The city of Limerick are bidding to host a match at 26,000 seat Thomond Park. In such a short time, they already have the support of over 1000 facebook fans. Best of luck to them... www.facebook.com/Backthebidlimerick2013?ref=ts

The city of Limerick are bidding to host a match at 26,000 seat Thomond Park. In such a short time, they already have the support of over 1000 facebook fans. Best of luck to them... www.facebook.com/Backthebidlimerick2013?ref=ts

Good luck to them.

This could be the start of something big for RL in Ireland

When did Limerick become part of England and Wales?

Yeah that's one major floor

surely exceptions can be made for the good of the game...

It would cost a bit after the branding that's been done.

Surely it's worth it - the RFL will come under stick if they decline it.

the word is "flaw"

Move the whole tournament to Aus then

I think this is a great idea. In fact, the RFL should support it by booting an established club out of Super League and give Ireland a franchise. Who cares about rugby in our own country when we can help everybody else?

some of you have some real insecurity issues...

Could be good pr for the game - there could be competitions for the best poetry!

A sport founded by working class men
Was ruined by pretentious snobs when
the board at red hall
confounded them all
..................................

26000 free tickets for the Limerick game if you win ...... nobody else will want them!

It'll never catch on. Nobody wants all the free tickets that Harlequins every week. It would only work if the RFL changed the rules and had different criteria for them. And they wouldn't do that, surely........

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, oh god, my sides are spliting.

Thomond Parks a nice ground, fill the bottom tier, fill them ends, use good camera angles and do a union trick and lie about the attendance. Easy.

We already do that at Millenium Magic.

Practice

You'll be going then? Its bad enough trying to fill grounds in the UK without trying to export the game to a debt-ridden Anglo-phobic backward country!

What's Castleford got to do with it?

I went to tolka park in 2000, I'll go to this.

Remember the Onion WC in France? Wales played all their games at the Millennium (or at least most). And a quarter final between France (the supposed hosts) and New Zealand was in Wales.

In short, it hardly stopped the Nazi's code of choice, so why should it stop ours?

crowds in ireland for rugby league would be two to three thousand at best and would cost more to put on - rugby union would get ten to twenty times more than that and at their own stadiums

stick to the best chance we have for this world cup to suceed, keep it in established rugby league stadia - even Wales is pushing it for me

one game in ireland sounds fine to me

more places bidding means more money for RL so well done RFL.

the international game is going to take time but if we stick with it will pay off for us

eventually a championship team would be nice i guess to see if there is genuine long term interest in the game

The tournament could have made loads more profit had the France games been in France and ALL the Wales games in Wales along with Ireland games in Ireland.

A France game over here against a smaller nation will pull a small crowd but at Catalans stadium it would be full.

They aren't French though they are Catalonian. You never can tell. When they were knocked out of Euro 2008 there were parties in Canet.

Oh Look...it's someone who voted Tory