Probably because that's what they announced before the 2000 comp (remember it well), before it went on to lose so much cash that it nearly bankrupted the RFL and certainly killed international footy for 4 years

What ? , what've I said now ?

That should be on your gravestone mate!

Any updates on ticket sales?

had a quick look on the ticket website, and the same areas of the grounds are open for the big games (such as the opener, England games and the Semi-final and Final) as they were back in January? hope this doesn't mean sales have slowed down. I'd have thought we'd be close to filling out the KC and Huddersfield by now but the top tiers of both are still closed.

But the games supposed to be heading towards dark times right?

Smokey will scream "paranoia", but I wonder if may be - just may be mind, I'm happy to be corrected if someone has other solid info on this - that the 'sales' reported included a bunch of block sales to travel companies etc which presumably get done early on? Until I know the answer I'm not getting excited about ticket sales.