I agree. The second Test Australia vs Great Britain in 1990 was certainly one of the greatest internationals ever, and better than the NZ vs Tonga match, though the latter was excellent.

How lonely it must be sat in your squalid little bedsit cracking one out while staring at posters of Pamela Anderson and Jordan.

The even sadder thing is that you're clearly a grown man and not a 14yo boy trolling.



Lets not try and get around the swear filter please.

And posts like this just add fuel to his fire. Amazing that people still bite & fall for it.

Chatting to a couple of mates today at work ... I work in Sydney... and one (we were talking about the Socceroos) said ' there's supposed to be a World Cup going on at the moment too! But you wouldn't know it!!! Where are the games being played????


Marketing... what marketing???

Interesting to hear the Australian commentators talking about Mickey Mac over the weekend. They seemed full of praise for him leading the team forward. He even made a couplke of breaks.

Why would they target their marketing in Sydney when there's no games being played there? It'd be a huge waste of money.

The NSW Government couldn't be d bidding for any games, they were lucky to get the two Lebanon games.

To say that the majority of games have been played away from RL's heartlands, attendances have been decent, and TV audiences have been very good.

France could do with 2 teams in super league, catalans and Toulouse. and then an 8-10 team first division below that with pretty much a time teams, maybe two of those teams should be in a Paris or close to Paris. this with a long term 10 year plan, to redevelop the game over there.

But you need English rugby league to make it happen, why not improve the French RL organisation, then you can truly be proud of your adopted countries accolades.






For gods sake, grow the feck up you immature, childish individual.

236,294 over 21 games at 18 events is a shocking figure.....Townsville, home to the Grand Finalists saw 7,750 attend a double header there.....16,528 was the 2017 NRL season average for the Cowboys, yet less than half that number could be bothered.....the shoddy management and non existent marketing of this event will be brushed over with a few bumper crowds at the end, but the reality is that Australia shouldn't be let anywhere near hosting such an event ever again.....currently tracking 10% down on 2013 crowds in a country supposedly "mad about league"?
Seriously.... Canberra saw 400 more fans that we got in Limerick 2013........that is shocking for the home of an NRL side.......it is impossible to defend the indefensible and that's what the Australian attendances at this world cup are...119,700 attending 14 games for an 8,550 average.

I keep hearing about the lack of marketing, but i'm curious to know what people mean by this. We live in the internet age and it's easier than ever for people to access and spread information. If someone isn't aware of the world cup, I can only assume they wouldn't be interested in it anyway. And just because people aren't interested, it doesn't mean that they're not aware of something.

TV ratings have been strong – the World Cup opener in Melbourne between England and Australia pulled in 1.4 million viewers, the highest-rating league game this year outside of the NRL grand final and state of origin.

RLWC 2013 Achieved an average attendance that was 16,374 and some 7,400 or 81% higher than that of the 2013 Superleague.......by contrast, the NRL average is 15k and the current RLWC gates are 11,252 or 25% LOWER than the domestic season average.
Why did they bid for the right to host this comp?

Cairns? What were they thinking? Remember, the Aussies whined about Limerick yet they managed to get a lower gate this year...3 games at an average of 4,508.
Townsville? 3 games at an average of 4,278.....unforgivable given the Cowboys average there.
Melbourne for the opener? They took SoO there in 2015 and got 90K+........yet they couldn't even fill a stadium 1/3 of that.......
Canberra? 3 games including a home test match for the Kangaroos and yet still only 8,172 as an average....the Raiders averaged more than the Roos game achieved.
Without the PNG and NZ games this RLWC would be heading for a lower total than 2008.......the Aussies just haven't bothered and whilst TV figures are good, they do nothing to change perception that this is the 3rd level of comp as far as the Okers are concerned.

Marketing isn't about preaching to the converted, it's about informing a new audience of what's going on and inviting them to attend.....something that the organisers of 2013 did brilliantly and which the organisers of 2017 have failed to do at all! Information being freely available online isn't marketing.

If NZ somehow beat the Roos in the semi-final, we'll be lucky to see 25,000 at the final.....whereas the Final for pretty much every other sporting world cup is sold out before the opening game.....but no doubt the million + watching on TV will be rolled out as how Rugby mad the Aussies are