Anjishnu Roy 14/04/2025 20comments  |  Jump to last

The new Everton Stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock is set to make history soon as it will host the biggest Ashes crowd for a rugby league international fixture since 1994. Tickets at the 52,888-seater got sold out within minutes of going live on general sale.

The match, second of the series, will take place on November 1 and will be the first major non-football event to be hosted at Bramley-Moore Dock which will host Everton’s home fixtures from the 2025-26 season.

“The excitement around the return of the Rugby League Ashes has been building for months, and to have already sold out two of the three matches is a huge boost to the sport,” said the CEO of Rugby League Commercial Rhodri Jones.

The final Ashes game between Australia and England, to be held at Headingley, Leeds, was also a sell-out. Tickets are available only for the opening fixture at Wembley Stadium in London.

“It has been a pleasure working with the staff at all three venues to deliver such an outstanding result. The Second Test at the new Everton Stadium will have an attendance of more than 50,000, which will be the biggest for an Ashes Test since 1994.

“We’re excited about the prospect of taking the first non-football event to such a superb new stadium, and also about taking an Ashes Test to Headingley for the first time since 1982 – in each case in front of a full house.”

 

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Phil Roberts
1 Posted 14/04/2025 at 12:57:49
Just had a mail to say the England v Australia Rugby League International at Bramley-Moore Dock is now sold out. Tickets went on general sale at 10:00 this morning.

Thankfully, having volunteered at the Olympics, I was on the preferred list and got them a week ago. Do I watch the rugby or just gaze lovingly at the stadium??

Danny O'Neill
2 Posted 14/04/2025 at 13:09:37
Probably both, Phil. And admire the outside setting.

She's a fitting heir to the Goodison throne.

Chris Ellis
3 Posted 14/04/2025 at 15:59:53
Has the club published any statistics regarding the sale of season tickets for the new Everton Stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock?
Phil Roberts
4 Posted 14/04/2025 at 16:40:46
Chris - as far as I heard, season tickets sold out with an 18,000 waiting list.
Mark Murphy
5 Posted 14/04/2025 at 18:05:06
I pre-booked my tickets for the Rugby League weeks ago and look forward to educating my guest, a Mr Daniel O'Neill, in the intricacies of the game — ie, it's British Bulldog with a ball thrown in.

Danny O'Neill
6 Posted 14/04/2025 at 18:53:32
Mark, don't tell everyone my christened name. Only my mother, teachers and priests called me Daniel.

It was all part of the deal when my Anglican mother married a Catholic. She was told in no uncertain terms surrounded by the priest from St Chistopher's in Speke, where I was christened and the 6 O'Neill sisters that I would be called Daniel and I would be christened Roman Catholic.

Danny boy will do. I'm looking forward to the Rugby and the probable M62 takeover of the city centre and the Bramley Moore Pub.

Martin Mason
7 Posted 14/04/2025 at 18:56:55
I'm very sorry to have missed out on the game.

I'm very lucky in that I like both codes of Rugby, even though League is a bit of a Wool's game for Southerners like me, but it shows how tolerant we Horsham folk are.

Paul Ferry
8 Posted 14/04/2025 at 19:37:09
I didn't know that Southerners used 'wool' as we do. Even Horsham has its wools in surrounding territories. So, Guildford, Harlow, or Wokingham are London's wools?

Danny (2), if you mean 'the outside setting' over the Dock Wall, there isn't really a great deal to admire yet mate.

Rob Halligan
9 Posted 14/04/2025 at 19:44:59
Let's hope we've got an away game that weekend, as no doubt we will be playing on the Sunday if we're at home and don't want to be playing on a fucked-up pitch.
Danny O'Neill
10 Posted 14/04/2025 at 19:57:04
The plaza when you walk in through the dock gates, Paul. it's quite spectacular already. There will be continuous improvements. I read there are plans for the Hydraulic Tower that has been preserved, as have the original dock walls. It will be gradual.

Still a lot to be done for the promised redevelopment of the northern docks. I suppose it doesn't help that the council sat on their arses for 4 years whilst half of them were sorting out favourable contracts for which quite a few of them are now on bribery charges for, including our own Degsy. I would hasten to add, not all related to the Everton Stadium.

Martin Mason
11 Posted 14/04/2025 at 20:00:53
Phil @4,

How many sales were ticket web sites and tourist sites that do game packages? What it means is that the fairly priced tickets are gone now.

Brian Williams
12 Posted 14/04/2025 at 20:14:27
Martin #11.

None of them were from ticket web sites. The club sold the season tickets, nowhere else.

What are you on about, Martin?

Martin Mason
13 Posted 14/04/2025 at 20:26:09
Brian, all to season ticket holders, of course, yet a tiny few who watch Rugby League and none of the tickets will end up on ticket sites?

What are you on about Brian?

Remember, I have to buy off these cesspits for all games.

Martin Mason
14 Posted 14/04/2025 at 20:51:38
Paul, I was joking a bit.

I was born in Sefton General in 1951, brought up in Northwich mid-Cheshire (ICI refugees) and then moved to Horsham in 1998 as I was working 100% in London and abroad and my Malaysian wife loved it here.

I've protected my Northern accent through University and Shell but my scouse accent was beaten out of me early on.

Danny O'Neill
15 Posted 14/04/2025 at 21:18:59
Martin, we share the same birthplace.

Now it's an Asda on Smithdown Road!

Paul Ferry
16 Posted 14/04/2025 at 21:28:42
I thought so, Martin. Sefton General used to be part of the old Toxteth workouse, I think.

Incidentally, I use the 1775-1845 Horsham gaol in my teaching on punishment in England. It was considered to be a flagship new-model-type prison. It was on Causey Croft, I think it was called.

https://horshamphotography.wordpress.com/2014/06/28/horsham-gaols/#jp-carousel-675

Brian Williams
17 Posted 14/04/2025 at 21:39:39
Martin. Phil@4 was talking about Everton season tickets sales. It was that comment that you replied to with regard to sites selling the tickets.
That's what I was questioning, nothing to do with the rugby.
Stu Darlington
18 Posted 14/04/2025 at 22:16:30
Rob@9
No need to worry Rob.I’m assured all body parts will be removed after the final whistle!
Rob Halligan
19 Posted 14/04/2025 at 22:20:58
Stu, I’ll be more worried about all the egg yolk and egg whites stuck all over the pitch. It is a game of egg chasing after all!
Mark Murphy
20 Posted 14/04/2025 at 22:46:53
I’d just like to emphasise that I didn’t introduce the wool theme to this thread.
I’ve moved on.
Paul, as far as I can gather, everyone who lives in the countryside outside London are called cahnts
uTFT

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