Eddie

And a World Cup year.

Therein lies the issue then, rather than money. Same with Wire, who’s cc attendances have reduced with each recent final.

Cardiff is no easier to get to from the M62 corridor than London, and it’s also a massive stadium that wouldn’t get filled.

Where do you think it would be held instead, to continue the retreat of English rugby league?

It’s mostly the same people going to away games though. People would sell their left gonad to see their football team in a big match like a cup final, I don’t think rugby league really has that.

Yet thousands upon thousands of football fans find the money to go on away trips around the country and in some cases Europe every other week. I think it’s more the case that rugby league doesn’t have the wider appeal to enough people rather than just down to money.

It is, but it doesn’t stop football fans from attending far more matches than RL fans.

14 teams in SL helps this, but it may take a year or two to take effect.

Clearly it isn’t easy to sell out otherwise it would have sold out. While loop fixtures are thankfully gone now, I don’t think the number of times clubs like Saints and Wigan play each other helps attendances at these games.

Plenty of people saying Saints v Wigan ‘should’ have been a sell out. Why should it have sold out?

As many sausage rolls and pints of lager as you can drink would be a better seller here.

And the most confusing, he’s done the double.

Isn’t that what the RFL are meant to do?

Rumour has it they’re going to build the Wembley of the North there.

It’s interesting that despite what @Roughyed Rats is saying, and I assume he knows a lot more about this than most of us, people are still blaming Quinn entirely and think MF walks on water. Either way this is a huge shame for all involved, at this rate there won’t be any clubs outside of SL with ambitions to do anything but survive in the short term.