Eddie Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 Cornwall‘s crowds have dwarfed Truro City’s, who as Cornwall’s premier football team managed to average 130 last season. Puts their success in attracting punters this season into perspective. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jughead Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 4 minutes ago, Eddie said: Cornwall‘s crowds have dwarfed Truro City’s, who as Cornwall’s premier football team managed to average 130 last season. Puts their success in attracting punters this season into perspective. That’s Truro City, who play 54 miles from their home city at Plymouth Parkway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 (edited) 44 minutes ago, Jughead said: That’s Truro City, who play 54 miles from their home city at Plymouth Parkway. Fair enough, I didn’t know that. Having looked back they were only getting around 450 in Truro though. Edited August 27, 2022 by Eddie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Future is League Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 46 minutes ago, Jughead said: That’s Truro City, who play 54 miles from their home city at Plymouth Parkway. Are they having a rebuilt of their ground in Truro? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jughead Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 44 minutes ago, The Future is League said: Are they having a rebuilt of their ground in Truro? I think, though I may be wrong, they had a legal battle with the ground owners who plan(ned) on building a Tesco. I think they were hoping for the building of the Stadium for Cornwall alongside the Union side but I’m not really up to date on if or when that is happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SB1 Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 It is happening, although scaled down from it's original size; due to the Conservative government backing down from a David Cameron promise in 2015 to provide funding for the stadium, it wasn't included in the recent Levelling Up funding scheme as a project. As such, another partner in Truro and Penwith College pulled out their segment of funding because of this. Not a political swipe, but just an observation. As I understand, the Cornish Pirates and Truro City would play there in the winter season and Cornwall RLFC in the summer. More context: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cht9rp 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iffleyox Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 8 hours ago, SB1 said: It is happening, although scaled down from it's original size; due to the Conservative government backing down from a David Cameron promise in 2015 to provide funding for the stadium, it wasn't included in the recent Levelling Up funding scheme as a project. As such, another partner in Truro and Penwith College pulled out their segment of funding because of this. Not a political swipe, but just an observation. As I understand, the Cornish Pirates and Truro City would play there in the winter season and Cornwall RLFC in the summer. More context: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cht9rp AIUI the stadium as planned is basically now dead, and what is going to be built is a smaller thing just for Truro City. Pirates are stuck at the Mennaye now for the foreseeable. Might as well change their name back to Penzance/Newlyn… 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiffers Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 2 hours ago, iffleyox said: AIUI the stadium as planned is basically now dead, and what is going to be built is a smaller thing just for Truro City. Pirates are stuck at the Mennaye now for the foreseeable. Might as well change their name back to Penzance/Newlyn… This is where my head was at until I heard on the grapevine just last week that there is in fact money being found at the council... How and what this looks like yet I havent had any details on. But from the situation being dead... it now may have a glimmer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Dockhouse Host Posted August 28, 2022 Author Share Posted August 28, 2022 My interview with Neil Kelly is uploaded to Facebook here. Only a few minutes long, Neil's volume is a little low, we will put it on our YouTube channel soon and edit the sound. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1361836814234490/permalink/1561279817623521/ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EggFace Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 12 hours ago, iffleyox said: AIUI the stadium as planned is basically now dead, and what is going to be built is a smaller thing just for Truro City. Pirates are stuck at the Mennaye now for the foreseeable. Might as well change their name back to Penzance/Newlyn… Isn't Penzance a better place to have a team instead of Truro ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SB1 Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 15 minutes ago, EggFace said: Isn't Penzance a better place to have a team instead of Truro ? Not really. Truro is a central catchment for Camborne and Redruth, Falmouth and Penryn, Helston, St. Austell, Bodmin and Newquay. Penzance is out on it's own which limits the numbers that can or want to go. When the Pirates played in Camborne, for example, they could on occasion pull in crowds of up to 4k/5k. Now in Penzance they'd pull in 2k for a good game. Truro is pretty dominant as the economic and social centre of Cornwall in that regard. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornishknocker Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 On 22/08/2022 at 20:00, CornishRebel said: We’ll it was 1182 officially Sure I read somewhere, the average attendance for the season was 1045 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EggFace Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 2 hours ago, SB1 said: Not really. Truro is a central catchment for Camborne and Redruth, Falmouth and Penryn, Helston, St. Austell, Bodmin and Newquay. Penzance is out on it's own which limits the numbers that can or want to go. When the Pirates played in Camborne, for example, they could on occasion pull in crowds of up to 4k/5k. Now in Penzance they'd pull in 2k for a good game. Truro is pretty dominant as the economic and social centre of Cornwall in that regard. Good post... always that Cornish Rugby Union was like Cumbrian Rugby League being a big place but low population stretched out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Dockhouse Host Posted August 29, 2022 Author Share Posted August 29, 2022 I did a short interview with Neil Kelly and one with Oldham chairman. Neil's has has over 700 veiws in one day and Chris Hamiltons 200 in the same time period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Dockhouse Host Posted September 9, 2022 Author Share Posted September 9, 2022 A couple of weeks ago I made the journey to Cornwall to experience what's going on down there, I was pleasantly surprised, check out our show in the occasion here. PS. Does the fire background work? https://youtu.be/jJ9lPBpcE-o 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lad Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 Cornwall's got a lot of promise, big crowds are impressive for a first year team. But winning is the best way to keep people coming to the games and they need to do better over the next few years. Expansion teams have been a failure in recent years, so it's important that Cornwall do well not just survive in League 1. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northamptoncougar Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 Problem is how exactly do they become competitive without importing players & losing a lot of money 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Dockhouse Host Posted September 10, 2022 Author Share Posted September 10, 2022 It's not an easy solution, they need time to grow but how patient is RL, the backers, and supporters? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Dockhouse Host Posted September 10, 2022 Author Share Posted September 10, 2022 Please join our Facebook group here Dockhouse Rugby Show Please follow our Brand New podcast audio show here and on other podcast providers https://www.podbean.com/pa/pbblog-r9ng3-e4fea6 Subscribe to our YouTube channel https://youtube.com/channel/UCkfchHdQicJNe5KtThfWZlw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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