Quote: port64 "Not sure if this point has been posted about SF's possible bid
SF are obviously a union side but were going nowhere with pitiful crowds until entrepreneur Max Guazzini took over in 1992
Recently, they have won four French championships in seven years and due to their original marketing ideas are able to sell-out some one-off games at the 80,000-seat Stade de France'"
Their normal crowds other than these one offs at the Stade de France are pitiful though and can be as low as 5,000. Saracens have got decent gates too at Wembley which are way more than their average, granted though the tickets only cost a few quid and they have lost money on the games, but it still helps to grow the club and the game.
It really is good how Rugby Union teams and bodies can market events like this into being something special and out of the ordinary but I guess the masses of free positive publicity that Rugby Union gets helps a lot. Rugby League seems to be unique in that its major events like internationals, Challenge Cup semi finals and the Millenium Magic get much lower crowds than some minor events and certainly much lower than they should.
They can't just come into SL Sorry but they'll have to do it the hard way like Toulouse.
