Poor choice. There is a lot wrong with the RFL that I CBA to go into but...

The Lightstream stadium on a Friday night?
That means many RL fans having to travel on the M62 on a Friday night. The sooner clubs realise what a mare that stretch of road is on a Friday the better.
Hull fans will NOT travel there in numbers for reasons that are entirely reasonable to Hull fans but not the RL family.
Yes the opposition was second rate, BUT the AUSTRALIANS are the best team in world rugby. Either code imho. They are playing in our country. Even without JT and others, they are the best of the best. We should have all their games in 20k plus stadiums. Deals should be on with all amateur clubs to get kids there to witness the best.
As a kid I saw all the test matches in 82 and our match and Rovers match. It was a joy to witness. We don't have tours anymore so we should encourage as many people as possible, especially kids to go and watch the best in action and live in the flesh. The Lightstream was never the stadium to do that. The KC is empty this week, yet not used. You just know the RFL will hold it against the City when games are dished out in the future.

I'd have had it played either on Saturday or Sunday at the KC / Headingley if in Yorkshire. Or Wigan if over the other side. If they were not viable then get it in Cumbria or Scotland and encourage some new fans. Or feed the desire of the Cumbrians.

Can probably draw a line under this one now. It was a poorly executed mistake and one unlikely to be repeated in the foreseeable.

Out of interest how many of you that have complained about the size of the crowd bothered to go yourselves to support the international game in our own city? Indeed how many of you bother to support your own team at Craven Park? (I'm old school) Before you start with the poor facilities on offer, how many of you still go to Wakey and Cas despite what's on offer there?

Attendances for international games have been struggling for a while. Chuck in the Friday night and Scotland being the opposition and it's no real surprise that the stadium wasn't rammed.

Hang on...

In the last five major international matches held in the UK before last weekend we had seen:

- the largest crowd for any international Rugby League game, ever;
- the largest attendance, by some distance, for a Kiwis series since 1947;
- the largest ever attendance for an England/GB vs Kiwis game.

The crowd at Hull KR was somewhat disappointing but the facts are that international RL crowds in this country are at record levels.

FWIW Friday's crowd was also greater than both of the following:

GB vs France, Headingley, 1991 (att: 5,284)
GB vs France, Boulevard, 1992 (att: 5,250)

Completely agree, had it been held in the KC they might have had a 1000 more turn up at best and the atmosphere would have been as bad if not worse. It was a throw away fixture for the RFL and they treat it as such.