The event was to be a precursor to a professional competition based on the East Coast if the Independence Cup were to hit its 30,000 attendance mark for the match in Boston. The event had yet to sell tickets on the Gillette Stadium website but had announced that Henry Paul would be the head coach for the American Barbarians team. The American Barbarians were to be made up of a few international players by was to mainly feature American football crossover athletes. Those athletes were to attended a training camp before participating in the match.
This makes the second big international event to be postponed this year following the Grand Prix 7's tournament that was to take place in July.
Honestly never expected this to happen this year. Time frame didn't make sense from Day 1. There's always next year... right?
ReplyDeleteagree with ted, when news broke because of how much time was left, there should of been news fallowing the days after of a coach hiring (not till the last day or two did we hear something and even then the coach said it was a time crunch) tickets should of went on sale and play combines should of been set up this month. none of that happened so I think in the back of everyone's mind we all knew it was going to fold up just like GPR. has the
ReplyDeletedelayed date been reveled yet?
in some sense this is just plain bad for rugby in America, and another step backwards. first we have GPR ultimately blow a lot of smoke but nothing, then you had the lions pull out and now this. regardless if it was a good deal from the begging on any of these you have to think with each negative set back moral for rugby fans in usa is going down and people from the out side just laugh it off.