I think it is 14. Start selling tickets, merchendise etc now! Release all of the teams kits at once so people can start buying them and people get to recognise them. As much as I dispise the sport, Union international kits are so easy to recognise in the street. People buy into an icon when they buy the SA kit. Losers!

Sheffield United are hoping their link up with the Eagles gets them WC2013 games.

Reckon they've got a chance? It's a big stadium to fill.

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I understand and share your impatience, but you can't start selling merchandise and tickets before you've decided on the format or done the draw.

I'm almost certain that it's 12 of the 14 that are confirmed. They gave automatic places to the 10 from last time and then added Cook Islands and Wales.

The qualifying competition I believe has two groups (three nations per group IIRC) with one from each group qualifying. The original plan was for the qualifying competition to take place in 2012 (hence no 4 Nations, Euro Cup or Pacific Cup) and I don't believe that has changed.

Still waiting for someone to tell me why having the Aus v NZ game anywhere else other than London would be a good idea?

I think i'll be waiting a long time.

It should be somewhere bigger than the stoop.

Frankly, unless the economic climate gets loads better, you can forget London - certainly for families. The cost of getting to London and then the ground is prohibitively high. Not fortgetting that you can watch it on the TV at home (in 3D by then), or, if you want more atmosphere, in the pub!

But if Australia are playing NZ... it's fair to say the vast majority of supporters will either be Aussies or Kiwis. It's unlikely many poms would want to come along anyway.

Most Aussies and Kiwis live in London...so we dont have to worry about the cost of getting here.

So why play the fixture anywhere other than in London? If its played somewhere up north it just means the Aussies and Kiwis have to travel.

The crowd at an Auz v NZ final in London will look like the worlds largest barstaff convention!

The opinion that people have that all Aussies and Kiwis in London work behind a bar is completely untrue.

Its like the rumour that the English are terrified of soap and water and refuse to shower more than once a fortnight.










I know the English have a shower once a week whether they need one or not

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TBF they should have it at wembley, they is far more cubicles at that stadium then any other. Thus making it more conveinent for the Aussies who like to over themselves.