RLWC Pros and Cons

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

This game should have been played in Port Moresby. (Full house)However I'm sure the travelling English fans would have enjoyed Melbourne. Maybe that was the thinking by organisers?

They had to book months ago and could never guarantee that PNG would make it...

Having said that, im sure the PNG locals would have turned up for ANY qf teams.

 

[Springs09]

Pro:
- The quarter finals. They show how far we have come in just a few years. 2008 was an extended tri-nations, with Fiji the semi finalists having half a team of NSW country footballers. 2013 the squads were better but not really competitive. Come 2017 we still had people calling for it to go straight to semis, but now we are already past the automatic big 3 + extra which most thought wouldn't happen for another 10-20 years at least, if ever.
- Fiji. Tonga are one thing with a team full of NRL stars but Fiji are missing half of what could be their first-choice side, have a forward pack full of lower grade players and still stuck it to NZ. Someone tell the Fijians that they are just plastic aussies or whatever and that this World Cup is a waste of time.
- Lebanon. A team almost full of park footballers have been competitive against what is now the top 3 sides. They were the lowest ranking and thrown to the Aussie and English wolves but have come up with what should be regarded as the best relative performance in this tournament.
- Winning new fans. Not necessarily for rugby league as a whole but definitely for international rugby league. Everyone in my small town has said the World Cup is the most football they've watched all year and the next town over (Griffith) was covered in Tongan red on Saturday.

Cons:
- Quarter final venues. I thought they were actually some of the better scheduling choices when they were announced. Ticket prices ruined that but even then, really, the Kiwis should have more support from the NZ public than they had.

 

[Foreign Legion]

PRO....It's Finals day!!!
Con... tomorrow not more footy for 2017

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Why the f**k is the final on the same night as the first ever day/night ashes test?

Organisers strike again.

 

[aarondoyle]

Con - ticket prices in Australia. What the hell were they thinking?

 

[Perth Red]

Pro - it’s game day!
Con - my head hurts

 

[Stallion]

Con: incompetent organisers are within rugby league's administrative ranks

Pro: Some fans having an awareness that this incompetence in RL exists bigtime!

 

[taipan]

Pros: Some exciting matches, close final
Profitable tournament.By how much NFI, whatever to be used for International development.
Crowds in PNG and Hamilton/Auckland and atmosphere unberlievable.
Tonga support and competitiveness A1.When you get a country's King on board you done good.
Less bagging from local media and the usual suspects from other codes.
Tv ratings for ch7 above expectations, they got there monies worth.

Negatives;Pricing !!! one needs to be a bleeding oil sheik ,to afford some of the figures.
As a result crowds in Oz, at times sh*thouse,and the naysayers got their opportunity to have a shot.
USA/Samoa/Wales/Italy were disappointments


On balance I give the tournament an overalll positive>Call it a 7.It would've been an 8.5 with full houses and a couple of the mentioned countries putting on a better show.

Based on this one,I see the 2021 in fish and chips ville being a beauty.

 

[Force]

World Cup final on at the same time as the Ashes?....only Rugby League administrators can be dumb enough to make sure those two games clash. Its December....the last game of league should've been played in November at the least.

 

[Stallion]

World Cup final on at the same time as the Ashes?....only Rugby League administrators can be dumb enough to make sure those two games clash. Its December....the last game of league should've been played in November at the least.

A daytime only cricket test should have been on. No tv clash except with the very entertaining women's final.

 

[Force]

A daytime only cricket test should have been on. No tv clash except with the very entertaining women's final.

The World Cup should've ended last week at the latest.

 

[Pommy]

The World Cup should've ended last week at the latest.

The opener was less than 3 weeks after the super league grand final. How short of a gap can we really have to get a squad together and then move them to the other side of the globe?

 

[Force]

The opener was less than 3 weeks after the super league grand final. How short of a gap can we really have to get a squad together and then move them to the other side of the globe?

Well cut the domestic comps by a week or two during a World Cup year.

 

[Stallion]

The World Cup should've ended last week at the latest.

Maybe? It (world cup final)would have benefitted from the Ashes cricket fans as well in Brisbane. Still think venue allocations and high ticket pricing were the big negative issues of this tournament. All created by the organisers!

 

[Pommy]

Well cut the domestic comps by a week or two during a World Cup year.

To suit the cricket?

 

[Force]

Maybe? It (world cup final)would have benefitted from the Ashes cricket fans as well in Brisbane. Still think venue allocations and high ticket pricing were the big negative issues of this tournament. All created by the organisers!

There were quite a few empty seats last night, guess the Ashes fans were staying away.

 

[siv]

Very interesting pro

Wife was fascinated with the WRL matches and cheered till the of the WRL final

Then left after 30 min of the mens final

 

[Force]

To suit the cricket?

To suit the league...league wont win the battle with cricket, especially when its International league vs the Ashes.

 

[Force]

Very interesting pro

Wife was fascinated with the WRL matches and cheered till the of the WRL final

Then left after 30 min of the mens final

The womens final was better than the mens, the mens was rather boring.

 

[Stallion]

The womens final was better than the mens, the mens was rather boring.

Both were good finals! The womens more flamboyant. The mens gripping and intense. It was great tv product. The players deserve a wrap! The organisers deserve a deep hard look at their poor scheduling/venue choices and pricing policy.