Please about this.

I know some are wary about a repeat of the financial disaster of 2000 but that was bad organising. Only two group games ended up being played in Lancashire and Yorkshire combined whilst they took in places like Edinburgh, Gloucester, Watford and Reading.

Keep it in the heartlands and it'll be a blinder. Group games at the likes of Wire, Widnes maybe Leeds give Hull an big ish England group game. Semis at Wigan and Hudds - final at Wembley.

I think they are planning the opener at the Olympic Stadium.

Just model it on 1995. I'm not Maurice's biggest fan but he put on a great tournament that year.

Good stuff.

Like you say opener and final at big national stadiums

semi's at 25k ish stadiums

group games dependant on size staged in Lancs and Yorks mixed between grounds like Wire, Widnes, Leeds etc.

Opener at Olympic stadium could be interesting.

Double header semi at Old Trafford.

Play the games in the right places and crowds will attend - as long as the RFL gets the pricing right.

Final at Wembley!

Hopefully clubs like Saints, Salford, Wakey, Cas and Bardford will get their acts together and get these stadiums built so there will be plenty of good options for the RFL.

Well I'm gutted, was hoping it would be in Australia again.

I don't think they should go Old Trafford twice in one year. Maybe Man City. Was a good night for GB v Aus there in 2004.

Does anyone know if the proposed GB Ashes tour of 2012 is still going ahead.

I'm still not a big fan of this England malarky (even though it's more or less the same players).

Id put the final in Man City ground. Holds about 45-50k which is ideal for the final. Dont want an half empty stadium for a final sends a wrong message to the public about the game.

That'll be a scrum for tickets, by 2013 it'll only have a capacity of 20,000...... there again, maybe that's about the right number

Well "no major series" is taking place in 2012 so I would expect an Ashes series to be played. I would guess with the World Cup being confirmed for here that makes an Ashes Tour down under more than likely. I expect they'd take in New Zealand as well for World Cup preperation purposes.

Only yesterday did I see on the news that they aren't going to reduce the capacity straight away in case a succesful bid for the football world cup is achieved.

The Olympic Stadium rumour was something I heard ages ago mind don't take my thoughts as read.

2013 is a long way off. I have e-mailed RL regarding next years 4 nations for confirmation and dates. Guess what --- not a word from them, i honestly despair at how the game is run. They have not even had the decency to even acknowledge the e-mails sent. I do believe that they haven't a clue as to what is happening next year. It is all very well celebrating 2013 but when they cant answer basic questions about next years games, even if the tournament is definately on, offers me very little confidence in the powers that be.
I may e-mail Sky (boots n all) to see if they can provide any answers.
I am sure that many more supporters would like to travel to Aus next year but need to make plans i.e holidays from work, budget, travel arrangements.

Don't forget your binoculars as well, at least you won't get hit on the head by a rugby ball

...... i'm sure i can see Garry Schofield on the running track !

They will anouce venues about 4 months before its being staged and expect us/fans to turn up and watch. I bet in 2013 you wont get a ticket for less than £20 going off what they are charging this year after the debacle in aus last year.

Cheap tickets for every game and pack the places out.

Hope they don't put the final at Elland Road

You just know they will do, same old RFL. Making RL worse.

I see the BBC haven't taken a blind bit of notice about RL hosting the 2013 WC - just mentioning Yawnions successful WC bid for 2015

Thats what you'd hope isn't it.

Cheap tickets and marketing work........just look at last Friday!

Make it an event for the people. An event thats cheap for the families to get to and we won't go far wrong.

An Aussie fan mentioned his ticket for the World cup final in 2008 was $30 which in English is about £15(not 100%).

Make it as cheap as that and with Sam and Eastmond leading us to the final at Old Trafford we'll get 70,000 on no worries.

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Most of the games should at least be at RL venues, unlike the RU World Cup in 2015 when they're using just 4 RU venues. Leicester, Gloucester, Twickers and Cardiff. Other grounds will be Anfield, Old Trafford, St James Park, Wembley and the Emirates.

Bags of time to make a real good go of it. Final at Wembley, semi's at City of Manc and, if we have to, Elland Road. Group games at Salford and Saints' new grounds (:lolicon_smile.gif but make the tickets a bargain, make plenty of noise about it, encourage people to support their teams and it might just work.

It was mentioned on the news on Radio 1 today and made to sound like it was quite something as well.

On the six o'clock news it got a glancing mention as a pass back to the studio remark from a guy outside Twickenham.

why should we move to avoid a clash with the olympics ??? RL has been around (slightly) longer



seriously though, the olympics are in late july & august, surely the RL world cup will be at the end of the season in october ?

And a year later..

Yeah, but it should have been 2012