Leicester Tigers

There is nothing in the laws to stop a quick penalty or free kick or kick being taken as long as the referee has made the mark to indicate where it is to be taken from. The attacking player can take the quick penalty/free kick from anywhere behind & directly in line with the mark once it has bee...

As Bill says, the Hotac costs of the invitational squad would dwarf £50,000 and that is before even considering thwe cost of appearance fees for the top players you would expect. 23 players, management, coaches etc would be 30 people for even a bare minimum scratch team. Flying them in (Business cla...

Noddy, as you now accept, the fixture made a loss so surely if you wanted to raise the most money for charity, why would these 10 businesses contribute to a event that doesn't even cover the cost of setting it up?!? The whole point of charity fund raisers is to RAISE more money than it costs to fund...

For tjs 10. What you are talking about is a marketing problem. As we have one of if not the best marketing teams in the Aviva, I'm sure that they would be able to get a good crowd to a Barbars game. You waffle on without contributing any constructive comments. It's a case of getting the right date,...

Unfortunately, asking people if they would like to see the return of a Barbarians fixture and actually getting them to commit to buying a ticket for the game are two very different things. Most fans would say yes please to the idea of such a game but history showed that getting them to part with the...

Barbarians games are expensive for the inviting team to host as I believe they end up paying the fee that pays the Baabaa wages etc. So you eaither pay a lot to get big names or you pay a little & get non-international journeymen/fringe players nobody has heard of. Tigers would need BIG names in...

The only comment I have to make on this subject is to bemoan the fact that this annual fixture no longer exists. It was one of my highlights of the Christmas season when it was held on boxing day. Sadly club and country commitments seem to have dealt a death knell to these friendly games. I do reme...

It isn't just rugby that has this problem. I expect that soccer has a similar drop out rate, at least at "club" level. Lots of kids play for their local clubs at school age but few keep it up to the same degree once they reach adulthood. Unfortunately also the nature of rugby (compared to ...

drinking in the stands is illegal at all sporting venues but Rugby and Cricket just ignore it Not true I'm afraid. The law [Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc) Act 1985] only applies to: Association football matches in which one or both of the participating teams represents a club which is for...

I think it might also come down to money? If running a ladies team is going to cost the club money (including wages for players and coaches but also other costs of operating a team) but not offer any financial return then the club will probably be against the idea. With the wheelchair rugby, the clu...

As one of those "chumps" heavily involved in the RWC is RFU Chairman Bill Beaumont (born in Chorley & spent his whole club career playing for Fylde) I'm pretty sure he has a good idea where Manchester is. :smt003 Manchester's cause wasn't helped by Old Trafford pulling out of hosting g...

Complete nonsense. The excuses that the organisers gave for not picking Welford Road were pathetic. As I have mentioned in previous discussions about this, all of those issues are easily resolved in the years leading up to the World Cup. Those were also not issues for New Zealand grounds. Welford R...

Owlytiger, the reason they are later kick offs is so that the whole world can watch. An 8pm kick off means a 6am time for Australia which is why a 5pm KO time for the final is early Completely understand that. But the fact is that it makes it nigh on impossible for families to go along. And given t...

Complete nonsense. The excuses that the organisers gave for not picking Welford Road were pathetic. As I have mentioned in previous discussions about this, all of those issues are easily resolved in the years leading up to the World Cup. Those were also not issues for New Zealand grounds. Welford R...

How many who won't attend the Walkers would have gone to the Argentina vs Tonga game if the prices were the same but the venue was WR though? I doubt many more Tigers fans would have gone to WR for the game (at those same prices) but not the Walkers. At the end of the day, if you are willing to pay ...