(which also has some sensible BTL comments [from any posters here?]) rightly says:
Playing internationals is more important than anything else However awesome the sporting theatre, Wigan v Leeds in Manchester is a regional scrap as far as the rest of Britain is concerned.
I don't doubt that the England/Kiwis First Test on Sunday will be a more exciting affair than the RUWC Final. But it will struggle to get a fraction of the TV audience. I proselytise endless for the game with friends, work colleagues etc, but it's surprisingly hard to get anyone to try anything relatively unfamiliar (and league *is* unfamiliar to the vast majority of the British population) without them switching channels after five minutes if it doesn't have instant appeal.
(which also has some sensible BTL comments [from any posters here?]) rightly says:
Playing internationals is more important than anything else However awesome the sporting theatre, Wigan v Leeds in Manchester is a regional scrap as far as the rest of Britain is concerned.
I don't doubt that the England/Kiwis First Test on Sunday will be a more exciting affair than the RUWC Final. But it will struggle to get a fraction of the TV audience. I proselytise endless for the game with friends, work colleagues etc, but it's surprisingly hard to get anyone to try anything relatively unfamiliar (and league *is* unfamiliar to the vast majority of the British population) without them switching channels after five minutes if it doesn't have instant appeal.
In fairness I thought our lads struggled tonight. I thought Bateman played without the aggression he does for us, Burgess looked nervous, Faz didn't get going until late doors and nor did Lockers. The only lad that came close to potential was Williams who grew in to the game and caused them plenty of problems.
They aren't on there own though. I thought Hardaker was well short of his superleague form, Widdop too an age to get going and bar Hill the starting pack as a unit were lethargic.
Our bench turned it for us and dragged the likes of Graham and Lockers with them second half. I thought there was only Chris Hill from the starting pack who started well and played consistently through the game.
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Whilst the Wigan contingent did take a while to get going, I think the same could be said about the whole team in the first half. Williams really stood out though, wasn't overawed by the occasion.
Tom Burgess got us going in the 2nd half and many of the rest picked up after that.
The kiwis defence wAs great out wide and our attack didn't look sharp enough to get the edges any space.
Bateman did struggle but I think will be better for it next week. It's not often he gets tackled as hard as he did tonight.
Big Steve wrote:Whilst the Wigan contingent did take a while to get going, I think the same could be said about the whole team in the first half. Williams really stood out though, wasn't overawed by the occasion.
Tom Burgess got us going in the 2nd half and many of the rest picked up after that.
The kiwis defence wAs great out wide and our attack didn't look sharp enough to get the edges any space.
Bateman did struggle but I think will be better for it next week. It's not often he gets tackled as hard as he did tonight.
Yep, it seemed to me we suffered from not having a competitive warm-up game. I do think we'll perform better next week.
For anyone who hasn't bought tickets for the 3rd test then I respectfully suggest they get them quickly. I believe that over 20,000 have already been sold (capacity 25,000)
Also over 40,000 sold for London next week (capacity 56,000)
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Rogues Gallery wrote:For anyone who hasn't bought tickets for the 3rd test then I respectfully suggest they get them quickly. I believe that over 20,000 have already been sold (capacity 25,000)
Also over 40,000 sold for London next week (capacity 56,000)
I reckon that 20,000 will have gone up by a decent number already. It certainly made me rush out and buy our 8 tickets.
A late surge will hopefully see it up around 50,000 next week which would be very pleasing.
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