Why can't Russia play in Moscow? There must be heated pitches there that the team can use anytime during the year.
Because that long winter. Even if you take the Lokomotiv stadium for 100 thousand dollars for rent in Moscow heated (to be understood because of the long winters in Russia grass grows much slower, so care fields are very expensive and not a football club is not allowed to play at their stadium winter stranger, because that field can be spoiled for one game), the winter will not be spectators. Rugby season in Russia (May-October). I'll give you an example: In the late 90's - early 00's Russian team played several games in Krasnoyarsk in the period from May to September (when the calendar was good for us): Portugal, Romania, USA, Italy, Ireland (the audience of these games was from 10 to 20 thousand). The last match in Krasnoyarsk Russia - Georgia was played April 12, 2008, but whether was bad (snow), the audience was only 4000. We suffer because of the calendar, because if team is in such horrible conditions, with empty stands, it is not interesting TV, so no sponsors and fans .... This leads to problems in the promotion of rugby. Second - is the lack of work on the part of Russian Rugby Federation, came to us a man who said that they directs all its efforts on the organization of the World Cup Rugby-7, and the rugby-15 they do not care ...
How to solve the problem?
1. Kopiev dismissal and his accomplices from the Federation. They can replace several club presidents (fans offered Pervukhin (Enisey), Losaberidze(Spartak), former Bear Grachev who big French expirience ...).
2. Change the calendar ENC(2 options)
a) transfer only home games of Russia in May-June (at least 3-4 out of 5), the all rest games play February-March
b) changes to all teams, for example: 1-3 rounds to play in March 4-5 rounds to play in the last two weeks of May before the June tests (3-4 Russian home games to bet on May)
I assure you that if you do so, then we have a match between Russia in different cities, with attendance of at least 5-10 thousand at first, then more and better TV coverage (now Panorama TV bought several new machine HD 10 to 24 cameras specifically for the 2014 Sochi Olympics and FIFA WC2018, other times they are work in the all country and cover all of the city where there are clubs PRL). Also recently created a new sports channel, with coverage of the audience over 15 million people, specifically for the show less popular sports in Russia (rugby, handball, water polo ...). Panorama has worked at the finals of PRL in October in Krasnoyarsk, these games have been shown on the new Sports channel. If we play at home in May and June that really show our games and the biggest sports channel Russia 2 (a free channel available to an audience of over 100 million people). Usually this shows football, ice hockey, Olympic sports, but the end of May-June championships in these sports are not carried out, and they can show rugby - of course, if it is a normal stadium and picture. Incidentally, they will be shown in the end of June the Rugby World Cup 7.
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