Originally Posted by
SPaRTAN
That's a fair enough statement, IF they had spread the games over a bunch of times and on different days. Yes you could say that they wouldnt be ideal for everyone, but what Global Rapid Rugby/Forrest/Mindaroo and RugbyWA have done is target a single demographic, and the insult to this is that the demographic they have chosen to appeal to is exactly the opposite of what they spent the whole of last year trying to promote for World Series Rugby. Family friendly Rugby, light shows, kiss cam, guitar can, parachute guys, west running around, the blue men running around round high fiving kids etc.
They have targetted corporate businessmen who will be leaving work on Fridays to hit the bars or grab a meal before going to the game and getting shitfaced all night, and if they were too busy smashing piss to eat before hand they will splurge at the stadium facilities on burgers, pizza, pies and chips.
They failed to even put a single game at a family friendly time and all that would have meant was having the game on at 6pm instead of 7:45pm. They failed to put a single game on a Sunday when their would be no clashes with absolutely any sport/ clubs or any televised events. Despite doing a Sunday game for World Series Rugby that achieved their second highest crowd attendance for the whole of WSR and it was on the Sunday which was against Tonga. They also failed to have atleast one Saturday game, which is totally unheard of for Rugby considering most rugby everywhere in the world is on Saturday, all except Global Rapid Rugby which has chosen to be totally unique and appeal only to the beer drinking Friday night culture at the expense of all the rugby juniors and their families.
GRR must be the only sport that has completely and utterly shunned its junior and future fan base, not even RugbyAustralia and Clynes mob is this bad at organising Rugby fixtures, atleast they run an occasional sunday arvo game and mostly Saturday night games which are far more family friendly than Fridays for obvious reasons. RugbyAustralia cops enormous criticism for having such late night Saturday games but they are still far more family friendly that what GRR has chosen to do by targetting the Adult Friday night party culture.