The Welsh Rugby Union will close bars and serve weaker beer in the Principality Stadium for Wales\u2019 three home Six Nations matches against Scotland, Italy and France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The trial means bars inside the Principality will close after half-time and the 5% volume Heineken lager will be replaced by a 4.1% Amstel Bier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new rules follow high-profile incidents of drunken behavior at the Autumn Internationals with a pitch invader marring one match and a six-year-old child being vomited on in another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rugby journalist Peter Jackson described the Principality as the “world\u2019s largest pub”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said: \u201cIt\u2019s not as if the WRU are saying bars will shut at half-time, they’re saying bars will close after half-time. Your view of the game is being constantly impaired because people are going in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAny organization which promotes an event which results in a six-year-old boy, Joey Delaney, getting vomited upon by drunk fans has to rethink its approach. Unless something is done there is going to be a serious accident.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI can remember Wales versus the Springbok\u2019s 15 years ago. As spectators were filtering out of the stands a number of middle-aged men leant over into the press box. One of them tried to put his fist through the laptop of my South African colleague. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “We either get serious about this and tackle it properly or not at all.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a press release, the WRU says: “It is not clear if there is a casual relationship between alcohol consumption and any poor behaviour at matches, with other factors like kick-off times to consider.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n WRU’s Performance Director, Nigel Walker, said: \u201cThere were incidents during the Autumn Internationals but they were not the norm. We\u2019re asking people to come but to enjoy themselves within reason.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to rugby journalist Peter Jackson the new trial measures have not gone far enough to address the problem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":577,"featured_media":29146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6],"tags":[325,34,504],"coauthors":[814],"class_list":["post-29131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","tag-anti-social-behaviour","tag-wales","tag-welsh-rugby-union"],"yoast_head":"\n