Bart S wrote:Damn - now that Sky are showing it as the main game and the southern journos are saying nice things about Ulster, what are we going to be rightfully indignant about for the next few days??
The fact that we're only on at 3:40pm and not the 'primetime slot' of 6pm. How dare they...
Ruck, really , didn't you know plagiarism is criminal ?
Seems I'm annoying you a little tonight Baggy yes, I do apologize, but like beagle, I saw an opportunity and I took it.
So just to be clear, that was Baggy's comment, everybody.
Can't please everyone can ye...
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Aird wrote:Don't be greedy BR just be thankfully to be able to cheat and get both the broadcast and the red button. You can't record two programmes on the the one channel you need the two separate feeds one for real and one for the button.
I'm pretty sure that I can (weekend just past) - may have both been off the SD version though.
BaggyTrousers wrote:... as Leicester is manifestly a rugby town, ...
No it's not, it's a football town.
Football:
Total High Average Cap % of capacity
9 Leicester City (15) 14 329178 27720 23513 32500 72.3%
Rugby:
12 AVIVA Prem' matches played at Welford Road season 10/11
Total Attendance = 252,195
Average Attendance = 21,016
Max Capacity = 24,000 (achieved 4 times)
Ave. % of Capacity 87.5%
BR, Given the minimal difference in average attendance and considering the massive national trend in favour of football over rugby, add in that Tigers have the highest average attendance in England then its a bit of a stretch to deny that Leicester is a rugby town. If not Leicester, then their can be no such thing as a rugby town but that Leicester must come as close as there can be to one.
Vast majority of people I met in Leicester (other than at Welford Road) were football supporters (some even saying - 'I hope you win, I hate the tigers!'). The folks I was talking to on Friday confirmed this. Tigers supporters tend not to live in Leicester, with several travelling many hundreds of miles each matchday. Of course more typically they live in the Leicestershire or neighbouring counties. So perhaps it would be fairer to say 'Leicester is a town with rugby hinterland.'
In my experience - Bath, Gloucester and even Northampton would be more 'rugby towns' (their relative size may be a factor)
Football:
Total High Average Cap % of capacity
9 Leicester City (15) 14 329178 27720 23513 32500 72.3%
Rugby:
12 AVIVA Prem' matches played at Welford Road season 10/11
Total Attendance = 252,195
Average Attendance = 21,016
Max Capacity = 24,000 (achieved 4 times)
Ave. % of Capacity 87.5%
BR, Given the minimal difference in average attendance and considering the massive national trend in favour of football over rugby, add in that Tigers have the highest average attendance in England then its a bit of a stretch to deny that Leicester is a rugby town. If not Leicester, then their can be no such thing as a rugby town but that Leicester must come as close as there can be to one.
Vast majority of people I met in Leicester (other than at Welford Road) were football supporters (some even saying - 'I hope you win, I hate the tigers!'). The folks I was talking to on Friday confirmed this. Tigers supporters tend not to live in Leicester, with several travelling many hundreds of miles each matchday. Of course more typically they live in the Leicestershire or neighbouring counties. So perhaps it would be fairer to say 'Leicester is a town with rugby hinterland.'
In my experience - Bath, Gloucester and even Northampton would be more 'rugby towns' (their relative size may be a factor)
Not something I care enough about to "fight" the bit out over it, but it sounds to me like the football fans are a bit like Man City supporters, they don't like being in the shadow of the rugby toffs in the same way as City fans are vile envious creatures choking on their bile as across the city a world revered institution makes hay with regularity. Even the old "none of their supporters actually come from the city" has a familiarly envious sound.
To me the crowd figures are pretty compelling evidence but at the end of the day & the going down of the sun ............. who gives a flying feck?
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jonnybags wrote:Looks like we are off the red button, result!
Anyone with it set to record on Sky+ will need to reset it whenever it gives the various options as sometimes when they change like this it wipes the record request. Has anyone and red button choices yet on Sky for the same time ? Mine has only changed to the Clermont v Ulster match today with no other choice
“That made me feel very special and underlined to me that Ulster is more than a team, it is a community and a rugby family" Rory Best
BaggyTrousers wrote:
Football:
Total High Average Cap % of capacity
9 Leicester City (15) 14 329178 27720 23513 32500 72.3%
Rugby:
12 AVIVA Prem' matches played at Welford Road season 10/11
Total Attendance = 252,195
Average Attendance = 21,016
Max Capacity = 24,000 (achieved 4 times)
Ave. % of Capacity 87.5%
BR, Given the minimal difference in average attendance and considering the massive national trend in favour of football over rugby, add in that Tigers have the highest average attendance in England then its a bit of a stretch to deny that Leicester is a rugby town. If not Leicester, then their can be no such thing as a rugby town but that Leicester must come as close as there can be to one.
Vast majority of people I met in Leicester (other than at Welford Road) were football supporters (some even saying - 'I hope you win, I hate the tigers!'). The folks I was talking to on Friday confirmed this. Tigers supporters tend not to live in Leicester, with several travelling many hundreds of miles each matchday. Of course more typically they live in the Leicestershire or neighbouring counties. So perhaps it would be fairer to say 'Leicester is a town with rugby hinterland.'
In my experience - Bath, Gloucester and even Northampton would be more 'rugby towns' (their relative size may be a factor)
Not something I care enough about to "fight" the bit out over it, but it sounds to me like the football fans are a bit like Man City supporters, they don't like being in the shadow of the rugby toffs in the same way as City fans are vile envious creatures choking on their bile as across the city a world revered institution makes hay with regularity. Even the old "none of their supporters actually come from the city" has a familiarly envious sound.
To me the crowd figures are pretty compelling evidence but at the end of the day & the going down of the sun ............. who gives a flying feck?
Yeah Leicester City and Leicester Tigers are both sh*te so who cares?
The city of Leicester has a massive ethnic population (close to 50% I believe), mostly from countries with no tradition of rugby so it is hardly surprising that Tigers draw a lot of support from the rural hinterland.
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, didn't you know plagiarism is criminal ?
yes, I do apologize, but like beagle, I saw an opportunity and I took it.
