Discounted tickets, yes, but no free tickets please.

The RFL did do discounted prices at the Four Nations last year, I paid £20 to go to England v Aus at Wigan, and therefore got tickets to the final for a tenner. A package deal would be great or a rewards scheme through purchasing tickets.

Group games should be cheap, no point asking £15 plus for them, people won't go. Shame international rugby isn't more appealing, even for the die hards.

You'd assume two, since they're different councils. I think the idea is that the local council support the event at said stadium so that the area is behind it and backs it. If it was just "London" then there isn't really a "local" element.


I think the RFL have screwed up in not having Wales in the same group as New Zealand and France. That's where the big games would have been. And that's where you could have used the MS. No point in using it for the Wales group games. And there is no guarantee they'd get through the group stages so can't really have it for the quarter finals.


Think Bramall Lane will be used rather than Hillsborough.

Whitehaven/Workington would struggle to hold 10k considering Haven has a capacity of 7.5k and Worky is just under 10k. Plus they are both really old grounds. Very few people from Scotland will come down for the game anyway, so it would be insignificant to hold it close to there.

Take it where it will get the best crowd.

Unless, Wales get 'Drawn' against England in the Quarters and the match gets played at MS. That would be ideal.

Likelihood is that Wales will win their group. I think the point of their fixtures is to get them to have a good run leading into the knock outs. Two convincing wins against (probably) Lebanon and USA and a tough fixture against Cook Islands (who play Tonga). Gives the squad and the fans a bit of momentum. But, I agree, NZ or France could have been better for them.

Milton Keynes bidding for Union WC; www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-be ... s-11902165 They're ambitious, might they also try for RL??

Milton Keynes bidding for Union WC; www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-be ... s-11902165 They're ambitious, might they also try for RL??

perhaps if some of you start putting a extra pound a week away in your piggy banks now,by the time the tournament comes around you'll have enough money saved to attend a couple of games

Have you been reading my posts!?

The one thing the RFL cannot do, is go small. We shouldnt be looking at holding any games, in any stadia with less than 20k capacity.

Headingley, DW, Galpharm, should be at the lower end of the scale not the upper.

Headingley, DW, Galpharm, KC, for the standard group games, Elland Road, CoM, Anfield maybe even St James' Park for the big group games.

the semi's should be in large football stadiums, emirates, old trafford, and the Final should be nowhere other than Wembley.

Book them now, get the logistics sorted by the middle of next year at the very very latest, start selling soon (and i mean actually selling, not order taking), some creative thinking, maybe try and sell 10k tickets at £700 a pop which gets you into all 19 games including the final, work down from there with 'mini-season tickets' 3 group games for £100, 3 group games 2 semis and the final for £500, sell group rates to Amateur clubs take up there would likely be 30 people rather than 1.

Get people on the phone to all the banks, accountancy firms, law firms based in Leeds, both universities and student unions, ASDA. Heinz in Wigan.
The Co-op in Manchester, and sell to them as groups. try and sell tickets in the thousands to them.

Group games between minor nations, have as double headers.

in total, from the 19 games, we should be aiming to sell 400'000 tickets. (21k average) and if the RFL do what they need to do, and most of all start it now 2 years out rather than 6 months out it shouldnt be a huge problem.

A few main points.....

Tickets must be cheap, people will not go if they are not cheap as there is alot of games. We don't want people to pick and choose games we want people to attend as many as possible so we need plenty of offers for the whole world cup and for groups etc.

Towns or cities who bid must commit to promoting the game in that town or city.

Most of the games should be kept in the heartlands.

All Wales games should be played in Wales.

Tickets must go on sale as soon as possible and massive efforts and spending should go into marketing. Every single school around the area of a game should be offered tickets and massive group offers should be given to clubs etc. A much bigger version of Wigans 'big one'. Personally I wish the RFL would steal our marketing team.

Common sense must be used when selecting games and venues, Rochdale has a large population of people from Fiji, simple, play a Fiji game in Manchester and offer transport from Rochdale. There alot of people from down under in London therefore keep Aus and NZ games in London preferably at the stoop. Aus v Fiji and NZ v PNG double header! A feats of RL from the southern hemisphere!

England games should be played at stadiums of at least 25k capacity and MUST all sell-out. Semi-final and final should be at Wembley and OT or Elland Road.

Don't move games to random places (why someone said St James Park I will never know).

Keep football stadiums to a minimum, they cost money to use and will not sell-out as easily.

Lots of double headers should be used for smaller games along with some of the larger games. The opener should be a double header at Wembley or OT. England V Australia along with NZ v France. England v Ireland might not get more than 20k but with NZ v Samoa thrown in as well people might go.

we dont have the size, or number of stadiums, which arent football stadiums, and are in the heartlands to cover the games.

We need to be more ambitious. The WC is the showcase for the game, it isnt the bread and butter. We need as many people as possible to attend, so we need as big a stadium as possible.

We need to stop looking at 10k for most group games, 20k for England, Australia, NZ group games, 30k for the semis and 60 for the final as an achievement.

You sell a minor group game, to a minor town, with a 10k capacity you will get a a small attendance.

You sell a couple of minor group games as a double header, in a 55k stadium, You heavily push it and market it as a festival of rugby league, then you get a bigger attendance.

I can well imagine a fair few clubs in heartlands, being prepared to put on a bus and take 30/40 people up to Newcastle for a WC double header and a night on the beer afterwards.

five or six maybe.
how many would you like to go to for £150 quid?

I agree, except I dont think Elland road has ever held the world cup final. Id keep nearly all the games in the north and nearly all of them at RL grounds, appart from the opener at Elland Road and the final at Old Trafford.