6.15p.m. k.o. sunday evening. anybody know different ??????????????????
I heard a rumour that it is a Sunday KO but it looks like the original post on icwales has disappeared. How is playing late Sunday evening going to attract crowds at the Cardiff City Stadium. Let's get back to the old days - Friday night/Saturday afternoons. TV needs to help rugby not hinder it!!!!!!!!
In tonights Echo they are calling it Super Sunday
all games kicking off at same time.
How does this last minute .com help shiftworkers like me they chance to change shifts then have to change again because thev'e moved the goalpost
It wouldn't surprise me if moving the ko's to Sunday is referred to as a "rugby decision".
This latest farce has hammered a few more nails into my coffin, even though the lid has been securely fixed for some time now.
Well a Sunday means I can't be there - and there was me thinking I'd have one last use out of my season ticket
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a trifle.
Now definite
Sunday 9th May 18:15 KO
Live on S4C
http://cardiffrugby.net/forums/t/3744.aspx
Following Cardiff RFC all over from sunny Bournemouth in Blue and Black
and the Amlin Final is on a flipping Sunday too.
Yet another set of insults to season ticket holders....
Lack of forward plannig for mathctimes/dates and the latest one
BOGOF on your season ticket... for the last match of the season, every season ticket holders gets a ticket to this match free!
...let's degrade the price of our season ticket to the last game!
Hmmmmm
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..........."if it aint broke, then keep fixing it until it is!"
In all fairness to the Limited Company they are fighting an uphill battle hampered by there being only four Welsh teams and three broadcasters two of which are Welsh, meaning that virtually every match is available on free to air TV. The move to Cardiff City Football Club's stadium certainly didn't help, it was a very big and very expensive mistake that is soaking away money from the areas where it really needs to be spent, improving the quality and competitiveness of the squads. Cardiff Blues peaked in the 2008-09 season, this season 2009-10 has seen us begin the descent, next season 2010-11 is already looking to be disastrous.
The only way out of it as far as I can see is ...
1. The board admit their mistake and move back to the Arms Park thus freeing up all that cash that at present is going to Cardiff City Football Club. Better a packed Arms Park than an empty Cardiff City Football Club Stadium.
2. We ignore the agreement regarding the number of NWQ and employ players that can put us back into being competitive regardless of where they originate from. We should maintain a preference for employing Welsh players but the prime consideration must be the ability to perform at the level required, better a Cardiff Blues in the Heineken Cup Final with 50% NWQ than a Cardiff Blues out of the competition at the pool stage with 20% NWQ.
We really cannot do anything about the broadcasters as it's BBC Wales & S4C that bring much needed cash to the party but we do need to be a bit more mindful of supporters when KO times are agreed so the management need to grow some balls and be firmer in their dealings. The question has to be asked, do BBC Wales & S4C really want to broadcast Magners League matches from an empty Cardiff City Football Club Stadium ? Last night's match from Parc y Scarlets might be a vision of the future !
Let us not be too fair here Big Al.
They signed up to the tv deal(s) though, knowing full well more games would be televised live and therefore would obviously impact on gate receipts/attendances. As you have said, the move hasn't helped by a long chalk, so If you also factor in the unpopularity of SdR, it's remote location in a limited catchment area, rubbish atmosphere, appalling beer etc, the effect is a whole lot worse than it would have been had we stayed at CAP.
Point 1 will do for me and the quicker, the sodding better.
And so say all of us!
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes.
Leave us Helpless, helpless, helpless