Quote ="sally cinnamon"I hope so. I've got tickets for the final and taking a big group down from work: when the email went round people seemed to like the idea of having a chance to see a World Cup Final as they are never going to get tickets for a football or rugby one. I'm also trying to organise smaller groups to go to 3 of the others. I do think the ticket prices are good value for money.
I also think the scheduling has been done a lot better this time than the 2000 World Cup - the Wembley double header for the semi is a good idea as the semi final that includes only one of the big three countries usually has a disappointing crowd.
The only thing I would have done differently was played all of France's group games in France and moved the quarter final that's in Warrington to Perpignan to give them a home quarter final.
My scepticism is based on the fact that even if the organisers get it all right, the rugby league public is not interested in the international game. They support their clubs and aren't interested in internationals. They might be interested in the sense of writing on forums to complain about lack of RFL marketing, players from their club being overlooked by England, but not actually turning up to games.
Even in Australia where rugby league is biggest, last time nearly half the fixtures had sub 10,000 crowds and the semi final in Sydney featuring the home team only got 15,000 odd. Compare that to Australia's union world cup semi final in Sydney in 2003 where the crowd was 82,000. Where were the other fans?'"
Looking at the world cup ticket website seem to be a lot of sold out sections... would seem to suggest otherwise
