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Camquin 
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 Topic: TwickenhamPosted: 20 Mar 2025 at 12:16 |
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I am not sure if this has much that we have not heard before, but it shows how much work is needed, and how large a team that needs. I believe that this is all dependent on Richmond council granting a licence for more non-rugby events. |
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Deva Delinquent
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Posted: 20 Mar 2025 at 12:47 |
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I was reading a similar article on another site earlier today.
Unless they get the council on side, having more than three concerts annually will never go ahead.
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Richard Lowther
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Posted: 20 Mar 2025 at 13:20 |
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The suggested moves to elsewhere in the country are bluffs to force the council to give in and allow more none rugby events. The cost of building a stadium equivalent to Twickenham would be in the Billions and many years away. How this would be funded is what no one is mentioning.
The irony is they need more non rugby events because they are spending too much on rugby! |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2025 at 13:30 |
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The RFU senior team are effectively more of an events management company than guardians of a sport.
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Robb
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Posted: 20 Mar 2025 at 13:39 |
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It's all about the money with them, not about getting as many fans in to watch the highest level of sport as they can. I hope the council block this.
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Posted: 25 Mar 2025 at 12:14 |
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If it was Birmingham or Milton Keynes.
Have to be Birmingham for its rails links and airport. Unless Concrete cows and roundabouts are a thing.
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The older I get, the more the RFU leave me confused.
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SK 88
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Going into it with BCFC and building a stadium on their site right near HS2's new station would be a much better location than Twickenham for me.
Really the RFU should sell a share of Twickenham and spin it off into its own company regardless. As above, the RFU's role is not to be a stadium management company, the IRFU for instance owns a share of the Aviva but does not run it, and that seems much more successful as a model.
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Richard Lowther
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Posted: 21 hours 54 minutes ago at 18:13 |
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A substantial part of RFUs income comes from the Stadium. Without it or only a partial share of it that would fall.
What really needs to be cut is the outgoings, and the vast majority of those are to 10 clubs, so the RFU have access to about 50 players per season, a deal which hasn't been particularly successful...
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