I was at tonight's game as I only live about 7 miles from the Coventry Arena. Yes, it was ridiculously one-sided but the crowd, mostly local and not RL regulars from what I could tell, loved it.
Addo-Carr was a huge favourite and some of the play for his last try was out of this world. Lots of kids in the crowd who seemed very excited by the whole spectacle, including a number of Wasps fans looking for something different after a very bleak week for them.
Yes a competitive game would have been amazing, but this was never likely. Instead we saw a world class side put on a really enjoyable attacking show.
And yes, only 7,000 people turned up (don't believe the official crowd figure) but on a wet Friday night two years on from when many people bought tickets in an area with a limited RL footprint and an obviously mis-matched contest? Not too bad either.