Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Wed Nov 20, 2013 1:01 pm  

The website is not very good. I click to buy tickets for the semi final, i am greeted with an image showing purple areas of areas SOLD OUT, which is pretty much everything. I click FAST TICKETS type in i want 2 tickets in section 144 and i can buy them, also tried it for section 102.

I was originally put off seeing the SOLDOUT signs and didn't want to sit in the gods. Why say sections are sold out when they are not ?!?

The website has been pretty hit and miss throughout the whole tournament.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Wed Nov 20, 2013 1:10 pm  

Still 3 days left to sell tickets. We woulc still hit 70,000 by saturday. To me it all seems a bit nit picking to be harping on about not getting a sellout, when most people would have settled for 50k pre tourenment.

Just goes to show you can never satisfy; as peoples expectation rise, there demands increase higher beyond that which they originally wanted

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Wed Nov 20, 2013 1:13 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

Still 3 days left to sell tickets. We woulc still hit 70,000 by saturday. To me it all seems a bit nit picking to be harping on about not getting a sellout, when most people would have settled for 50k pre tourenment.

Just goes to show you can never satisfy; as peoples expectation rise, there demands increase higher beyond that which they originally wanted

Agree, but I also think we should have high expectations for our world cup - hopefully we build on this tournament and will be talking about selling out Wembley in 8 years time.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Wed Nov 20, 2013 1:19 pm  

I can't even get on the ticket site for Wembley. I assume that's a good sign.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Wed Nov 20, 2013 1:20 pm  

I would hope that we could sell out Wembley the next time we have the 4 nations on our shores. Once people get into the habit, it becomes more natural for them to go again.

The years it took to rebuild wembley really took something out of the habit of RL fans getting used to going to Wembley.

It took nearly a whole generation out of that habit.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Wed Nov 20, 2013 1:23 pm  

Repeat

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Wed Nov 20, 2013 2:12 pm  

Don't think we will see a major increase in ticket sales between now and Saturday. The chances of a big walk up figure for non heartland games I think are quite low. Most people who are going will have already got tickets, a bit similar to the game in Cardiff.

Still set for a belting attendance though.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Wed Nov 20, 2013 2:20 pm  

Karlos13 wrote:

Don't think we will see a major increase in ticket sales between now and Saturday. The chances of a big walk up figure for non heartland games I think are quite low. Most people who are going will have already got tickets, a bit similar to the game in Cardiff.

Still set for a belting attendance though.

I reckon you'd be surprised what a last minute Groupon or similar in London/South East could achieve - lots of people looking for things to do in London at the weekend.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Wed Nov 20, 2013 2:28 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

I reckon you'd be surprised what a last minute Groupon or similar in London/South East could achieve - lots of people looking for things to do in London at the weekend.

Yeah I agree that some sort of late promotion would boost the crowd figure. I was meaning more that a sudden late surge of established RL fans booking tickets is unlikely.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Wed Nov 20, 2013 2:40 pm  

Craig_UK wrote:

The website is not very good. I click to buy tickets for the semi final, i am greeted with an image showing purple areas of areas SOLD OUT, which is pretty much everything. I click FAST TICKETS type in i want 2 tickets in section 144 and i can buy them, also tried it for section 102.

I was originally put off seeing the SOLDOUT signs and didn't want to sit in the gods. Why say sections are sold out when they are not ?!?

The website has been pretty hit and miss throughout the whole tournament.

I think they have to get a balance, not every single seat will be sold out in any of the sections.
But if there are only a couple of seats grouped together, and a fan wanted 7 together, they may have to click on every single section in the stadium. May put people off