Bad news for you and your mate Billy though as regards the hoped for low crowd at the opener. Go on, I dare you, since its about 16,000 more than attended the last opener in the UK, make a positive comment on the record crowd fir international RL in Wales in over 100 years.

Where did I ever hope for a low crowd anywhere? Retract or publish proof I hoped for a low opening crowd at RLWC.


Opening RLWC game in 2000, 33,758 in attendance?
Are you saying I should I be surprised that the addition of a second match might increase ticket sales....



50,000+ in Wales for International RL is outstanding work by the organisers. I look forward to Wales v Italy in the Europeans in 2014 trying to improve on that

The tax authority's investigators are going to go into overdrive seeing as the have been working on the assumption that the population of England and Wales is only about 60,000,000 at a generous estimate.

150,000,000, who knew the birthrate had increased so rapidly.

England 54,000,000
Wales 3,000,000
France 66,000,000
Ireland 6,500,000
My bad....129,500 for the HOST nations. Just because Ireland and France aren't on the badge, doesn't mean they aren't hosting games.

4.433 million at the last count down here.....het they managed to sell a fair few tickets and not at a fiver either.

3.61 million is the population of Yorkshire and Lancashire alone......like for like, RLWC should be shifting 1.2 million tickets based on population alone

No, you can't have that. The total for the host nations is 57,000. I gave you 60,000. You should have quit whilst you were ahead.

We are not comparing like for like. My comment was that the attendances in New Zealand were disappointing given the population is obsessed with RU.

The population of the M62 that you were referring to has Man C, Man U, Liverpool, Everton, Hull City as well as a host of lower level soccer teams to siphon off support. New Zealand has no such distractions. RU is the Premier League of that country.

The NZ population isn't obsessed with RU, take a look at some of the S15 attendances. In a country where the only other past time in most regions is shagging sheep you would think they would draw decent crowds for their ruggers teams.

England v Ireland now sold out. https://www.eticketing.co.uk/rlwc/detai ... emref=9308

England v Ireland now sold out. https://www.eticketing.co.uk/rlwc/detai ... emref=9308

Quote Shoe Shine Johnny="Shoe Shine Johnny"England v Ireland now sold out. https://www.eticketing.co.uk/rlwc/detai ... emref=9308'" First bit of good news... Isnt the France v NZ game virtually sold out too?

Quote Shoe Shine Johnny="Shoe Shine Johnny"England v Ireland now sold out. https://www.eticketing.co.uk/rlwc/detai ... emref=9308'" First bit of good news... Isnt the France v NZ game virtually sold out too?

Quote Shoe Shine Johnny="Shoe Shine Johnny"England v Ireland now sold out. https://www.eticketing.co.uk/rlwc/detai ... emref=9308'" Great news,and good to see they are on the ball and have already updated the webpage to advise browers that England also have games at Cardiff and Hull

Quote Shoe Shine Johnny="Shoe Shine Johnny"England v Ireland now sold out. https://www.eticketing.co.uk/rlwc/detai ... emref=9308'" Great news,and good to see they are on the ball and have already updated the webpage to advise browers that England also have games at Cardiff and Hull

Ironically Saracens RU have sold 50,000 tickets for their game at Wembley
.....they are not moaning about selling tickets as low as £5. They are just celebrating the attendance
And it's on teh BBC

We sell out England v Ireland, we simply try and find something to moan about

We should learn from that

Ireland v Fiji at Rochdale is apparently close to selling out also.