great post. I remember reading high participation figures for the USA but when looking it up I found this [URL]http://www.irb.com/mm/Document/NewsMedia/MediaZone/02/04/22/88/2042288_PDF.pdf[/URL] (from [URL]http://www.allblacks.com/news/15864/Rugby-growing-around-the-world-player-numbers-jump-by-20-percent[/URL]). I can't work out the disparity in figures, but I'll assume yours is correct. You say the Top League is going nowhere. I don't know where you want it to go. Having 5,000 as an average attendance isn't amazing but the Pro 12's average crowd attendance is only 9,000 and not so different from the ITM Cup. Japan just set three home field match attendance record for Japan rugby this year (all of which were over 20,000). You are comparing the national game to the club game... 'If the companies decided to pull the plug' would result in a scenario no different to the position USA are in. How are people in attendances 'made to go'? I guess 5 years qualifies as 'years' to me. For all the potential USA may show, until their is a professional league it is just that, potential. Does Russia have a better run union than the USA? Well in some respects yes. They have less resources and less interest and yet they can field several professional teams in worse conditions than the United States. You could argue that USAR is better run in terms of promoting rugby and gaining interest, but seem remarkably unable to benefit from it. If USA rugby has 450,000 active participants (more than New Zealand and Australia combined) and yet still haven't launched a pro league... [/QUOTE]
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