Having read this thread I can see why our game is struggling, if people are moaning about the cost of a ticket? £50 to £100 is not a lot to pay for the best seats in the house. If the majority of our fans can’t afford what any other major sport would charge for a showcase event then we are stuffed. We should pitch our sport at those who can afford to pay, why should we discount tickets? That’s the best way to go bust I know. If you want top athletes then pay what it costs to produce them.

It's not the price it's the value for money.

£50 to 100 a ticket is rather a lot. especially for families. For me its so much better if halving the price means doubling the attendance - nothing looks as bad as empty spaces at an event on TV. It gives the viewer the message that if no one can bother going then why should they pay attention. Those yawnion club games at Wembley where they practically gave away the tickets were a brilliant concept, forget that the game itself is dire; to someone channel hopping its the big crowd that will get noticed and it also helps get highlights on the national news. So what if they made next to nothing on the event - it gives something to build on in future



The RFL should be looking at getting big crowds first and be happy to break even. Once the crowds come then the sponsors and advertisers will pay more attention and then the prices can stealthily creep up.

You really don’t get it do you.



When we used to sell out big grounds in the early 90’s it was because the game was united.



Those games were attended by fans from every club including amatuer clubs.



Now most of those fans feel so alienated by SL and the RFL (even some clubs in SL)they would rather do anything than support a SL show team. Thanks to snobs like you and your stupid expansionist drivel the games support has contracted not expanded.



Get them back in the fold and then you’ll fill stadiums - individually they are small but added together and they make all the difference.



Hats off to Hull as I suspect they provided most of those who did turn up.

It’s a big ‘if’ tbf. It’d be interesting to know what, if any, pricing research the RFL does.



Money is definitely one of major factors. But internationals should feel like premium entertainment. I quite enjoyed the game, but this series somehow feels like it is just sort of tacked on to the end of the season as an afterthought. The crowd seemed very flat, as the commentators mentioned more than once. Can anybody genuinely say they’re nervous or excited by the outcome of these games? Even this one, which finished 18-16 and was close throughout, just wasn’t very... gripping.



It probably doesn’t help that we haven’t beat Australia in over a decade, despite being able to beat the Kiwis, who do beat Australia from time to time.

That is a totally different problem, being old enough I remember the sixties when the game was dying on its backside.It took a great leap of faith to move away from unlimited tackles to the six tackle & handover via four & scrum along with many other things. If the game is stagnating then it will take another leap of faith to kick start further progress. With full time athletes & scientific coaching methods many of the rules should maybe looked at again. Just don’t throw away the baby with the bath water.

The game wasn’t dying in the sixties, if it was it was right at the very end. It was the 70’s when it really was bad.

Out of curiosity, did you attend the game at Leigh.

I didn’t attend the game because it was at Leigh.

During the 1960–61 season the RFL appointed a special committee to look into the causes of declining attendances, and in the April they appointed a sub-committee with a wider remit to look at the game as a whole.



The end of the RL world has been nigh since 1895. Some times have been worse than others, of course.

So your complaining about attendances for national games..



Ones that YOU didn't attend.



You really are a star

Sorry but, I think that is pretty poor form from Leeds, to stage an event which directly clashes with an international fixture, which was bound to have some effect on the attendance at Hull.



Quite frankly, Leeds appear to have put 2 fingers up to the RFL by having their own gig clashing with a major event.

And you then say that The RFL couldnt organise the proverbial p up in a brewery. When one of the 2 major clubs in "Yorkshire" chose their own bash, instead of supporting the wider game, it's no wonder we're heading for the life rafts..



You say that fans could do both but, I wonder just how many actually did.



Club before country eh ??