Quote: Buggo "Its all part of doing business.
If England can not sell enough tickets to cover the costs then why bother it seems.
What are we talking about around $70k Australian for airfares and a couple of nights accommodation.
Maybe its time to give up.'"
It's more than a couple of nights. They'd have to be here for around a week. It's airfares, say 5/6 nights accommodation, 6/7 days worth of food, training facilities etc. Payments to players and staff. Plus a "profit" to Fiji RL.
Then the hiring of the stadium. All for what? A 10k crowd? Why don't we just play France and do away with half the costs and, due to top NRL players dropping out, probably get just as competitive a game.
I'd far rather we play Fiji as part of a proper planned fixture rather than as a warm up to a bigger competition.