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| Quote: Raimond "adserver.adtech.de/?adlink/1695/5892014/0/3055/AdId
seems to be very little strategic or operational value in taking any game to Coventry. There is no latent support for RL in the West Midlands, there is no history of RL in the area, there is no ANZAC community to sell tickets to, there are no major RL clubs that will see the benefit of any bounce in support for RL (and no real ambitions for a top level presence in the area), there is no national media or commercial base in Coventry to benefit from, and it is the home of a major Union club - where we will effectively giving "rugby" a free marketing boost.
The vast majority of people who goes to the game there will be travelling a significant distance to get there, and any interested locals who do decide to go along for the experience and enjoy it, will probably decide to go to another "rugby" event at the Ricoh and go and take up watching Wasps.
London is an obvious target, as is Newcastle with the Magic Weekend seemingly settled there now. Everything else should be in the heartlands.
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Totalrl saying that they are getting reports that final WILL be at Anfield and that Olympic and Huddersfield are getting games as well.
Now we have also heard rumours of Coventry so that is 4 venues. I would suggest that another is Wigan because with huds there is one in Yorkshire and they wouldn't want one close to Liverpool if final is there so Wigan would be better with it being closer to Manchester and also a proven international venue. That just leaves the Scotland ground to speculate on and I think a few of us have been saying partick thistle.
www.totalrl.com/reports-suggest- ... ons-final/
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Totalrl saying that they are getting reports that final WILL be at Anfield and that Olympic and Huddersfield are getting games as well.
Now we have also heard rumours of Coventry so that is 4 venues. I would suggest that another is Wigan because with huds there is one in Yorkshire and they wouldn't want one close to Liverpool if final is there so Wigan would be better with it being closer to Manchester and also a proven international venue. That just leaves the Scotland ground to speculate on and I think a few of us have been saying partick thistle.
www.totalrl.com/reports-suggest- ... ons-final/
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| Quote: yorksguy1865 "Totalrl saying that they are getting reports that final WILL be at Anfield and that Olympic and Huddersfield are getting games as well.
Now we have also heard rumours of Coventry so that is 4 venues. I would suggest that another is Wigan because with huds there is one in Yorkshire and they wouldn't want one close to Liverpool if final is there so Wigan would be better with it being closer to Manchester and also a proven international venue. That just leaves the Scotland ground to speculate on and I think a few of us have been saying partick thistle.
By all accounts the Sco v NZ match is at Workington, Aus v Sco at Hull KR. With double header at Cov, Eng v NZ at Hudd, Eng v Aus at Olympic and Final at Anfield, there's your 7.
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| Quote: Raimond "By all accounts the Sco v NZ match is at Workington, Aus v Sco at Hull KR. With double header at Cov, Eng v NZ at Hudd, Eng v Aus at Olympic and Final at Anfield, there's your 7.'"
Apart from the fact that the rlif have already said that there is gonna be at least 1 game in Scotland and there is a precedent in the four nations that a game is always played in the fourth nation when it is in the northern hemisphere, Paris and Toulouse in 2009 and Wrexham in 2011. I imagine the only reason they don't play in the fourth nation in southern hemisphere is the logistics of taking a game to Papua new guinea or Samoa or where ever.
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| They said that some time ago, since when many reports & rumours have said Workington. Widely reported this was because they were looking at Scotstoun Glasgow, but they've since turned to a plastic pitch. All articles today including BBC & Sky even, saying they've disbanded plans to play in Scotland. You go for it though bud, book your train to Glasgow with my blessing
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| Quote: Raimond "They said that some time ago, since when many reports & rumours have said Workington. Widely reported this was because they were looking at Scotstoun Glasgow, but they've since turned to a plastic pitch. All articles today including BBC & Sky even, saying they've disbanded plans to play in Scotland. You go for it though bud, book your train to Glasgow with my blessing'"
Fair enough mate ive read a few articles and it does seem that Scotland has been dropped. Typical rugby league organisation of course seen as one of their biggest policies is to expand the game but they don't want to take a major international to a developing country instead playing it in the usual dystopia in Cumbria that will draw about 6,000 people in... Craven park is a daft place to take a game as well, sure you'll fill it but that means there will be 11,000 people there whereas if it went to Wigan or st Helens then they would be full with almost double that. Full stadiums equal a decent spectacle which is what's needed to expand the profile of international league but it is the same old half-d ideas from our games big cheeses.
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