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| Quote: PHIPPS "I think from what I know from my time living in South Wales rugby union is the only game that matters down there and that will always be the case.
South Walians had a chance to follow RL when the Celtic Crusaders were in Bridgend. Bridgend was very well situated to attract Rugby supporters from not just the Cardiff Blues catchment areas but also from the Ospreys and Scarlets. Even Newport (home of the Newport Gwent Dragons) is not that far away.
Yet as we know the rugby supporting public of South Wales weren't in the slightest bit interested.
Rugby is almost a religion in South Wales. In days gone by it was said that the only way to get a job out of the mines was to either play rugby or sing in a male voice choir. The Welsh love their rugby union. A campaign in Cardiff to get them to be interested in RL would be about as effective as Sale sharks advertising outside Old Trafford on Grand final day.
There is really only a bottleneck at Cardiff Central when you are trying to leave Cardiff. Lanes are set up to correspond with the particular train services (Rhondda, Cynon Valley, Newport, London, Merthyr, Manchester, Swansea) and BTP usually make you line up outside in your correct row to avoid hundreds of drunken people all piling onto the platforms at once. It's very well managed too although having to line up outside can be annoying if it's raining...and 99% of the time in Wales it IS.
Arriving in Cardiff you generally just exit the station immediately and are just across the road in Greggs buying a steak slice within 5 mins of your train arriving at Caerdydd Canolog (bit of Welsh for you there) so your 'women in catsuits hanging around outside the station' idea is a bit of a waste of time.
Unless they are forced to wear tight fitting white T shirts of course. It WILL be cold and it WILL be raining in Cardiff. As always.'"
Funny that I live in cardiff and it has rained once in the last ten days. Your 'knowledge' gets more tenuous by the second. |
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I've been reliably informed that they are WRU merchandising tents.
Obviously the area is good enough for the WRU to target but the RFL miss out once again.
I really hope something is set up for the Magic Weekend as it is a prime area. That is assuming the WRU actually move their tents, otherwise we're up the creak.
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| Quote: Grendel "What comes into Cardiff that day, will be the shrieking kok-hungry red spangly stetson wearing twice divorced harpies, orange skinned punch-drunk 'roiders '"
Very good, a true heir to Dylan Thomas 
In my experience, that's what comes into Cardiff on any Saturday, not just when there's rugby on. Not forgetting girls from the Merthyr/ elsewhere in the valleys, wearing bikini tops in January and their lagered up male counterparts out for a fight with the lads from the next village. |
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| Quote: JonM "Very good, a true heir to Dylan Thomas ![]()
Much better than swansea or newport though(or plymouth and gillingham in my experience for a pretty random comparison). One thing worth noting is that the goat major, rummer, dempseys, model inn and city arms end always seem pretty chilled although personally the only place i can't stand is the walkabout (although they've shown the grand final on the big screen before now which is pretty good). I've been in the prince of wales plenty of times (always work gatherings for some reason) and actually always enjoyed it.
Dempseys and the queens vaults seem t stick on ss1 as a default and i've caught quite a lot of league in those places, i'm a couple of hundred friendly northerners asking for the league on would get a positive response.
One word of warning if anybody is tempted for late night stuff avoid metros - it stinks ever since the smoking ban, worse than anywhere else.
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[b:6jl68bf5][quote="Damo-Leeds":6jl68bf5]Please tell me what a coach’s job is.[/quote:6jl68bf5]
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[quote="Matt89":6jl68bf5]phipps knows best (everything about rugby league) so don't disagree!!!![/quote:6jl68bf5]
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Having read the article several times I'm still confused[/quote:6jl68bf5]
[quote="Damo-Leeds":6jl68bf5]I shall keep posting on this thread and derail it as much as I want to.[/quote:6jl68bf5]
[b:6jl68bf5][quote="PHIPPS":6jl68bf5]Sadly for Wigan as soon as Maguire gets an offer from an NRL club he will be on the plane home before you can say 'meat and potato pie'[/quote:6jl68bf5]
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[quote="Conorgiantsfan":6jl68bf5]I like you Phipps. I like your style.[/quote:6jl68bf5]
[quote="Chorlton RL":6jl68bf5]As far as gauging the potential in the South West, I'd have thought the rumoured Wembley international double-header at the end of the season would be good way to do this. [/quote:6jl68bf5]
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| Quote: crucrucrusaders "I've been reliably informed that they are WRU merchandising tents.
Obviously the area is good enough for the WRU to target but the RFL miss out once again.
I really hope something is set up for the Magic Weekend as it is a prime area. That is assuming the WRU actually move their tents, otherwise we're up the creak.'"
It isnt crucrucrucrucrucru etcetcetc
We have done this to death.
Move on for gods sake!
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| Quote: Grendel "And Vikingsmurf, I hear you about Aberystwyth. I returned there (my birthplace) a few years back and got slagged off in Welsh when I spoke English in one of the shops to my polyglot friend. It is a stagnant, backwards, change resistant backwater that only in the last 3 years UNBANNED The Life Of Brian from being shown in its one screen magic lantern theatre.
I wouldn't take it personally. They disapprove of EVERYTHING. Described in the Lonely Planet Guide To Britain as "at best, a 45 minute bogstop", the best thing to come out of Aberystwyth is ..... me!'"
well its nice to have backup  lmao, I have enjoyed that theatre many times over the years.
and had far more experience than i would like of the completely insane inhabitants of that region  |
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