Exactly how long does it take to get to Liverpool from Hull (not that i live there) on what would be an early evening travel?
I'll give you a clue, longer (time wise) and more stressful than travelling to Coventry AND MK.
If only you had any clue about travel times say like using a map or a computer or personal experience oh...

Yeah well of course I was being a bit facetious.




I have got plenty of idea about travel times; it's taken me seven hours to get to the DW from my place in the past. And I don't disagree that Coventry or MK are more accessible from the heartlands. FWIW, they would both be easier for me too.

Some of the views at Anfield:




Seats are no better than Old Trafford neither where if you're over 5'11" you can't fit in the seats.

Well neither club is made of money are they? Oh hang on!!

I've got to say the view in the vast majority of Old Trafford seats is perfectly fine, I agree about the lack of legroom though, can make for an uncomfortable time.

Man Utd used to be made of money until a certain American bought it and saddled it with hundreds of millions of debt amongst other "interesting" financial and accounting maneuvres.
And neither Liverpool nor even Man Utd can really compete with the money from Man City.

When money is pushed too much toward players wages and fees then other areas of the club infrastructure suffer, as RL found out almost to its extinction 20-30 years ago.

Still no news on this, very disappointing, how hard can it be.

I would have thought it would be some time around now, as I have said, if I remember rightly the world cup tickets were put on sale in march so that should be now RFL!!

Let me know your route from Hull to Coventry, I'm intrigued as to how you do it in 2 hours !!!

2 and a half hours according to Google Maps. I reckon you could do that in 2 hours with no traffic and not driving like an old lady.

Still quicker than driving to Liverpool every day of the week and given the likely matchday quicker to Coventry than Old Trafford too.
I regularly drive to Hull from North Hertfordshire and it's 155 miles door to door to my folks in Sutton. Taking it very steady drafting the odd HGV on the A1 takes 3 hours (cos I'm still a tight yorkshire lad at heart!) In the dim and distant past I've done it in under 2 but these days 2:30 is doable without being silly. Getting to Coventry and parking up near the Ricoh from Hull is a piece of pish and it's nearer for alot of the central/ssouthern amateur clubs/support to reach. It's not all about the North for international games, the london based matches of recent have had a very high modal share of ticket sales from the 'South' 50% in some instances.
So shifting some of the games more centrally not only means going somewhere different but also somewhere like Coventry is actually easier/less time for a lot more fans than the likes of Anfield which as I've said is a dump of sn area anyway

Those views from the side of the pitch should no longer be an issue with main stand expansion I think?

The severely restricted views at the back of the Anfield Road End could merely be left not for sale and there would not be a problem, right? Surely we're talking a few hundred if not few dozen tickets. Lets not forget Anfield is going to house 55k or so come next football season.

Its already a stadium in good condition. Anfield is not the nicest of areas, but it is not difficult to access via train or car. There are plenty of pubs around the ground too. It handles 45000 spectators coming - lots of which from the same direction most league fans will travel - pretty well every other weekend.

We might actually be getting somewhere with venues, according to this article the venues WILL, I repeat, WILL (apparently) by announced next month so we might have just a couple of weeks to wait. Also says that people can start to pre-register for tickets on Tuesday. www.rugby-league.com/article/337 ... nt-backing

We might actually be getting somewhere with venues, according to this article the venues WILL, I repeat, WILL (apparently) by announced next month so we might have just a couple of weeks to wait. Also says that people can start to pre-register for tickets on Tuesday. www.rugby-league.com/article/337 ... nt-backing