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Dave T

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  1. I'm not sure that's anything to do with a discussion on internationals.
  2. England playing strong teams in well organised tournaments do well. I don't think that needs explaining. Some games will be more attractive than others, as they always have been and always will be.
  3. I think we put too much onus on this. The Kiwis have a decent record vs the Aussies, besting them semi-regularly in finals, yet it hasn't really translated into huge Tests and the Aussies being more interested. Of course a win or two would be lovely, but as we see with the WCC and the tests they've lost against NZ and Tonga - they just don't really care. They have their own plan.
  4. Higher than pretty much any other non-Aus/NZ Tests that we saw over the 80s and 90s, for a poorly organised and uninspiring Test series.
  5. I'm not sure I see any evidence that people aren't interested in following England. Quite the opposite tbh.
  6. It doesn't have to be free. There is also a bigger picture at play here. I'm not sure how many season tickets Leeds sell (10k maybe?). That means that maybe 5k paid cash the week earlier. By making the games all pay they reduces the attractiveness and many people don't want to attend (I'm one of them), as you know it's gonna be flat as anything. You don't have to add full value onto St prices, banking that cash is worth it.
  7. We can't create this false narrative that demand has dropped off since the 80s and 90s. It simply isn't true. It plays into a narrative that allows things to be cancelled. Sure we had a small handful of 50k+ crowds over these 20 years (4 to be exact) but many of the other crowds were really low. In the last couple of decades we've seen World Cups deliver some very good events, huge crowds for neutral finals, 67k for the Semis at Wembley, 45k in London for a Kiwi test as well. The demand is still there.
  8. I don't agree with this. Test crowds compare very well. Crowds for some of the World Cup games just couldn't have been dreamt of back in the 80s.
  9. I could have lived with one of the three tests being ambitious I. E. London and the other two being safe, but in reality there is no such thing as safe for England rl. They were rubbish.
  10. Yeah, three test series are not for me personally. I loved the 4N and would like to have seen that potentially grow to 6N. I think the RFL has to shoulder a fair bit of blame here. For years we've had to work with an aggressive partner in the Aussies, yet we've delivered half decent home tournaments that have made it harder for them to sack them off. We built the Tri/4N off, but then they flatlined at best as we became less ambitious. The last World Cup was horrible. A truly flat tournament with the odd glimmer. And then the Tonga series was lacklustre at best. It's made it easy for the Aussies to sack off the travel and keep their players on their shores.
  11. I saw a crowd of 7.1k, I think it was Serious about RL though. It was that idiot journo Cam something reviewing crowds - he had a brilliant line that it's not the clubs fault as they marketed the games brilliantly as always.
  12. But nobody was using it as an excuse for teh current position. I used it to explain why we had gone from having tournaments every year to nothibg for 2 years and a delayed WC. In fact my post explicitly called out Covid followed by the Aussie coup.
  13. Covid led to us cancelling an Ashes, Euros (possibly 2), delaying a World Cup and a Kiwi Series. That is the impact Covid had. Covid is no longer an excuse for what is going on in 2024. I thought that simple point was clear.
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