"The RLWC, if it were selling well, would be on this year"

Number of tickets sold is of no interest to Aus or NZ with regards to covid travel considerations. Even if every venue was sold out the decision to travel by those two would not be different IMO.

Its not about quarentine in this country its about getting home again. Squad of 30 would take em a week to get home

I really hope its on, but I think they will cancel it... Not bought any tickets yet (will get semi-final tickets if England make it), as no games in the south apart from one at coventry. 2013, I went to more games (Bristol one was a highlight, cook islands vs USA in a packed stadium was a fantastic experience), also some of the games in wales as well.



Should have been at least 4 or 5 games in the south, including at least one of the Aussie pool games seeing how many Aus expats live in London and South East

The newly crowned world champions of Test Cricket are currently in week 1 of 2 weeks of managed isolation in an Auckland Hotel.

This is a world cup were talking about.

November 28th on a plane home and back with their families by the 15th of December. The UK government has just underlined it's intent to go herd mentality from July 19, so there's no restriction on gate numbers.

Given a great many players from a multitude of nations will be arriving from and returning to Aussie and NZ it would seem prudent to get them booked into managed isolation from November 30 now......or is the rugby world cup not worth th bother?

5% of Australia have been vaccinated, COVID spreading again Down Under! It's a great excuse if ticket sales are low! espececially with the decision set to be made this week.



Add to that the decision also to be made for RL to become one body again! The RFL who for years now has been a complete mess, set to save Super League lol, the same body that can't even resolve its great idea to charge amateurs a membership to play rugby league lol

Even for rugby league fans it is a really ill-thought through conspiracy theory to suggest the RLWC organisers would want to postpone the tournament - the costs alone would be enormous. They'd have to retain all their staff for another year, there's all the costs of planning and events they'e already shelled out for, the re-branding, they might even have to find new venues. It would cripple the RLWC and, ultimately, the RFL.



What this is all about, as usual, is the NRL clubs not wanting their own seasons to be disrupted - in this case by players returning in late November (which they already hate) and then having to go into quarantine, having a post-season rest, then returning to their clubs in January having missed most of their pre-season. They couldn't give a stuff about international RL - hence the cancellation of the mid-season Pacific fixtures - nor anything outside of their own backyard. Even helping fund junior development in New Zealand is beyond the pale, despite being very keen to sign players from there. They just want to use this as an excuse to cancel the RLWC.

In the next week's and months the Aussies are sending an Olympic size team to Tokyo and their cricketers will be in the UAE to the T20 world cup....if they bottle the rugby league then it makes the game look even more tin pot

As was pointed out on another thread, the organising committee have based income on ticket sales rather than sponsorships & tv deals. That must limit potential for decent profit. Think the last RL World Cup generated profits of £5m or so. Obviously better than a loss but that's not a lot to go around. You can see why the Aussies maybe are less bothered despite almost being guaranteed to win it.



In comparison, with their sponsorships & TV deals + ticket sales the last RU World Cup in Japan had reported profits of around £50m. Our tourne is more bacofoil than tin pot.

I freely admit to predicting failure in 2013 only to pleasantly wrong.......this time I'm keeping schtum......but hope to pleasantly wrong again