I agree that hosting it in London (as the final 4 supposedly will be) and pausing the NVL for a weekend would improve attendance. Running 2 courts simultaneously wouldn’t be so controversial - it’s what they do for the cup finals weekend. I like your idea of creating a ‘volleyball festival’ and a day out by having stalls from related business, plus more food and drink provision
Good video George, I went to watch the NVL Shield (Men's) & NVL Cup (Ladies') final last year - I actually think Kettering as the national centre for volleyball is not a great location in general and adds to the timing problems you referred to. If you want to make a weekend of going to see the top level volleyball, it might be more appealing if it was in a place like London where you can do other things with your weekend to extend the trip. The venue itself was fine but there isn't much to do in Kettering beyond the volleyball - so you spend a good amount of time thinking about travel plans to get home...
Thanks! Yeah I agree with your point about Kettering, it's not the most enthralling place to go and visit. That being said I personally have a few reservations about moving things down to London. Although there's definitely some upsides like you mentioned, I feels a bit off for me. In the same way politically there's a lot of discussion of trying to distribute the country's resources across the UK and not have everything be so London centric I feel like volleyball could be at risk of moving in the same direction. I appreciate this feels like a bit of a wishy washy point, but with nearly half the teams in Super League on the men's side now being London based I feel like we need to do more not less to make sure volleyball thrives in the rest of the country.
@@GeorgeFrazerVB No, I understand what you mean, maybe there is another city/town with better transport / travel options besides Kettering that is the best of both worlds. Somewhere on the central train route for the UK so that juniors have an easier time going to watch - after all, they’re the ones we need to be enjoying volleyball if it’s going to grow long term
I wish volleyboll was more popular in Sweden tooo!!
I agree that hosting it in London (as the final 4 supposedly will be) and pausing the NVL for a weekend would improve attendance. Running 2 courts simultaneously wouldn’t be so controversial - it’s what they do for the cup finals weekend. I like your idea of creating a ‘volleyball festival’ and a day out by having stalls from related business, plus more food and drink provision
Good video George, I went to watch the NVL Shield (Men's) & NVL Cup (Ladies') final last year - I actually think Kettering as the national centre for volleyball is not a great location in general and adds to the timing problems you referred to.
If you want to make a weekend of going to see the top level volleyball, it might be more appealing if it was in a place like London where you can do other things with your weekend to extend the trip. The venue itself was fine but there isn't much to do in Kettering beyond the volleyball - so you spend a good amount of time thinking about travel plans to get home...
Thanks! Yeah I agree with your point about Kettering, it's not the most enthralling place to go and visit. That being said I personally have a few reservations about moving things down to London. Although there's definitely some upsides like you mentioned, I feels a bit off for me. In the same way politically there's a lot of discussion of trying to distribute the country's resources across the UK and not have everything be so London centric I feel like volleyball could be at risk of moving in the same direction. I appreciate this feels like a bit of a wishy washy point, but with nearly half the teams in Super League on the men's side now being London based I feel like we need to do more not less to make sure volleyball thrives in the rest of the country.
@@GeorgeFrazerVB No, I understand what you mean, maybe there is another city/town with better transport / travel options besides Kettering that is the best of both worlds.
Somewhere on the central train route for the UK so that juniors have an easier time going to watch - after all, they’re the ones we need to be enjoying volleyball if it’s going to grow long term