barnsleymat

It's worth sorting the Samsung out, if only for BBC and Netflix.

Bless them egg chasers and their half empty stadiums. I like to remind them that Rugby is only the number one sport in one country...... here. So that's 0.06% of the worlds population live in a country dominated by Rugby.

Woodlea

80K at Twickenham at the weekend. You know people only go to soccer for the singing/parochialism?? 89 minutes of boredom, 1 minute of genius and 3 minutes of extra time......

barnsleymat

80,000 Ruperts and Jontys at 'Twikkers' for an international. WOW!!!!!!!

I bet it was like a Conservative Party Conference. Boring, pointless, posh and full of twats with double barrelled names decked out in tweed.

Sure, international Rugby can attract the occasional big crowd but as a sport it's got no substance.

You've only got one song.

00derek

UN40EH5300FXZA. Can't find any clues in the the forums about it.

Bought from Costco about a year ago. iPlayer was working initially (after country change and spoofed DNS). Then it stopped.

It's a bedroom TV and we don't use it that often; when we do use the SmartTV function, it has to update almost every single time

Stormer999

+1
Also to watch the little tantrums and the bullying of the referee.....disgrace....

Tom H

You know that match against the USA is going to make the game huge over there.

It'll be a refresh for the ABs since they think UK people are nasty racist cretins. Disgusting that we sing during their haka.

TommyLuck

Football is the only true global team sport. Even then most countries don't have much of a chance of international silverware.

There is the odd surprise, Greece in 2004, but despite the massive appeal of football. It's still a pretty boring with the same select few staying the course of winning trophies both at club and international level.

As and Englishman we've seen our national Cricket team and the Rugby team win world cups and lead the world rankings, despite neither sport being being the national game - which is way more fun than some two bob football team who are now so dull to watch that the very country that invented the game can't even fill the national stadium. Embarrassing.

00derek

I think this deserves it's own thread.

barnsleymat

Don't worry yourself about football crowds, it's those football crowds that have provided the stadia to host next years Rugby World Cup as Rugby in England doesn't have the infrastructure due to piss poor attendances. Oh I forgot, it's the second biggest sporting event on earth!!!!!!! Aye alright.

Stormer999

Our Millennium Stadium is usually completely full, somewhere sensible true supporters can sit and watch a mans game with beer in hand without having to be separated into containment zones....

DennisBergkamp

I loved football to the max in the UK
But since Arsenal have gone down the pan my interest is waning. Plus its hard to watch here with time difference. Especially Champions League as i'll be at work! Like tomorrow Arsenal v Dortmund i'll be in some meeting so cant even check BBC Sport haha.
I love cricket so have maintained by interest in that by following the Black Caps

Tom H

Are you going to the England v New Zealand world cup match Dennis??? I've got a couple of tickets with the Barmy Army for that game, probably to witness an English defeat knowing my luck with English cricket

TommyLuck

Who said that?


I'm not worried about a half empty Wembley. It's just indicative that football fans aren't as great as they think they are. When times don't go quite so smoothly they shy away.

Even Man City aren't selling out most weeks.

To be fair, there is probably too much choice of live Football available, which doesn't help.

Stadium MK, Brighton Community Stadium, Leicester City Stadium, Manchester City Stadium weren't solely built for football, Brighton gives a massive clue to that. Although the respective clubs are an integral part of those stadium becoming profitable for those who have invested.

The Olympic Stadium and Wembley Stadium built for multi-purpose.

Villa Park I'll give you. But a world cup in any sport is about spreading geographically to give as many people the chance to attend in terms of travel and Birmingham being the "second city" need a piece of that action.

St James' Park involvement is largely to allow the Scots people have easy access to two of their pool games, one of which is the major tie against South Africa.

Elland Road has been used for other sports, mainly Rugby League for years.

Surely fact that the Rugby World Cup isn't being played at Welford Road (Leicester), Kingston Park (Newcastle), Salford City Stadium and Franklins Gardens (Northampton) is a testament to the international game that there is a demand to use bigger stadiums in the same towns and cities?

barnsleymat

As a Dunedin resident empty unprofitable rugby stadiums are a sore point, even more debt was piled onto us rate payers last week. $270m in total now.

All because the Rugby powers promised Rugby could easily fund the stadium when the truth is it can't and will never be able to. Highlanders get about 10k per match and it's as cheap as $15 entry, there's only 8 home games a year and the provincial rugby games get about 4k per match and 8 times a year.

I'm forced into subsidising the lack of interest in Rugby in supposedly the heart of Rugby Union in NZ.

The stadium has cost about the same as Man City's stadium.

TommyLuck

True.

I very nearly put in my response something about not being bothered about Wembley, partly as I'm now no longer adding to the coffers in helping to pay off the debts it accrued.

Build it and they will come ...