England are guaranteed to be at Wigan for the Quarters and The Emirates for the Semi regardless of where they finish in the group.

I don't think thats bad with 3 weeks to go, StJames' fits 52k so that means 35k sold so about a magic weekend Saturday crowd already but with everyone in the ground at once. The challenge will be though are late comers willing the buy the more expensive tickets when the cheap ones sell out?

Now confirmed that Andrew Voss will be leading the BBC commentary team. Finally some decent commentary!

Fantastic news, he is 100x better than the ones over here

Kaiser Chiefs booked to perform at the opening game, a good choice for once a household name and still good live

Hopefully helps shift the remaining tickets as they really need St James' bouncing to help sell the other games

Great move by the organisers, the sort of band that should be at every major event

Would have preferred Bucks Fizz, Dollar or Status Quo myself, but life's a b1tch sometimes.

Of course they are.

Does anyone in Rugby League know that more than one genre of music exists.

Its always the same indie music band over and over again.

Boring.

Yes you are.

Never fear, Budge, David van Day is running the burger van.

Kaiser Chiefs had a half decent album 15 years ago.

I guess they were cheap

They won't be cheap. Who were you realistically expecting? Aside from the Super Bowl big current acts don't tip up to random sports events. The AFL had Robbie Williams who also hasn't had a proper album be a hit for ages.

Just as a matter of interest how many players at your club are participating in the WC, who are they and what nation are they representing.

Just 1 because we were awful this year. 'Mitch' for Fiji

RL fans moan no matter what

Could of been queen or the beatles performing at their peak and people would still moan !

Brad fash got our "player of the year" sums it up

Brad gives his all but is never going to get close to a England call up cause he's not international class

He falls in the same category as Danny Houghton no where near international class

And that's our problem in the past our best players walk into a GB team Horne yeaman Raynor Taylor etc

England 11/10 underdogs v Samoa for the first game.

-18 v fiji tonight

Fiji decent think 18 is huge Start for them

If Walmsley lomax Farrell and percival were fit think England would of had another good crack at this world cup

But massive losses especially Walmsley and lomax

Walmsley is a big loss. But we don’t look bad in the pack!

Sneyd and Williams linked up well last night. Would love to see Tomkins, Welsby, Sneyd and Williams link up on the field at once but not sure we’re you’d play Welsby other than centre. But he’s got to be in the 17 for me.

I dont want to see cricket scores but I think there may be a few unfortunately. Greece drawing with a pretty weak Bradford suggests the game at Bramall Lane may be a bit of a bending over.

Yeh I'd have stuck with the 3 go through in the good groups, 1 goes through in the bad groups format. Other bonus was the big4 played each other in the group's making more big games.

Happens in every sport

Hammerings happen end of

Over 40k sold for the opening game. Less than 9k tickets left

Ha. I didn't know people actually said that in real life.