I went, and I don't think I would have gone had it not been at Wembley. Took a mate who lives in London with me, thoroughly enjoyed it (but only went as he hadn't been to wembley before, and I told him you can drink on the terraces), surrounded by Aussies and the odd welshman and had a good atmosphere and some good banter. The wales atmosphere was a bit weak but thats what you expected really, definately livened up later on.



As for the 42k, It was a lot more than I expected. The ground felt full when you were there as tbh you never really thought about the upper tier at all. I think there's been a figure of about 40% of the tickets were bought by London postcodes as well, apparently its been marketed a lot in that area and there were a lot of "non" rugby league fans I felt, a few not understand some decisions and that but everyone seemed to be chanting and shouting.



Must admit though, I was sat in the corner where the Briscoe no try was, and I was shouting that much I walked out of Wembley sounding like Lockyer.

Fantastic occasion that needs to be built on in future years. Agree with a lot of the suggestions being made, such as putting the onus on the clubs to shift tickets.



My only real complaint was the attempt to gee up the crowd, firstly the messages on the big screens (Make Some Noise Rugby League Fans, or Hold Up Your Try Cards) which to me were embarrassing and unnecessary - was half expecting the next message to remind me to breathe in and out! But worse than that was the piped chanting through the PA system. Truly awful!

Many people call for the RFL to show the ambition and real intent to push the International game as hard as possible and in taking that England game to Wembley showed that ambition. 42k for that game is very good indeed considering the timing and location.



What ever the bad side of this, we need, as a game, stop beating ourselves up and do our best to get behind the international game, and keep driving it on and push what is an highly entertaining product that we have !

Ran out of bitter, not happy.



Bring the game to Old Trafford.

Irish pub just round the corner with cracking Guinness at 2.30 a pint. Happy days and the perfect way to start the day

And they claim it's got the most toilets of any stadium in Europe don't they?



If that's correct I'm presuming the club Wembley lot must be sitting on commodes!



Bring back the old Wembley days of just slashing wherever you fancy.

One of the two Aussies slumped in front of us did just that, the dirty sod.

Jeez the Aussies really can't hack the pace! Never seen anything like the states they used to get in at Ashes cricket over there.

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If I had to watch cricket I'd get bladdered too !!!

Thats because stupidly they try to keep up with the barmy army

its cos they drink that pishy beer in the green cans..... VD (or is it VB) sort of the same thing