The RFL have confirmed England will face New Zealand in the USA during Super League's mid-season international break. The game will be played on Saturday, June 23 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver, Colorado.

Capacity: 76,125

Guesses on the attendance now being taken. <10k for me.

Why 'o Why Denver. Why not Toronto where we are trying to establish the game??

They should of played it at the Rapids stadium, that is much better suited.

Enough time to market the game then

Imo the nzrl and rfl should send out thousands of free tickets to schools colleges and universities around Denver. May get some younger people hooked and want to play the game

It's to do with the 2025 world cup in the states

Denver Population 682,545
Leeds Population 781,700

No rugby league is played in Denver. Rugby league is played in Toronto. But the organiser chose Denver. Guarantee of an embarrassingly small crowd in a huge stadium.

I am suspicious of sleazy goings on by the organiser and his contacts in Denver -- maximising his profit while minimising the crowd.

Its good to see the outcry that hit when the NRL tried to pooh pooh the game has now shifted to "why Denver"

World Cup 2025 in USA, lets get an Eng v NZ international in Denver.....NRL says they won't release players....
"thats disgusting. They shouldn't have a say" "this game should definitely go ahead" "how naive to not play it" "place conspiracy theory here"

*background work takes place to get game on*

The game will now be played......
"how ridiculous" "should be played in Toronto" "They should have played at *place generic stadium here*"

Eddie Hearn will quickly jump ship when he realises that it's not just the establishment which holds RL back....

Unless of course this is a way of working out if people will be interested in RL in the US?

I’m skeptical this is going to be a success, but would be glad to be proved wrong.

I think it will be great I would like to go

76k.

....and if they aren't?
I fear for the RLWC in 2025.........trying to create interest in a sport with no foothold and then deliver an event of that size is a mammoth task that will take many many many millions of $ to see any traction.....and what exactly do we know about Json Moore and his company?
1. [urlhttp://www.mooresportsintl.com/news/[/url He doesn't update his website that often!
2. er....not a lot

Sad to say it, but if they fail to get enough interest in this, I can see the RLWC 2025 being re-allocated....

If it is marketed right it will get 20kor more but that’s a big if for the marketing

Im wondering how we will judge whether this is a success seen as there is no basis to compare. I would see it as a success if there were 20,000 people there seen as that would be a decent international attendance anywhere in the world but that would just look rubbish in such a big ground.

Toronto has a team there as it is, if the games to be taken across the Atlantic, then why would you go somewhere which has a foothold already.

Well Im definitely going. I love Denver and no trip would be complete without a visit to the Howl at the moon bar. Went a few years back and shook John Elways hand. Superb

Regards

King James

and where exactly would they go to play it?

People can form clubs to play and access areas with help from the IRLF Negative reply from a flat capper no doubt

probably same amount of marijuana consumption

The easy way to judge the attendance is to compare it to the RU international (which does include USA admittedly) that's in Denver just after.
I don't see why we don't put on a game between USA v Canada beforehand?

Do we know if the ARL are going to release the players over there for definite yet? If not it's even harder to market/Sell.

Also this 1 of 4 internationals that will be in America between know and the 2025 WC. I personally would also include at least 1 of either the WCC or even a Magic weekend.
But you can't complain that at least they're trying to do something to make the 2025 WC a success beforehand. Rather than just turning up and hoping it is.

actually, this is one you'd like to wake brian barwick up from his nap and tell him to get his finger out and speak to stan kroenke who owns nal, but also own the denver nuggets nba team, colorado avalanche nhl team, colorado rapids MSL team and weirdly, the LA Rams in the NFL.

He might be some help towards marketing.

Heighten the profile with a big game. Market the game, get a big crowd, follow on contact with attendees. Is that a little to simple.

Interesting to note that Ireland and New Zealand played in Chicago in 2016 to a crowd of 62k. Chicago has a huge Irish identity but clearly there are people there willing to watch sports that they don't see very often.

No, I'm confident of 50k plus. You people have no knowledge of this world.