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<blockquote data-quote="truthteller" data-source="post: 936849" data-attributes="member: 77056"><p>dont get me wrong I love the idea of growing rugby in north wales...but a pro team will take a load of money and a load of time too...It simply cannot happen during a time when the other 4 regions are struggling financially. its a shame the regions are all on the m4 just 70 miles apart them all...but stadia usually has to go to the bigger populated areas in the region....so thats cardiff the biggest city of approx 400,000 swansea second biggest at approx 250,000 newport third biggest at 170,000 and then you have west /mid wales...carmarthenshire is a spread out county from loughor to haverfordwest about 60 miles and 185000 .....llanelli and district is probably 80,000 so a lot smaller than the others...but llanelli rfc is a unique club its always represented the west so was always in effect a sort of west wales region.</p><p></p><p>north wales is approx 800,000 its a tidy size area, colwyn bay is ideally located imo nestled between a lot of decent sized towns...north wales atm needs to put everything into rcg becoming dominant....theyre the best supported club team already.....they get sell out concerts regularly at parc eirias too....they need to somehow make a profit and keep reinvesting improving on and off the field and most vitally the rcg and union need to keep reinvesting in the north wales academy. the factory belt of talent is the key to everything. keep nurturing keep feeding grass roots and see what grows....</p><p></p><p>IF in time the wru finally pays of its remaining £6 million debt...it then owns the principality stadium outright....it currently has £40 million funding available from natwest bank. But the wru must be so smart here. Theyre pumping millions into the failing dragons. they have ndcs on approx 15 players. But their main concern is stopping the regions frittering money on overpaid players, trying to limit the internal market driving up wages too. Do wales allow their older stars to go when they demand too much? Id say they should as they did with biggar. I understand the 60 cap rule but to stick too tightly too it means they lose world class players like rhys webb.</p><p></p><p>wales are with england the best supported national team in the world, maybe in all sport tbh.....70000 turned up to see them stuff tonga for goodness sakes lol so surely to goodness these matches are earning profits for welsh rugby. the other weakness in regional rugby is they prefer to be playing the english. despite the rivalry and endless tongue in cheek histility between the welsh and english. the welsh much prefer playing the english, always have done. Those derbies with bath gloucester leicester, bristol , and the big london clubs have been around for over a century and would usualy see massive crowds. I vivdly recall jack rowellls mighty bath with stu barnes gareth chilcott at a packed stradey back in the day. great times</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="truthteller, post: 936849, member: 77056"] dont get me wrong I love the idea of growing rugby in north wales...but a pro team will take a load of money and a load of time too...It simply cannot happen during a time when the other 4 regions are struggling financially. its a shame the regions are all on the m4 just 70 miles apart them all...but stadia usually has to go to the bigger populated areas in the region....so thats cardiff the biggest city of approx 400,000 swansea second biggest at approx 250,000 newport third biggest at 170,000 and then you have west /mid wales...carmarthenshire is a spread out county from loughor to haverfordwest about 60 miles and 185000 .....llanelli and district is probably 80,000 so a lot smaller than the others...but llanelli rfc is a unique club its always represented the west so was always in effect a sort of west wales region. north wales is approx 800,000 its a tidy size area, colwyn bay is ideally located imo nestled between a lot of decent sized towns...north wales atm needs to put everything into rcg becoming dominant....theyre the best supported club team already.....they get sell out concerts regularly at parc eirias too....they need to somehow make a profit and keep reinvesting improving on and off the field and most vitally the rcg and union need to keep reinvesting in the north wales academy. the factory belt of talent is the key to everything. keep nurturing keep feeding grass roots and see what grows.... IF in time the wru finally pays of its remaining £6 million debt...it then owns the principality stadium outright....it currently has £40 million funding available from natwest bank. But the wru must be so smart here. Theyre pumping millions into the failing dragons. they have ndcs on approx 15 players. But their main concern is stopping the regions frittering money on overpaid players, trying to limit the internal market driving up wages too. Do wales allow their older stars to go when they demand too much? Id say they should as they did with biggar. I understand the 60 cap rule but to stick too tightly too it means they lose world class players like rhys webb. wales are with england the best supported national team in the world, maybe in all sport tbh.....70000 turned up to see them stuff tonga for goodness sakes lol so surely to goodness these matches are earning profits for welsh rugby. the other weakness in regional rugby is they prefer to be playing the english. despite the rivalry and endless tongue in cheek histility between the welsh and english. the welsh much prefer playing the english, always have done. Those derbies with bath gloucester leicester, bristol , and the big london clubs have been around for over a century and would usualy see massive crowds. I vivdly recall jack rowellls mighty bath with stu barnes gareth chilcott at a packed stradey back in the day. great times [/QUOTE]
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