Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sun Nov 17, 2013 8:04 pm  

Lawrie L wrote:

I await this weeks lottery numbers....

5,6,7,13, 19 & 31.
You're welcome
(if you win I want 10%!)

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sun Nov 17, 2013 8:05 pm  

Ganson's Optician wrote:

May just be my naff laptop, but the ticketing website appears to be down. Hopefully a sign that people are rushing for tickets!

Just your naff laptop.

Or maybe the time of day.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sun Nov 17, 2013 8:42 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

5,6,7,13, 19 & 31.
You're welcome
(if you win I want 10%!)

Let's see on Wednesday

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sun Nov 17, 2013 10:09 pm  

The crowd of 22,276 at Wigan on Saturday was the second largest ever in Britain for GB (Eng) v France after the 22,293 that watched GB v France at Station Road in the 1960 World Cup. (Figures taken from Robert Gate's 100 years of Test Matches. Rothmans gives a larger crowd for a test at Knowsley Road in '57).

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Mon Nov 18, 2013 10:39 am  

Martyn Sadler saying the RLWC are hopeful of 65k for the semis. He also said they were hopeful of over 50k for Cardiff, and 45k turned up.

I hope they push the game hard in London this week though, it's only locals that they can really target as walk up sales. Maybe do the groupon offers etc.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Mon Nov 18, 2013 12:06 pm  

apparently 56k sold for Wembley so far. Cant see it being much more than 65k now.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Mon Nov 18, 2013 12:17 pm  

Tre Cool wrote:

apparently 56k sold for Wembley so far. Cant see it being much more than 65k now.

If only more seasoned rugby league fans would get behind this

[PopTart]

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Mon Nov 18, 2013 12:21 pm  

I doubt anyone in the modern day of online ticketing would just walk up to Wembley and pay on the gate.
Even if you decided on the morning you'd surely buy a ticket and pick it up at the ticket office rather than just gamble.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Mon Nov 18, 2013 12:39 pm  

PopTart wrote:

I doubt anyone in the modern day of online ticketing would just walk up to Wembley and pay on the gate.
Even if you decided on the morning you'd surely buy a ticket and pick it up at the ticket office rather than just gamble.

I'm not sure Wembley can handle pay on the day sales.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Mon Nov 18, 2013 1:15 pm  

Here's a bit of a comparison for the glass half empty amongst us!
In comparison-

both semi finals at the 2000 world cup attracted a combined audience of 24,146 (equates to a 135% increase in attendance for 2013 semis)

both semi finals at the 2008 world cup attracted a combined audience of 42,554 (equates to a 32% increase in attendance for 2013 semis)

The final in 2008 also saw an attendance of 50,599 (the semi final attendance of 2013 alone of 56,000 is bigger than this, never mind a 40% increase for the final in 2013 approx 70,000 will be in attendance).

There will be 26,000 more people attending this world cup final in England than attended the last world cup final in England 44,329 & approx 20,000 more attendees than in 2008.

The rugby league community in the UK has really got behind this world cup however people always try and find the negatives, find the positives in our great sport for once!