: Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:59 pm  

Chris Dalton wrote:

Put it this way, it's like Rugby League holding a game at Old Trafford. There are tonnes of teams close by enough to travel without making a whole day of it, but none in the exact postcode.

Salford is the same postcode!

: Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:04 pm  

Buffalo wrote:

What's the obsession with holding these games outside the traditional areas?

One game in a blue moon does feck all to promote 'the game' in London, Manchester or Timbuktu. Feck all. FFS, most of the population of Manchester doesn't even know the Grand Final is at OT and it's held there every year among (allegedly) great fanfare.

Most of the population support United and therefore know the Grand Final is going on at Old Trafford. Espeicially when i keep going on about it!

(PS. the 'Manchester is full of City fans' is a load of nonsense. I work there and it isn't true)

: Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:23 pm  

Dougy wrote:

Most of the population support United and therefore know the Grand Final is going on at Old Trafford. Espeicially when i keep going on about it!

(PS. the 'Manchester is full of City fans' is a load of nonsense. I work there and it isn't true)

No they are all at Salford

: Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:27 pm  

Dougy wrote:

Most of the population support United and therefore know the Grand Final is going on at Old Trafford. Espeicially when i keep going on about it!

Disagree. I'm a United fan and unless I attend OT I see very, very little promoting the GF. There's no reason why the average United fan would even know the GF exists and it certainly does very little to promote 'the game' in non-RL areas.
Manchester is overwhelmingly a football city. Areas around Salford, Swinton, Oldham and Rochdale have a small RL scene, but other than that rugby normally means Sale Sharks.

Dougy wrote:

(PS. the 'Manchester is full of City fans' is a load of nonsense. I work there and it isn't true)

I know

: Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:23 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

And damn hard to get a big crowd into and out of via public transport and forget about parking.

So explain if its so difficult for parking, how did Cas manage to get 100 coaches around it then when Jungle subsidised the trip.



A Premiership side will not allow a game to be played on the pitch if it really doesn't have to



Yes, and take it away from the major population of Aussies and Kiwis living here

: Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:25 pm  

Am I correct in thinking these venues have been announced earlier in the year than has been the RL custom in recent times?




And I thought I'd read that Craven Cottage can't host anything other than football now. Can the Quinze contingent clarify?

: Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:30 pm  

picasso1 wrote:

So explain if its so difficult for parking, how did Cas manage to get 100 coaches around it then when Jungle subsidised the trip.

Private hire coaches were allowed to use part of the Dome carpark, you are not trying to equate private hire coaches with public transport are you?

: Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:46 pm  

Charmless Nerk wrote:

And I thought I'd read that Craven Cottage can't host anything other than football now. Can the Quinze contingent clarify?

Never heard anything about that. I would have thought that if the owner of the ground wanted to host morris dancing on the pitch they could.

: Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:54 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

Private hire coaches were allowed to use part of the Dome carpark, you are not trying to equate private hire coaches with public transport are you?

you did also say: "forget about parking".

your latest post implies that there is sufficient parking, so which is it?

: Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:56 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

Never heard anything about that. I would have thought that if the owner of the ground wanted to host morris dancing on the pitch they could.

correct.