Dan Roan is doing a piece on BBC news at 6. This is very surprising.

The BBC are presumably bigging it up as part of a post RLWC Union recruitment drive for their WC?

There will be downsides of all the publicity that is coming on stream. An obvious one might be if there is a small crowd at Cardiff - the Press will have a field day. Looking at the ticket sales diagram there are few blocks that have sold out. Not sure how many tickets have been sold? Last WC games there the crowd looked pretty good on paper but I went and the stadium seemed and looked empty.

The stadium plans haven't changed for a while now, other than the Huddersfield game

5 live have had running ads most of the day. I've spent about 5 hours in the car today and every 15 to 30 minutes there is a RLWC ad.

It's getting on my nerves.











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ARRRGH the bbc piece just had me kickin the whippet from infront of the coal fire

Rugby leagues big chance to break out blah blah blah north stronghold hold blah blah....remind me again how many people watch union in the north !!!!!!!

Fooking sale and some Geordie outpost,have leeds folded??? never hear of them these days,lets have a look on the map were the English union teams are you fookin retard


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I take it it was drive time on 5 you were listening to

the KC one was changed today, to 'colour in' the 2 new blocks they have opened.

great piece of publicity on BBC News I thought, I can't knock the BBC for their publicity this time.

Another great article from the Beeb, have they turned over a new leaf? has the move to Salford converted them!?

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I quite liked the bbc news article. The guy is spot on, it is huge opportunity or our game.

One thing is for sure, everyone in the country must surely be aware there is a World Cup about to be staged. Adverts on radio, England football Game, x-factor, top sport news story on bbc 6 o'clock News, frequent bbc TV ad played through day. The WC have made sure people are aware this tournament is happening, which hasn't always been the case in the past!

Hmmm...1 Pool game in Bristol (12,000) for 2013 is hardly breaking away. As for the Other lot, we'll find out in 2015 with games in Newcastle(52,000), Leeds(38,000), Manchester(61,000), Leicester (32,000) & Birmingham(43,000) which I believe are all north of Potters Bar......capacity of 475,000 over 11 games at an average of 43,182.

We are all of us lying in the gutter buddy.......it's just some of us are looking at the stars!


Media here in NZ is ramping up now with a feature by the BBC showing all the skippers together, then a statement about SBW being responsible for a further 20,000 ticket sales

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