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| Obviously this season is still going to be hard but i am well impressed that we are near a sell out for the first game of the season.
We need to be competitive on the field or the crowd numbers will dwindle but with the coaching staff and the new players, i'm hoping we'll be a lot better than last season. TBH we couldn't get much worse  |
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| Quote: UllFC "Wrexham's population is at least double that of Bridgend, which obviously helps. And North Wales has 1 5th tier football team (that is attracting dwindling gates) and that's it.
South Wales has Cardiff FC (tier 2 football) international football, is an RU stonghold, and in general Cardiff attracts the majority of Wales' big events such as concerts.
its early days, and time will tell if it works.'"
I think the biggest reason they might survive is the location, not because its Wrexham, but because it's not that far for a lot of supporters to travel being its in North Wales.
It will save me about 220 miles not having to travel to Bridgend and back again and from what I saw, the stadium at Wrexham looks head and shoulders above the Brewery field. |
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| Quote: Pete_Zatoppin "I think the biggest reason they might survive is the location, not because its Wrexham, but because it's not that far for a lot of supporters to travel being its in North Wales.
It will save me about 220 miles not having to travel to Bridgend and back again and from what I saw, the stadium at Wrexham looks head and shoulders above the Brewery field.'"
it will definitely help. wrexham is as close as leeds for saints/wigan/salford, closer for wire, and closer to all those compared to Hull |
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| Quote: Pete_Zatoppin "I think the biggest reason they might survive is the location, not because its Wrexham, but because it's not that far for a lot of supporters to travel being its in North Wales.
It will save me about 220 miles not having to travel to Bridgend and back again and from what I saw, the stadium at Wrexham looks head and shoulders above the Brewery field.'"
the ground and distance from other SL teams will undoubtedly help
I just meant that in the past RL has tried hard to crack big cities such as Paris, Newcastle/Gateshead and London...and being a tiny fish in a massive ocean has got the game nowhere. And that going to big cities/towns that have little other distractions is the way forward. |
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Quote: UllFC "the ground and distance from other SL teams will undoubtedly help
I just meant that in the past RL has tried hard to crack big cities such as Paris, Newcastle/Gateshead and London...and being a tiny fish in a massive ocean has got the game nowhere. And that going to big cities/towns that have little other distractions is the way forward.'"
Another reason RL failed in South Wales is ..........and I'm bracing for all the 'Hull is not exactly the Costa Del Sol you ' posts to start..... there wasn't exactly a lot going for Bridgend or South Wales in general from a Rugby league supporters point of view.
At least going to see Catalans you can hope for a bit of sun, or if not at least getting there can be a bit of fun and you can make a weekend out of the trip, almost like a little holiday.
Similar thing travelling to London. not much sun (apart from when it shines into the Harlequins fans faces and they all whinge about it on here) but London does have a few interesting things (Madame Tussauds, Tower of London, london eye etc etc if you fancy the tourist thing)
No disrespect to Bridgend.........but whats it got worth seeing?
Not much by the looks 
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Quote: UllFC "the ground and distance from other SL teams will undoubtedly help
I just meant that in the past RL has tried hard to crack big cities such as Paris, Newcastle/Gateshead and London...and being a tiny fish in a massive ocean has got the game nowhere. And that going to big cities/towns that have little other distractions is the way forward.'"
Another reason RL failed in South Wales is ..........and I'm bracing for all the 'Hull is not exactly the Costa Del Sol you ' posts to start..... there wasn't exactly a lot going for Bridgend or South Wales in general from a Rugby league supporters point of view.
At least going to see Catalans you can hope for a bit of sun, or if not at least getting there can be a bit of fun and you can make a weekend out of the trip, almost like a little holiday.
Similar thing travelling to London. not much sun (apart from when it shines into the Harlequins fans faces and they all whinge about it on here) but London does have a few interesting things (Madame Tussauds, Tower of London, london eye etc etc if you fancy the tourist thing)
No disrespect to Bridgend.........but whats it got worth seeing?
Not much by the looks
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| Quote: Grendel "Kevin Ellis, late of the CELTIC Crusaders and currently on gardening leave from the Wrexham Facsimilies stated in his Glamorgan Gazette article that the gogs have given away thousands of tickets to schools.
THESE will appear in Turner's reports of ticket sales.
You may recall that he tried the same claims last year in the REAL Crusaders' inaugural home match, which settled around the 6,500 mark.
So perhaps this piece should be entitled
I don't know where Kevin Ellis got his facts from but no free tickets were given out in schools, or indeed any businesses. The Crusaders went around 30 plus schools to promote the game where Family Ticket vouchers were given out to allow families to pre-order tickets at an early bird price (as advertised on the website).
It was actually the second game which got 6,351 which was against St Helens.
The Gazette are going to be contacted by the club as it looks like that his claims are completely incorrect. I've not seen the article as yet.
Super League didn't take off in Bridgend last year for a number of reasons. A lot of freebies were given out for the first three matches (unlike this year in Wrexham) and it did get a lot of fans to go. However the team didn't win and they didn't come back.
Another big difference is that the Wrexham council have been outstanding in their help towards the Crusaders at every level. Again this is a contrast to the council in Bridgend who didn't do half as much for Super League. No posters were even put around the town, unlike Wrexham, until the Wales v England game which they said was "an event" and allegedly they said Super League wasn't.
The media has also been outstanding in Wrexham. Three pages devoted in the Daily Post today to the Crusaders game for example. Glamorgan Gazette were good but Bridgend suffered from not having a daily paper and the local dailies didn't support it as much as they should have. Down south, there's still that union v league pre-1995 mentality which doesn't exist as much in North Wales.
Obviously Wrexham FC are also in full support and are crosspromoting the products well. Again a vast contrast to Bridgend for one reason or another. Had the move to Newport succeeded then I know the Dragons were also keen to cross promote.
All sad but true. I know that people from Bridgend and the surrounding areas gave the club a lot of support. Problem was that the club needed a lot more, from all quarters.
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