Worst Rugby crowd you've been part of
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you'll struggle to play on a worse ground than Masters Ave in Hamilton in the dead of winter. A bog at one end, terrible change room "facilities" just average.
Actually i assume it's better now, but as a kid Greerton Marist was a bog as well outside of the show field.
Worst crowd is the SFS especially on a friday night. Private School investment banker piston wristed gibbons in sports coats, RM Williams, chequered shirts and a scarf whinging at the ref half interestedly as the Waratahs again fail to deliver.
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@mariner4life You have just described Martin Luckie Park in Berhampore to a tee!!!! They probably top Masters Avenue as MLP comes with the added attractions a somewhat chilly southerly and cold showers if you have the late game.
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@mariner4life said in Worst Rugby crowd you've been part of:
you'll struggle to play on a worse ground than Masters Ave in Hamilton in the dead of winter. A bog at one end, terrible change room "facilities" just average.
Hillcrest Park? Only used for football now, and I've played there a few times myself in the last 10 years. The pitch is OK now.
The worst crowd I've seen was probably watching Waikato play in New Plymouth. It was a cold, wet, miserable Friday night there, and a long way to travel to see my team lose.
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@higgins said in Worst Rugby crowd you've been part of:
@mariner4life You have just described Martin Luckie Park in Berhampore to a tee!!!! They probably top Masters Avenue as MLP comes with the added attractions a somewhat chilly southerly and cold showers if you have the late game.
played Martin Luckie a couple of times too
Uni teams always get the best grounds if you aren't in the prems
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@bovidae said in Worst Rugby crowd you've been part of:
@mariner4life said in Worst Rugby crowd you've been part of:
you'll struggle to play on a worse ground than Masters Ave in Hamilton in the dead of winter. A bog at one end, terrible change room "facilities" just average.
Hillcrest Park? Only used for football now, and I've played there a few times myself in the last 10 years. The pitch is OK now.
The worst crowd I've seen was probably watching Waikato play in New Plymouth. It was a cold, wet, miserable Friday night there, and a long way to travel to see my team lose.
yeah i think it is Hillcrest Park
I just knew it as Masters Ave, and at 21s level played there heaps for varsity.
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Unsurprisingly Lancaster Park/Jade Stadium for me. Why would you throw a full beer at someone on crutches supporting the team that your team is touching up by about 50 points?
Any of the 2011 Caketin Super rugby matches where it wasn't enough that the Hammettuer was shitting all over the team but the weather was constantly dire after being nice during the day. I'm not kidding either, we'd drive up from Palmy (the relief), have some lunch, chill out, it would be nice and fine ... by kick off the rain is basically coming in horizontal. So not so much the crowd, just the expereince.
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Not worse, but most disappointing. Millenium Stadium for the 2002 ABs v Wales test.
I was expecting the Cardiff Arms Park Welsh singing. It was a bit flat (Wales were very mediocre at the time), but the ground DJ started playing Bread of Heaven through the PA. I don't know as it is the only time I've been to Cardiff, have nothing to compare to ... but from mutterings - I think the crowd went on strike and refused to sing anything at all, they couldn't believe the DJ was trying to create the atmosphere for them.
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@canefan said in Worst Rugby crowd you've been part of:
A mate of mine went to a test in Pretoria (or was it Bloemfontein? ). He made a tactical decision not to take his jacket off to show his ABs jersey underneath because of the crowd around him
what a pussy
, i went to Ellis park for one of the best games of rugby in my lifetime. Yes - prerochial and my jersey was worn with pride inside the stadium. Braii and beer everywhere outisde in every carpark or street.. hard to beat (will repost in other thread) -
@higgins said in Worst Rugby crowd you've been part of:
@mariner4life You have just described Martin Luckie Park in Berhampore to a tee!!!! They probably top Masters Avenue as MLP comes with the added attractions a somewhat chilly southerly and cold showers if you have the late game.
Oh if we're talking grounds, then it was never a pleasant trip to Ngati Toa Domain. Mary Crowther was always pretty shit too.
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@rapido said in Worst Rugby crowd you've been part of:
Not worse, but most disappointing. Millenium Stadium for the 2002 ABs v Wales test.
I was expecting the Cardiff Arms Park Welsh singing. It was a bit flat (Wales were very mediocre at the time), but the ground DJ started playing Bread of Heaven through the PA. I don't know as it is the only time I've been to Cardiff, have nothing to compare to ... but from mutterings - I think the crowd went on strike and refused to sing anything at all, they couldn't believe the DJ was trying to create the atmosphere for them.
They should have sung it in the change rooms beforehand...
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@mariner4life said in Worst Rugby crowd you've been part of:
Worst crowd is the SFS especially on a friday night. Private School investment banker piston wristed gibbons in sports coats, RM Williams, chequered shirts and a scarf whinging at the ref half interestedly as the Waratahs again fail to deliver.
Good god yes, this. Sydney rugby crowds are absolutely awful. Comparing them to the league crowds, it was hard to believe you were at the same park.
Only time I enjoyed them was HK in 2010 when Aus beat us.
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@canefan I think I mentioned this at the time but at the Bledisloe in Perth in 2019 a lot of Wallaby fans didn’t don their Wallaby scarves and beanies until it looked like they might have a chance of winning the game. We sat in a section surrounded by all black fans and by end of match reckon it was 50.50 yellow and black supporter gear
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@nevorian said in Worst Rugby crowd you've been part of:
@canefan I think I mentioned this at the time but at the Bledisloe in Perth in 2019 a lot of Wallaby fans didn’t don their Wallaby scarves and beanies until it looked like they might have a chance of winning the game. We sat in a section surrounded by all black fans and by end of match reckon it was 50.50 yellow and black supporter gear
That's
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Iloggan Park down in Cornwall. Known universally as Hooligan Park. Always a punch up with quite often the “supporters” piling in too.
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Twickenham around 2005-ish. England v AB's. Racist abuse being chucked around from England "supporters" & directed at Pasifika AB's. Pretty vile stuff. Wasn't just me either, my accountant heard similar stuff at the same game.
Thankfully, that sort of stuff seems to have been weeded out by the RFU
https://www.espn.com/rugby/report?gameId=174680&league=244293
