Great move this, getting more publicity for our club and a few more people sampling the Stoop experience is worth a lot more to the RFL than 4,000 hypothetical extra ticket sales at Loftus Road.

That said, a double header at Wembley would've been a cool idea, although I'm not sure how much of a draw England vs France would be as a main event in practice?

If the RFL was looking to get the biggest possible crowd the game would be played in central London somewhere like Loftus or Craven Cottage. However I beleive they have made the best decision with regards to rugby league in London and Quins RL.

Playing the game at the stoop, puts all funds back into the game (or Quins in this case, the ground is owned by the club?) through venue hire and catering. From a first hand look, the ground also has adequate corporate facilities which is imporant for international matches.

The game should easily sell out with the right promotion, hopefully the RFL will help Quins with the promotion of Super League in London and the 2010 season. This is an opportunity that needs to be seized, the RFL and Quins have 8 months to get it right! Good luck!

Ouch! 4000 Aussie fans...and the reported gate was 6032 in Oz media. So does that mean our fan base has dropped to around 2000 bearing in mind noticed a number of Leeds supporters down for the game - all sitting in the best seats of the Lexus.

Personally I beleive the crowd may have been slightly higher then that, and the 4000 ozzies is an estimate remember. Plenty of brits sitting around myself.

we have 2,000 HARD core fans...then we have another 1,000 occasionals. Simple fact is we need to expand this base, which is why we should set up a regular arrangement with TNT, but CONTINUE TO TARGET THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.
Some of our crowds last year were terrible such as Castleford 2,112, Bradford 2,534 and the frogs 2,447. If you think we have more than 2,000 hard core fans, I would suggest you stop using IL's calculator

Where are you getting 4000 Aussies from?

I believe it is a guestimated figure, but one that isn't too far off the mark.
They were in the majority yesterday, that is for sure.

Disgraceful! The pitch will probably be unplayable at that time of year. Switch it to Odsal!

Just interested to find out where the figure comes from as it has just been raise as another poster mentioned 4000 extra tickets in an unrelated matter.

I've no doubt there were a lot of them.

Its disappointing that there isn't an England game at Wembley, but Australia v New Zealand at The Stoop is fantastic news.

Yes NFL is on Sunday.

Yes, is there a link for that?

The RL's ticket website states the game is on the Saturday, but so is Englands. So buy now and find yourself stuffed when they switch to Sunday. Only in the world of RL.

Nothing to say both games won't be played on the Saturday. I fully understand that it is annoying that they can't just state what day it's on, but let's face it....8 months notice is enough to sort out the weekend. As for the NFL game on the Sunday.....these are the choices we face in life and dummy spitting because the RFL dare to have a fixture clash with another sport...shocking

And they are only provisional dates as yet.

I have been on a few of those...oh, sorry, I thought you said provincial dates...I remember this girl who worked at Horse & Hound.....

Booooooo gerrrofff


Which is how Shane MacGowan pronounces Bob Geldoff, by the way

that gag worked fine as provisional date anyway, in the sense of all of those dates you've arranged where the bird never turned up

Hush GF with your new found status and all - I'm shocked

. Anyway what about double or quits on your 6K for the Pies game

mmmm.....what with all this positive vibe bouncing round TW2 at the moment, I am tempted.
Oh go on then. As it's a SL game, we will get 3,250 and report 10,000

Is say we probably have around 100 hardcore

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Wembley means more to the French Rugby XIII fans than some ground in the north.

What does concern me is the prices set by the RFL for the Aus v NZ game
at THE STOOP from a low £20 to high £50 plus booking fee - just like Paddy Air - though the 'concession' rate at half price make the cheapest ticket possible for pensioners......however, not many Oz or Kiwi fans in that grouping in and around The Smoke.

Quote ="stormingbronco"Wembley means more to the French Rugby XIII fans than some ground in the north. What does concern me is the prices set by the RFL for the Aus v NZ game at THE STOOP from a low £20 to high £50 plus booking fee - just like Paddy Air - though the 'concession' rate at half price make the cheapest ticket possible for pensioners......however, not many Oz or Kiwi fans in that grouping in and around The Smoke.'" You wanna check those prices? www.superleague.co.uk/tickets_event.php?id=14

Quote ="stormingbronco"Wembley means more to the French Rugby XIII fans than some ground in the north. What does concern me is the prices set by the RFL for the Aus v NZ game at THE STOOP from a low £20 to high £50 plus booking fee - just like Paddy Air - though the 'concession' rate at half price make the cheapest ticket possible for pensioners......however, not many Oz or Kiwi fans in that grouping in and around The Smoke.'" You wanna check those prices? www.superleague.co.uk/tickets_event.php?id=14