FearTheVee wrote:
I would look at maybe alternating either the CCF or GF between Wembley/OT and Millenium Stadium.
Love the Milenium Stadium but think we would live to regret moving away from Wembley permanently.
I'd go to more "neutral" GFs at Millenium than I would at OT. I always go to Wembley regardless of teams but that is as I live in the South East.
I went to Wembley for the 2013 World Cup semi against the Kiwis and came away buzzing (well maybe I was buzzing once the numbness had worn off) to think how we could take more internationals there and have it as a big international venue for us and move the challenge cup to Cardiff. Since then in the following 7 years, the international side has played zero fixtures at the venue and very few in the country. The amount of southern accents I heard in a crowd of nearly 70,000 that day was so encouraging and I hoped for a legacy but this is rugby league!
I’ve always felt we’ve missed a trick in terms of attracting locals to Wembley (Or other London venues) by not playing more internationals in the South. An England side gives people in the South with a vague interest in Rugby League a team to support, whereas a Warrington v Catalans, Wigan v Hull game etc means very little to anybody other than a die hard league fan.