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Goes without saying I will be supporting England, especially with Sinfield as captain. I think England stand a real chance, but a lot depends on players like Tomkins, Burrow etc staying healthy. It's going to come down to the usual 3, England, Australia and New Zealand, Wales are still a young team (as they showed today) and this will be too soon for them. France might be able to cause an odd upset but I'm not sure if their top players will have retired or still be going by then.
I am slightly worried about the whole thing (I think it's a rugby league fan thing to always be pessimistic about things) in terms of attendances and ticket sales. Given what a complete disaster the last WC was that was staged here I just don't want it to happen again. As long as the RFL really go nuts with the publicity and ticket prices are reasonable then there's every chance it could be a success. But the real key will be what it gets in terms of publicity from the tv and papers. I'm sure the BBC and SKY will promote it but the papers need to get in board as well and give it far more space then RL currently gets. |
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