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| Quote ="JonB95"Why on Earth would people go all the way to Cardiff then leave when they have the opportunity to watch another World Cup game?'"
Infortunately some fans will as they do with Magic weekend. They watch their own team then go home, cannot understand it myself.
Also agree with another poster in that I cannot understand why the RFL put the England game on first at Cardiff. Madness.
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| Quote ="Bull Mania"Also agree with another poster in that I cannot understand why the RFL put the England game on first at Cardiff. Madness.'"
TV company demands I presume.
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| Quote ="JonB95"Why on Earth would people go all the way to Cardiff then leave when they have the opportunity to watch another World Cup game?'"
Beer + Cardiff city centre
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| Quote ="EHW"TV company demands I presume.'"
I thought they were showing both faves love, would they really be that bothered about the time of the England game?
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| Quote ="Bull Mania"I thought they were showing both faves love, would they really be that bothered about the time of the England game?'" They are using the 2.30pm Saturday slot on BBC for the England games throughout the tournament - I suspect the BBC want this and not to have to relegate that game to BBC2 at 4.30pm.
You also have the fact that the earlier the game, the better it is for Australian TV.
I also think it is quite good that Wales v Italy is not just being treated as a curtain raiser for the England game, there will be plenty of Welsh fans supporting their team, plus I expect plenty of England fans to stay too, I know I will be.
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| Quote ="gutterfax"England need to win Group A or to finish 3rd in the group for that to happen...If they finish 3rd, then they will met Australia in the 2nd Wembley Semi-Final and I believe Fiji would play NZ in the curtain raiser.
Can't see past England v Kiwis and Fiji v Australia in the semi's though....anyone who thinks the Australians might be tired, or not up for it doesn't understand Australians....they are smarting from 2008 and want their Trophy back.'"
The 4th semi finalist is wide open. Fiji are good, PNG are good, Samoa are good, Tonga are good, Italy are good, Scotland are good. France have two home games so might sneak a quarter final against a team they can beat.
Only the Welsh, irish. Cooks and USA seem to be forlorn hope teams.
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| Are England launching a new shirt for the WC? Whats the crack with the group c vs d matches, friendlies?
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| Quote ="JonB95"What makes you so certain it will be Fiji? There's a few teams that look stronger (depending on who's available)'"
The other semi-finalist will be1 from:
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France
Samoa
The teams in Groups C and D have no chance.....if they win their group they then play one of England, Australia and New Zealand in their quarter final.
Fiji only need to beat Ireland to make the Quarter-Finals.....whereas the other 3 will have knocked lumps out of each other. PNG are an unknown, I don't see the French being much stronger than 2008 when they were poor and Samoa looked decidedly average v Tonga earlier this year.
The more I think about it, Fiji v PNG could well be the Quarter final that decides who loses to Australia in the second Wembley game.
QF1. NZ v Tonga
=#FF0000 SF1. NZ v England
QF3. England v Samoa
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QF2. Australia v Wales
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| Quote ="keighley1"Tonga are good, Italy are good, Scotland are good.'"
Good enough to beat Australia, England or New Zealand in a RLWC Quarter-Final?
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| Quote ="gutterfax"Good enough to beat Australia, England or New Zealand in a RLWC Quarter-Final?'"
Have you seen the way the Kiwis play over here?
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| Quote ="gutterfax"Good enough to beat Australia, England or New Zealand in a RLWC Quarter-Final?'"
Well, Australians always brag that they can put out two or three teams capable of beating England. Italy will be virtually an Australian 2nd team and Tonga and PNG will have substantial numbers of NRL players so we will have to wait and see. I can see Italy winning their group for instance and getting a favourable quarter final draw.
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| Quote ="keighley1"Well, Australians always brag that they can put out two or three teams capable of beating England. Italy will be virtually an Australian 2nd team and Tonga and PNG will have substantial numbers of NRL players so we will have to wait and see. I can see Italy winning their group for instance and getting a favourable quarter final draw.'"
With the exception of England and France the remaining 12 teams will have more than a liberal sprinkling of NRL stars representing.......but that's a different thread entirely.
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| Quote ="gutterfax"With the exception of England and France the remaining 12 teams will have more than a liberal sprinkling of NRL stars representing.......but that's a different thread entirely.'"
The last Wales squad had not a single NRL player in it.. won't be much different in the World Cup. Strangely they will soon be catching up to the Wales soccer squad in terms of percent of Welsh born players in the squadicon_wink.gif
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| Gutterfax never lets facts get in the way of his rlfans.com sponsored trolling.
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| Why would rlfans.com sponsor someone to wreck every thread?
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| Quote ="Speccy"Gutterfax never lets facts get in the way of his rlfans.com sponsored trolling.'"
Flattered I'm sure! lol
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| Can anyone advise me on how best to feed the thing that seems to have followed me home?
Quote ="Speccy"If only Gutterfax were incharge,everything would be fine - then again,its probably easier to live on Benefits are blame everyone else.'"
Quote ="Speccy"The only people who appear to want the event to fail are gutterfax and rlfans.com for giving him unlimited voice.No wonder fewer and fewer people come to this anti league site.'"
Quote ="Speccy"Sales are going exceptionally well,much to the disappointment of gutterfax.'"
Quote ="Speccy"Let gutterfax,sponsored by rlfans.com have his attention seeking postings.Brian Barwick recently pointed out the negativity of a minority in rugby league - apparently he was referring to gutterfax and rlfans.com'"
Quote ="Speccy"Gutterfax never lets facts get in the way of his rlfans.com sponsored trolling.'"
lol...all on this thread alone and that's after it started a thread dedicated to getting me banned and had it moved off the main boards
Back on thread...
[urlhttp://www.rlwc2013.com/rugby-league-world-news/article/1078/rlwc-visit-to-trafalgar-square[/url
Great news...let's hope they really push the semi-finals as an "event" and get it filled up....
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| On the London local tv news programme, a lady from the RFL stated that 50% of tickets had been sold to date
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| Quote ="Mable_Syrup"On the London local tv news programme, a lady from the RFL stated that 50% of tickets had been sold to date'"
is that to all games or to the semi-final double header?
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| Good question. I'm pretty sure it was to the whole event, as it stuck in my mind that from the last figure we heard it had gone up by 50000 tickets sold.
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| The Trafalgar Square event was superb marketing, more of that needed please.
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| Quote ="JonB95"The Trafalgar Square event was superb marketing '"
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| Heavy marketing at the final for the Semi-Final with posters all over the ground and several video's before kick-off. Such a shame that the final itself was probably the biggest turn-off for RL in years!
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| I'm worried about the appearance of Wembley on RLWC Semi Finals day, and particularly so after yesterday's CC Final when an alleged 78,000 in attendance looked as empty as it did.
How empty is an officially announced attendance of around 60,000 going to look on TV? Assuming the attendance includes all those empty ring of indifference seats and other empty Club Wembley seats around the halfway line on the lower tiers.
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| Quote ="William Eve"How empty is an officially announced attendance of around 60,000 going to look on TV? Assuming the attendance includes all those empty ring of indifference seats and other empty Club Wembley seats around the halfway line on the lower tiers.'"
Club Wembley is not part of the 'season ticket' for the World Cup Semi-Finals. Therefore those seats will be filled and will look much better on TV than the Challenge Cup match the other day. The aim of the RLWC team should be to sell all the upper tier tickets in front of the camera before opening up the rest of the upper tier for the semi finals; they should also do that for the Challenge Cup too.
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