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Must be a few interested. Less than 100 out of 2200 seated tickets keft this morning for Ealing vs. Quins.
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3,500 tickets sold by lunchtime today.
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How many have sold to Quins types though?
Not knocking it, mind. Good effort.
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Originally posted by Marlovian Marlovian wrote:

3,500 tickets sold by lunchtime today.

Fair play...

I see this game, as well as Tigers/Nottingham, are 3pm KOs. Seems strange to me that clubs wouldn't make at least a 15-min concession to there being a big England game on, with the likelihood that KO at 'Ally Pally' will be prior to the Prem Cup game concluding... 
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Originally posted by Kimbo Kimbo wrote:

How many have sold to Quins types though?
Not knocking it, mind. Good effort.

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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
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Originally posted by No 7 No 7 wrote:

Originally posted by Kimbo Kimbo wrote:

How many have sold to Quins types though?
Not knocking it, mind. Good effort.

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Originally posted by seagoon seagoon wrote:

Don't know  about whether Se7en is a wind-up merchant, but do know that he's a prat LOL

Ah, resorting to personal insults I see...always a sign of class. 

Well done to the Champ teams last night, gave a good account of themselves on the whole. Good luck to those still yet to play, Ealing v Quins particularly could be a classic.


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I for one would love this sort of competition to grow, reminiscent of the old cup knockout games in the John Player Trophy, rugby's version of the FA Cup.
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John Player, Pilkington and Tetleys Cup . Allowed the amateurs to get a chance to play the sham amateurs . I played for Ealing against Harlequins who had 5 International players playing. Harlequins won I recall 27 to 12 . We had other cup games against Met Police , London Irish , Saracens and Ealing did win against Richmond who were considered a first class team ( a term used at that time in the 80,s.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
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It also led to some very one-sided scores. 80-7, 95-7 and 115-0 in the final season.

The prize money was less than the cost of travel, even for Cambridge, so probably worse for the geographically peripheral clubs - and the RFU is not going to provide enough funding to fix that.

The cup was scheduled for the catch-up weeks, so a good cup run and bad weather meant fixture congestion.

Most teams only got one match.

But aside from that, how did you like the cup.
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