2020 ashes tour

[roughyedspud]

Dates and venues have been announced for the 2020 England v Australia ashes series..

1st test - BOLTON, saturday 31st October.

2nd test - LEEDS , Saturday 7th November.

3rd test - LONDON , NEW WHITE HART LANE , 14th November.

Should have gone to Newcastle instead of Bolton..but aside from that I can't grumble...will Defo be heading to spurs for the last test..imo it's the best stadium in the world at the minute.

 

[Burns]

Dates and venues have been announced for the 2020 England v Australia ashes series..

1st test - BOLTON, saturday 31st October.

2nd test - LEEDS , Saturday 7th November.

3rd test - LONDON , NEW WHITE HART LANE , 14th November.

Should have gone to Newcastle instead of Bolton..but aside from that I can't grumble...will Defo be heading to spurs for the last test..imo it's the best stadium in the world at the minute.

Want to hope London isn't a dead rubber!

 

[Jim from Oz]

K

Dates and venues have been announced for the 2020 England v Australia ashes series..

1st test - BOLTON, saturday 31st October.

2nd test - LEEDS , Saturday 7th November.

3rd test - LONDON , NEW WHITE HART LANE , 14th November.

Should have gone to Newcastle instead of Bolton..but aside from that I can't grumble...will Defo be heading to spurs for the last test..imo it's the best stadium in the world at the minute.

What are the capacities for those three venues?

I think it would’ve been better to have the London one as the first game!

 

[Coastbloke]

So, is this just the Tests and further matches to be announced?
Also good on the RFL to put tix on sale a year out plus the way they are building up to RLWC 2021. Such a massive difference to how the ARLC/NRL did 2017..

 

[deluded pom?]

K

What are the capacities for those three venues?

I think it would’ve been better to have the London one as the first game!

28K, 38K and 61K.

 

[deluded pom?]

Defo be heading to spurs for the last test..imo it's the best stadium in the world at the minute.

Tickets already booked for Spurs. I'm not fussed about Bolton and I hate Elland Road.

 

[Springs09]

Well I don't understand having the smallest venue first or why its at Bolton rather than Manchester or Newcastle but oh well, at least they are promoting it this far out.

On dates, there should be plenty of time for both to play a few tests before the series.

 

[roughyedspud]

Bolton wanderers are on their arse at the min so the RFL can bully them about abit..we're the only ones that could sell out the place and Bolton need the money...

Personally I thought the RFL should have bought Bolton's stadium off them earlier this year..it was for sale,might still be?, for £20m...it could have become "the national RL stadium"..held England tests,challenge cup semis,cup final replays,blockbuster SL games,WCC, play off games and championship/league none grand finals..

But ya know.....

 

[PARRA_FAN]

Interesting venue choices.

Years ago it would've been a safer option of going with Wigan, Hull and Huddersfield but they've gone with the bigger venues just like 90 and 94. Very good

Ive heard a lot of good things about the Tottenham Stadium and was hoping a similar design would be here in Sydney.

 

[Jim from Oz]

28K, 38K and 61K.

Rather odd to have the first test with the lowest capacity and the last test with the highest capacity!

 

[jim_57]

Want to hope London isn't a dead rubber!

Or they could just try and sell it out before tour starts...

 

[roughyedspud]

I like how this has been announced DURING the GB tour....the RFL could have waited 2 weeks and no one would have minded..but it's like they've realised how shit the GB tour is going and have tried to deflect away from it lol

Imagine if England had toured NZ instead of GB...imagine if England had won all the games..next year's ashes series was always going to be big but imagine if it was also to decide who was number 1 in the world too...

Imagine how big it could have been if old,nostalgic old farts didn't exist....

 

[deluded pom?]

Personally I thought the RFL should have bought Bolton's stadium off them earlier this year..it was for sale,might still be?, for £20m...it could have become "the national RL stadium"..held England tests,challenge cup semis,cup final replays,blockbuster SL games,WCC, play off games and championship/league none grand finals..

But ya know.....

Says the man who lives twenty minutes away. Bolton's ground isn't even in Bolton. Horwich is a pain in the neck to get to from God's country.

 

[roughyedspud]

Says the man who lives twenty minutes away. Bolton's ground isn't even in Bolton. Horwich is a pain in the neck to get to from God's country.

I go on the train lol

 

[southwalesrabbitoh]

Well I don't understand having the smallest venue first or why its at Bolton rather than Manchester or Newcastle but oh well, at least they are promoting it this far out.

On dates, there should be plenty of time for both to play a few tests before the series.

England will win the first, Aus. the second and hopefully third.

C'mon The 'ROOS!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Walter sobchak]

Well 1 out of 3 is better than nothing. Can only think that etihad, Anfield and st James Park aren’t available??

 

[roughyedspud]

Well 1 out of 3 is better than nothing. Can only think that etihad, Anfield and st James Park aren’t available??

Or because of the money we've lost on the GB tour the RFL had a rethink..those 3 stadia would cost a damn site more than Bolton & leeds

 

[deluded pom?]

Well 1 out of 3 is better than nothing. Can only think that Anfield isn’t available??

Thank feck for that.

 

[Bay53]

I am thinking of going to this. I am a big Spurs fan too so great that a game is at the new Lane.

Final match is on a FIFA weekend so no issues with Spurs games. They also have NFL in October.

The three games being played in 15 days makes it doable. Anyone else thinking of going?

 

[Perth Red]

Good venue choices except I would have switched 1 & 3 around as others have said. If we get flogged in first two games, sub 20k in London isnt going to be a pretty sight!