Rugby League at BMD

[Socistep2]

Do some research mate. It's a fantastic game and if you took the trouble to watch a match I'm sure you'd enjoy it.
It doesn't get the media attention it deserves but is a great sport.

Not a huge fan but I do appreciate it, lived in Leeds for last 20 years and it's popular here with the rhinos, have been a couple of times to Headingley and good to watch something different even if it isn't a favourite sport of mine

The thing I liked about RL though is it's a bit more athletic and the game flows more with the 5 tackle rule compared to RU

 

[davek]

Ticket pricing for the three Rugby games are:

The three games all have four category prices which for adults and under-16s are:

Category 1: £60/£40
Category 2: £45/25
Category 3: £35/20
Category 4: £30/15

Rugby league Ashes: ticket prices revealed as interest continues to rise

Adults can purchase tickets for all three Ashes Tests for as little as £90 - as details of the pricing structure for this year's series begins to emerge.

www.loverugbyleague.com

Should be charging adults £90-£100 per ticket.

 

[Dddddd]

Main concern should be all the rugby inbreds from St Helens drinking pints of each others piss in and around the new ground.

It’s the union lads that drink each other’s piss isn’t it? And shove things up each others hoops. The rest of your sentence still applies

 

[Jacko93]

You're about 10 years behind the times mate, F1 is now a normie sport and the only sport on the planet where the female audience is growing faster than the male audience with 40% of it's audience now being female. The weird anoraks have become a minority, much to their annoyance.

F1 is the single most boring sport in the history of humankind, bar none. Its mind numbingly awful. It shouldn't be even considered a sport.

 

[Neiler]

Should be charging adults £90-£100 per ticket.

We want them to be spending the same again in concessions.

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

I just dont want it to be synonymous with our stadium when we dont even have a presence there ourselves yet.

OT and Anfield had massive histories at those stadiums so it meant next to nothing identity-wise when rugby games appeared there.

It'll hardly be synonymous because of one game a season. Gigs are inevitably going to happen there to and boxing events ect too and nobody is ever going to consider the place synonymous with any of those things either. It'll forever be associated with our club who use it 99.9999% of the time. But just like Goodison when she hosted the 66 world cup semi-final, it'll be grand enough for events outside of us that will take us even more global.

 

[Jacko93]

It'll hardly be synonymous because of one game a season. Gigs are inevitably going to happen there to and boxing events ect too and nobody is ever going to consider the place synonymous with any of those things either. It'll forever be associated with our club who use it 99.9999% of the time. But just like Goodison when she hosted the 66 world cup semi-final, it'll be grand enough for events outside of us that will take us even more global.

Don't forget pal, Everton have played for years at Goodison, the Baseball venue.

 

[brettangellnightporter]

F1 is the single most boring sport in the history of humankind, bar none. Its mind numbingly awful. It shouldn't be even considered a sport.

Exactly, pollution plus asbergers.

 

[longers]

F1 is the single most boring sport in the history of humankind, bar none. Its mind numbingly awful. It shouldn't be even considered a sport.

Cool. Also an accurate description of how I feel about rugby minus the “shouldn’t be considered a sport” bit.

 

[ClausThomsen]

The RS women's side play at Saints rugby ground and that pitch is standing up perfectly well to both sports being played there regularly.

If the BMD pitch can't stand up to a couple of international games then it's down to the failings of those responsible for it's upkeep and/or installation rather than a game or two of Rugby League.

 

[Timbucktoo]

Leeds is the danger: every time they played you could see the lines on the pitch.

That cant happen at our stadium when we have what looks like an experimental surface and we haven't even established OURSELVES there yet.

We cant handle both of those aspects so any non-football sport should be a one off for years to come IMO. Get this international out the way, take the cash and then leave it.

I`d say take the cash and then take it at every opportunity we can get. The point in moving to a new stadium was that we could milk it for as much revenue as we could milk out of it, not save it for the first team and miss out on some extra revenue. At the same time we don`t want to be over doing it and getting the playing surface destroyed, but we`ve moved to cash in on events other than the first team games.

 

[PeterGet]

Just to keep the debate flowing…

The article below suggests “Magic Weekend” is not the simple money spinner it would initially seem:

https://www.loverugbyleague.com/pos...revealed-with-rfls-preferred-option-disclosed

“Accordingly, concerns were raised by the leadership group about the potential damage to the St James’ Park pitch that Magic Weekend could do as well as the question mark surrounding how commercially viable it was for them as hosts”

 

[Timbucktoo]

Main concern should be all the rugby inbreds from St Helens drinking pints of each others piss in and around the new ground.

As long as they`re paying 8 quid a pint and we`re earning out of it I don`t have much of a problem with it.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Horse of the year show next
Then cruffs

 

[davek]

I`d say take the cash and then take it at every opportunity we can get. The point in moving to a new stadium was that we could milk it for as much revenue as we could milk out of it, not save it for the first team and miss out on some extra revenue. At the same time we don`t want to be over doing it and getting the playing surface destroyed, but we`ve moved to cash in on events other than the first team games.

IMO we have to establish our own identity down at the docks first and foremost. We dont want to be known for being the home of EFC and rugby league. Money cant be allowed to compromise identity.

Anyway, I'm sure it's a one off.