That's probably because nobody knows it's on. Neither Saints nor the Council have done anything to promote it.

Incidentally, people don't have to buy online. People can phone up for tickets as well.

Saints are getting tickets on Monday for anyone looking to go to the Australia-Fiji game,

Samoa looked pretty rubbish today.

Good start by England. We lost 14-15 to Italy and laffranchi actually played well!

Let's see how the Aussies do in their warm up match

The match details have been on all the electronic boards round the town & on the linkroad. The problem is that people who aren't r.l. fans just aren't aware the world cup is on at all. The promotion has been shocking.

Good win for the USA against France too

Hopefully we'll have a better attitude when we play that one!

Haven't they taken an inflatable kangaroo round the local schools? If that's not promoting it I don't know what is!

How are the ticket sales for the game at Langtree going? They recently announced the one at Warrington had topped 10,000.

A certain ex pie eating second row may not be in the England squad anymore. Doesn't surprise me with this idiot (if it's true).

It's true. It has been confirmed.

The rumours started here about 5 p.m. viewtopic.php?f=17&t=559361&tsmp=1382475774&start=130

The rumours started here about 5 p.m. viewtopic.php?f=17&t=559361&tsmp=1382475774&start=130

It said there that Graham, Hardaker and McIlorum won't play on Saturday. Ferrets in the squad for Hock now, based on form Ferres should have been in anyway.

If they've kicked Hock out shouldn't the others have gone too?

Without knowing exactly what happened, this is a pretty pointless question.

I would have sent McIlorum home too. Just to be certain. Rabies spreads very quickly.

There was a tweet from the BBC North West Sports reporter saying that some of the players were not happy at the disparity in treatment of "the four"
The tweet was removed very quickly.

I know you love half a story but if you read the statement he was released for breaches of discipline. This implys more than one incident. Others who may or may not have been involved may be first time offenders.

Gareth Cock is just bad news and it will be interesting to se how long he lasts at Salford before he has another brain fart.

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Hear a number of England players are not happy with the dismissal of Gareth Hock from the World Cup squad #rugbyleague


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Hard to say without knowing what's happened. If the four players did exactly the same thing there is perhaps a case for it but I doubt that's the case.

As for the England players not being happy, I call complete BS on that one. Hock is a complete lunatic and there wont be anyone in the camp sad to see him gone.

Just watched the video and he looks like a little boy caught nicking from the corner shop.

He says there were 6 or 7 of them out drinking but he was singled out (because he didn't get up in the morning presumably and the others did).

He says he missed two 10 minute training sessions/assessments. if this is really true, it look as if McBanana may have over reacted. However, given Hock's record, it could well be only half the story and he did more/worse things ("multiple breaches"icon_wink.gif.

If the other rumours are true and some of the rest of the squad are not happy about his treatment it does not go well for the rest of the tournament, with half the squad having their feeling confirmed that Steve Mac really is a banana.

So there was no fight then?

Well he might have had a fight with himself.

Doesn't look to be that way judging from the video.