We (me and familly) spend approximately £700 per year on tickets and probably £300 on stuff like food, programmes, replica kits for the kids, etc. Not to mention a Sky Sports subscription for nothing other than RL. But presumably my money comes marked with "pathetic pessimist" and therefore isn't welcome at the bank and no good to the sport. Sorry we pollute your game.

I have only 1 gripe, the fact that in englands group they have 2 matches on the same day. Will the RFL have kick off times whereby you can attend both games.
2nd nov games at Hudds and Saints (hopefully a 15:00 & 20:00 kick off)
9th nov Hull and Limerick (private jet needed)

and on 16th 2 quarter finals Wrexham and Wigan.

The RFL have not indicated times for kick offs so buying tickets for both games on 2nd and 16th could be a waste of money......They need to make a decision and announce it.

No need to apologize for being optimistic about the world cup. In general, I am. I was defending the person accused of 'fantasy' for having concerns about tickets. I share those concerns and think that we need behind the scenes some kind of emergency plan to fill those seats, because this is best exposure we're going to get for 4 years and if not quite "appearance is everything" it's ridiculously important given where we're at right now.

If you want to call it pessimistic, fine, I am pessimistic about filling seats for a lot of games under 'normal' sales. If I'm wrong, and they're all full of paying fans then - despite the inabilty of people to understand this, and their STUPID ASSERTIONS that critics hate the sport - I would be delighted. I'd be almost as delighted if they're filled using some sort of plan B, C, or D because more than anything I want people to turn on the TV and see full seats.

Your bitter and poisonous attitude are what arent welcome.

Your family are more than welcome. With all your negativity, death-riding and bitterness gone they would probably enjoy the game more.

Where do I fill in the form to get your permission to watch Rugby League? You could really clean up the sport and turn it into something akin to North Korean celebration. Happy smiling faces all round, it would be lovely.

everything is cool....nothing to worry about...move along

I never said you werent allowed. I said the game would be better off without you.

And if you were somehow banned it wouldnt be anything like a north korean celebration, it would be exactly the same as it is now except there would be one less moron in the stands and one more bitter jackass sat at home moaning to themselves.

Have you managed to find out what the thing you were complaining the RFL didnt have was called yet. After all it was such a terrible, amatuerish thing not to have, surely it has a name?

RL cannot afford to discard fans Smokey, I think you are a complete goon and I am sure you feel the same way but the sport must find unity, and not by simply excommunicating one side or the other.
Many RL people are disillusioned with the way our sport has been run, that is a fact and doesn't stop them being the low hanging fruit we must get back behind the sport.
I hope we can go someway to achieving that soon and if so a united RL fanbase will make this comp the headline act it deserves to be.
I will be attending 3/4 games, I may attend more if I feel more motivated to do so.

Breathe.....aaaand.....relax....repeat. We're not worth getting worked up about, seriously. Leave us stew in our anti-RFL rage, we'll just implode eventually.

Never mind getting them back...I'm disillusioned and still go! Smokey wants me to stop. The mere thought of me sitting in the stands shredding pictures of Nigel Wood as I twitch with uncontrollable rage is enough to ruin his afternoon.

Ever regret posting a positive thread on the VT?

Blimey, calm down everyone!

Can we all not just enjoy this tournament and get behind it?

To be fair (even to Smokey et al) though, the thread was "World Cup Ticket Sales", not "Will you enjoy the World Cup?"

I don’t want you stop going. I want you to stop being such a bitter h0le who would see the game suffer to get what they want, that wishes ill on the game they profess to love because they don’t like some of the things that happen, that presents a negative bias and searches out negativity to try and damage the game to effect the changes they want. Your attitude is almost the perfect example of cutting off your nose to spite your face, except you are trying to cut off everyones nose. You stop doing that then great.

But if it is a choice between you not being an RL fan, or you being an RL fan who pushes a personal vendetta through unhelpful, unnecessary, counter-productive, bitter, negative, childish means then we would be better off without you.

It doesn’t ruin my afternoon at all, I have just got my tickets to see springsteen open the Leeds Arena, Leeds play Melbourne tonight at headingley, Today is a good day

What would the critics have done differently?