Rugby World Cup Bid 2023

deco911 wrote: We can't even house our homeless and folk want us to host the rugby World Cup 😂😂😂

By that metric nobody would ever host anything.

Zinedine Kilbane 110 wrote: Baldrick wrote: Deise is right. Cost benefit analysis on major tournaments such as this do not prove they make a return on investment for the country even taking the multiplier effect into account Are you being serious? You think countries are fighting over the rugby WC because they think it will be loss making.... Ffs It's not the olympics were you have to accommodate 50 different sports and put up large numbers for free. Ingerland made a killing on the last Rugby WC as all the infrastructure was in place. All they had to do was collect all the cash.

Are you serious. You do know that LA1984 was the last Olympics to make a surplus.

Major sporting events cost money they do not stand up from an economic point of view.

2015 is an outlier as infrastructure already in place.

Edited by Baldrick - 18 Nov 2017 at 5:44pm

Baldrick wrote: Deise is right. Cost benefit analysis on major tournaments such as this do not prove they make a return on investment for the country even taking the multiplier effect into account

Are you being serious?
You think countries are fighting over the rugby WC because they think it will be loss making....
Ffs

It's not the olympics were you have to accommodate 50 different sports and put up large numbers for free.

Ingerland made a killing on the last Rugby WC as all the infrastructure was in place. All they had to do was collect all the cash.

Edited by Zinedine Kilbane 110 - 18 Nov 2017 at 5:24pm

Yes they do but the loss is being paid for by someone else so that's in affect a transfer of income from one group of people to another. Is that fair.

But who pays for it. Basically you want a transfer of income to the people around the stadiums.

I have already said taking into account the multiplier effect they generally lose money. So that takes into account any knock benefits to local businesses

Edited by Baldrick - 18 Nov 2017 at 5:06pm

So who pays for it and who benefits.

Deise is right. Cost benefit analysis on major tournaments such as this do not prove they make a return on investment for the country even taking the multiplier effect into account

Edited by Baldrick - 18 Nov 2017 at 4:42pm

Zinedine Kilbane 110 wrote: ABFC wrote: Zinedine Kilbane 110 wrote: I really don't know how anybody from Ireland could be happy about this outcome. Even if you hated rugby, surely you want your country to do well. This would have been a huge positive for Ireland in so many ways! I was delighted ye IRFU lost their bid. I don't think it would have been that great for the country. The Welsh/Scots/English & French would bring over respectable numbers but outside of that where would the support come from? There is loads of Saffa's/ Aussies / Kiwi's/ Americans etc in the U.K. that would have travelled over. The boost to the encomony, the potential follow on impact to other sporting events being held in Ireland, the world coverage etc It was a win win. I'd hate to be that bitter to cheer on this result.

Being honest Deise, I don't find it particularly funny. There are economic and social benefits to hosting major events, and it was a great opportunity to enhance Ireland as a tourist destination. I also like the concept of promoting sports as a social good, which is a natural benefit of hosting and participating in major events. It would also have been greatly beneficial if we wished to bid for further tournaments in other codes, or potentially enhance the possibility of joint bids in the future.

I don't blame anybody for being optimistic. There was reason to be. Our bid was clearly not as strong as others. But there were other factors at play, including the geographical decisions, the previous hosting of tournaments, the apparent willingness of the powers that facilitate smaller nations willing to host tournaments. In the bidding process for Euro 2008 the vibe was buoyant. It certainly wasn't defeatist, the only issue being a potential preference for the ultimately victorious bid being the home of the authorities. Nobody goes into bid for something like this without a belief in their bid.