It was 2 for £15 in hul and I said 360,000 would attend when posters on here were too scared to predict....about 3 months before. I was wrong and was happy I was. I don't care if The tickets were free....it was a great success.
All of which doesn't change the naivity of the idea of trying to sell the kiwis games to 4 million people who we have no idea who they are or where they live.

News item on national news about his switch, not sure why

yep sam burgess makes the national news! shame its due to a move to England RU

Utterly bizarre that his switch to RU has become the most important news item for the 10 o'clock news.

Whilst you're definitely right on the difference between the RFL & RFU (I'm convinced that the RFL need to keep more of its revenue for itself, I think it's drastically underfunded in almost every area. The RFL runs on approx £6-7m per year compared to approx £40m for the RFU.) there is also a need for London-based media to listen to either the RFU or RFL.

I think it's obvious they're more willing and eager to listen to, and write about, the RFU pushed stories. In the same way that similar stories about almost any subject (not just RL) are virtually ignored when they happen North of Watford.

The difference in the sports is quite startling. Soccer has journalists investigating and enquiring......the same can be said for other sports when they are perceived to be "in", but normally, everyone else is telling their story and doing the promoting to papers/media trying to get published.
The RFU have understood this for years and do it very very well. The RFL are getting better......

It wasn't the most important item. It was at the end of the program. Don't let that get in the way of a good whinge though.

...it was a ruse. I bet the Tories have "buried" loads of bad news in the hope that the wall to wall Burgess coverage helps it get missed

Nope. Want to have a third attempt?

I didn't see it, I was referring to the advert for the news an hour before - this is the news!

It was see both games at Craven park for 15 quid......
Confirmed somewhere in this thread....about page 27
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...Semi-Final "Big Hit" tickets were on offer for a tenner by the way......but as I said, it doesn't matter if they were FOC. The competition was great........

On the subject of tickets and Bath Rugby; I was on a stag do in Bath last weekend and we went to watch Bath Vs Toulouse. The stag had arranged 6 tickets about 10 days before the game at a cost of £56 each. Yes, you heard that right, £56 each for a low intensity, error strewn, atmosphere lacking game that could only be described as a social day out for the good folk of Bath. Two of us are league fans and came away scratching our heads as you can imagine. We could only surmise that the money in RU must be absolutely stark staring bonkers barking obscene. My only saving grace is that the stag paid for my ticket as a favour for doing some design work for his wedding.