It doesn't have to be anything expensive just a couple of said women/men holding up a large banners that people leaving the station need to pass by or even under.

Get the message out to people. If they are already out and about they are looking for a good day anyway and this would basically be giving them the option.

Have to disagree with you about the 'Rugby Fans first and foremost' bit crucru.

In my opinion (although I don't live in Wales anymore and I'm not Welsh) from what I've seen in the area regarding Rugby its Union or nothing in South Wales. By all means if they want to try advertising MM then good luck to them but I honestly can't see anything coming from it, well certainly no big interest anyway.

I havent left Cardiff Central station during the rush hour (which maybe you are referring to) so maybe things are different then.

And on a Saturday most people get off at Queen Street anyway.

I disagree. For matches the nearest station to the pubs and more importantly the ground is central and will be the more busy of the two.

Well yes but on Saturday most people tend to use Queen St.

And another important fact is that trains from places such as the Rhondda, the Cynon Valley, Pontypridd and Merthyr (which if I dare say it will be carrying a lot of your potential target audience) go through Queen St before they arrive at Central. I would suggest most of the passengers on Saturday will get off there.

No reason why a simple leaflet handing/banner/electronic advert board could not be used at both.

As I say I think it could work.

You are assuming that people that are travelling down on the Arriva Trains service from the 'Vaaa-Leeees' can read. Or even want to read.

All that will be important to them will be the following (in order)

1. Getting off the train for a P*ss. ASAP. It will have been just under an hour since they got on, they will have been on the cans since Troedyrhiw or Aberdare (not including the cans they had in the pub before they left) and will be busting for the toilet.

2 Getting off at Queen St means avoiding the Police that will be on duty at central seeing as a lot of them will probably be wanted on warrant for something.

3. They may have some fake tanned covered, dyed haired, muffin topped young ladies with them (who all seem to wear Welsh RU jerseys 3 times too small for them) whose sole aim will also to get off the train for a p*ss, to avoid the Police at Central and then to go to Primark before heading for the Walkabout or the Prince of Wales (via McDonalds) The girls will be hungry as it will have been just over an hour since they had a Peters steak and kidney pie and large chips.

They will all just want to drink, put on a glittery Welsh cowboy hat and then watch the Welsh RU team play a game that they dont really understand whilst getting bladdered. Followed by a fight, a kebab and then throw it all back up in the gutter at midnight before catching a train home...unless they spend the night in hospital or in the custody suite at Canton cop shop.


Tidy rugby day day Init butt.

hahaha. phipps im starting to warm to you.
im sorry to say it but its true, for the most (overwhelming) part the welsh just are not interested in rugby unless its the one that involves the two pointless extra forwards and lots of random chubby blokes engaging in homo erotic wrestling.
i lived in aberystwyth for several years, the closest rugby team is the ospreys, around 70 miles away! and still all they wanted to know about was rugby union.
I was at university there, me and around 20 other northerners banded together when superleague games where on sky, and even if there was absolutely nothing else on the TV's in the pubs, every weekend we would try just about every pub in town, rock up and ask if they could put the rugby league on and on all but two occasions were met with a simple 'No' and then ignored.
this went on for four years. and all of those places would rather not have the hundreds of pounds we'd have put there way every weekend, just because we wanted the rugby league on.

Yeah, what a "big" opportunity.
Put some adverts up for MM so that the big-match-occasional urine-heads can see them.

Here's the massive gaping flaw in that genius idea.

Wales is NOT a rugby mad nation. More people watch football (though more people PLAY rugby - at least in the South). Wales IS however, an INTERNATIONAL rugby mad nation. The Welsh Union regions COMBINED get less spectators than Leeds do on their own, but the national team (when it's winning) could sell out 5 times over.

Welsh rugby PLAYERS and serious supporters watch, enjoy and are often quite knowledgeable about League (MOST often supporting Wigan or Warrington). On the Wales v Scotland weekend these potential fans will be playing, or be up in Scotland or watching on their own TVs or in their favourite local pub.

What comes into Cardiff that day, will be the shrieking kok-hungry red spangly stetson wearing twice divorced harpies, orange skinned punch-drunk 'roiders and "fans" who couldn't name a Welsh rugby player outside of the national side, or even a Welsh TEAM below the regions, but irrationally hate League because their dads were annoyed at the diaspora of Welsh Union talent in the '80s.

There are thousands of potential League supporters in Wales. It just ain't THOSE people.

Stick to threads about jerseys Crucru.

And Vikingsmurf, I hear you about Aberystwyth. I returned there (my birthplace) a few years back and got slagged off in Welsh when I spoke English in one of the shops to my polyglot friend. It is a stagnant, backwards, change resistant backwater that only in the last 3 years UNBANNED The Life Of Brian from being shown in its one screen magic lantern theatre.
I wouldn't take it personally. They disapprove of EVERYTHING. Described in the Lonely Planet Guide To Britain as "at best, a 45 minute bogstop", the best thing to come out of Aberystwyth is ..... me!

Wouldn't argue with that to be fair, the vast majority don't have any interest in rugby at all other than to support Wales, and genuine rugby fans are usually quite knowledgable and positive towards RL. I doubt the 'rugby day' tourists actually enjoy the game itself, because let's face it RU is like watching paint dry at the best of times. They just want to get drunk and support their nation in the best way they know. I doubt then that they would have too much interest in MM, or in watching any of the regions either.

I'm laughing more at the fact an ex rugby league fan that has turned his back on the game still hangs about and posts on here.

No comments better illustrate what a made up persona you are. Most people get off at queen street? You're full of it.

The ego has landed.

Funny that I live in cardiff and it has rained once in the last ten days. Your 'knowledge' gets more tenuous by the second.

Indeed they do.

On a Saturday.

good thread this, excellent ideas

always thought that was the case. people say RU is the national sport then cardiff city and swansea get these massive crowds which dwarf unions clubs crowds, and neither soccer club is in the Premeir League.

imagine if cardiff manage to get promoted?

Love it

Now THERES a man who has been in Cardiff on Rugby Day

There is a tent and I think a banner going up as we speak.

Have the RFL taken this chance and grasped it or is it another WRU initiative?

Whatever it is it is literally on the area in front of the station that is pictured above.

I've been reliably informed that they are WRU merchandising tents.

Obviously the area is good enough for the WRU to target but the RFL miss out once again.

I really hope something is set up for the Magic Weekend as it is a prime area. That is assuming the WRU actually move their tents, otherwise we're up the creak.

Very good, a true heir to Dylan Thomas



In my experience, that's what comes into Cardiff on any Saturday, not just when there's rugby on. Not forgetting girls from the Merthyr/ elsewhere in the valleys, wearing bikini tops in January and their lagered up male counterparts out for a fight with the lads from the next village.

Much better than swansea or newport though(or plymouth and gillingham in my experience for a pretty random comparison). One thing worth noting is that the goat major, rummer, dempseys, model inn and city arms end always seem pretty chilled although personally the only place i can't stand is the walkabout (although they've shown the grand final on the big screen before now which is pretty good). I've been in the prince of wales plenty of times (always work gatherings for some reason) and actually always enjoyed it.
Dempseys and the queens vaults seem t stick on ss1 as a default and i've caught quite a lot of league in those places, i'm a couple of hundred friendly northerners asking for the league on would get a positive response.
One word of warning if anybody is tempted for late night stuff avoid metros - it stinks ever since the smoking ban, worse than anywhere else.

It isnt crucrucrucrucrucru etcetcetc

We have done this to death.

Move on for gods sake!











Yet another man who has clearly been to good old Caerdydd

well its nice to have backup

lmao, I have enjoyed that theatre many times over the years.
and had far more experience than i would like of the completely insane inhabitants of that region