Buy Sky Sports memberships, products from advertisers, merchandise etc, thus giving us a better negotiating position for TV and advertising deals. Go to the odd game when in the UK, or make special trips to watch finals etc. Take up playing the game. Spread the word that rugby league actually exists so others might get involved. I used to think along the same lines as you but when i thought about it more there is still a lot to be gained from putting events on in areas where there are no pro clubs nearby.

If it is Anfield, I feel sorry for the people who get tickets at the back of the bottom tier of the Anfield Road End. It's like watching the game through a postbox back there.

But we can get that AND the possibility of "new" people going to clubs if we hold the games in areas where there is at least some RL pro or semi pro presence. Newcastle or Manchester for instance.

England v NZ & Scotland v Australia - Murrayfield or either of the Auld Firm stadiums. Doddle to get to by train, Virgin Trains are now in partnership with the RFL and hopefully they can get some sort of ticket deal involved.

England v Scotland - Heartlands,

England v Australia - Wembley (sod it, what's to lose?)

Scotland v NZ - Firhill? 10k capacity, Glasgow?

Final - Anfield, Etihad

They should do an England - Scotland, New Zealand - Australia double header in London. That way it's a pretty much guaranteed win for England and hopefully a close, good quality game for the Antipodean population. Preferably at Wembley as the Olympic Stadium is a poohole of the highest order.

If there is to be a game in Scotland, if they have it in Glasgow the logical choice will be Firhill. If they decide to take it to Edinburgh, then Tynecastle or Easter Road could be a possibility.

I'd love to see Scotland v England at Ibrox but it just wouldn't be feasible.

Especially as the natives wouldn't know who to support.

I wonder if the four nations will be launched and venues announced this weekend, with England coach Wayne Bennett and all the Aussies over.

It's quicker and easier for fans east of the pennines to get to MK and Coventry than it is liverpool. Theres also plenty of amatuer clubs in the vicinity of both as well as other Southern based fans that make up at least half of the tickets sold for Internationals at the big London venues so tbh 'Northerners' need not hold out for reduced tickets as per to make it worthwhile.
Anfield is outdated with crappy seating, the Anfield area itself is a complete dump in a not very nice area.
If the RFL go with Anfield for one of the big games I for one wouldn't bother attending.

Bloody hope so but I'd reckon for the sake of a few days, they'll do it after the World Club Challenge, or at least on the night of the Rhinos v Cowboys game (when they've sold all the tickets & can start plugging the next lot!).
Read the other day that despite all of the Anfield chat, Elland Road and Etihad are still favourites for the final

Cant be much longer, I think the world cup tickets went on sale about start of march so I would reckon that would be a good bet. Any of those 3 stadiums would be fine for the final, about right size to have a genuine go at filling cos international attendances are going up and whatever you might think about the bbc they have been plugging the game more; a few years ago they wouldn't have put the test series on. I for one am going to try to get to all the England game where ever they end up.

If only there was a east-to-west motorway, linking, say, Hull and Liverpool.

Oh....

The venues should have been announced and tickets made available in November following the NZ Series, right off the back off some exposure and positivity around England RL.

I'm not sure why the RFL seem to leave it so late.


World Cup Tickets should be announced at least my May to allow fans to plan their journeys over to Aus (or wherever else).

too busy sorting their mushy peas out i imagine

Haven't the dates and venues been 'nearly' confirmed yet?

Exactly how long does it take to get to Liverpool from Hull (not that i live there) on what would be an early evening travel?
I'll give you a clue, longer (time wise) and more stressful than travelling to Coventry AND MK.
If only you had any clue about travel times say like using a map or a computer or personal experience oh...

Yeah well of course I was being a bit facetious.




I have got plenty of idea about travel times; it's taken me seven hours to get to the DW from my place in the past. And I don't disagree that Coventry or MK are more accessible from the heartlands. FWIW, they would both be easier for me too.

Some of the views at Anfield:




Seats are no better than Old Trafford neither where if you're over 5'11" you can't fit in the seats.

Well neither club is made of money are they? Oh hang on!!

I've got to say the view in the vast majority of Old Trafford seats is perfectly fine, I agree about the lack of legroom though, can make for an uncomfortable time.

Man Utd used to be made of money until a certain American bought it and saddled it with hundreds of millions of debt amongst other "interesting" financial and accounting maneuvres.
And neither Liverpool nor even Man Utd can really compete with the money from Man City.

When money is pushed too much toward players wages and fees then other areas of the club infrastructure suffer, as RL found out almost to its extinction 20-30 years ago.

Still no news on this, very disappointing, how hard can it be.

I would have thought it would be some time around now, as I have said, if I remember rightly the world cup tickets were put on sale in march so that should be now RFL!!

Let me know your route from Hull to Coventry, I'm intrigued as to how you do it in 2 hours !!!

2 and a half hours according to Google Maps. I reckon you could do that in 2 hours with no traffic and not driving like an old lady.

Still quicker than driving to Liverpool every day of the week and given the likely matchday quicker to Coventry than Old Trafford too.
I regularly drive to Hull from North Hertfordshire and it's 155 miles door to door to my folks in Sutton. Taking it very steady drafting the odd HGV on the A1 takes 3 hours (cos I'm still a tight yorkshire lad at heart!) In the dim and distant past I've done it in under 2 but these days 2:30 is doable without being silly. Getting to Coventry and parking up near the Ricoh from Hull is a piece of pish and it's nearer for alot of the central/ssouthern amateur clubs/support to reach. It's not all about the North for international games, the london based matches of recent have had a very high modal share of ticket sales from the 'South' 50% in some instances.
So shifting some of the games more centrally not only means going somewhere different but also somewhere like Coventry is actually easier/less time for a lot more fans than the likes of Anfield which as I've said is a dump of sn area anyway