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'Go build a stadium': England rugby boss snubs All Blacks plea over Twickenham
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<blockquote data-quote="Peat" data-source="post: 818425" data-attributes="member: 42330"><p>Possibly WR organised things this way after we played them six times 2012-2014.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Mind you - after all the blood and thunder is done - I don't know how the logistics and realities of it would work, but its not the worst advice the All Blacks have ever had. Going by wiki, if every game this year had been played in Eden Park, that's another 55k tickets sold. If NZ had a 60k seater stadium which they were always filling, that's another 120k tickets on top of that. We're talking about 2m a year, probably a little under, that they could be getting, not counting extra food/in stadium sponsorship sales. Now I don't know how much a 60k seater stadium in Auckland would cost and how much it would bite for NZ to pretty much only ever play in Auckland again but it looks appealing.</p><p></p><p>That said, I'm gonna guess the NZRFU have considered that one a couple of times what with it being, like, you know, their job. They probably even had fancy coloured pie charts when they did it! So I'm guessing it's a non-goer for the moment for whatever reason.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Besides, to go back to the blood and thunder, lets say they do that... how does the conversation next time they speak go?</p><p></p><p>a) "Oh thank you most wise of the English princes, our increased financial might means we have no need for your money. Please let us play at your Twickenham out of window, we'd be ever so grateful".</p><p></p><p>b) "Yeah, we're still making 50pc of Twickenham on out of window games, you interested or not?"</p><p></p><p>You'll probably all guess from the sarcasm that I don't think its A...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peat, post: 818425, member: 42330"] Possibly WR organised things this way after we played them six times 2012-2014. Mind you - after all the blood and thunder is done - I don't know how the logistics and realities of it would work, but its not the worst advice the All Blacks have ever had. Going by wiki, if every game this year had been played in Eden Park, that's another 55k tickets sold. If NZ had a 60k seater stadium which they were always filling, that's another 120k tickets on top of that. We're talking about 2m a year, probably a little under, that they could be getting, not counting extra food/in stadium sponsorship sales. Now I don't know how much a 60k seater stadium in Auckland would cost and how much it would bite for NZ to pretty much only ever play in Auckland again but it looks appealing. That said, I'm gonna guess the NZRFU have considered that one a couple of times what with it being, like, you know, their job. They probably even had fancy coloured pie charts when they did it! So I'm guessing it's a non-goer for the moment for whatever reason. Besides, to go back to the blood and thunder, lets say they do that... how does the conversation next time they speak go? a) "Oh thank you most wise of the English princes, our increased financial might means we have no need for your money. Please let us play at your Twickenham out of window, we'd be ever so grateful". b) "Yeah, we're still making 50pc of Twickenham on out of window games, you interested or not?" You'll probably all guess from the sarcasm that I don't think its A... [/QUOTE]
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