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Fair enough to both counts. England need a warm-up game before the Tri Nations, it'll be a chance to give the Grand Finalists a week to freshen up physically and mentally, but also blood fringe players at the top level.

Resting the frontliners in a test match that's played away from home is sensible and logical. GB needs more depth, the fans want to see how the young players do.

Wales need and deserve a top-line game against elite European nations, especially against the regional power England, and this is the best way to develop the international game.

I thought we were talking about League

'Brewary Field is not at a good enough standard for Super League, however it is good enough for an international, ya know, the pinnacle of the game...'

When the international game in the rest of the world is going from strength to strength, the RFL continues to make a joke out of it in this country. This is just one joke in a series of jokes which makes me think the World Cup is going to be a disaster in the RFLs hands

Think the world cup will be a great competition, but that will largely depend on fans.
With some fans saying it'll be a disaster four years before it actually takes place you could yet prove me wrong.

The WC just gone was a great competition, but the RFL treat the international game with much less respect then even the Aussies do. The fans wont flock to most of the games. Not because they wont take to international RL, its just I can see the RFL making the competition seem so insignificant

Guess I'm just a half full person. Have started saving already. Hopefully a grand in the bank will get me all over the tournament and great final tickets.

For someone living in the north, it won't cost much to see all the games as most will be held on the m62, and while I'm not exactly saying we should go all out like the 2000 WC failure, a tournement held primarily on the m62 corridor in tiny grounds will barely do anything to expand the game

I would imagine a London will get at least a group game and probably the final.
Scotland, Wales and Ireland will get games as will the RFL's new favourite thing Doncaster's Keepmoat. With only twelve teams planned to be involved that suggests a fair percentage will be outside the M62 corridor.

The RFL said that most games will be in the heartland. That to me suggests that not all home nations group games will be in there own country (which they should) and not many games will be in London (and a few should). Also the venues announced for the upcoming 4 Nations, and every other international for a good few years now, suggests the RFL will be equally small time when it comes to the WC.
If the RFL go and prove me wrong when they announce the venues for the WC then I will change my stance but for the time been I'm wishing it was in Aus again

Two games in France and one at the Stoop, isn't it?

Precisely. They put a rematch of last year's World Cup Final, played in a city with thousands of expats from both countries, in a stadium that can only hold 12,700. I know mid-size venues in London are scare, but I consider it small-time thinking.

how do you know it's not the biggest stadium in london that was available??

He doesn't.

exactly..


its in all likeihood that the stoop was the only stadium available....