got mine today now all I want is a England win and I will be

RFL said to contact them if you hadn't received your tickets by Thursday. Mine finally arrived yesterday - the RFL never rush these things!

I am going the game and have a spare ticket for the game (sat next to me) if anyone wants one, or perhaps do a car-share, or meet at the stadium to buy the ticket off me? Cheers.

My Grand Final ones never came, they kept saying they were in the post and would be there the next day, and the next, and so on. After much pestering on the Friday afternoon I managed to get them to cancel them on the system and get new ones sent to the ticket office. They said the original ones would still arrive on the Saturday morning but be unusable, they never did though!

Be interested to see what crowd they get for this, from memory i'm sure they had more blocks sold out before the Kiwi test last year, and it'd be disappointing to get a lower crowd as Australia are traditionally a bigger draw.



Of course England haven't exactly inspired so far, and the Olympic Stadium itself has had horrendous bad press in recent months.

The atmosphere there for the Kiwi game last season was awful, possibly the worst that i've witnessed for any RL match.

Can't say for sure that it was purely because of the ground but, the facilities weren't to good: toilets, food, beer and tube afterwards all far worse than Wembley and not a patch on the smaller "northern" grounds.



I remember going to Loftus Road for a game against the Kiwis, about 10 years ago and that was a decent ground (not sure of the capacity though).

I'm going again despite last years game v the Kiwis being the worst RL game on the pitch and for atmosphere that I've ever seen.



I'm not sure the same will be said of the 1,000s of first time southern based attendees that day.



Promotion has been almost non - existent down here. I don't understand why the RL put these games on outside the heartlands then don't bother to promote them.



Another huge opportunity lost I'm afraid.

To be fair its had a refurb this year before the Football season, so may be in better shape now (I've never been so can't comment) and it was typical RL that we got a decent crowd in, and many southerners and then the game was an absolute dog!

Didn't have any issues with the facilities last year (bar, toilets, tube etc) but I agree the atmosphere wasn't all that. Hopefully we'll get more to shout about this year and it should naturally be a little more excitable with it being the Aussies.



Looking at the sold out areas on the RFL site I doubt the crowd will top 35k which is a shame but still it's bigger then we'd get playing at Wigan, Hull etc.



The RFL have a lot of blame to shoulder on that score. To only announce the venues for this tournament around 6 months in advance is shambolic! Add in the kick off times/days and then chopping and changing the kick off time and that's what you get.

What I always think about the promotion of these kind of games is that one thing they should do is get a few players to go into a load of schools in London, especially around the stadium area and give a talk, do a little skills session, really try to enthuse the kids and offer some sort of ticket deal, free for the kid, tenner per adult or something.



20,000 seats are gonna be empty anyway so could at least fill some with discounted tickets, make a little money and improve the atmosphere and image of our great game. Games like this are key cos of the amount of first-timers and unioners who will be going. That game last year cant have helped, most boring game of my life.



Anyway, I'm not a businessman...

There was a big feature in last weeks free Sport magazine with Sam B on front cover. I understand there may be an advert on tube station(s). Otherwise wouldn't know it was happening. They held training sessions in London but aside from Twitter etc accessed by existing supporters they didn't seem to get any publicity / promotion on back of it. Agree that the atmosphere last time was dire and the worst ever at an RL match I've been at. Even Huyton used to be better.

If the turn out is going to be as embarrassing as expected, then will someone involved in the game be asking "How does Nigel Wood keep his job, and shouldn't the game be getting someone who has an inkling of how to run the game slightly better".