and when we don't fill Wembley and the RFL make a massive loss everyone will be slating the RFL for it.

Not everyone. I'll be slating those that call themselves Rugby League fans, who failed to turn up to a world cup opener against their arch enemy, at their national stadium having not played there for well over a decade, having had over two years to buy their tickets and plan their weekend away.

Elland road will be a venue,i reckon,with the final at old trafford.

People have different priorities for their money, I have no interest in going to watch an average England side play Australia, especially not at Wembley.

I am a HULL FC fan first and foremost, international RL isn't on my radar at all.

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similar to how most of us feel when having our following of the sport questioned because we don't want to partake in RFL gimmicks, like Millenium Magic and internationals in London.

I am all for meaningful expansion, but playing Australia at Wembley would do nothing to enchance the game.

Agree with some of your sentiments re the marketing of the competition but I don't see how playing a game that we will almost certainly lose and isn't even the final as far away from the 'heartlands' as possible could go any way to creating loyalty and excitement.

A lot of the apathy is down to the fact we simply aren't competitive, haven't been for a long time and won't be any time in the near to medium-term future at least. The RFL have effectively acknowledged this by appointing McNamara as the coach, in what other sport would someone with as poor a club record as his get a national job?

Now if there was a game featuring at least one of Eng, Aus or NZ in Hull then I'd more than likely go along, but for me international RL is something I watch to get a fix during the off season and the main thing I enjoy about it is watching the superior abilities of the Aus and NZ teams, they almost literally play a different game to the English team. You might even argue that the best bet of filling out Wembley is to put Aus vs. NZ there and market it as a showcase of the world's best rugby league players and try to generate interest and publicity in the same way that the NFL games do there.