JonM

There's also a couple of hundred £100 seats in the upper west stand at Everton on sale which were not there earlier on.

I mean, you joke... Right now, there seems to be a total of 7 seats available (a 3, another 3 and 1 on its own).

Not remotely county based though. But yes, watching that relegation battle will be exciting

The old farm derby is certainly bigger than anything Lancashire v Yorkshire can manage. I remember banners being displayed on 30-40 of the roads leading into Norfolk after one Norwich v Ipswich football match - people had obviously climbed up onto bridges and so on to do it.

Would need c.83K at Wembley to beat a 155K aggregate, I think, which would be getting on for 10K larger than the largest ever crowd for a RL international (the 2013 RLWC Final at Old Trafford).

"Realistic" pricing which seems to be quite a step up from previous RL internationals too.

I believe Nick Politis has put a chunk of cash over the years into supporting Greek RL stuff in Australia. I wonder whether there's any mileage in having a team of Greek expats play exhibition matches against Greece in Athens and Rhodes?

If you believe the ticket sales map, there are sold out sections in some of the more expensive areas, and I would say already into five figures total.

If the seat map is to be believed (I still think it's a big if based on previous experience), the only seats left are a small number in the £125 section, and a couple of thousand of the cheapest tickets in the upper corners.

The record attendance for a non world cup international in this country (57 034) was at Wembley in 1994, when GB won 8-4, so you might consider that to be a great day to emulate. Cliff Richard (if he is still alive) to repeat his performance, flanked by 20 female dancers and 30ft high inflatable lion and kangaroo mascots?

If things go well, it won't be a patch on Everton, which by definition must potentially be a decider. Almost three times the attendance in a fully enclosed stadium with acoustics designed to reflect the sound and maximise the crowd noise.

It's easy to forget that it's not just British fans who've missed out on this series fior a generation. There was often quite a sizeable contingent of touring Kangaroos supporters back in the 1990s.

It was by arch-person who I don't like, Stephen Jones, in the usual sneery way, full of jibes about the world cup, heritage teams etc.

I think there's a few where there were two phases to the season and the initial regional group stage isn't recorded or the like, but the final tables should be there in all cases. It would be nice if someone took on the mammoth task of doing what the Rugby league record keepers club, or the rugbyleagueproject, have done, and tried to record all results. I suspect the lack of newspaper reporting on rugby league in France might make that pretty difficult - here you can just look in archives and find scores (and often scorers etc.) but that doesn't seem so easily to be the case there.

I mean, you're currently 4th, having beaten one of the pre-season favourites (Bradford) away, and having played the current leaders (Halifax) away already. 70 years since you were last at Wembley, maybe it's a worthwhile target?

I'm _very_ sceptical about the idea that Everton will sell out by the weekend, or that we have sold so many tickets for Wembley that the top tier needed to be opened up. I'd be absolutely delighted to be wrong though.

Yes, 4th generation (at least) Widnes supporter here, even though my dad has lived in Shropshire for several decades and his dad lived for decades in N. Wales & then Somerset. If Widnes didn't exist, I'd have to default to my current second team, which is whoever is playing Warrington this week. Only other place I've lived that's had a professional rugby league team is Australia, so NZ Warriors it is

Still got within 2 points of London away though? And beat Doncaster?

French wikipedia has them all AFAIK. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Championnat_de_France_de_rugby_à_XIII E.g. For individual seaons: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Championnat_de_France_de_rugby_à_XIII_1956-1957

You'd think 4 home wins is the most likely outcome, although Barrow had a good win against Oldham last month.

Which years are you looking for?

1. Over 60 points scored in the Catalans v Salford match NO 2. Either Team To lead At HT and FT in the Wakey v Leigh match YES 3. The team that scores first in the FC v KR game to progress to the SF YES 4. Either Team To Win By 6 points or more in the Wire v Saints match YES 5. Any player to score a hat-trick of tries in CC QF NO Tie Break What will the attendance be in the Wakey v Leigh game 4,998

Reading that, I think most of assume that there is a less than 50/50 chance of either series actually taking place, based on the record of the past decade or so.

My impression was that crowds in Illawarra weren't that great either, but they averaged over 14k across 6 games at Wollongong in 2024 (lowest crowd was 9 240 v GC Titans, highest 18 988 v Penrith). That compares with a 2024 average of 10 885 for 5 games at Kogarah (lowest being 7 517 vs Souths, highest 18 416 for the local derby vs Bulldogs).

Can you explain what Q2 means please? My interpretation is that it means scores won't be level either at half-time or full-time?