Sold out 17,000 crowd.

This RLWC is refreshingly fantastic.

This is shaping up to be a fantastic world cup, Can feel the excitement building after each game

I knew the competition would be good, but not this good. I keep having to pinch myself because it is amazing to think that so many people have turned out for games such as last night. The great thing is that it can only get better. So refreshing for our sport to have a feel good factor for once!

Also noticed that RL news is regularly headline story on bbc sport. Never usually.

If only the tournament had been on a free to air channel .

biggest crowd so far for a single game........and some people say the French team bring nothing to Superleague and should be kicked out....

BBC have already got rights to the 2017 tournament. Not sure if it's full rights or if it will be with Premier Sports again.

Its all been good so far and well done to all involved.

Unfortunately we have now been put in our place due to a meaningless RU game v Australia. The papers have been full of rubbish about it all week, my daily paper "I" has 3 full pages about it today and just a small column about James Graham. Even North West news have been reporting about Sale v Exeter and no mention of RL at all. The BBC will of course be salivating over it like the establishment lap dogs they are. So lets not get too optimistic about the effect of the RLWC just yet.

Surely one reason for this is that RL itself has badly neglected the international game over recent years. There has been very little promotion of games in the past 15 years. Then all of a sudden a World Cup comes up, people get their fingers out and start promoting the game and what happens? There is a sudden realisation that RL is entertaining and can draw crowds after all.
This has to be the start for our game. Good promotion and marketing can draw in the crowds and there isn't a lot wrong with the product.

Les Frogs are looking a bit rusty.

They need to score next (kiwi's just had a try turned down).

Great to see another good attendance

The only way to get PROPER recognition for our game, from the Londoncentric media , is for us to actually win the thing.

Too many times in the last 20odd years, we've gone into the last Test of a 3 match series, with the series in the balance (and a WC Final/Tri/Four Nations final) only for us to

a) Come up short
b) go to sleep for 15 minutes
c) get blown out of the water
d) bottle it

As much as we like to "slag off" the RFL for their inertia in promoting our game, the players are still culpable for their performances/lack of success. The public will quickly tire of a team who have little success. That's why our national team(s) attendances have declined again over the past 20 years.
We win this tournament, and we get the biggest springboard this sport has seen in decades. It'll make the dawn of SL (and nicer stadiums to bring your family to) seem like small potatoes.

France could've stayed there all night, and still not scored.
Lots of "huffandpuff" but no end result.
Kiwis looked good.
We're set up for some good end of tournament games.

Nice to see the French staying to the end, despite a walloping on the.
If that was a certain team losing by a third of that score, they'd have been back in Bryn by the time their pies were put in the oven.