England<\/a>\u2018s rugby league team had played at the national stadium just twice before last Saturday, which was a game 22 years in the making.<\/p>\nA crowd of 60,812, including plenty of Kangaroos supporters decked out in green and gold, watched opening game in this autumn\u2019s three-Test series, which was comfortably won 26-6 by the tourists.<\/p>\n
That is now a record attendance for a Rugby League Ashes game held in the UK, with Wembley\u2019s entire lower bowl sold out.<\/p>\n
But questions have still come over whether rugby league is well-placed under the arch or not, with thousands of empty seats still present last weekend and demand for tickets not exactly sky-high.<\/p>\n
Shaun Wane weighs in on Wembley debate as verdict delivered following opening Ashes Test<\/p>\n
Comparably, both the second and third Tests in this series \u2013 in Liverpool and Leeds respectively \u2013 sold out almost instantly when tickets went on sale.<\/p>\n
As he spoke to the media on Monday afternoon at England\u2019s training base, head coach Wane was asked about the sport\u2019s Wembley conundrum, with attendances always a topic of interest whenever we see a game in the capital.<\/p>\n
Wane said: \u201cI thought the atmosphere was good at Wembley.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know it wasn\u2019t full, and there\u2019s not many (events) that could fill Wembley, but I thought it was great.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was great how it started, but I know at Bramley Moore, that ground is going to be banging.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be packed with real rugby league fans and it\u2019ll be a real Test match.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe players will enjoy that, but I know they enjoyed the build-up to Wembley as well, being in our capital city.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt felt like a big game, but as soon as it started, it didn\u2019t feel that way and that\u2019s down to us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England boss Shaun Wane believes the atmosphere at Wembley for last weekend\u2019s opening Ashes Test was \u2018good\u2019, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-233380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}