Quote: cardiffcrusaderrob "Saturday was a sign of progress, a healthy crowd for International Rugby League. But Leigh is awful to get to, getting from South Wales to Manchester, fine, getting from Manchester to a bus stop near Wigan ...... very difficult on a saturday afternoon and it seems many of the people around me who came from Warrington also had the same problems. Its not a great place to get to if you don't know the area, but for you guys up there I can see it being well suited for this match.
RU internationals especially here are marketed by the fans themselves in the shirts they wear .Its very much all about the event mentality, people prize it so much they want to take it with them all the time.Thats what the RFL need to do with this.
A day does not go by where I do not see a few Welsh RU shirts on the streets of the city, even the odd far more so than club shirts. On Saturday for once I was able to see what the new England shirt looks like up close and despite it being English I quite liked it and surprised I don't see fans wearing it far more when I've been up north watching matches like you see for Wales RU here.
Oh and Wales has a great RL history, especially with England. You seem to have forgotten we are the OLDEST RL INTERNATIONAL SIDE IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE!'"
Must have been hell to travel from warrington to leigh,walk to bus station at warrington catch bus get off at leigh bus station,hope they packed butties to keep up there strength on that journey.
For the train change at manchester get off at atherton catch 582 to leigh bus station,how hard is that?
Back to the international game growing,good god how hard can it be to have regular international fixtures year after year? the union mob manage it year after year,but no you lot would sooner have hull v wakey or salford v bradford on our tvs year after year.
I mean its that hard to organise a fixture list that as a world cup,several teams touring then a six nations comp and then tours after that,tell you what, they must be very clever people then union organisers to do that,as laural and hardy at the rfl headquarters struggle to find a couple of games a year
