Ospreys sign on the swansea.com stadium

[jdtswan]

Avoiding the distraction of snoop doggy dog, does anyone know if the Ospreys sign is sti on the stadium, seeing as they will now be playing elsewhere?

 

[jackharris]

Not sure they will be moving out completely yet. They can’t start the work on St Helens until the cricket season finishes. This is scheduled to be the last season Swansea CC play their matches there. The Ospreys intend to move to St Helens mid season. So whether they will start the season at the Swansea.com Stadium or say the Brewery Field, Bridgend I’m not sure.

Anyway that’s if there is still an Ospreys region because everything is up in the air about the regions at the moment. So who knows what is going to happen? Currently they will play their first few matches away from St Helens.

Avoiding the distraction of snoop doggy dog, does anyone know if the Ospreys sign is still on the stadium, seeing as they will now be playing elsewhere?

 

[jack_lord]

Not sure they will be moving out completely yet. They can’t start the work on St Helens until the cricket season finishes. This is scheduled to be the last season Swansea CC play their matches there. The Ospreys intend to move to St Helens mid season. So whether they will start the season at the Swansea.com Stadium or say the Brewery Field, Bridgend I’m not sure.

Anyway that’s if there is still an Ospreys region because everything is up in the air about the regions at the moment. So who knows what is going to happen? Currently they will play their first few matches away from St Helens.

I think the wru are setting the Ospreys (aka Swansea) up for a fall with the decision to reduce the regions to 3 or 2. They will axe Swansea on the basis they dont have a ground fit for regional rugby

 

[monmouth]

The answer is really simple. Two teams (not 'rejuns') called Swansea and Llanelli (or Llanelli and Swansea) playing out of Parc y Scarlets (rethink purpose of St Helens) and Cardiff and Newport (or Newport and Cardiff) playing out of CAP or Rodney or both.. Retain the four famous brands of welsh rugby that have beaten the all blacks.

Less simple, get those two teams in the English league. Make them successful and the cross will return. In tandem, really sort out the semi pro layer in Wales and supporting pathways.

WRU of course will go for East Wales and West Wales or just Cardiff and Llanelli n the URC, and Welsh rugby, already on life support will pass away.

 

[MajorR]

The answer is really simple. Two teams (not 'rejuns') called Swansea and Llanelli (or Llanelli and Swansea) playing out of Parc y Scarlets (rethink purpose of St Helens) and Cardiff and Newport (or Newport and Cardiff) playing out of CAP or Rodney or both.. Retain the four famous brands of welsh rugby that have beaten the all blacks.

Less simple, get those two teams in the English league. Make them successful and the cross will return. In tandem, really sort out the semi pro layer in Wales and supporting pathways.

WRU of course will go for East Wales and West Wales or just Cardiff and Llanelli n the URC, and Welsh rugby, already on life support will pass away.

Llanelli and the Ospreys have been the biggest source of players for Wales for as long as I can remember and axing 1 of them is a huge risk.

PYS is a much better ground than St Helens, but Swansea has a much bigger industrial base to support a rugby region than Llanelli and West Wales.

I think they’ll cull Newport and stick with 3 for now.

 

[Dr. Winston]

PYS is a much better ground than St Helens, but Swansea has a much bigger industrial base to support a rugby region than Llanelli and West Wales.

Attendances at PyS are significantly higher than Ospreys crowds despite the Ospreys being relatively more successful. Llanelli is a Rugby town. Swansea is a Football city.

It'll be Cardiff and Llanelli most probably. One East, one West.

 

[jackharris]

Having a new rugby super region just based in Llanelli will totally alienated anyone who supported the Whites and then the Ospreys. And Neath fans have generally lost interest too. They would not start going down Parc Yr Scarlets and support a team down there. They are the rivals. It’s all crap at the moment. Better to have the Ospreys at St Helens, the Scarlets and an East region in Cardiff. 3 regions playing against the English club sides. That’s what I would like to see, but I have very little idea about what is happenings now.

 

[jackharris]

 

[Dr. Winston]

Having a new rugby super region just based in Llanelli will totally alienated anyone who supported the Whites and then the Ospreys.

There's not really anyone left to alienate. That seems to be the problem.

If The Ospreys were still pulling in the crowds that they were when they were first formed then obviously they'd be one of those chosen, but they're not. Their attendances are worse than the Dragons if Google is correct, and that's despite being the most successful region.

 

[Ichabod Crane]

The absolute state of the national side speaks volumes for where we are at, unfortunately. Four regions, three regions, or two going forward will not cure this; years of mismanagement have put rugby in Wales on the precipice. Not even Snoop Dogg can sort this mess out...

 

[JustJack]

The WRU own the Dragons, do they not? So they cant go anywhere

Dragons and Cardiff kept, the others move to the English system (my prediction)

 

[Dr. Winston]

The absolute state of the national side speaks volumes for where we are at, unfortunately. Four regions, three regions, or two going forward will not cure this; years of mismanagement have put rugby in Wales on the precipice.

I'm not much of a Rugby fan, but from what I can see management isn't the games biggest problem.

Even before the Swans, and then Cardiff, climbed into the Premier League, there was more interest in football than rugby at the club level. Sure, The Millstad is still packed out for the Six Nations, but an increasing number of them were only there for the pissup. On a day to day basis, the interest just hasn't been there.

The last 10-15 years have seen success for the clubs and National football team that hadn't existed for decades, and that has drawn even more interest away from Rugby. Far fewer kids grow up wanting to be Rugby players, which is why the talent pool is drying up.

Rugby in its Heartlands is fighting an existential battle against a more popular foe.

 

[BanosSwan]

The WRU own the Dragons, do they not? So they cant go anywhere

Dragons and Cardiff kept, the others move to the English system (my prediction)

Not anymore.

 

[MajorR]

I watch a lot of Super Rygbi Cymru and have a season at 1 of the clubs. It’s not a bad standard, but it’s a pigs guts of a league. The WRU want it to be a developmental league to bring young players through, but they’ve not thought it through properly and you have teams like Swansea and Aberavon with squads packed with younger players and kids who often end up playing teams full of 30 plus year olds. Last year, Cardiff were the best team over the course of the season and they were supplemented by the Cardiff Blues Academy - so it was full time pro’s and young pro’s v’s youngsters and semi pros.

There’s 10 teams in the league so that’s 9 home games a season plus some cup tournament - how can a club be run on that?

 

[monmouth]

Llanelli and the Ospreys have been the biggest source of players for Wales for as long as I can remember and axing 1 of them is a huge risk.

PYS is a much better ground than St Helens, but Swansea has a much bigger industrial base to support a rugby region than Llanelli and West Wales.

I think they’ll cull Newport and stick with 3 for now.

They can’t. Not without Buttress agreeing. Dragons signed the new agreement, scarlets and Ospreys did not, and are now barred from doing so. Basically as things stand, they are proper f****d.