That the Red Roses 'celebration' at Battersea power station just looks a bit crap

I can’t believe anyone thinks Rugby is a minority sport 😆

Indeed

those suggesting TS or a London bus route parade are basically gunning for these players to be utterly utterly
mortified

There’d have been more pigeons than people in attendance.

Honestly, seriously?

Trafalgar Square…. Awful place but more than that…. it would have been family and friends and a few local fans. It would have been embarrassing for these players.

The nation as a whole doesn't watch men's football either. Nor cricket. Nor tennis. Nor golf for that matter. And yet we're subjected to months and months every year of dross TV, huge street parades for local wins, increased rates of domestic abuse and I don't know what else.

Nothing wrong with bringing the women's rugby to the fore.

The gap in support and awareness between men's and women's rugby union may be larger than in football or even perhaps cricket, but that does not mean there is not a significant amount of interest.

Trafalgar Square on a Sunday would have been appropriate for a celebration I think.

I cringe when I read the coverage.

It is trying to emulate the fanfare for the men’s event when the widespread passion and interest simply isn’t remotely there. Basically trying to make out it’s more than it’s not.

Would be much better if the coverage made clear that at the moment the sport is still only really of interest to a very small section of society but the sport is moving in right direction and on an upward trajectory.

If it evokes any feelings in me it must be astonishment that you’re so bothered about closing busy London streets for something so irrelevant

I am a rugby fan - to me, yesterday was a big deal, and we ought to be proud of the Red Roses for accomplishing something that neither men or women have managed to do in football for a very long time, and which the rugby men haven’t managed for over 20 years.

I have tickets for next years women’s six nations match at Twickenham and am taking my toddler - I wouldn’t dream of taking them to a football match at that age, as I just wouldn’t consider it safe for them - as the women’s game is truly a family scene.

You can view it as of little interest, and obviously that’s fine, but a hell of a lot of people can’t stand football (me included), yet we don’t begrudge the every-other-year cries of ‘it’s coming home’, when it’s clearly not. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Well you’re so intent on pretending that ‘no one’ (your words) cared about it, when 5.8 million people watched it on TV, so it must be invoking some strong feelings in you!

Bitter? No I’m pointing out facts. Who would have been at the parade?? It doesn’t make me “bitter”. What a stupid thing to say.

Quite.

I got into women's rugby a couple a few years ago, when a friend who loves it was staying here so I watched with her. I love it, and deserves a higher profile.

I actually prefer it to the men's game, it seems less about strength and more about speed and tactics. If I was 50 years younger, I'd be tempted to join a club and have a go myself, and I hated all sports when I was at school.

I think they deserved the whole bus tour etc.

There’s not enough interest for a full blown parade.

Of course some people care

but do you think a bus parade throughout London would have been anything aside from humiliating for these players? If you’re honest

I’m not at all angry. Just confused about you saying ‘no one cares’ when at least 5.8 million people cared. Just because you don’t care, doesn’t mean no one does. Plenty of people in London would have known what was going on. I imagine some of them were even amongst the 5.8 million people who watched it on television, or the 81000 who went to Twickenham.
I’m more of a football fan than a rugby fan by the way. I manage an under 12 girls team. I don’t see that as any reason to belittle the achievements of the women’s rugby team, or to pretend that no one cares.

Its quite amusing that some people care so little they want to prove no one cares.

But anyway... it is true I think any attendance would be poor, but thats because its short notice and also, a lot of the young female fans who were there yesterday were actually playing today in their own team matches. That would be true for mens sport as well... including football.

Exactly

I am happy whenever England wins anything
but it feels so… forced the idea that this even remotely featured on the radar for the vast vast overwhelming majority of England. A bus route through London would have been nothing short of humiliating for the players.

Trafalgar sq? Tumbleweed aside from family, friends and a few core fans

It’s a very small minority

Jeez

Why do you care so much? 😂. 5.8 million people watched it. That’s nowhere near ‘no one’. It’s quite a lot of people.

I doubt the England womens cricket team would get much of a crowd for a bus celebration either. The Lionesses are by far the biggest deal as far as women's sports team go.

Not bitter just confused as to why every minor thing needs to be ‘celebrated’. As a previous poster said no one in London would have known what was going on. It’s very niche. It’s not football and you don’t seem to understand that. You liked it. Good for you but it doesn’t have the following you think it does which has been made clear by the lack of media coverage. You getting all angry won’t make people want to watch it. It’s not comparable.

There was a running race in central London today which had road closures so they couldn't have a bus parade as well.

That article is embarrassing.

As though trying to make so much of so little