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'.

Good solid crowd.

Weird atmosphere though. I thought the game was a very good watch, but it was strange with the crowd being so flat which made it seem a bit awkward!

Until Sam got the ball.

Don't care if Headingly was sold out.......this is the NATIONAL team.........sub 20k is a disgrace. People wonder why RL gets less publicity than the other lot.......anyone know the last crowd for England v the Barbarians at Union?

Yes. We discussed it on the union thread. More folk turned up but events on the pitch were decidedly more boring than tonight.