Re: Four Nations Venues 'nearly' confirmed : Mon Feb 15, 2016 3:12 pm  

moto748 wrote:

If only there was a east-to-west motorway, linking, say, Hull and Liverpool.

Oh....

Exactly how long does it take to get to Liverpool from Hull (not that i live there) on what would be an early evening travel?
I'll give you a clue, longer (time wise) and more stressful than travelling to Coventry AND MK.
If only you had any clue about travel times say like using a map or a computer or personal experience oh...

Re: Four Nations Venues 'nearly' confirmed : Mon Feb 15, 2016 7:27 pm  

Yeah well of course I was being a bit facetious.


I have got plenty of idea about travel times; it's taken me seven hours to get to the DW from my place in the past. And I don't disagree that Coventry or MK are more accessible from the heartlands. FWIW, they would both be easier for me too.

Re: Four Nations Venues 'nearly' confirmed : Tue Feb 16, 2016 12:11 am  

SecondRowSaint wrote:

If it is Anfield, I feel sorry for the people who get tickets at the back of the bottom tier of the Anfield Road End. It's like watching the game through a postbox back there.

Some of the views at Anfield:




Seats are no better than Old Trafford neither where if you're over 5'11" you can't fit in the seats.

Re: Four Nations Venues 'nearly' confirmed : Thu Feb 18, 2016 12:55 pm  

BuckleyStreetWire wrote:

Some of the views at Anfield:




Seats are no better than Old Trafford neither where if you're over 5'11" you can't fit in the seats.

Well neither club is made of money are they? Oh hang on!!

Re: Four Nations Venues 'nearly' confirmed : Thu Feb 18, 2016 1:40 pm  

I've got to say the view in the vast majority of Old Trafford seats is perfectly fine, I agree about the lack of legroom though, can make for an uncomfortable time.

Man Utd used to be made of money until a certain American bought it and saddled it with hundreds of millions of debt amongst other "interesting" financial and accounting maneuvres.
And neither Liverpool nor even Man Utd can really compete with the money from Man City.

When money is pushed too much toward players wages and fees then other areas of the club infrastructure suffer, as RL found out almost to its extinction 20-30 years ago.

Re: Four Nations Venues 'nearly' confirmed : Tue Mar 01, 2016 5:21 pm  

Still no news on this, very disappointing, how hard can it be.

Re: Four Nations Venues 'nearly' confirmed : Tue Mar 01, 2016 8:05 pm  

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

Still no news on this, very disappointing, how hard can it be.

I would have thought it would be some time around now, as I have said, if I remember rightly the world cup tickets were put on sale in march so that should be now RFL!!

Re: Four Nations Venues 'nearly' confirmed : Tue Mar 01, 2016 8:33 pm  

CM Punk wrote:

Ricoh could work well IMO, 2 hour drive from Wigan or Hull, next to a train station so transport links are decent enough. Promote Coventry Bears at the same time and there's potential there.

Let me know your route from Hull to Coventry, I'm intrigued as to how you do it in 2 hours !!!

Re: Four Nations Venues 'nearly' confirmed : Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:18 pm  

rover49 wrote:

Let me know your route from Hull to Coventry, I'm intrigued as to how you do it in 2 hours !!!

2 and a half hours according to Google Maps. I reckon you could do that in 2 hours with no traffic and not driving like an old lady.

Re: Four Nations Venues 'nearly' confirmed : Wed Mar 02, 2016 2:45 am  

rover49 wrote:

Let me know your route from Hull to Coventry, I'm intrigued as to how you do it in 2 hours !!!

Still quicker than driving to Liverpool every day of the week and given the likely matchday quicker to Coventry than Old Trafford too.
I regularly drive to Hull from North Hertfordshire and it's 155 miles door to door to my folks in Sutton. Taking it very steady drafting the odd HGV on the A1 takes 3 hours (cos I'm still a tight yorkshire lad at heart!) In the dim and distant past I've done it in under 2 but these days 2:30 is doable without being silly. Getting to Coventry and parking up near the Ricoh from Hull is a piece of pish and it's nearer for alot of the central/ssouthern amateur clubs/support to reach. It's not all about the North for international games, the london based matches of recent have had a very high modal share of ticket sales from the 'South' 50% in some instances.
So shifting some of the games more centrally not only means going somewhere different but also somewhere like Coventry is actually easier/less time for a lot more fans than the likes of Anfield which as I've said is a dump of sn area anyway