2025 Ashes Tour

[10$ Ferret]

I love the team list on the NRL app, has bateman at fullback . but only because its in alphabetical order

 

[Taking The Two]

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England game day squad except fullback appears to have leaked with a shot of the locker room
?? 1.Welsby ??
2. Young
3. Farnworth
4. Wardle
5. Johnstone
6. Williams
7. Lewis
8. Havard
9. Clark
10. Lees
11. Bateman
12. Pearce-Paul
13. Knowles
14. Litten
15. Walmsley
16. Trout
17. McMeeken

One would think Welsby at FB.

Havard and Lees starting is a bold choice. Neither make huge metres. Could be a long opening 20.

 

[jolly boys outing]

Good news is that Bay 505 sold out. However, no new bays have been released (i.e. still only Bays 545-548 and 506-508 that are on sale).

If what we’ve been told by the RFL is true regarding ticket sales and everyone turns up what they’ve sold will look and sound alright on TV.

I still think they should have just given 10k free tickets to the school kids in north London area.

 

[undertaker]

If what we’ve been told by the RFL is true regarding ticket sales and everyone turns up what they’ve sold will look and sound alright on TV.

I still think they should have just given 10k free tickets to the school kids in north London area.

Agree with you. It will be a fantastic sight in just over 8 hours time to see the tv cameras pan towards a packed northern stand at kickoff. Absence makes the heart grow fonder: the first Ashes RL test in 22 years, and the first Ashes test in London since 1994 (if you exclude the 1997 Super League Ashes, which the ARL doesn't recognise as having test status)

However, without sounding too ambitious, a lot more could've been done to bolster the final attendance up to 75k (which would've been a world record crowd for a RL test match). Not only with promotion to school kids as you said, but I feel the organisers missed an opportunity by not taking a leaf out of the Canterbury Bulldogs' playbook from their Good Friday clash with the Rabbitohs earlier this year, and offered cheap £5-10 tickets for adults in those bays of the upper bowl at Wembley Stadium that don't have that great of a view. I understand there's costs at play, where management have to weigh up the cost vs benefit of opening extra bays, but after 22 years of the Ashes concept being discarded into oblivion, this was the comeback match where promoters needed to exhaust all avenues to sell as many tickets as possible.

Furthermore, a big mistake from whoever is in charge of the ticketing not to open up Bays 522-531 in the southern stand. I have absolutely no doubt a considerable amount of tickets could've been sold in this part of the stadium to those fans who prefer to watch rugby league from that angle.

 

[Taking The Two]

The RFL has a long history of cheapening tickets and pissing off a section of the fanbase for doing this when they’ve paid full price. It leads to people holding off purchasing and people waiting for the prices to drop.

 

[jolly boys outing]

The RFL has a long history of cheapening tickets and pissing off a section of the fanbase for doing this when they’ve paid full price. It leads to people holding off purchasing and people waiting for the prices to drop.

Only offer that price to London schools/NHS workers and emergency services workers etc??

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

What are the ticket sales looking like for Wembley now?

Ticket counter on the Pommy forum saying that over 62 000 have been sold as of this morning.

 

[newc18]

Ticket counter on the Pommy forum saying that over 62 000 have been sold as of this morning.

Great crowd and something to build on for future series.

 

[i0Nic]

Hope there’s a bit of a walk up crowd and it hits 65k

 

[jolly boys outing]

Hope there’s a bit of a walk up crowd and it hits 65k

Can you pay at the stadium?

 

[jolly boys outing]

Ticket counter on the Pommy forum saying that over 62 000 have been sold as of this morning.

62k is a amazing crowd.

will tickets still be available until a couple of hours before kickoff?

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

Can you pay at the stadium?

Probably wouldn`t be hard to pick up a ticket before you leave home if you decide to go late.
You`d think that having a 90k stadium and 62k odd sold would tempt a few to go late, knowing there`s plenty of room and probably a great atmosphere to experience.

 

[eels4lifee]

Alot of union fans will be attending aswell, atleast they'll watch a proper game of Rugby for once in their lives

 

[i0Nic]

They are doing walk up ticket sales only at the gate from 9am London time. So I guess it will stay around 62/63k sold tickets and whatever comes out of ticket sales at the gate.

 

[Taking The Two]

Only offer that price to London schools/NHS workers and emergency services workers etc??

They’ve slashed prices and used discount sites in the past in the week leading up to the game and that’s what has pissed people off.

People haven’t been bothered if they’ve reduced them to the Emergency Services, it’s when it’s been universal and reduced.

 

[Chook Norris]

Only offer that price to London schools/NHS workers and emergency services workers etc??

That's what they've already done. Friend of a friend who works for NHS got tickets for 6£

 

[undertaker]

England draft in Ben Stokes to present shirts for Ashes opener

England's rugby league team have drafted in cricket captain Ben Stokes to present the shirts before Saturday's Ashes opener.

www.loverugbyleague.com

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Weird beers at Wembley

 

[This Year?]

C'mon Aussies!

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

I was thinking we were going to get some home team English commentary for a few minutes but nope.. Back to Vossy and f**king Brandy instead