Got an email today saying Australia v Fiji at Headingley is nearly sold out, hope this bodes well for ticket sales for the rest of the tournament!

Absolutely, Wane has already said we are massive underdogs for that game. I haven't seen the full Samoa squad as yet but know a number of players who have made themselves available and that is enough to get me worried.

You assume they are just huge in the forwards but now they are also stacked in the 3/4ers with almost the entire Panthers backline.



Can see them handing us a defeat without too much bother.

If Wane is predicting we're massive underdogs v Samoa (no offence to them) then he cant hold many aspirations or hopes for us to win it.

Agar on the coaching staff might work in our favour

Anyone know who plays where in the semi-finals? The RLWC2021 website shows both semis as Winner of QF2 v Winner of QF4! One at Elland Road and one at Emirates.

The ticket site seems to have the correct ones:



SF1 in Leeds - QF1 vs. QF3 winners

SF2 in London - QF2 vs. QF4 winners

Welsby

Dom Young

Newman (if fit)

Percival

Makinson

Lomax

Williams

Lees

Clark

Burgess

Farrell

Knowles

Radley



Thompson

Batchelor

McShane

Sutton

Not far off what I thought of yesterday - though Farnworth would be in the centres for me

Apparently they've still got 17,000 tickets left to shift for St James' park, a bit disappointing given how strong the Samoa team will be

England are guaranteed to be at Wigan for the Quarters and The Emirates for the Semi regardless of where they finish in the group.

I don't think thats bad with 3 weeks to go, StJames' fits 52k so that means 35k sold so about a magic weekend Saturday crowd already but with everyone in the ground at once. The challenge will be though are late comers willing the buy the more expensive tickets when the cheap ones sell out?

Now confirmed that Andrew Voss will be leading the BBC commentary team. Finally some decent commentary!

Fantastic news, he is 100x better than the ones over here

Kaiser Chiefs booked to perform at the opening game, a good choice for once a household name and still good live



Hopefully helps shift the remaining tickets as they really need St James' bouncing to help sell the other games

Great move by the organisers, the sort of band that should be at every major event

Would have preferred Bucks Fizz, Dollar or Status Quo myself, but life's a b1tch sometimes.

Of course they are.



Does anyone in Rugby League know that more than one genre of music exists.



Its always the same indie music band over and over again.



Boring.

Yes you are.

Never fear, Budge, David van Day is running the burger van.

Kaiser Chiefs had a half decent album 15 years ago.



I guess they were cheap

They won't be cheap. Who were you realistically expecting? Aside from the Super Bowl big current acts don't tip up to random sports events. The AFL had Robbie Williams who also hasn't had a proper album be a hit for ages.

Just as a matter of interest how many players at your club are participating in the WC, who are they and what nation are they representing.

Just 1 because we were awful this year. 'Mitch' for Fiji

RL fans moan no matter what



Could of been queen or the beatles performing at their peak and people would still moan !