hosted a single Rugby Union premiership game and drew a crowd of 84,000 people. Absolutely unbelievable effort by the Union lot.

Does anybody think that the Super League will ever achieve such a crowd for a league game?

The crowd for this game at Twickenham Stoop a few miles down the road, at the RFL's chosen expansion club, hasn't announced its official attendance yet, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Wake up.

Union is a fantastically well-run sport that unites businesses, media and the sporting public alike. I've no doubt most of those tickets were given away or sold very cheaply and that 95% of the crowd didn't care who won, but it doesn't matter, the PR bomb is delivered.

Tickets were £5, enough said!

The major difference between the two sports is RU fans back initiatives like this, RL fans p**s and moan.

This. If the RFL announced such a match, people on this forum would be up in arms about how it's too far to travel, how it will look bad on TV etc. We had people complaining about the WC opening ceremony being hosted in a 70,000 seater stadium FFS.

The end up my post was meant to 'RFL Wake Up' by the way, nobody on here.

I think the ticket prices for the game were around the same level as a Super League game (£20 for adults and £10 for kids) with it being at Wembley, I wouldn't think that many free tickets would have been given out, as you say though, it is irrelevant, as its making all the right noises on Sky Sports News, Sky News etc with the 'World record club attendance....' tag line to the game.

Living in the south, I know loads of people who have gone to this with handfuls of free tickets. But it dosnt matter, 84,000 is 84,000. Job done. The Broncos give tickets away like confetti and no one seems to care, never mind turn up. Bit depressing really.

You mean like the majority of SLE clubs are doing

Really?

Nonsense.

£10 tickets were available to watch England v Aus, our fans still failed to turn out

Actually, I think you’ve got that the wrong way round

RU organise a single game at Wembley and get 80k, the RFL organise a weekend of RL at a major stadium (Millenium, Murrayfield) and they get 20k to 35k a day for three or four games of top level Rugby League

It’s not the RFL’s fault that the RL supporters don’t turn up to watch their sport

Just had a little read into it and turns out that Aviva, the sponsors of the league were giving tickets out at every possible chance to their customers, they had Domino's Pizza sponsor a £250,000 'Kick the ball' competition at Half Time and McFly playing in the stadium before the game, I just wonder if the RFL or any of its sponsors will ever try and do something similar, or will Union always lead the way.

McFly. that answers it...

And most of the tickets they were paid for would have been to see mcfly. They always get a top band in so that can sell some tickets.

Christ, that would have kept me away

i'd say the difference is RL events attract some RL fans and RU events attract lots of RU fans and lots of other people who may have a passing/little/no interest in the sport but are impressed by the event, the organisation, the beer, the myth etc etc etc

Quote ="dids858"What was the pre match band today. Thats how they normally do it. Plus many free and very cheap tickets. www.premiershiprugby.com/premier ... /30259.php'" who was the pre match for the double header in the 4 nations? bitch and gripe as much as we like, that's an impressive crowd

Quote ="dids858"What was the pre match band today. Thats how they normally do it. Plus many free and very cheap tickets. www.premiershiprugby.com/premier ... /30259.php'" who was the pre match for the double header in the 4 nations? bitch and gripe as much as we like, that's an impressive crowd

Quote ="dids858"What was the pre match band today. Thats how they normally do it. Plus many free and very cheap tickets. www.premiershiprugby.com/premier ... /30259.php'" tenner for an international double header puts that comment into perspective...

Quote ="dids858"What was the pre match band today. Thats how they normally do it. Plus many free and very cheap tickets. www.premiershiprugby.com/premier ... /30259.php'" tenner for an international double header puts that comment into perspective...

Nothing to do with the fact that it was 2 London based teams playing at a Stadium in London, right? Hard to compare to the hair brained RFL schemes where they try and take games hours & hours away from where the fans are located.

For £5 there will have been people who don't even care about Union in the stadium.

Day out at rugby union popular in south. Well I never!

So with MM being in Manchester this year, we can expect a full stadium both days eh?

And the atmosphere was horrible, it was probably more lively at the Stoop.

Not an issue IMO.

I doubt many would turn up at the stoop if £5 was handed out to those attending.