There’s lots of positives for sure and I do agree, many who complain wouldn’t go to a game if it was free but plenty of people at the games on Saturday and Sunday were talking about pricing and many felt it’s not quite right for a good number of the games. If we just want to look at income and profit from ticket sales, maybe this is the way to go. Giving tickets away or building a culture of fans waiting for discounts certainly isn’t the way to build the international games but IMO a few venues are off, the pricing for some of fixtures is off as well. One major issue is the quality of the ticketing website. It’s as bad a ticketing site as I’ve known tbh. All you can ask is feedback is taken on board and used in future years. There are loads of positives but plenty to work on as well.

You know I don’t have a huge issue with England games being expensive. I think £85 is probably going a bit far but £70 is about where I’d top it off. The game needs to put a premium on the England fixtures. As the hosts, our games will clearly be the best attended and we undersold ourselves in 2013. I have an issue more with the split on the more expensive tickets for the England games. An example is the Arsenal semi (if we get there), where the cheapest bottom tier tickets left are £70. There were 4 really small blocks of £55 tickets available but they went months ago and huge swathes of £70 and £85 tickets. I’d happily pay the £70 but you can’t actually choose a seat, so for £70 you could be on row 1! There will be thousands of people on the upper tier that day paying £30 and will get better seats then many who’ve paid £70 or even £85. It’s really poor that you can’t select seats.

It will all depend on personal circumstances. I’m prepared to pay 50-70 for an international but a big part of that is my wife isn’t interested and I failed miserably trying to get my kids interested so it’s only 1 ticket. I’m on a decent wage but couldn’t justify 4 people at that price.

My tickets are not too bad price wise but fully understand its not cheap if buying for a family. Its OK paying a bigger price for a one off game like a cup final but this is multiple games over 5 weeks.

My Scotland games + others
Italy £20
Aussie £25
Fiji £20

Emirates SF £30
Old Trafford F £54

EW

I just plunged into the RLWC ticketing system this morning. Bought a ticket for Tonga tonight and the q-f at the DW. That's £125 I've spent and I don't think I can afford to spend any more when it's all on the telly. Of course you can't get the ticket scanned off your mobe at the Totally Wicked, so got to print out. OK, fire up the printer, not used it in ages... and it prints perfectly. In colour. Everything except the panel with the actual bar-code and seat number in, So I try black and white. Printer ink levels low. You don't say, Sherlock? So, jump in the car and head to Tesco. They have the B&W one, the colour one is 'Available at Customer Services'. Except, of course, it wasn't. Out of stock. So didn't buy anything, back in car, drive to Robin's Park, Currys. They have them in stock. So, an hour later, and £44 the poorer for the cartridges, eventually the ticket is successfully printed.

RedVee are saying tickets are for sale at the ground, £25

Every e-ticket I’ve got says you have to print them but it’s not the case. They announced last week 3 venues needed printed tickets but for some reason they’re then printing it on every email they send, for every ground. I saw people getting phone tickets scanned in tonight. Newcastle and Warrington were 2 you needed printed versions for. Its just all a bit amateur hour.

**Edit** found the email and it’s Newcastle, Wire and Middlesbrough you need printed tickets for. The rest will accept on your phone but the tickets still say ‘you must print these’ on them…madness.

So I spent 44 quid for nothing? That's annoying. Still, you were at the game, NK? I really enjoyed it. I seemed to be in the PNG corner, there was a bunch of Kumul girls sat behind me, having a great time. If their dozy winger hadn't put a foot on the line... Pretty impressed with PNG actually, I expected Tonga would put put 20-30 points on them.

Yeah, it was a class game and great to see plenty of Tongan/PNG fans there. You could hardly split the teams in terms of who you’d rather face in the Quarters. PNG will be no pushover.

The ticket printing thing is so frustrating. I know a girl who works in the ticket office at Leigh and they don’t need to be printed for the games there but as with all the venues, my tickets say in bold print- ‘these must be printed’. There’s so much to admire about the tournament but there are little things here and there which need to be better ( no scoreboard or visible clock tonight being another minor grumble).

I'd seen the thing about Wire, Middlesbrough, and Newcastle, but when I downloaded the ticket and it said in big letters "This is your ticket which must be printed", I didn't feel like like taking a chance and riding over to St Helens and risk not getting in if I didn't have a print-out.