Vegas baby!!

[Man of Kent]

Might get saving for this. An NRL double-header in Vegas is doable from here.

[Anita Bath]

Broncos offering 5 nights plus flight plus tickets for AUD$3600.

[sam4731]

Why is a thread about 2 NRL games being in St Helens getting so much traction? That is where Johnny lives isn't it?

[Dunbar]

3 hours ago, Man of Kent said:

Plenty of pawn in Vegas. I think I spelled that right.

 

3 hours ago, Man of Kent said:

double-header in Vegas is doable from here.

I take it that these two posts are not 100% correlated?

Edited August 11, 2023 by Dunbar

[EastLondonMike]

I wonder what the NRL will consider a barometer for success. Attendance? Local engagement? Greater US wide visibility?
 

The post match narrative (from Australia) around the England v NZ game in the US, with a 20k attendance, was that of a flop. 

So will be interesting to see what will be considered a success for this. You’d assume the South’s/Manly involvement isn’t a co-incidence, with The Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman connections.

[Ragingbull]

4 hours ago, Man of Kent said:

What about Ponte Carlo?

Prefer Scarbados my self.

[Ragingbull]

4 hours ago, Man of Kent said:

What about Ponte Carlo?

Prefer Scarbados my self.

[welshmagpie]

There’s that new, massive, round arena that is a giant billboard in Vegas.

The NRL would do far worse than to get the odd advert on that .

[Griff]

25 minutes ago, Ragingbull said:

Prefer Scarbados my self.

I was in Feverley Hills yesterday, on my way to Beninorm.

This morning, I was in LA (Low Ackworth).

[Fevrover]

1 hour ago, Griff said:

I was in Feverley Hills yesterday, on my way to Beninorm.

This morning, I was in LA (Low Ackworth).

Don't tell me you missed out on a detour to cas Vegas???

Edited August 11, 2023 by Fevrover

[graveyard johnny]

at least the 4 nrl teams for once may be outnumbered  by quality hookers 

[Griff]

2 hours ago, Fevrover said:

Don't tell me you missed out on a detour to cas Vegas???

I went through the Big Apple - Bramley.

[WN83]

If only they’d put as much energy in to backing international rugby league. It’s ok to send players over to Vegas or to let lads double up post origin and play 2 games in 3 days but there was talk they wouldn’t allow Penriths World Cup contingent to play in the WCC because they’d not been back in pre season long enough. 

 

 

[Copa]

13 hours ago, gingerjon said:

Can they?

I was just speculating, i have no idea about the gambling industry.

V’landys’ main background, more than managing rugby league, is the gambling world. He’s seemingly no mug in the gambling world so it’d be interesting to see what he has planned.

[Havenlad80]

5 hours ago, WN83 said:

If only they’d put as much energy in to backing international rugby league. It’s ok to send players over to Vegas or to let lads double up post origin and play 2 games in 3 days but there was talk they wouldn’t allow Penriths World Cup contingent to play in the WCC because they’d not been back in pre season long enough. 

 

 

It’s origin 1st and then NRL 2nd and then……………………..international RL a distant 3rd unfortunately.

[gingerjon]

6 hours ago, Copa said:

I was just speculating, i have no idea about the gambling industry.

Fair enough!

[Pulga]

 

 

 

[Copa]

Allegiant Stadium is quite the stadium. Hopefully they get enough people in to make it look busy.

[Copa]

At 21:40 V’landys says the nrl will provide expertise to the current rugby league competitions in the US.

 

[WN83]

51 minutes ago, Copa said:

Allegiant Stadium is quite the stadium. Hopefully they get enough people in to make it look busy.

Read it was unbelievable when Man Utd played a friendly there recently, so watched a 15-20 min video about it online and wow!! Spurs stadium was comfortably the best I've been to but that place made it look almost 2nd rate. 

[Havenlad80]

9 hours ago, WN83 said:

Read it was unbelievable when Man Utd played a friendly there recently, so watched a 15-20 min video about it online and wow!! Spurs stadium was comfortably the best I've been to but that place made it look almost 2nd rate. 

Yanks can build a decent stadium as they’ve had plenty of experience in doing so.

[Chanter]

Why not Miami? At least it would give some support to the game in Florida, where RL teams do actually play?

[Havenlad80]

3 minutes ago, Chanter said:

Why not Miami? At least it would give some support to the game in Florida, where RL teams do actually play?

City Name recognition?

gambling capital of the world?

shorter flight time?

[Whippet13]

30 minutes ago, Chanter said:

Why not Miami? At least it would give some support to the game in Florida, where RL teams do actually play?

Supporting US RL isn't the primary objective of this exercise, Florida wouldn't get anywhere near the same level of Aus government support and it would be far less practical (plus more expensive) for logistics.

In any case, Utah and California border Nevada and they currently have a stronger active RL presence than Florida.

[The Future is League]

15 hours ago, Chanter said:

Why not Miami? At least it would give some support to the game in Florida, where RL teams do actually play?

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