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Offline pauliewalnuts

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Re: Villa Park on Rugby World Cup shortlist.
« Reply #30 on: October 09, 2012, 11:34:14 AM »
The Olympics is bigger than the Rugby World Cup but you turned that down didn't you, Paul.  :-\

It's not bigger for Villa, though.

The only people who are allowed to make money at Olympic venues are the Olympic organisers and their sponsors.

Whatever the reason for us turning it down, I really doubt it would have earned us any money at all.

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Re: Villa Park on Rugby World Cup shortlist.
« Reply #31 on: October 09, 2012, 11:40:34 AM »
I think it's safe to say Welford road not being included wasn't due to the club deciding against it - club statement

Looking into it more it's the length of the pitch that has cost them, there's something about off-field dacilities but that can be dealt with in time, moving a stand to extend the pitch is too big a job.

I've always though the pitch at Leicester looked a bit short

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Re: Villa Park on Rugby World Cup shortlist.
« Reply #32 on: October 09, 2012, 12:00:17 PM »
It's sandwiched between 2 major roads which will always hamper them.  I believe they're intending to build another huge stand to match the new one and then they're going to rotate the pitch 90 degrees.

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Re: Villa Park on Rugby World Cup shortlist.
« Reply #33 on: October 09, 2012, 12:17:09 PM »
It's sandwiched between 2 major roads which will always hamper them.  I believe they're intending to build another huge stand to match the new one and then they're going to rotate the pitch 90 degrees.

That's right, they were shortlisted on the basis of the Crumbie Stand being redeveloped but the club can't afford it and can't get any backers so it's not going to happen.  It means their pitch and corporate facilities aren't up to standard.  Kingsholm has a couple of issues but they have plans in place to resolve them so they will be at the standard for the start.

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Re: Villa Park on Rugby World Cup shortlist.
« Reply #34 on: October 09, 2012, 12:24:05 PM »
I wouldn't mind going to a Leicester Tigers game around Christmas time. Sounds like it's worth going, my mate is banging on at me about it - plus there's terracing.

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Re: Villa Park on Rugby World Cup shortlist.
« Reply #35 on: October 09, 2012, 12:24:58 PM »
Rugby?

Meh. All those coppers and solicitors in their Barbour jackets and tweedy caps. No ta.

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Re: Villa Park on Rugby World Cup shortlist.
« Reply #36 on: October 09, 2012, 12:32:10 PM »
I wouldn't mind going to a Leicester Tigers game around Christmas time. Sounds like it's worth going, my mate is banging on at me about it - plus there's terracing.

Brilliant, another car parking on my estate :)

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Re: Villa Park on Rugby World Cup shortlist.
« Reply #37 on: October 09, 2012, 12:35:30 PM »
I wouldn't mind going to a Leicester Tigers game around Christmas time. Sounds like it's worth going, my mate is banging on at me about it - plus there's terracing.

Brilliant, another car parking on my estate :)

:P We'll be training it!

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Re: Villa Park on Rugby World Cup shortlist.
« Reply #38 on: October 09, 2012, 12:48:47 PM »
Rugby?

Meh. All those coppers and solicitors in their Barbour jackets and tweedy caps. No ta.

True of some teams (Bath, Harlequins, Wasps spring to mind) unfair for others (Leicester, Northampton) and faintly ridiculous for Gloucester where rugby is the game of the common man. Any barbours at Kingsholm are worn by foreigners (ie people from Cheltenham).

Plumbutt I am not sure i agree with re Lye Town. Average Aviva attendances are around 13,000 and England will generally sell out (80,000) the 6N - is their ground that big?!

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Re: Villa Park on Rugby World Cup shortlist.
« Reply #39 on: October 09, 2012, 12:50:02 PM »
I wouldn't mind going to a Leicester Tigers game around Christmas time. Sounds like it's worth going, my mate is banging on at me about it - plus there's terracing.

There's pros and cons.

Pros:
You can have a beer on the terraces
Friendly atmosphere
Fans of both clubs stand together
Plenty of good old-fashioned effort from the teams involved

Cons:
It's fucking rugby.

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Re: Villa Park on Rugby World Cup shortlist.
« Reply #40 on: October 09, 2012, 01:00:25 PM »
Mid-September to end of October 2015?
Am I the only one concerned at having all those extra white lines going across the pitch during our Champions League home games?

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Re: Villa Park on Rugby World Cup shortlist.
« Reply #41 on: October 09, 2012, 01:02:22 PM »
Didn'tthink it was just me who was worried about that.

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Re: Villa Park on Rugby World Cup shortlist.
« Reply #42 on: October 09, 2012, 03:51:03 PM »
I go to a couple of Bath games a season and I am going to my second match at Twickers in the Autumn against the Aussies. I like the atmosphere at a rugby game its a contrast to that of a football match, its more civilised between opposition fans and the performance is as important as the result in some cases. In football the atmosphere is more intense and the result is more important to the fans. I don't think you can beat walking out of Villa Park with a victory, even if its been pretty damn rare in the past 12 months.

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Re: Villa Park on Rugby World Cup shortlist.
« Reply #43 on: October 09, 2012, 03:57:23 PM »
Rugby?

Meh. All those coppers and solicitors in their Barbour jackets and tweedy caps. No ta.

As Stuart Marconie wrote, the only good thing about Rugby is it gives the opportunity to assault an off-duty copper with impunity.

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Re: Villa Park on Rugby World Cup shortlist.
« Reply #44 on: October 09, 2012, 04:00:15 PM »
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I wouldn't mind going to a Leicester Tigers game around Christmas time

A mate took me to see London Irish against someone a few Chistmasses ago. At Vicarage Road - is it Saracens who play there?.

Everyone in the crowd wore a fez and the half time entertainment consisted of a camel being marched around the perimeter of the pitch. I couldn't work out which team was which because they were all covered in shit. It was quite good to be able to chat to the posh people either side of me though, beer in hand. No scrapping either

 


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