Live 3 miles from ground never knew it was on

If we are going to build the international game then we have to play these games. We cannot just wait for a competitive Welsh National team to rise out of nowhere and beat England, Australia and New Zealand, there has to be the complementary drivers of a strong local competition developing talent and the opportunity and reason to play the game as a talented young sportsman

Look at the Italian side in the 6 Nations – they get 5 competitive internationals every year plus the Autumn internationals and this has helped to seriously raise the profile of this sport in Italy. League is starting to take off in the North of Italy but they will be hampered by people comparing it unfavourably to the Union game due to the high profile presence of international Union

A strong and successful international scene would help our sport no end... raising its profile in the media and the wider public, it will help to drive participation numbers through this increased exposure and it will help professional teams at all levels through increased attendances

And what is the attitude of the fans... no point playing them!

Agreed. I didn't even know it was on. I reckon for £3 I'd have definately gone along.

Perhaps the RL should try and get the clubs to sell on some tickets on a commission basis? Maybe that would get the word around more by using their PR links with their speccies?

Even one of the players didn't know who & where they were playing until they got in camp.

I had to tweet for info, then a re-tweet campaign came about saying something like 'spread the word, Knights vs France @ LSV. RT seen as the RFL cannot be bothered'.

This then lead to the England RL page having some snippet of info about the match & a preview.

£3 to watch some of the best players in SL.

You'd expect 1-2k from Leigh alone if it was actually advertised anywhere. Then with Saints, Wigan, Widnes, Warrington and Salford all so close plus a few from Yorkshire, at that price you should be looking at 7 or 8k. Even if it was just regular emails telling the fans.

The bigger the crowd, the more credible the game is.

Why is Ben Westwood playing for the Knights!? We all know what he can do and that he performs well at international level.

Only played something like forty minutes in the last couple of months due to injuries. Needed to get some miles in the legs before the Four Nations.

Good call. I forgot he'd been injured.

Won't he be playing France next week though?

your point being? Is he not allowed to take part in both games having been out for a while?

I'm 110 miles away and knew it was on. I haven't bought a RL paper since the end of the season and have relied on the Sky Sports News App for iPhone and anything that is on text and message forums.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5gTAI3f ... ture=feedu - Highlights from the game.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5gTAI3f ... ture=feedu - Highlights from the game.

surprisingly not all RL fans have the iPhone app, or come on here.

I saw a link on Twitter so went to it. I know a lot of people who had no idea it was happening, and would have gone had they known about it.

Now that would be a lot more interesting.

But yet if it is on the app it is on the website, if it's on the website it is generally on sky text, if it is on sky text it is in other media streams and clearly if 2000 people knew it was on it couldn't have been that hard to know.

Yes it should and could have been better publicised but it still is no excuse when plenty of other people knew it was on.

Of course it's an excuse. Not everyone who knows about something will attend, so you need to spread the word as far as possible to catch those who, if they knew about it, would attend.