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| Taking the game to Sydney is a mistake.
They will be lucky to get the SFS half full.
The Roosters will virtually be the same again, Wigan will be minus some very good players.
The other anolmaly are the refs. If an Aussie ref, Ashley Klein apart, runs the game Wigan will get battered on the penalty count (like 12-2) and it could be a cricket score. That's happened before in Internationals and could very well happen again.
IL and SW need to think long and hard about this.
The game could lose money by being held in Sydney, it could be also be an awful night for Wigan and British Rugby League.
If Sonny Bill Williams is playing as well as the Roosters other stars then the DW will get over 20,000 in. It will make money.
We would have a SL ref who wouldn't spoil the game and get a great contest.
Only one venue makes any kind of sense to me and that's the DW.
(From someone who went to Brisbane in '94 too)
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| Quote: JEAN CAPDOUZE "That will not be true.
SFS (i.e. Allianz Stadium) has a capacity of 45,500.
There will be 20,000 Sydney Roosters fans.
There will be 10,000 South Sydney fans supporting Wigan.
There will be 3,500 Manly fans supporting Wigan.
There will be 5,000 neutrals.
Total crowd
As much as I would love that to be true, I seriously doubt that will happen.
Besides Manly barely brought that to Allianz in the first round of the Play offs against the Roosters, so I hardly doubt that many would come to see a game that doesn't involve them. The WCC is a bigger event in the UK than here, and to alot of people its nothing more than a glorified friendly. I honestly think we would do very well to get 25,000 for this but might even struggle to get 20,000.
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[quote="Saddened":15kig0eg]Pat Richards is poop. A typical, average, run of the mill NRL outside back. Nothing special at all. Like Barrett he is a myth. He is solid enough, he can catch, he can kick goals.[/quote:15kig0eg]:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_7958.jpg |
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| Quote: jonny the leyther "Plus every Brit living in Sydney. Even as a Leigh fan I support Wigan v the Aussies, went to the Wigan-St George game the other year, felt odd supporting Wigan in a Leigh top against my supported NRL team.
The silence from the smug NRL fans would be deafening if Wigan did it.'"
You really think most Brits living here care about RL or in particularly English Super League?
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| We'll see won't we?
Can't really be bothered with another pathetic VT argument that can't be proven either way.
There's a 93 page thread going on for that.
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| Quote: JEAN CAPDOUZE "I think that the prospect of the Sydney Roosters winning a second Grand Final in 2014 -- an unprecedented, for the NRL, "back to back" win'"
I didn't know RL in Australia only started in 1998.....
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| Quote: jonny the leyther "We'll see won't we?
Can't really be bothered with another pathetic VT argument that can't be proven either way.
There's a 93 page thread going on for that.'"
Your the one who made argument that every Brit living in Sydney would go. Well considering there are loads of us Brits living in Sydney, we would more than fill the stadium on our own, so yes we will see.
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