Quote ="wrencat1873"Quote ="orangeman"4 PEOPLE, 2 WEEKS, 1 CAMPER.
A quick search found RV total rental price €1,435, flights about €200 each return, petrol etc....call it €3,000 for 4 people for 2 weeks in France...£650 each or just .£50 a day each....if [u[i[size=150your[/size[/i[/u club was to market that to it's core supporters, I reckon you'd get plenty of takers........
as I say...Joined up thinking required, but If i can search from 12,000 kms away, surely rimmer can see the benefit?'"
Would be great for the fans but, clubs are unlikely to want to have their players in France all week and wouldn't want to go over there 2 weeks on the bounce.
What may work is if they played the 2 French games, say Friday and Monday, which would give fans chance to visit both places, even if their own side was only playing in one of the games ?
Equally, I know that places like Castleford and Wigan may not be the greatest places to spend the night bur, there could be some opportunities in the opposite direction. There are some great places to visit "up North".'"
Its not two weeks though is it?...play Catalans on Saturday, Toulouse on Thursday or Friday or vice versa. Makes much more sense to me.
You say teams wouldn't want their players there, but what they going to do back home other than train. Some warmer weather training will have benefits and also help them prepare for the 2nd game....plus its a 5/6 day opportunity for team building and developing team / tour spirit which you usually only get pre-season.
Its a great opportunity all clubs should jump at imo. .....the only challenge i see is small minded chairmen who will only see the cost of 5/6 days in hotels, rather than opportunity and benefit this brings. Yet, if they stopped looking at this negatively, even they would see that we can probably bring a tour operator as sponsor (to do all the fans packages) who would be only too happy to cover these costs for the deal.....Now thats a trade off sponsor with ACTUAL value...much better than free livery on lorrys and free pizzas
....Toronto achieved it with Air Canada....they could go and talk to them for some tips if they hadn't been equally small minded to kick them out.
Its no wonder the game has never reached its potential with the level of small minded ambition we have from not only fans, but those who are running the game!
....Toronto achieved it with Air Canada....they could go and talk to them for some tips if they hadn't been equally small minded to kick them out.
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thought it was either brain surgery or rocket science never heard rocket surgery 
