United Rugby Championship Stadiums

[@mowvu]

out of all the stadium channels, i have to say yours is the best. i have to watch you in x 1.25 speed, you're too chill haha. don't change a thing yer tree loving, corner seat loving, mountain view loving and purple seat loving malacka

[@jaylodotcom]

Love the South Africa Stadiums but big fan of the Kingspan myself as it’s my home club. Thomond Park is a good experience to go down too

[@mark123655]

Some of those stadiums must have shocked the SA teams compared to what they were used to in Super Rugby.

[@realeststeps5271]

Crowds aren't all that different

[@samkendlinhobbs8494]

Crowds are more in the Irish stadia!

[@Logies_right_hand]

I think the UK teams were shocked at how poor SA is. Majority of the cities are shitholes

[@pjdarcy]

Nothing tougher than playing uphill and into the wind/rain in the Sportsground in Galway on a miserable January evening.

[@TheLoughDuck55]

Most matches the South African teams get a pathetic attendance and the European teams fill up the stadiums most of the time.

[@harryocallaghan8082]

RDS arena (Anglesea stand) is due to be redeveloped €26 million upgrade that will see an increased capacity of 18,500 to 25,000. RDS has arguably a better atmosphere for Leinster games than at the Aviva stadium.

[@BroadwayJoe99]

Now we're gonna need a video for Super Rugby, and eventually MLR.

[@TheWideWorldofStadiums]

I actually did Super Rugby a while back. I'll get to MLR soon.

[@gordon1545]

Good video. My local ground is Edinburgh, and I really don't like it. I find all the pillars really distracting. Glasgow has the same problem behind the goals, which the long stands are behind running tracks. It's a shame, and I wish both played in the better football grounds in their cities.

[@jasongarufi8187]

Nice 1 "Cape Town where Batman does is clothes shopping." lol

[@goldenagelifestyle7121]

There's actually no running track around the field at Moses Mabhida stadium in Durban. The stands are just really far from the field.

[@TheWideWorldofStadiums]

Yeah, my bad.

[@Just_Phil_]

Batman, Capetown. I see what you did there

[@Matt_Dickson-v5q]

The puns have been spot on 👍👍

[@jeniferallan6693]

Lots of clever funnies from you 😄

[@ClubRugbyWales]

Would love you to do a video for the Indigo Welsh Premiership grounds, it's the league where all the traditional Welsh rugby clubs still play and it never gets the coverage or recognition it deserves.

[@andradesilva]

Great video. Waiting a video for Arena MRV from Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

[@BigManHugeLarge]

Video Idea: History of (One of four North American Major Sports Leagues (NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB). Basically what NFL Throwback did but with the different sports!

[@JohnLumagui]

Is there some sort of pun quota you were racing to meet by the end of the month? Anyway, fun video!

[@TheWideWorldofStadiums]

In for a punny in for a pound.

[@michaelstokes919]

Used to watch a lot of Super Rugby games at Kings Park. Great stadium, but rarely had more than 2,000 in attendance for Sharks games. Always a full house for International matches, though.

[@Chaz4543]

I thought the attendances in RSA for Super Rugby matches used to be good and they only got bad in the later years of the Super league. They are still bad in this European league they recently joined.

[@michaelstokes919]

@@Chaz4543 tbf, I was only in Durban from 2015-2018, so might of been better before then. currently living in Dublin, but it costs less to get a full season URC streaming pass than it does watching one Leinster game at the stadium. Might have a few weekends away in Galway when SA teams play Connacht.

[@flyaway2846]

@@michaelstokes919 super rugby was much better before 2016. It started going downhill in 2011.

[@vampirevore]

@@Chaz4543 for the duration of the urc, none of the matches played in south africa were allowed to host a full crowd, and the vast majority weren't allowed to host a crowd At All, thanks to pandemic regulations. there were still "sold out" matches though, which bodes well. rules have been changed once again though to remove attendance caps so the stadiums will most likely start to fill up now

[@blaquenguni9249]

Durban fans are fickle, I always said they dort deserve to keep getting rewarded with Bok matches. Cape Town, Bloemfontein and Pretoria will support if their team is decent. Sharks have had great teams in the mid 90s, mid to late 2000s and decent teams in the early to mid 20teens and their fans struggle to fill that stadium up. Comaared that with Stormers

[@scottiebeamem4736]

Can we get France's Top 14 next?

[@rowan_8755]

can you please do the top 14

[@blankblank5547]

please do the league of Ireland dude

[@pjschaaf414]

Yes!!!

[@dazzathakilla6364]

Up the league of Ireland

[@gallowglass2630]

Please don't

[@RisingStarEire]

Ahaha, loved the narrators quips and puns, turned a potentially dull video into something more watchable.

[@gallowglass2630]

There is no need to separate ireland in rugby ,the island may be politically divided but rugby is not

[@joaofigueiras1106]

This really shows how club rugby is so small in Europe. to most rugby fans, the sport is just some 10 international tests per year and the rest is meaningless, which is insane since club rugby produces the best games in my opinion. The URC playoffs this year were insane. Edit: you forgot to add that both Cardiff and Edinburgh play their derbies in their respective national stadiums, Cardiff plays at the Millenium and Edinburgh plays at Murrayfield

[@handsolo1209]

You also have to remember that until 1995 Rugby was amateur, so you had 120 years of not being allowed to pay players while soccer could, so clubs couldn't actually afford to build large stadiums because they couldn't sign any big names. By the time professionals were allowed, soccer had already won the football code war in Europe. Soccer was never that big in NZ, Australia or South Africa, so they only had to compete with Cricket, which was played at a different time of year anyway. Interestingly until the late 1880s, Rugby was "football" in places like Liverpool & Manchester and they have some of the oldest Rugby clubs in the world.

[@AFLplayerHighlight]

You should do VFL stadiums/grounds

[@mrboneman4354]

very cool

[@wlk2408]

Your footage is very old. Loftus has a shopping center and Hotel linked to the stadium.

[@toppledgod]

I think Edinburgh Rugby Stadium is now the Damned Health Stadium.

[@lorcancarbin5745]

I think you missed on so much on these like that the RDS has stables under the Anglesea Stand cause it's the home of Irish Showjumping. I think King's Park has a pool and a bar/restaurant behind the posts at pitch level. And my home of Galway Sportsground could of got a mention of the scrums going down into a turd of dogshit 🐕 💩

[@bigwheelstuntshow1707]

Some of the coolest stadiums are the NCAA Div II and III...

[@yldan1753]

Halfway through the video you decide to workshop your standup... no complaints

[@msg1711]

Yaaaawn. This could have been a really interesting video.

[@giorgospolitis8921]

EuroLeague next?

[@gregj7916]

irish rugby plays as one, there is no divide.....

[@Linko630]

Yooooooooooooo

[@benmichaelblackwell1880]

Northern premier League please

[@davepatton7932]

My favorite team is Munster 🇮🇪

[@Abadon05]

bigger is not better.

[@taipeijoey101]

A European league with teams in South Africa is like the Big Ten expanding to California

[@mark123655]

More about timezones. Be like a Big 10 adding a South American school.

[@realtalk6195]

Africa and Europe share timezones, just like North and South America share the same timezones. South Africa and Oceania playing together was like half a day's time difference for viewers, the same with Argentina, but with both countries in Super Rugby (competition) it was like time spread across an entire day.

[@TheOrielMan]

Two things wrong with the Irish descriptions: 1. There are no Northern Irish rugby teams. Rugby is an all-island sport. Ulster, the province that all of Northern Ireland lies within, also contains and represents 3 counties from Ireland.....so should not be referred to as a Northern Ireland team. 2. That accent!!

[@thesmithersy]

Actually he's talking geopolitically, Belfast is in Northern Ireland (part of the UK). It's why the irish national teams don't play southern ireland's anthem when they play there.

[@anthony_rivera4735]

Please cover wnba arenas next

[@greglyons2734]

Yes he need to do wnba arenas

[@brit50ify]

The least fact you could have provided is the capacity and maybe if you really wanted to offer anything of value the average attendance each week.

[@thedrizzle619]

how did south Africa join a European league

[@gordon1545]

The distance is less than to NZ or the east coast of Australia, and it's the same time zones so it's much less disruptive for travel. Cape Town to Sydney is 11,000km, Cape Town to Dublin is 10,000km. South Africa are in the same boat as the other 4 countries that make up the URC: none can sustain a large professional league of their own, certainly not one that prepares players for international rugby.

[@mark123655]

They used to be in Super Rugby (which in its last season was Australia, NZ, South Africa and teams from Japan (with some games in Singapore) and Argentina - so a real international league but horrible timezones. The travel in URC is probably less, but the timezones work a lot better for the SA TV audience. Super Rugby is still going, but now just Aus, NZ and Pacific Island teams.

[@len2son]

@@mark123655 South Africans also don't have to get up at ungodly hours in order to watch their teams play in NZ, Australia and Argentina.

[@blaquenguni9249]

The truth is that the Super 10 and Super 12 competition was perfect. They expanded it to 14 for more money and it was still great coz the extra fixtures didn't affect it too much, but then they got greedy and added more teams, and adopted some weird confusing conference system etc and the best rugby competition in the world died a miserable slow death, Covid add lockdwon being the final blow

[@Chaz4543]

I think Rugby Union hasnt grown enough. The only places outside of the traditional areas where its grown a lot is Japan and Argentina. USA has a pro league but the national team still isnt much better. The sport hasnt grown much in Europe. They tried to push it in Italy adding them to the 5 Nations and to this United Rugby Championship but Italy teams are still bad. Rugby Union still growing more than rugby league though.

[@andrewmartinfarrell8167]

But soccer aside most sports are like that. Baseball has been played professionally for over a century but it is only big in USA, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, parts of Canada and a handful of Caribbean islands. Cricket has a longer footprint but still focused heavily on the elite playing nations. If anything, rugby is trying toooo hard to grow when the interest isn't there. Fine the way it is. The next RWC will have at least 4 genuine favorites. Isn't bad for a sport that isn't football

[@mark123655]

Agreed. US has done pretty well in Sevens - but it's more just quick backs They just need to recruit some good forwards (maybe from Samoa) and I think they'd start to be reasonable in the full game.

[@the_tig3r88]

Very happy we have a pro league in the US. Rugby has been growing in our universities so now having a pro league is great. Also our 7s teams always are pretty solid and our 15s teams are growing almost made the mens world cup

[@TheCyborgXD]

I much prefer wiener dog races over greyhound races

[@sinenhlanhlamlondo8013]

Sa teams should use smaller stadiums

[@crouchb15]

NASCAR tracks aaaaaaaaaaa

[@MB-xq9hu]

@TheWideWorldofStadiums No one does stadium videos better than you! There,,, I Said it!!

[@dennisud]

Wow, I didn't know that Rugby stretched over half the globe on 2 Continents, well that League! Is it me, that the majority of these stadiums with a few changes can have an American Football game played there? With more games played in Europe this year by the NFL, there's a chance of a new NFL-Europe league starting. Hmm! With this Rugby league existing on 2 continents with stadiums and games almost 1200 miles away the NFL might expand! 😀

[@jan7539]

@The LIM Report NZ kicked the SA teams out. Hence this league was fast-tracked as it was being considered. Wayyy better for the SA players and the money is better so they might increase the salary cap so we can retain our players. But sorry to knit pick an error, you're comment was informative

[@jan7539]

Your

[@brianmcsweeney9401]

Where are you going with your Northern Ireland. Rugby is played in Ireland as an all Island sport.

[@LFire12]

There is just 'Irish' rugby teams. There is no differentiation between North and South in rugby in Ireland. And the team you label 'Northern Irish' is Ulster, which is a province of 'Ireland' that is partially in Northern Ireland and partially in the Republic, a bit like your god awful attempt at an Irish accent.

[@grumpy_cat]

No more Irish accents please

[@pearsemcguinness1889]

Northern Irish rugby? No such organisation exists. Some pretty stupid comments and his "Irish accent" stinks!!

[@tommartin1414]

No such thing as Northern Irish teams. We are just Irish! That's it

[@shanemoloney2141]

Don't ever attempt an Irish accent again unless you're replacing Tom Cruise in a Far and away sequel, possibly the worst Irish accent to grace the Big screen! Your scots accents is an equal abomination!

[@nc2933]

Please don't to an Irish accent again. Please.

[@andrewmartinfarrell8167]

His accent is harmelss and funny