Hi folks .
As there seems to be a complete lack of transport being organised around this area for the W/C semi finals down at Wembley on the 23 rd November ,day returns on the trains are around £80-90 return .Is there sufficient numbers / interest for us to run a coach ?. Brief details would be -- a 6.00 am departure (1 st game is 1 pm ) and cost would be £35 (depending on numbers). ALL seat would be pre paid . Any one who are keen to travel ,please give me a call .

Tony 07917033949 or 667553 or The Buccaneer @ Brough 667435

Looks like [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-24488374Cumbria[/url are having similar problems.



So extra trains cost them money. I suppose that might be true, so why do they run any trains at all?

All we seem to want to do is watch rugby !!!!. Why do the RFL make things so difficult ? .

another example of what clueless idiots are running the game.
What was wrong with Headingly?, KC?, Wigan? packed house's with good atmosphere!!
expecting people to travel to London.
How pathetic it will look with 15-20 thousand rattling around Wembley!
You just couldn't make it up! a joke!

Pretty sure they have sold at least double your figures, sure someone mentioned around 45k had been sold so far.

The next time I visit Wembley it will be to see a Black & White captain lift the CC trophy.
I demand it in my lifetime.

So out of touch with the real world .

Oh dear



Headingley, DW & KC all have high-profile games you can go to.



That is the latest from the ticket website, the lower bowl being very close to seling out (which has a capacity of 34.3k) and the midde tier around half sold out (which has a capacity of 16.5k).

So, before taking into account tickets soldfor blocks not sold out, whether or not that picture is up to date and that there's around 6 weeks still to go, I think it's fair to say there'll be a few more than 20k there. Get involved.

Adding to that, the last three World Cup's have seen combined semi-final attendances of:

1995 (UK): 46,500
2000 (UK): 24,000
2008 (Aus): 42,500

I'm pretty confident that the final sales at Wembley will smash that of 1995.

Still look lost in Wembley, atmosphere terrible. When are the RL going to realise no one in London is the slightest bit interested in RL and probably will never even know a RL world cup is taking place. just my opinion but would be far better off playing all the games local to where people are actually interested in the game to save them the ridiculous expense of travelling to the capital.

Like where?

In 2000 the semi's were played in the heartlands and got a measly 24k between them.

I reckon a large number of Aussies and Kiwis living and working in London would beg to differ. It was one of the reasons that it was decided to have it in London as NZ/Aus/Eng are expected to feature so as well as getting the general RL public to go watch they will also have the chance of enticing some of the EXPAT community to the game.

I am not an advocate of International RL but I think they have chosen the right venue for the Semi Finals.

Big time, not often it deserves to be said, but the RFL have got this one right.

The Four Nations games a couple of years ago attracted 40k+, so they've used that as an indicator as to the appetite for International RL in London, they've not just plonked it there & hoped for the best.

Verbal brings up a valid point in the cost of getting down there, that's fair enough, not every can afford to do so. BUT, there are 20-odd other games in or near the heartlands to go to, including three in our city.

One poster said KC high profile game ??

Get a grip the people from hull have been well and truly snubbed with this World Cup. I think it's about time we have the Aussie back at the kc last time was a fantastic night packed out . They gives us a England game to try and make up for this but it's just a slap in the face for a well supported rugby city.

How is it a slap in the face, will be double the KC capacity at the game.

I just can't see how anyone could be happy with the games we have been given.
To not have Australia or NZ playing a game in hull just wrong iny opinion. I think with past international have been supported well in the city so they will just give us any old game and expect us to turn up.

How is it a slap in the face, will be double the KC capacity at the game.

It's a slap in the face to be playing one quater final at Wrexham and play the other 3 at Leeds wire and Wigan!
A massive slap around the chops!!!

Oh and Australia England in Cardiff

SLAP!!!

WOW. Is it the same bit of woodwork you lot keep crawling out of?

England vs Australia is being played as the Opening Game at the Millenium. It's likely to attract in excess of 50,000 (which is what Standee is eluding to). Why on Earth would the KC be given this game when demand is way in excess of the KC's capacity? That doesn't make sense.

Hull have been given THREE World Cup games. That's more than any other host city.

One of those games is an England game versus some very good opposition in Fiji (who finished fourth in 200icon_cool.gif boasting some world class players. Out of all the group games (barring the opener), this one has arguably the highest profile and will be a bloody good game.

The quarter-finals are harder to sell as there's no guarantee of who's playing. This is why Wigan have been given a quarter as their only game in the WC.

Wales are likely to feature in the Wrexham game.

Warrington is a smaller venue for what is likely to be a game not involving the big three.

Leeds have two games, likely to be NZ in the quarter. They're trying to sell Leeds as the HQ for NZ and build a following there.

Makes sense when you think about it. Some are just moaning for the sake of it.

So do you not think we deserve Oz or NZ playing in Hull because either Leeds Wigan wire or Wrexham will be getting them in a quater final.
I really think the RL supporters in Hull deserve the chance to see at least one of the best sides in the world playing playing in the city this year.

What do you mean by 'deserve'?

You'd rather see Australia play a dead rubber against Ireland (for instance) than the host nation (& third best team in the world) against the fourth best in the world?

The tri-nations/4-nations games played at the KC all involved England/GB and were close to sell out, that is why the KC was given an England games.

In the 2000 World Cup, Australia played at the Boulevard. Just 3,000 people went.

The rfl's decision to play at Cardiff and Wembley has been justified by ticket sales of 50k+ for each game so far.

For anyone struggling for transport for Wembley...try looking for travelodges on the outskirts of london or off the A1 or M1, some bargain £30-40 rooms to be had, and you can get cheap trains in to london from the commuter towns.

Yep. The games that seem to be struggling are the ones in the Heartlands at the moment.