Which games should the Millenium Stadium host in 2015?

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Which games should be played in Wales during the 2015 world cup. It's question that will vex the organising committee. With Wales in the same group as England and one of the largest grounds in Wales the option may be there.

My feeling is none of the pool A games should be played in Cardiff. The reason being the bid was granted to England and it would be unfair to competing nations. Cardiff was awarded as a destination to cater for English fans in the south west (or so the story goes). Given the make up of the England 2015 committee (which includes the departing ARU president don't be surprised if neither England vs Wales and Wales vs Australia are played there.

Your thoughts?

Get on the phone to the 'Aren't Aren'ts' (wonderfully original).

I don't think there should be games in Wales. England has more than enough sufficiently large venues.

Notch wrote:I don't think there should be games in Wales. England has more than enough sufficiently large venues.

Do they? What if the Preimer League refuse to give dates for availablitily in the time frame required by the IRB? No football grounds will be used. So we have Twickenham, Kingholm, Welford Road (back track required), after that they're all below 15000. Way below what is needed to make the money demanded by the IRB. Wembley will probably be available so thats 4. Nothing up North. We'll have to see how that progresses.

I went for "none of the games involving Wales" but frankly I don't know what the fuss is about. It's hardly been a fortress for us has it !

I think you'll find that statistically, home advantage only counts if you actually win there.

Well I was hoping to utilse the olympic stadium!