Dom Young is signed for Newcastle Knights for 2023, but is free to negotiate for 2024 and beyond from Nov 1st.

As a Newcastle Knights fan, I can just see him getting 100k more expensive to sign every time he runs on the field.

Apart from being 6'7" and one of the fastest players in RL, he is also, intelligent, motivated, level headed and likeable.

Damn it, I wish he was a bit of a jerk, we might have a chance to keep him if he was.

At first I thought 13k for the Australia game was a bit disappointing but then remembered this game swapped with Hull as the MKM isn't available today.



So two games in one weekend in Leeds and many travelling up to Newcastle for the England game too.



The smaller games on weeknights will give a sign as to how sales are going overall.

Great to hear, while I know the future of Magic Weekend is uncertain surely it makes sense to return to Newcastle next year and I'd be offering everyone with a North East postcode the same discount season ticket holders get.



What we cant do is what happened in 2013 where we got a southern accent heavy Wembley crowd engrossed in an all time classic and then decided not to play even one test at home for years!

What a bizarre comment, though you do have previous eh ? Up the Centurions

The shirt issue still riles me. I saw loads of RU all white and a simple rose. Good simple design easy to wear as casual wear.

The England RL is just for sale to the diehards. It will have no wider appeal.



I asked my daughter if she wanted an England RL shirt and she said she preferred the RU one.

Samoa have underperformed at international level for decades for some reason, but even so, that result must be a massive shock to anyone except the most optimistic England fans.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/world- ... 74e40748e4 A year old but might help to explain why Samoa underperformed yesterday

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/world- ... 74e40748e4 A year old but might help to explain why Samoa underperformed yesterday

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Doesn't help that England RL change shirt every 5mins, no brand is built before it's all change again. I personally think the in your face flag on the shirt is our best look (such as last year's shirt that was intended for the World Cup) as neither Union or Football go for that so it's distinct.

Fantastic prediction,you are never too far out LOL

Well all them players went well -Hill,Cooper,Mickey and Tomkins-really all the team in my opinion.

I can’t believe Wayne didn’t pick Ryan Hall the worlds best winger

6k for Italy-Scotland is a solid effort considering it was in Newcastle and given they haven't been discounting tickets this time round it should mean the revenue is good so far

Why do they keep playing that crap Mexican trumpet? It's bloody horrible

Need to have singers for the anthems, it's really spoiling it pre game

I take back my earlier optimism about crowds 5k for an NZ game is really poor.



Time for some discount codes for people who have bought tickets to go to another game maybe?



Worryingly we also have games in non heartland places like Coventry and Middlesbrough coming up

People moaning about the ticket prices, but the cheapest ticket categories aren't even selling out, there was only 6k at headingley today, the £20 seating and standing areas hadnt sold out, tomorrow night in Doncaster, every ticket is £20.21...£2.21 concessions but it still won't sell out. The cheapest prices for most world cup games are cheaper than or similar to super League prices. You can't get to many top level sporting events, gigs, theatres etc for much lower prices than the rugby league world cup prices are...too many years of underselling ourselves via low ticket prices and Groupon codes etc have come back to bite us this year.

Possibly the opening 5 games where in a compact area? Now they move.

Agree that they have got fans hooked on cheap/free tickets over the years and that isn't helping.



Also think they are going a bit too far with the 'tickets are selling out' stuff, I've seen a few social media comments where people are saying they thought there wasn't any good tickets left so didn't bother.

Will cut the organisers some slack in that originally the Scotland game was meant to be at a new stadium in Cumbria and the Australia game in Hull so a bigger geographical spread but a lots happened since that venue announcement.



Just hope the bad press doesn't start to build as it's hard to shake of a 'flop event' tag.

Definitely, yesterday they said category E seats at St James park were limited...but there were plenty of seats left in the upper tier...all 3 games today were marked as having low availability, but Warrington and headingley were only around 38% full...

What’s the price for Old Trafford?

What were the prices for the euro 2020 final? 6 nations at Twickenham, cricket world cup final etc? If we want to be taken as a more serious sport on the international stage, higher prices sadly come with it

Can you not just enjoy the occasion. Stop the negativity,start creating something positive.

Bolton here we come..