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Nigel Wood didn't want rugby league to become overexposed in the period of the RUWC. So no TV.

I wouldn't be surprised if Nigel doesn't even show up at LSV.

The French need at least 20 year program which sees playing numbers rise every year.
England and UK as a whole needs the same to challenge the Aussie on a regular basis.

So you were talking rubbish then?

Since its not on TV I'm sure the RL community will come out in force to support the international game, and show the RWC what it can do, by packing out the LSV to its capacity.

One would hope so. But it will be mostly the car owners and their friends who will show up, given the difficulty of getting to LSV by public transport.

Is the game being shown on TV in France? If so, I'm pretty sure there'll be a stream of it somewhere online.

I bet there are a few hanging out for discount codes, given the £10 ticket price too.

Ive just done a bit of searching and cant seem to find anything saying it is on tv, doesn't mean it isn't though it was just a quick search.

I think we can say with a degree of certainty that it will be full. Last England game there was against Wales in the four nations and the attendance was approx. 10,500 and after that there was Tonga v cook islands in the world cup with about the same so if they can fill it for a low level group game then England will no probs!

Something is inherently wrong when the NZ warmup game against a leeds elect side is on TV but the England warm up game isn't.

Leeds will also sell twice as many tickets as the ground the England v France game will hold.

And according to wiki less than France got in france against both Samoa and NZ 2 years ago, less than they got against Wales in 2012, less than they got against Scotland in 2011, less than they got against England in 2011, less than they got against Wales and Ireland in 2010.

lets be realistic though, there is one pro youth development pathway in france, we are always going to be massively limiting the pool of those coming through by expecting them to come over.

We simply arent going to get vast numbers coming over at 16/17/18 and the few who would be able to come over at 19/20 are going to be years behind their cohort.

I agree but we don't need vast numbers, another 5-10 on top of what Catalans themselves develop would be a start.

When and were is this match on TV

The leeds game? It's on premier sports tomorrow night

Dam i will not see it do not have premier sports only sky

Friday night, Premier Sports

The introduction of Toulouse and hopefully their progression should help with player pool.

Without doing any research, I'm guessing next season will see the largest number of French players at SL/NRL clubs. It seems to be getting better

Should be easy for you gimp,Eurostar to London ,London to Manchester, Manchester to Atherton ,582 bus to Leigh takes 10 mins then 5 min walk from bus station to ground,so what's stopping you ?next time we build a new ground we shall makes sure it links to the channel tunnel

Is the England game on TV anywhere tomorrow?

That comment was completely uncalled for.

People coming from distant places like Hull and even Leeds expect a venue within a 20 minute walk of a train station. Wigan, Hull and especially Huddersfield offer that. But Nigel Wood just wanted to make things difficult.

McNamara has said the england group like playing at leigh and they are comfortable there. Bit of a tradition to play warm ups there he reckons

The RFL could have shown the match a bit of respect by playing it at Huddersfield.

Better still Toulouse or Avignon, where they would have attracted a much bigger crowd.

But Nigel Wood, who looks big, actually thinks small. Typical "Little Northerner" parochial mentality.

I thought that the game could gave been in France as well, they always fill the Avignon ground and 17,000 would be miles better than 10,000 plus it just gives this international series a bit of a wider reach. The travel wouldn't really be a problem either seen as new Zealand are using Catalans training facilities so have to fly back to Britain anyway.