Well yes but on Saturday most people tend to use Queen St.

And another important fact is that trains from places such as the Rhondda, the Cynon Valley, Pontypridd and Merthyr (which if I dare say it will be carrying a lot of your potential target audience) go through Queen St before they arrive at Central. I would suggest most of the passengers on Saturday will get off there.

No reason why a simple leaflet handing/banner/electronic advert board could not be used at both.

As I say I think it could work.

You are assuming that people that are travelling down on the Arriva Trains service from the 'Vaaa-Leeees' can read. Or even want to read.

All that will be important to them will be the following (in order)

1. Getting off the train for a P*ss. ASAP. It will have been just under an hour since they got on, they will have been on the cans since Troedyrhiw or Aberdare (not including the cans they had in the pub before they left) and will be busting for the toilet.

2 Getting off at Queen St means avoiding the Police that will be on duty at central seeing as a lot of them will probably be wanted on warrant for something.

3. They may have some fake tanned covered, dyed haired, muffin topped young ladies with them (who all seem to wear Welsh RU jerseys 3 times too small for them) whose sole aim will also to get off the train for a p*ss, to avoid the Police at Central and then to go to Primark before heading for the Walkabout or the Prince of Wales (via McDonalds) The girls will be hungry as it will have been just over an hour since they had a Peters steak and kidney pie and large chips.

They will all just want to drink, put on a glittery Welsh cowboy hat and then watch the Welsh RU team play a game that they dont really understand whilst getting bladdered. Followed by a fight, a kebab and then throw it all back up in the gutter at midnight before catching a train home...unless they spend the night in hospital or in the custody suite at Canton cop shop.


Tidy rugby day day Init butt.

hahaha. phipps im starting to warm to you.
im sorry to say it but its true, for the most (overwhelming) part the welsh just are not interested in rugby unless its the one that involves the two pointless extra forwards and lots of random chubby blokes engaging in homo erotic wrestling.
i lived in aberystwyth for several years, the closest rugby team is the ospreys, around 70 miles away! and still all they wanted to know about was rugby union.
I was at university there, me and around 20 other northerners banded together when superleague games where on sky, and even if there was absolutely nothing else on the TV's in the pubs, every weekend we would try just about every pub in town, rock up and ask if they could put the rugby league on and on all but two occasions were met with a simple 'No' and then ignored.
this went on for four years. and all of those places would rather not have the hundreds of pounds we'd have put there way every weekend, just because we wanted the rugby league on.

Yeah, what a "big" opportunity.
Put some adverts up for MM so that the big-match-occasional urine-heads can see them.

Here's the massive gaping flaw in that genius idea.

Wales is NOT a rugby mad nation. More people watch football (though more people PLAY rugby - at least in the South). Wales IS however, an INTERNATIONAL rugby mad nation. The Welsh Union regions COMBINED get less spectators than Leeds do on their own, but the national team (when it's winning) could sell out 5 times over.

Welsh rugby PLAYERS and serious supporters watch, enjoy and are often quite knowledgeable about League (MOST often supporting Wigan or Warrington). On the Wales v Scotland weekend these potential fans will be playing, or be up in Scotland or watching on their own TVs or in their favourite local pub.

What comes into Cardiff that day, will be the shrieking kok-hungry red spangly stetson wearing twice divorced harpies, orange skinned punch-drunk 'roiders and "fans" who couldn't name a Welsh rugby player outside of the national side, or even a Welsh TEAM below the regions, but irrationally hate League because their dads were annoyed at the diaspora of Welsh Union talent in the '80s.

There are thousands of potential League supporters in Wales. It just ain't THOSE people.

Stick to threads about jerseys Crucru.

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!

Wouldn't argue with that to be fair, the vast majority don't have any interest in rugby at all other than to support Wales, and genuine rugby fans are usually quite knowledgable and positive towards RL. I doubt the 'rugby day' tourists actually enjoy the game itself, because let's face it RU is like watching paint dry at the best of times. They just want to get drunk and support their nation in the best way they know. I doubt then that they would have too much interest in MM, or in watching any of the regions either.

I'm laughing more at the fact an ex rugby league fan that has turned his back on the game still hangs about and posts on here.

No comments better illustrate what a made up persona you are. Most people get off at queen street? You're full of it.

The ego has landed.

Funny that I live in cardiff and it has rained once in the last ten days. Your 'knowledge' gets more tenuous by the second.