Some intial details released, all games to be staged in England due to the funding deal with the government, who are providing £25M.

80% of games to be up North, with a focus in staging games in Cities not towns, minimum capacity of grounds to be 12k.

40 grounds have put a bid in and Middlesbrough has expressed an interested in staging games, and London will host at least one, but expected NOT to start with England - Australia for once.

So much good news that I think I need a lie down!

The riverside stadium has a capacity in excess of 40,000. Its going to look daft on "Dave" or whichever other tin pot broadcaster show the highlights when Lebanon play Jamaica in front of 600 people.

We should use smaller stadiums

Regards

King James

The OP states minimum stadia capacity of 12k, I would say Mr Dutton has already made plans for that possible scenario.

I agree with lebron I’d be surprised if there’s an attendance over 12.000 apart from 1 or 2 matches so a 40,000 seater stadium is a joke one things for sure it will be an Australia v England / New Zealand final again as always there’s nothing more predictable than a RL World Cup

With the addition of the not only the men's event but also the women's and wheelchair competition's its certainly set to be one of the best WC's. With plenty of marketing opportunities available. I personally think they have set off on the right footing for this event and nice website https://www.rlwc2021.com

With the addition of the not only the men's event but also the women's and wheelchair competition's its certainly set to be one of the best WC's. With plenty of marketing opportunities available. I personally think they have set off on the right footing for this event and nice website https://www.rlwc2021.com

It's good that we are starting early and getting the word out there.

Last time, we did well hosting a good tournement but we didn't manage to get a sponsor and it seemed like it was all very hush-hush until about a year before.

We are doing the right thing, get the word out now. Get 25000 in the Riverside. Get into schools in the area and get tickets bought every term for the next three years to families and kids, make it feel like - if you haven't got one you're missing out!

I personally have no problem at all with free tickets. I think this should be utilised more often in none heartland areas

Regards

King James

Kinda boring just having it in the heartlands.

Said it last time the world cup was here and saying it again why not take SL games on the road. Go to Bristol, go to the East Midlands, go to the Southwest, go to London.

Sounds like now they have just given up on actually hosting a world cup which could engage people from all over the country.

Are Newcastle going to get a game? Probably not so why is Magic Weekend held there every year?

except maybe a RU one, there have been 4 RL nations from a relatively limited number of WC competitors, contrast that to the RU world cup and there have only been 5 nations to make the final from vastly more competing countries. Basically you're full of it

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Australia vs England at Wembley needs to be the curtain raiser.

The final should also be at Wembley.

Well said frankie spot on

You missed this then:

No, it really shouldn't

Any reduced tickets out yet?

Wont be long until they are on wowcher

Regards

King James

Yes you can compare, in precisely the thing you mentioned
I nor you mentioned which was superior, you were talking about how the same old the finalist were, in that given the number of competing nations the rugby union world cup is even more predictable than the RLWC.
As for players from other countries, again you prove you know nothing about rugby, go through the teams in the last RUWC, even teams like Japan have 'foreigners' playing for them as do every single team in the competition. Given the vastly huge amount of players and competitive national comps why do they have to do this? Oh wait, it's only RL that can be slated which isn't even anything to do with your comment in the first place is it!
Why do you even bother following rugby league if all you have is to slag it off and then make statements that when found out to be not true/accurate you change tack.

In 1992 we had a World Cup final Great Britain vs Australia, held at Wembley, which attracted 73,631 fans. That success in the national capital can and ought to be repeated.

We also had that year the last Great Britain tour of Australia which me and the wife went to hopefully the Great Britain tours come back

And in 2013 we had a WC final Australia v New Zealand (so not even featuring a home nation). That was played at Old Trafford Manchester that attracted 74,468.

Oh dear......
1. In 8 tournaments,they've had 4 different winners. In our first 8 tournaments we had 2 winners...in the following 7 we've added 1 more name...let's continue to compare the comps shall we?
2. 72% of the players at the RLWC 2017 were born in either PNG, NZ, France, England or Australia...so 9 X 23 man squads is 207 players of which 47 were born in the country they represented.....6 each...SIX! No matter if Japan had 10 men in their 31 man squad (the largest contingent of any of the RWC 15 Squads)they still had 21 from their own country who play in their own domestic league.......last years "Tongan" breakthrough featured 5 Tongan born players in their squad and 16 Kiwis and 2 Aussies. There were bigger street parties in South Auckland than Tonga....and a number of the "Tongans" used to play for the Kiwis and not one of these "tongans" plays in their domestic league......let's continue to compare the comps shall we?
3.The 2017 RLWC in Australia, the country with the dominant domestic competition had an average attendance of 13,650...... The 2015 RWC in England, a country with a strong domestic competition had an average attendance of 51,000+...that's 4k more per game than the recent FIFA world cup.......let's continue to compare the comps shall we?
4. The 2013 RLWC Semi-Final was watched by fewer viewers on BBC than the Ireland v All Blacks Union "friendly" the following day....... When England made the 2003 RUWC Final in Australia, 13,000,000 people in the UK got up early to watch the final.......THIRTEEN MILLION.........let's continue to compare the comps shall we?
5. Australia have featured in all but one RLWC final and every one in the last 50 years.....no team in Union has even made 3 finals in a row, let alone 14......let's continue to compare the comps shall we?
6. RLWC Final IN AUSTRALIA AND FEATURING AUSTRALIA had viewing figures of 1.4 million.......Japan v Samoa in RWC 2015 was watched by 25,000,000 in Japan.
.....let's continue........
...tell you what, let's not, because the Union comp is not as predictable as you'd like to make out and it absolutely and utterly dwarfs us in relevance to the countries taking part. Even the Aussies, who hosted the bloody RLWC 2017 couldn't be bothered and without the NZ/Tongan attendances, the event would have been even flatter. Teams like Georgia and Japan in Union are never going to win it, but they do get the chance of a scalp, like Japan taking South Africa in 2015 in Brighton......watched by 29,000 in Brighton and Millions on ITV.

Thanks for that it was the point I was trying to get across obviously the facts you’ve stated won’t wash with him as he’s as stubborn as they come

The rugby World Cup is a truly world wide event. Ours isn’t

Regards

King James

I get the hatred that some RL fans have for Union, the same way that RL in wales will always be strangled at birth because of the League raids in the 70's and 80's......but to compare the RLWC with the RWC is just stupid.....it dwarfs our comp...even their world rankings change regularly, whilst we will ALWAYS have the same top 3......even with the Kiwi second string masquerading as Tonga and the Aussie b team as Fiji


The set themselves a target when they won the right to host 2015 of 2,500,000 tickets......they missed it by 22,195. We set ourselves a target of 1,000,000 which has already been reduced to 750,000 three years out........chalk and cheese....chalk and cheese.