thought you had locked the cage

"the game caller" on twitter reported yesterday ticket sales are moving into 5 figures...two days before a test and ticket sales have just gone above 10k...terrible.

No doubt its down to the fact that its the usual fans of the sport that know its on and buying tickets as opposed to the RFL getting their act together and actually doing any sort of marketing campaigns to promote the series like any professional organisation would do.

The marketing/promotion of the game or should that be lack of it is really is p1s5 poor and yet the RFL, club chairman and IMG wonder why the sports in decline.

Choice of Venues for this series is poor, what's the point in having a game in Huddersfield and then have one across the road in Leeds the week after? They'd of been better off either playing it down south or even in Hull.

Really don't see the logic in having one in Huddersfield when the locals hardly turn out in numbers for the Giants when they aren't actively promoting the games well enough.
You'd have thought they might have gone across the M62 corridor with the 3 games with one in Lancs, one in West Yorks and then one out this way in Hull or even Donny with them using a ground central to all clubs in the relevant areas.

The saying couldn't organise a p1s5 up in a brewery springs to mind when it comes to the RFL marketing and promotions dept.

Brentford would have been a good choice. 17k capacity about right.

Hull's ship sailed due to the poor attendance we got for the Fiji - NZ world cup game . London should have been a venue .

What game Steve?

but i thought bringing the mighty IMG on board that marketing was part of their agenda.
Instead of having a jobs for the boys,the RFL could have dropped a couple of directors and employed an experienced advertising and marketing person

I did see some advertising at a train station for the series, persinally I feel like I'm less likely to go to an England game if it's at a smaller stadium like at Helens , Huddersfield etc, I prefer when they're at the big venues like Newcastle, anfield, the Emirates etc, gives it that bigger game feel, suspect I'm not alone in my thinking

Nu Brown with the try against Australia. Dive over from dummy half. Got NZ right back in it.

Played the last 30 minutes, should have xome on earlier and moved Foran to 6.

Apart from the try, which is some achievement was pretty quiet, has good distribution and is a very good defender
Really looking forward to see him play for us.

Don't think he was really given much to work with. NZ were losing the collision nearly every tackle by the time he came on so barely got any quick play the balls ro give him space to run. They also weren't playing particularly expansive rugby.
Agree he was solid defending in the middle and a couple of good one on one tackles to prevent a break.
Think he will be a really good signing for us.

The Aussies just suffocated the big NZ pack who's only plan seemed to just hammer the Aussies down the middle .