USA Rugby

[TheStroBro Profile]

From the roster I've received of Scotland I did some math. Starting XV: 12.13 average caps Match 23: 14.2 average caps.

[Tobar Profile]

What are the cities in the US where rugby stands out in popularity, apart from Denver? Is it mostly in the west? Is it just Denver?

I suppose SLC, San Francisco and Seattle would be some of them.

Houston, Chicago, NYC, Washington DC, San Diego, LA, SF, Sacramento, Phoenix...

If US were to host a RWC I could foresee all those cities except for Phoenix hosting matches. Nothing against Phoenix, it’s just not on the top of people’s minds when it comes to US cities.

[TheStroBro Profile]

What are the cities in the US where rugby stands out in popularity, apart from Denver? Is it mostly in the west? Is it just Denver?

I suppose SLC, San Francisco and Seattle would be some of them.

Houston, Chicago, NYC, Washington DC, San Diego, LA, SF, Sacramento, Phoenix...

If US were to host a RWC I could foresee all those cities except for Phoenix hosting matches. Nothing against Phoenix, it’s just not on the top of people’s minds when it comes to US cities.

We have a Climate controlled dome...

[Coloradoan Profile]

Phoenix isn't a great sports city and the local rugby scene is OK but nothing special. There are probably too many better candidates in the West. Sacramento currently does not have a stadium worthy of hosting RWC matches, but that will likely change by the time a RWC makes it to North America. Still, think they'd probably just put matches in the Bay Area instead. I have doubts about LA, as well, but they probably do it anyway because sports executives always try to get into that market. SF, NYC and Chicago seem like locks, although Chicago won't be part of the 2026 FIFA WC (graft recognize graft?). DC, Houston, Seattle and Denver seem likely as well. SLC, Philly, Boston, KC and somewhere in Florida or Georgia would be solid candidates too. Maybe Columbus and Minneapolis as candidates as well.

[thatrugbyguy Profile]

Ideally you'd want an even spread of venues to help with travel. You would have to clusters the pools in different areas of the country given its size.

[Bogdan_DC Profile]

Scotland: 15 Stuart Hogg (c), 14 Blair Kinghorn, 13 Nick Grigg, 12 Pete Horne, 11 Byron McGuigan, 10 Adam Hastings, 9 George Horne, 8 Matt Fagerson, 7 Luke Hamilton, 6 Tim Swinson, 5 Ben Toolis, 4 Lewis Carmichael, 3 Zander Fagerson, 2 George Turner, 1 Jamie Bhatti
Replacements: 16 Fraser Brown, 17 Allan Dell, 18 Murray McCallum, 19 Grant Gilchrist, 20 David Denton, 21 Sam Hidalgo-Clyne, 22 Mark Bennett, 23 Dougie Fife

USA are having a good chance on this one .

[TheStroBro Profile]

Phoenix isn't a great sports city and the local rugby scene is OK but nothing special. There are probably too many better candidates in the West. Sacramento currently does not have a stadium worthy of hosting RWC matches, but that will likely change by the time a RWC makes it to North America. Still, think they'd probably just put matches in the Bay Area instead. I have doubts about LA, as well, but they probably do it anyway because sports executives always try to get into that market. SF, NYC and Chicago seem like locks, although Chicago won't be part of the 2026 FIFA WC (graft recognize graft?). DC, Houston, Seattle and Denver seem likely as well. SLC, Philly, Boston, KC and somewhere in Florida or Georgia would be solid candidates too. Maybe Columbus and Minneapolis as candidates as well.

Phoenix isn't a great sports city...ok man, that's not accurate. Every local rugby scene is about to become nothing special with the MLR. Our youth Rugby Scene continues to explode, new programs across the valley every spring, kind of wild and awesome. Senior club growth...like what? I actually couldn't believe that new clubs are forming here...whereas the RGRU is now down to four clubs Point being we have a World Cup ready stadium and we have a local rugby community. However, World Cups really won't matter about locals in general. There will be so many tourists they will go where the matches are. Watched all of the PRP...SF Bay Rugby ain't that great man. There's also the NorCal divide, SF Bay folks won't go to the Valley and Valley folks won't go to SF Bay. Everyone thinks their scene is awesome, when for the most part it just is. LA as a sports city is huge but remains an undeveloped market. If you don't sell the game to people, they won't buy it. Just as we saw in Colorado this weekend.

Ideally you'd want an even spread of venues to help with travel. You would have to clusters the pools in different areas of the country given its size.

In the West everything is a plane flight. North of the Mason-Dixon it's a little bit better. But then you'd have to go to the Northeast! WestSide for life.

@BogdanDC insanely youthful side from the jocks.

[4N Profile]

PHX is a sleeper rugby city to me. Think it has lots of potential there. Nafi Maafu will one day rep them on the big stage.

[USA Rugby Fan Profile]

OMG! Eagles win! What a game!

[Thomas Profile Website]

Huge congratulations, that was a game worth watching in the middle of the night. At one point I thought the Scots were going to win it.

I thought that try in the first half was key.

Great game for the Eagles well done

[RugbyLiebe Profile]

Congrats. What a big win against Scotland!

[amz Profile]

Congrats to Eagles, great win!

[Bogdan_DC Profile]

Scotland: 15 Stuart Hogg (c), 14 Blair Kinghorn, 13 Nick Grigg, 12 Pete Horne, 11 Byron McGuigan, 10 Adam Hastings, 9 George Horne, 8 Matt Fagerson, 7 Luke Hamilton, 6 Tim Swinson, 5 Ben Toolis, 4 Lewis Carmichael, 3 Zander Fagerson, 2 George Turner, 1 Jamie Bhatti
Replacements: 16 Fraser Brown, 17 Allan Dell, 18 Murray McCallum, 19 Grant Gilchrist, 20 David Denton, 21 Sam Hidalgo-Clyne, 22 Mark Bennett, 23 Dougie Fife

USA are having a good chance on this one .

Scotland tried their luck too much . Eagles are a serious team who knows their rugby well. Also I like their style, few speedsters in the backs combined with strong carriers in the forwards. Nice one, congrats!

[GeoRugby Profile]

Nice win. Looking forward to watching some highlights.

[sk 88 Profile Website]

My recording cut out just before the final conversion! I take it he missed it!!

Great win for USA, to come back from 15 points down at one point showed some really great mental strength.

[Thomas Profile Website]

My recording cut out just before the final conversion! I take it he missed it!!

Great win for USA, to come back from 15 points down at one point showed some really great mental strength.

You can see it on the BBC Scotland broadcast, is still up

[sk 88 Profile Website]

I recorded it over night on BBC, my sky+ didn't last to the conversion but I saw the try. I think I'm okay to not see a conversion go wide

[DotJP Profile]

Congratulations to USA rugby.

[NaBUru38 Profile]

Congratulations to the Eagles.

Now it's time to defeat Georgia.

[TheStroBro Profile]

https://www.earfulofdirt.com/2018/06/us ... matic.html

Great night, in the airport and on the way home.

[victorsra Profile Website]

Congratulations Eagles!!!

What about the attendance?

[Osmanperalta Profile]

Nice win. Looking forward to watching some highlights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGEdsKPr-p8

[TheStroBro Profile]

Congratulations Eagles!!!

What about the attendance?

Dunno, the number floating was about 10.5k. The atmosphere around the Stadium was rocking which legit beats the three other tests I've been to by far. The FanFest was actually legit. Hundreds of people at the bars around the stadium getting zipped. Then Multiple massive tailgates.

[thatrugbyguy Profile]

Might be a bit too early to give credit to MLR for this win but given the US team was all professional players for the first time ever you've got to wonder if we're starting to see the results already from the league's existence.

[Working Class Rugger Profile]

Might be a bit too early to give credit to MLR for this win but given the US team was all professional players for the first time ever you've got to wonder if we're starting to see the results already from the league's existence.

It most certainly would have helped the situation.