Australia v Scotland - Craven park Hull - Fri 28th Oct England v New Zealand - Huddersfield - Sat 29th Oct England v Scotland - Coventry (double header) - Sat 5th Nov Australia v New Zealand - Coventry (double header) - Sat 5th Nov New Zealand v Scotland - Workington - Fri 11th Nov England v Australia - Olympic Stadium - Sun 13th Nov Final - Anfield - Sun 20th Nov www.rugby-league.com/england/art ... go-on-sale

Australia v Scotland - Craven park Hull - Fri 28th Oct England v New Zealand - Huddersfield - Sat 29th Oct England v Scotland - Coventry (double header) - Sat 5th Nov Australia v New Zealand - Coventry (double header) - Sat 5th Nov New Zealand v Scotland - Workington - Fri 11th Nov England v Australia - Olympic Stadium - Sun 13th Nov Final - Anfield - Sun 20th Nov www.rugby-league.com/england/art ... go-on-sale

Finally, gonna buy my tickets when the telephone purchasing opens. Has anyone else ever had problems with their ticketing website? I just tried to buy my tickets on there and it works fine until it gets to the confirmation screen and then won't load it properly and there is no button to confirm it. Now I don't know if I have bought the tickets, I don't think I have but I will have to ask the bloke on the phone. This happened when I bought my ticket for NZ as well and ended up just having to ring up.

London on a Sunday, unusual.

Was on hold for 10 minutes so tried the website again and it worked this time. Huddersfield and Liverpool for me. Does anyone know when they send the tickets out cos it doesn't tell you that when you order on the website.

Happy with the Olympic Park and Anfield for the final

But bizarre choices in Hull KR hosting the opener.

Underselling England vs NZ. We've had proven big 40k - 60k crowds for this game yet we limit it to 20k at Huddersfield.

Double header starting at 5pm finishing 10pm at Coventry on a cold bonfire night again underselling a marquee event of Australia vs NZ that got over 70k last time they played on UK soil, yet we not bolt it on as a double header in a medium sized RU stadium.

Putting the number one team in the world in a conference standard stadium in Workington.

Not having the two Scotland games in Scotland is ridiculous.

Anfield is a decent shout for the final, the new main stand should've been completed by then.

The End v NZ game should be at a bigger more ambitious venue.

Coventry is a great area to try and gain interest in the sport. Look at the success Wasps have had since their move.

Olympic Stadium - can't argue with that one.

There is a certain irony in that the only trophy Anfield will ever see being lifted again is a RL one.

Pretty much agreed with what's been said.

Olympic stadium and Anfield happy with. Would have preferred Etihad as final as it's bang in centre of M62 but I understand it's not easy to convince football clubs to have a game of RL on it.

As has been said, having Nz/Eng at Huddersfield is completely underselling it and the game at KR I just don't get at all.

Why not have those two games as a double at Newcastle where we have a presence for expansion with Newcastle Thunder and Magic weekend.

Also the amount of time it's taken is a joke! The RFL knew the team's that were competing. They should have been sorting this way before the NZ test series started. But the RFL are an organisation that once the test series finished, they then thought "now that tournaments over let's start planning the next one"

Daft decision to pick Coventry, 32,000 capacity stadium ,no credible team ( sorry Bears fans - watch out the RFL might fast track you like they did Celtic Crusaders, and that ended well didn't it?) - 44,000 at Stratford last year for Eng v NZ, add the Aus v Sco game and it would have sold out no problem. Or if West Ham put up too many objections the double header could have got 50-60,000 at Wembley.
Stupid decision from whatever way you look at it. They might well sell out the Ricoh but the double header should be good for a 40,000 capacity minimum. RFL cutting it's nose off to spite it's face for what will probably only be a 'novelty' event. You couldn't make it up!

There's a chance that they picked some of the "smaller" venues to try and change the mindset of RL fans.

i.e. these are likely to sell out so buy your tickets now - larger venues tend to sell slower as there's not the same impetus to buy early or miss out.

I was thinking something similar to this, maybe thinking that a full ground looks better than a half empty one even if there are less people in there. Do agree with others though that Kr and Cumbria are ridiculously small venues and eng v nz could have been in a bigger ground.

Remember though that west ham have chosen to increase capacity of Olympic from original 54,000 stated to 60,000 and anfield will have a capacity of 54,000 when the tournament comes about so there are a couple of big grounds. But yeah as a whole it is ridiculously unambitious once again.

I wonder how many addresses in the RFL database of ticket buyers for big events are in Nottingham, Derby, Brum, Cov', etc. Coventry is right in the middle of them. I have no idea myself, but it may turn out to be a superb choice.

I'm going for the same reason I'm going to Anfield. I've never been and want to get a look.

Loads of the ticket buyers on their database are in London and the South. If the final is going to be at a change from the norm Northern venue, then why the hell isn't the double header in London? Like last time? Like the RLWC semi finals?
Even if Coventry sells out it will still be a financial failure compared to the potential earnings from Stratford or Wembley - presumably the dullards at RFL HQ haven't got the gumption to see this!
Am surprised that there's no Scotland game taking place in Scotland - England v Scotland at somewhere like Tynecastle would have been good. I'm sure the Scots would have turned up to see their boys play against the Auld Enemy - and the ground isn't as big as Murrayfield or as far from the centre of Edinburgh.

The Midlands and the South are not the same thing.

Yes, loads are "in the south". Provided that means the south east then they have an option and quite a good one at that. England games attract in London and it's versus the Aussies, of whom there are large numbers there.

For people in the south west and south Wales the south east is a similar sized journey (if not more in some cases) as people in the RL heartlands have to make. For those traditional rugby areas the Midlands is a much more achievable goal, and it also happens to be slap in the middle of one of the largest clusters of well connected conurbations in western Europe.

That much is strikingly obvious to me. What isn't obvious is how many people from those conurbations have been ticket buyers for large RL events in the past. If it is good numbers the potential for growth, at least for events of this type, could be very good indeed.

My only issue with this choice is the short time to market it. I'd have that issue if they were all on the M62.

Crap venues generally for the other Scots games though. With you there.

Ridiculous set of venues. Workington and Craven Park shouldent be getting international games due to location and too small grounds. Coventry isn't an attractive place for heartland fans to visit so they've got to hope they get the locals in or it'll be a sea of empty seats. Then theyve completely undersold England-NZ by putting it in a 24k ground. Cant beleive it's taken months to pick those.

Only venues im happy with are Anfield as it's a big city not far from the heartlands and the Olympic Stadium.