Sold out 17,000 crowd.

This RLWC is refreshingly fantastic.

This is shaping up to be a fantastic world cup, Can feel the excitement building after each game

I knew the competition would be good, but not this good. I keep having to pinch myself because it is amazing to think that so many people have turned out for games such as last night. The great thing is that it can only get better. So refreshing for our sport to have a feel good factor for once!

Also noticed that RL news is regularly headline story on bbc sport. Never usually.

If only the tournament had been on a free to air channel .

biggest crowd so far for a single game........and some people say the French team bring nothing to Superleague and should be kicked out....

There is nothing increases demand like lack of avaliability.
In 2000 sky and bbc went into overkill coverage.
Result was empty stadia and it and nearly bankrupted the RL.

Exactly. All year there has been moaning about evening games being televised and thus attendances suffering.

If the competition continues as it is I have no doubt that next time round the BBC or another terrestrial station will enter an improved bid.

I must have been imagining the double header in Cardiff being on the BBC then.

The tournament is on free to air tv, just not every game.

Premier Sports is the host broadcaster, after Sky decided not to bother, so they have all the games live.

BBC have already got rights to the 2017 tournament. Not sure if it's full rights or if it will be with Premier Sports again.

Its all been good so far and well done to all involved.

Unfortunately we have now been put in our place due to a meaningless RU game v Australia. The papers have been full of rubbish about it all week, my daily paper "I" has 3 full pages about it today and just a small column about James Graham. Even North West news have been reporting about Sale v Exeter and no mention of RL at all. The BBC will of course be salivating over it like the establishment lap dogs they are. So lets not get too optimistic about the effect of the RLWC just yet.

Surely one reason for this is that RL itself has badly neglected the international game over recent years. There has been very little promotion of games in the past 15 years. Then all of a sudden a World Cup comes up, people get their fingers out and start promoting the game and what happens? There is a sudden realisation that RL is entertaining and can draw crowds after all.
This has to be the start for our game. Good promotion and marketing can draw in the crowds and there isn't a lot wrong with the product.