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

Well I was thinking exactly the same but you know...

Useless set of idiots aren't they.

Venues & dates should have been announced and tickets should have been made on sale as soon as the final whistle went in the 3rd NZ Test.

Some of the grounds they want, havent proven they can handle it from the POV of an international game. Some of the grounds that want it, are not on the RFLs "go to" list. Coupled with ongoing discussions on how the games will be priced = Hence the delays

I'm struggling to see what the point of taking a Rugby League game to Anfield would be? It's not like it's a nice place to visit. Unlike the Magic Weekends at Man City and Newcastle where people can mingle outside the ground, this isn't possible at Anfield. The stadium isn't as good as those two anyway and closely resembles a building site at the moment.

Scousers have absolutely no interest whatsoever in any team game that is not football (RL has been tried and failed at Liverpool City and Huyton). So 45,000 people would be coming into the city from the M62. That would cause traffic chaos. For Liverpool home games thousands of people already live in the city, come in from the north end (Bootle, Crosby, Formby, Southport), come from the Wirral or are staying at hotels having come in from abroad for the game. As the only people interested in watching RL will be coming in via the M62 corridor, why not just keep it in Manchester or Leeds?

Totalrl saying that they are getting reports that final WILL be at Anfield and that Olympic and Huddersfield are getting games as well. Now we have also heard rumours of Coventry so that is 4 venues. I would suggest that another is Wigan because with huds there is one in Yorkshire and they wouldn't want one close to Liverpool if final is there so Wigan would be better with it being closer to Manchester and also a proven international venue. That just leaves the Scotland ground to speculate on and I think a few of us have been saying partick thistle. www.totalrl.com/reports-suggest- ... ons-final/

Totalrl saying that they are getting reports that final WILL be at Anfield and that Olympic and Huddersfield are getting games as well. Now we have also heard rumours of Coventry so that is 4 venues. I would suggest that another is Wigan because with huds there is one in Yorkshire and they wouldn't want one close to Liverpool if final is there so Wigan would be better with it being closer to Manchester and also a proven international venue. That just leaves the Scotland ground to speculate on and I think a few of us have been saying partick thistle. www.totalrl.com/reports-suggest- ... ons-final/

Apart from the fact that the rlif have already said that there is gonna be at least 1 game in Scotland and there is a precedent in the four nations that a game is always played in the fourth nation when it is in the northern hemisphere, Paris and Toulouse in 2009 and Wrexham in 2011. I imagine the only reason they don't play in the fourth nation in southern hemisphere is the logistics of taking a game to Papua new guinea or Samoa or where ever.

They said that some time ago, since when many reports & rumours have said Workington. Widely reported this was because they were looking at Scotstoun Glasgow, but they've since turned to a plastic pitch. All articles today including BBC & Sky even, saying they've disbanded plans to play in Scotland. You go for it though bud, book your train to Glasgow with my blessing

Fair enough mate ive read a few articles and it does seem that Scotland has been dropped. Typical rugby league organisation of course seen as one of their biggest policies is to expand the game but they don't want to take a major international to a developing country instead playing it in the usual dystopia in Cumbria that will draw about 6,000 people in... Craven park is a daft place to take a game as well, sure you'll fill it but that means there will be 11,000 people there whereas if it went to Wigan or st Helens then they would be full with almost double that. Full stadiums equal a decent spectacle which is what's needed to expand the profile of international league but it is the same old half-d ideas from our games big cheeses.