Not expensive bbut given peoples finances and to encourage them to attend games i would have done a Pacjage deal. Buy one England game get a non England game 1/2 price? Buy a finals ticket and get the England pool games at 1/2 price, that sort of thing.

sort of some up my feelings for england team

id pay 40 quid to watch aus /NZ easily

i would not pay 5 to watch england france!

There are various package deals about! Buy 10 tickets for the price of 9! A family ticket for £40 saving £20! And also get a £10 discount on your final ticket just for going to a group game! I know it's not a lot but it's still something!!

These prices have always been at this rate for Internationals where basically the nearer the half way line the higher the prices and the cheapest being behind the posts! Clubs prices for the equivelent seats do not come into it!

a tenner to watch england australia would be embarrassing and would just tell the world that the sport values itself at tuppence.

and when the game is dead and you've nothing left to watch on t'telly you will be happy?

£14 to go and watch Wigoon vs Celtic or £20/£40 to watch England vs Australia. I'm there!

Will probably take in the Aus-NZ game at The Stoop too.

If you're not happy don't pay it. Plenty of fans are using the price as an excuse to stay at home. If you're only interested in your club then that's up to you. It's not something I'll ever understand, but there you go.
I'll be going to watch France v New Zealand and I'm expecting to pay around 25 pounds.

It's not the £20 I'm questioning - I think that is pretty reasonable for the stadiums being used, it's the charging of up to £50 in other areas.

I just hope we won't see two pack ends and then a half empty East Stand which the cameras at Wigan focus on.

Just to clairfy though it's only £40 in the middle of the east stand, it's £30 and then £25 the further away from the touchline you get.

Maybe I just look at this wrong though. I'm a fan that's been to Harlequins, Catalans, Celtic etc for expensive weekends away this year and had a wallet battering play off run until this weekend. I suppose it's different for those who's season ended earlier.

Whoa!!!

Hold on there.

I didn't sell the game to TV for peanuts!!!

I have been to enough test matches, internationals, tour games etc over my years on the planet.

This four nations does not excite me simply because England are STILL NOT CAPABLE OF WINNING!!!!

If Aus v Kiwis was on at the windy place then I would consider that as I know it would be great entertainment.

Everything else is a foregone conclusion (see the odds the bookies give, and they ususally are not far offf the mark) so why waste all that effort when others in the game can't be bothered to bring the game in this country into the 19th, yes 19th century!!!

That's how far behind the Aussies we are!!!

Why are we as a sport so bothered about how the seating looks on television?
I can't think of another sport where fans talk about the attendance before the actual game.
Think back to the England v Argentina rugby union game at Old Trafford this summer. half the stadium empty and little to no atmosphere. Any mention of that in the media? No!
The RFL must have done their homework with regard to ticket sales and sponsorship and I'd be surprised if the Four Nations makes a loss.

Personally I'm looking forward to a great tournament and a weekend in Toulouse

The non-England games are in London and France. Would the RFL help out with travel costs too?

A few years back this was the case at the Galpharm where the middle by the half way line was pretty empty but the thing is these are usually the seats given away for competitions, and games since these areas have been the fullest often filled by those who bought the cheaper end seats but moved inwards if the stewards have been slack.

Not sure it's right to compare a global sport that is probaly only second behind football in terms of popularity in the country with a predominantly two county minority sport.
I doubt even the RFL would be so daft as to play an international in Bristol.


That's the idea. Who knows in two years time it could be Wales taking on Australia in Cardiff and the Kiwis at Newport.

And the other tv options were what exactly?

England are capable of winning, its one game against the other sides and we have seen in the past that england are capable of beating the aussies and kiwis in one off games.
Besides which it is a massive problem if even hard core fans cant be d just you might get hammered. Wales and England RU have had whole decades when they've been getting hammered but still turned up in massive numbers. Maybe league fans arent as pasionate about the sport as is claimed. Thats not a crime but lets not kid ourselves a sport CAN die and the fans are part of that.