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It's a shame that the day at Bridgend didn't work out because of the bad weather. The atmosphere and occasion of a full Brewery Field came across far better than a half empty Swansea.com Stadium that would have normally hosted that match. There were rumours of Swansea's St Helen's being used for more Ospreys games in future, so maybe they can try and do some work there if needed.

Yes, could see how hosting it at St Helen's might have posed similar infrastructure problems.

There has been some improved TV coverage of the Welsh Premiership over the past few seasons which has given both grounds some added exposure - though not quite enough to ensure dependable facilities in place to avoid the type of scenario we saw on New Year's Day.

No such problems in Cardiff when you have the Arms Park and the Principality Stadium next door to each other (guessing they have some kind of shared infrastructure in place)

Safe to say in terms of atmosphere, Cardiff Rugby learned their lesson after the frankly disastrous ground-share arrangement with Cardiff City over a decade ago.

I think finals have hit around 2m in recent years so based on Mondays figure that would look like it's going to be broken.

Last year's final was the first to come close to the two million mark, according to this piece - interesting to note the relatively fluctuating numbers even in the past decade.

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And yes, Paton is more or less Sky's lead darts anchor nowadays - usually with either Abigail Davies or Polly James conducting interviews.