So how many are expected for Saturdays game then?

I'll be there. It really will be a disgrace if this game doesn't sell out. No doubt the RFL will take the blame for their "poor marketing" even though its the fans who can't be d to get off their backsides and actually go to a game.

Spot on.

Me + billy no mates

In your opinion. What about those who might think up to £50 a ticket in the midst of the biggest depression since, well, the depression is a bit steep? As for the RFL's wonderful marketing, playing England v France in a superleague desert like Doncaster seems strange to me if crowd numbers are all that matters. Add to that the fact that for some reason the rugby league diehards up here - who are the actual people that keep the game afloat - have to make a 400 mile round trip to see the first match between the only 2 teams worth watching and IMO the RFL's marketing could well be questioned.

As for me, I won't be going to the DW because I like to do it prawn sandwich style. A 2.30 kick off entails a lunch rather than an evening meal, so no thanks. If the game had been an evening KO (RFL Marketing?) I would have gone.

Just thought I'd show a different point of view....

Of course you could pay £20 if you think £50 is a bit steep? Compared to other sports (Football, Cricket and Union) £20 or even £50 for a test match is excellent value.

I would be surprised if there are any £20 seats unsold. And I disagree that £50 to watch a 1 sided battering (please let me be wrong!) is "excellent" value.

Why couldn't the RFL have taken the risk of choosing much bigger stadia with a 50% reduction in prices?

There are still £20 tickets remaining. And the half 2 kick off allows the game to be shown live on terrestrial TV, advertising and exposure that, quite literally, money can't buy.

Yes but it will go to waste with empty seats and England getting tonked by aus.

And the majority of ones who moan it is too expensive are the ones who will spend £50+ on a night out around town p*$$!ng it up against the wall.

Not the way I was looking at it, but also very true.

Aye, that's right.

JJ,
I should have said majority, now edited, thank you.

You mean young people?

Because they know that a significant amount of the RL community can't put their club loyalties to one side for a few weeks and get behind the national team. It seems all that people can do is whinge and moan about how "we're going to get battered" or "he's picked the wrong squad" or "whats the point" etc etc.

What's happend to RL fans in this country? We've become a nation of whiney pu55ies.

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RU fans are prepared to pay big prices for a run of the mill league game - see above -but there are people on here whingeing about ticket prices for the chance to see England take on the Aussies in RL...

Don't get me wrong, I have every sympathy with people who can't afford to go and I do mean that sincerely, but to ask the game to undersell itself is another example of the lack of ambition that leaves RL in this country hamstrung while other sports race ahead...

Me + 13 in the South stand.

Either way it's money well spent



FWIW I'll be paying the £20 to watch us get spanked and then the rest will be spent on the above trying to forget about the spanking

You're not included in that bracket, you're in the "moaning old farts" column

Bilko - a moaning old fart, surely not

17 game season ticket for £199, yes 17 home games. 16 team SL needed.

Would an 18 team league not be required

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Yes I know how people receive tickets if they order them over the phone. And I realise you can't fit people in the post, are you serious that you thought I meant that?!?

But the postal strikes weren't announced that long ago, how many people would wait until the week before to get tickets?

I wouldn't have thought that would have put too many people off.

Tickets arrived today