Sale RU have announced that they will be playing 3 games at the Reebok next season...

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Sale chief executive Mick Hogan said: "Today's announcement is the culmination of nearly twelve months work to enable us to announce this event."

"We now have seven months to achieve a sell out crowd, and I truly believe that there are almost 30,000 people in the north-west who would like to attend a live game of Sale Sharks' rugby.

"We want to show the north-west some real ambition and give the region a rugby team that they can truly be proud to support."



Thoughts?

RFL said Knowsley Road wasn't good enough for WCC. Probably meaning too small, and not enough corporate facilities. Leeds played at Elland Road so that they could get more people in. I've never seen anything saying that it has to be held at a neutral venue. We played it at Central Park twice.

The other reason why saints never holded a WCC final at KR was they never had undersoil heating so they could never 100% say the game would go ahead hence the move to reebok.

The WCC is not meant to be played at a neutral ground.
When MO introduced the concept Manley came to Central Park as we know.
When Bradford and Saints held the game it had to be played at a nearby ground that was fit for purpose, as its called now!

If we win it then it will be held either at the DW or the Sydney ground of the winning side. When we beat Brisbane it was at the ANZ which was their home ground at the time.
Should, heaven forbid, Saints win it then what will they do? Is Widnes good enough to hold the WCC?

As for Sale filling the Reebok, they've Nine months to fill it. Pretty poor show if they don't. A "rugby" team to be proud of. They miss out the Union bit to confuse people and feed their own ego. Which comes first I don't know.

With tickets starting from £!0 adults and £5 kids sounds very same to what we did with the BIGONE

If Saints win then the WCC likely to be at the Reebok - they played there against both Brisbane and Sydney Roosters.