Well played Italy. Enjoyed that. That Italy winger looks quick. Onto next game

Lebanon doing well to scramble against NZ

Like the Lebanon shirt too. Wish you could order replica kits off the RLWC site

Joey Manu is a freak

Should be a cracker tonight.

Most definitely


Should be plenty of big hits and some exciting open rugby.

Game of the tournament so far tonight

What an idiot Thaler is when on video ref duty
didnt need three minutes of 20 different views
It was try

Thought PNG were hard done to. Thought the No Try decision should've been overturned

Leigh have a couple of gems in Lam and Ipape

Laybutt and Putt had good games too

The try/no try needs scrapping full stop

The corner of the ball touched the line it hasn't shrunk

But what a game good to see teams playing off the cuff rugby

Hopefully teams start realising off the cuff rugby is hard to defend

And Start getting the game back to how it was instead of the same structured plays game in game out

Think they've downgraded some of the tickets - some of the Cat C tickets now showing in the drop down list for Cat D for the NZ v Jamaica game

Think they really needed a rethink on pricing for the group games.

None of the weekday games have sold out of the lowest pricing categories, so people can still go affordably but I think they see the highest price tickets and instantly decide not for me...every game on BBC doesn't help either, the 2013 world cup only had 7 on BBC so people were more likely to go to the game

BBC Sport story saying 6k sold for Saturday and aiming for 10k. Hate to say it but Craven Park would have been a better choice for the group game. That kind of crowd would fill there but in the MKM it will look sp.

if they manage to reach 10k tickets for what will be (and no offence to Jamaica) a glorified training session for NZ then i think thats pretty good going

Agreed not only that we only average 11k rovers 7k

Yet people get on the high horse why were not selling out wc games

Most of the games is 99% English rugby league fans so expecting them to fork out every game isn't going to happen

The 2m viewers on TV is more important to growing the game getting non rugby league fans into the game "WOW What a game this is"

It’s not just the price is it though. It’s more the overall cost of paying for a game that whilst it maybe NZ, they are playing Jamaica who with the greatest of respect are not a World renowned RL nation. So expecting fans to turn up to pay £30 upwards for games of this type is crazy.

If I’m honest midweek I’d rather get home from work without having to rush to get to a game without family and simply watch on tv a game that is on paper and in all fairness very one sided.

Whether we like it or not RL currently just doesn’t have the gravitas or following/pull to be able to charge the prices the organisers are.

Being on the bbc is miles better for the game

Getting over 1m viewers for alot of games

Sky 300k very best

I agree.The key to growing the game is terrestrial tv.
Lets hope Channel 4 screen more games with a more attractive kick off time and look at Sundays too.
The BBC could also get good viewing figures by showing a weekly repeat of a live game from SKY.
Sunday around 19.00 would be a good time

Lets be realistic if all tickets were priced at £5 for this meaningless game they wouldnt have more than 15,000 at the game
Even if entrance was free the ground wouldnt be full

Hope Samoa France is a better game. So many blow out scores. Need a close exiting game.

We live in hope.
Getting bored with the uncompetiveness of the competition.
Hope the knockout format from this game on makes things a little more viewable.

I’ve not been following it closely (not watched a whole game since the opener) but I hate to think what the average margin of victory has been.

You’re always going to get some blowouts in World Cup but only 2 close games so far is disappointing.

41.6 points before this evening's Samoa/France game. Nine out of twenty-two have been 50+ margins.