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Welford Road No Longer Being Considered for 2015
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<blockquote data-quote="LittleGuy" data-source="post: 529687" data-attributes="member: 44360"><p>I'm very worried about the list of potential venues going into 2015. I think the Home Nations and French games should receive strong support, and the Southern Hemisphere sides(though to a slightly lesser extent Argentina) will be draws based on reputation alone.</p><p></p><p>However I think most of these grounds are way too big for Tier 2/3 matchups, Canada and the United States do have substantial expat populations and I suppose Italy isn't imposssibly far away for some of their fans to come over. Do the organizers really expect 40-50,000 fans out for games that could potentially feature Japan vs. Namibia or a Tonga vs. Romania for example? These matches would have been perfect to send to the more historic grounds and an atmosphere of a 15-20,000 seat stadium thats mostly filled(with passionate rugby followers as well) is going to look a lot better than 18,000 turning out to a 50,000 seat venue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LittleGuy, post: 529687, member: 44360"] I'm very worried about the list of potential venues going into 2015. I think the Home Nations and French games should receive strong support, and the Southern Hemisphere sides(though to a slightly lesser extent Argentina) will be draws based on reputation alone. However I think most of these grounds are way too big for Tier 2/3 matchups, Canada and the United States do have substantial expat populations and I suppose Italy isn't imposssibly far away for some of their fans to come over. Do the organizers really expect 40-50,000 fans out for games that could potentially feature Japan vs. Namibia or a Tonga vs. Romania for example? These matches would have been perfect to send to the more historic grounds and an atmosphere of a 15-20,000 seat stadium thats mostly filled(with passionate rugby followers as well) is going to look a lot better than 18,000 turning out to a 50,000 seat venue. [/QUOTE]
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