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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2 Posted 14/04/2025 at 13:09:37
She's a fitting heir to the Goodison throne.
3 Posted 14/04/2025 at 15:59:53
4 Posted 14/04/2025 at 16:40:46
5 Posted 14/04/2025 at 18:05:06
6 Posted 14/04/2025 at 18:53:32
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.
7 Posted 14/04/2025 at 18:56:55
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.
8 Posted 14/04/2025 at 19:37:09
Danny (2), if you mean 'the outside setting' over the Dock Wall, there isn't really a great deal to admire yet mate.
9 Posted 14/04/2025 at 19:44:59
10 Posted 14/04/2025 at 19:57:04
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.
11 Posted 14/04/2025 at 20:00:53
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.
12 Posted 14/04/2025 at 20:14:27
None of them were from ticket web sites. The club sold the season tickets, nowhere else.
What are you on about, Martin?
13 Posted 14/04/2025 at 20:26:09
What are you on about Brian?
Remember, I have to buy off these cesspits for all games.
14 Posted 14/04/2025 at 20:51:38
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.
15 Posted 14/04/2025 at 21:18:59
Now it's an Asda on Smithdown Road!
16 Posted 14/04/2025 at 21:28:42
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
17 Posted 14/04/2025 at 21:39:39
That's what I was questioning, nothing to do with the rugby.
18 Posted 14/04/2025 at 22:16:30
No need to worry Rob.I’m assured all body parts will be removed after the final whistle!
19 Posted 14/04/2025 at 22:20:58
20 Posted 14/04/2025 at 22:46:53
I’ve moved on.
Paul, as far as I can gather, everyone who lives in the countryside outside London are called cahnts
uTFT
21 Posted 16/04/2025 at 23:01:20
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1 Posted 14/04/2025 at 12:57:49
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??