Numbers of empty seats could potentially be higher on Sunday with clubs, including Swansea, Llandaff North and Machen, trying to shift tickets on social media over the past week. <\/p>\n
With tickets costing between \u00a340 and \u00a3120, one club chairman said “it’s not worth it”, adding a skiing trip for his family was not much more than a rugby day out in Cardiff.<\/p>\n
“Obviously the Six Nations is the jewel in the crown of rugby in certain Welsh terms, and for France, the favourites probably for the tournament, it’s a really big match,” said sports economist Prof Calvin Jones. <\/p>\n
“I can’t remember in my 30 years as a sports economist this [so many unsold tickets] happening before.”<\/p>\n
Welsh rugby is in turmoil on and off the pitch. <\/p>\n
The team lost 19 games in a row before beating Japan last summer<\/a>, while they have not won in the Six Nations since 2023<\/a>. <\/p>\n Off it, there is a bitter feud over the future of the regional game, with the leader of Swansea council threatening the WRU with legal action<\/a>, and businesswoman Hayley Parsons calling on clubs to oust the chairman<\/a> to instigate a change of direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Numbers of empty seats could potentially be higher on Sunday with clubs, including Swansea, Llandaff North and Machen,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-422744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}