23 Jun: Test Match: England v New Zealand (Denver)

[John Drake]

Discuss the Test Match between England and New Zealand in Denver, USA here.

[ELBOWSEYE]

Sad indictment of a rugby league forum you vote on the possible crowd. Even sadder I voted. 

[Krzzystuff]

In all honesty pretty sure that discussions on or regarding attendances make up 10-25% of forum posts so they are just giving the people what they want.

[kiwis 13 6]

Not going to lie going to be tough for the Kiwis but you never know ill be watching

[Futtocks]

29 minutes ago, Krzzystuff said:

In all honesty pretty sure that discussions on or regarding attendances make up 10-25% of forum posts so they are just giving the people what they want.

Complaints about refereeing decisions and complaints about commentators complaining about refereeing decisions seem to take up about the same amount of forum posts.

The truth is, you really can't please everybody.

Looking forward to the match, regardless. Interested to see if Maguire's had time to instill some mental steel in the Kiwi side.

[saintspete83]

I'll go an England win by 10+ I think this is a great idea but announcing the event at a 80k stadium in a country that does not know the game and giving 5 months to build it up and promote it is a joke. 20k plus would be a good attendance but that will be lost in a ground that size and will show a poor image of the sport. I now here the game won't be broadcast in the states so apart from 15k locals it will achieve no awareness. 

[John Drake]

36 minutes ago, ELBOWSEYE said:

Sad indictment of a rugby league forum you vote on the possible crowd. Even sadder I voted. 

As this is a development game for Rugby League, rather than just a regular Test match, it's a legitimate subject for people to comment on. I've locked all the other threads on the Denver Test now the game is in sight, to focus discussion on this one, and there was a 27 pager on the anticipated size of the crowd!

[saintspete83]

Just scrolling through denver broncos twitter feed and I was surprised to see not a single tweet on the game. Considering they have 2.6 million followers you would have thought the people being the game would have asked for assistance. I'm not on Facebook and was wondering if that had been used by the organisers to promote the game and had denver broncos mentioned anything??? 

[westlondonfan]

Is it on tv?

[Hullfan]

Yes BBC 2 i believe 9:00pm ill be bladdered 

[Harry Stottle]

2 minutes ago, Hullfan said:

Yes BBC 2 i believe 9:00pm ill be bladdered 

Will you be celebrating that the day happens to be a Saturday?

[Manxmanc]

As my spreadsheet was last updated at 14,026, I'll hang on for while with the vote.

[Man of Kent]

Phil Caplan reports that Jason Moore thinks the crowd will be c.30k and will be filmed sympathetically to make it look better.

[Loup]

14 minutes ago, Man of Kent said:

Phil Caplan reports that Jason Moore thinks the crowd will be c.30k and will be filmed sympathetically to make it look better.

Nevertheless, there'll definitely be a Leyther in the crowd who'll film the stadium two hours before kick off and claim the organizers are lying about attendance.

[Man of Kent]

2 minutes ago, Loup said:

Nevertheless, there'll definitely be a Leyther in the crowd who'll film the stadium two hours before kick off and claim the organizers are lying about attendance.

Ha! 

I’m less concerned about the figure than how it looks.

This is a rare prime time appearance on British terrestrial TV. 

[bobbruce]

41 minutes ago, Man of Kent said:

Phil Caplan reports that Jason Moore thinks the crowd will be c.30k and will be filmed sympathetically to make it look better.

I’d be delighted with 30k for a first attempt. Especially with it being nobbled by the NRL in the build up. I doubt many fans will be going from the UK or NZ but all the negative publicity from the NRL would’ve put a good percentage of them off. 

[Big Picture]

1 hour ago, bobbruce said:

I’d be delighted with 30k for a first attempt. Especially with it being nobbled by the NRL in the build up. I doubt many fans will be going from the UK or NZ but all the negative publicity from the NRL would’ve put a good percentage of them off. 

After all the opposition from the NRL, if they get 30,000 or more it will hopefully put an end to that.

[frank]

I made  a comment about the game on  their facebook page.

[Big Picture]

8 minutes ago, frank said:

I made  a comment about the game on  their facebook page.

Whose FB page is that?

[frank]

46 minutes ago, Big Picture said:

Whose FB page is that?

Denver Bronco's

[HKR AWAY DAYS]

9 hours ago, Hullfan said:

Yes BBC 2 i believe 9:00pm ill be bladdered 

Guess I'm up at 5am for this. Really looking forward to it. My mate has taken his missus to the game haha. Got to give him credit for dragging her all that way!

[Man of Kent]

 

[RayCee]

13 minutes ago, Man of Kent said:

 

Generally Americans understand promotion. 

[Odsal Outlaw]

Looks like the England spine is now all but confirmed with Williams pulling out

1. Ratchford
6. Widdop
7. Lomax
9. Roby
13. O’Loughlin

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Looking forward to this game.  Its nice to see there is a decent amount of promotion going on in Denver, almost seems like more than when there is a game here!  England should be pretty comfortable but as long as we put on a good show I'm not particularly bothered about the result (obviously I want an England win though).  This is a great opportunity to showcase the sport in a new market and considering the poor attendances union generally seem to be getting for internationals and club games in the US we should be happy if we get anywhere near 20,000 people in.