Yeah, but who cares about the result? I don't. I am mildly curious, but I'm not going to give up two hours of my weekend for it.

The RFL should stop trying to manufacture a fake rivalry, and should have persevered with the France fixture, except played it in France to give them some advantage.

whats the point in playing france and putting 60 points on them, france couldnt qualify for the 4 nations when they were not in automatically, they are of a poor standard and all the marketing in the world wouldnt convince me to go see them again

I agree that the mid-season test against France wasn't the right thing, it's just a comparison. I think France could give England a real scare at the end of the year though, especially if McNamara is still in charge.

Way more than 6.5k on.

The fact it's a Friday night and it's being held in Leeds pretty much cancels out any Aussies/Kiwis from attending.

Showing the game on Sky won't help either.

So what you are left with are the usual 'I only follow my SL Club' brigade (who won't bother going), the 'I support my country in RL and I'll follow them anywhere brigade' (who will be going) plus a random selection of people from the general M62 area who like RL and might turn up if theres nothing else going on and the rain stops

7k at the most for me tonight... quite a few of them for the novelty factor.

Shame really.

I would say double 7k easy there, pleasantly surprised at the attendance actually.

There is way more than 7K on there.

I would say about 12k at least.

But Bazza says ...........................




Not like him to be wide of the mark is it?

Shocker

what will france offer at end of season that they cant offer now? unless they can bend the rules to get scott dureau to play what chance would they have, catalan are winning off the back of him and toulouse are struggling at foot of championship

England-Exiles crowd given out as 14,175.

Daftest thread of the year so far.

14,174 crowd apparently.

1. Crowd irrelevant
2. Work out what was needed.
3. Funny as that England lost.
4. If you want a decent crowd next year....play it at Craven Cottage, £15 a ticket and play it for the TNT Trophy.....as has been show tonight, English RL fans can't be bothered, but there's enough bar staff in London who'd roll up to see the poms getting whipped

I would say it was a success the teams battled it out and crowd wasnt the shocker that was predicted.

Keep it going but play it on a Saturday/Sunday have a free super league weekend and play Wales v Ireland and France v Scotland on the same weekend or as even a triple header.

Sadly, some people just like to try and put dampers on things - Usually the same people that claim "the RFL do nothing"

And on a thread titled 'Only 6,500 tickets sold for tonight'.