Crowd picture - Usa v Japan match at the stadium on Jan 26 - people dressed for the weather.

Jeez, it looks like a crap version of Vicky Park.

Current exchange rate is £1= $1.50 aus

Score board at the ground - should read Japan 0 - 82 Malta



Jarrod Sammut on the break for Malta - the Japanese are too polite to tackle him.

kit-clash-tastic

Trying to find a shot that shows the condition of the ground - which is excellent by the way.

This one of Fiji V Cook Islands is the best i can find.

It's a medium sized country town, halfway exactly between Sydney and Brisbane. The ground has about 4k seats I think, and can fit another 5k around the hills - but only a mad dog or an Englishman would sit in the sun.



Wide shot of the ground (USA and Japan sides lined up for anthums)

Never heard of it, thought somebody might have mentioned it on here...

This one is of Fiji playing in the Orara Valley 7s the next day.
Shows the sort of countryside.

Paying good money to sit on the floor?

Disgraceful.

With the spidrs and snakes too, sod that.

It's not bad in good weather - not sure if i can explain that concept to you. It's when the sky goes a funny blue colour and no water falls on you - it's like that a lot in Coff's in Feb.

8 out of 10 for sarcasm

I've just got back from oz, had a brill time, went to a few match including state of origin, my origin top cos me 180 bucks which is about £120, the club teams you could pick there tops up from nerellan shopping centre for about 90 bucks which is about £60, I will be making the trip in feb, it's easy for me as I only need to pay for flights and luxurys, hope to see many wire fans on my trip.

There is a massive rl shop in Parramata, ( Peter Wynn) ims, get any nrl top in there + rl related goodies. Even get Wigan shirts.

This could become a very expensive trip. Apparently CH is some 600 km away from Sydney towards Brisbane. surely, it would have been more punter friendly to play the game in Sydney or Brisbane.

cheapest flights we have seen is £750

Were booking them next week and weve allready booked a cheap hotel wooooooo

who was them flights with

They usually play trail games in these kind of places. There way of spreading the game around I suppose.

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you'll proberley find that they are out of season, sept-nov. Also be careful of the flight, the cheapest is not always the best, you could find yourself spending upto 10 hours between flights in other airports.

£1240 is the cheapest I've seen for jan.

It's about 8 hours by bus or train from Sydney.
Not a bad trip - you can see the country side.
The bus is half the price of the train, but less comfortable.
About 40 pounds by bus - maybe 80 by train.

You could stop over in Newcastle for a day if you wanted to break up the trip.

Do you know any shops over here that do NRL gear?

I'm not going.

I bet only true fans are going really...

if tehres more than 52 i'll be impressed.

the 52 are like the red mist! mythical and covered in mystery!

(i know cos i am one

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Friend of mine lives in Adelaide, but I doubt I could afford to get over there with too much short notice, especially as I'm away for the Challenge Cup Final.

If I won EuroMillions or something, that would be a different story indeed. I'd travel over there in luxury!