Kabaddi at Cougar Park? : Wed Aug 21, 2013 8:52 am  

Keighley used to have a team in the national Kabaddi league. Would the local Asian community revive the Keighley Kabaddi club and enter a team in the national league if they were invited to use Cougar Park as a home base? As well as normal fixtures, the England league Kabaddi clubs have a series of magic weekend type tournaments at each others grounds.

Re: Kabaddi at Cougar Park? : Wed Aug 21, 2013 11:30 am  

Mr Churchill wrote:

Keighley used to have a team in the national Kabaddi league. Would the local Asian community revive the Keighley Kabaddi club and enter a team in the national league if they were invited to use Cougar Park as a home base? As well as normal fixtures, the England league Kabaddi clubs have a series of magic weekend type tournaments at each others grounds.

I wonder if they would accomodate holding them prior to Cougar matches therefore opening up a whole new set of fans who may stay on to watch the Rugby and visa versa.

Re: Kabaddi at Cougar Park? : Thu Aug 22, 2013 9:12 pm  

avebullswon wrote:

I wonder if they would accomodate holding them prior to Cougar matches therefore opening up a whole new set of fans who may stay on to watch the Rugby and visa versa.

I like this idea.

Anything to get more people involved in watching the team.

I believe around 15% of the area's population is from an Asian background. That says to me that if Cougar Park was to fully represent the local area, there would be 150 people from an Asian background if there was 1,000 home fans in attendance. That has never been the case.

The ground definitely doesn't fully represent the different people in the local area. I must be in a minority of people as I am a 22 year old male. I don't think there are many people between the ages of 16 and 25 who watch the team.