Re: The World Cup : Mon Oct 24, 2022 7:39 pm  

I agree the ticket selling website is a s*** show, but if the tickets do sell at the numbers he hopes, then the pricing is justified, and will make an even bigger profit than those who think the tickets should be cheaper would have if they had been in charge!

Re: The World Cup : Mon Oct 24, 2022 8:13 pm  

Being able to pick your seats would have been a nice function to have, or telling you what row you're in before you buy them. You'd be miffed if you paid £70 for a game to be on the front row

Re: The World Cup : Mon Oct 24, 2022 8:21 pm  

Steve0 wrote:

Being able to pick your seats would have been a nice function to have, or telling you what row you're in before you buy them. You'd be miffed if you paid £70 for a game to be on the front row

A stand for unreserved seats would have been good too, some like to just turn up and sit with friends last minute.

Anyway, good effort from Wales. Tonga are either deliberately taking it slow or they just arent as good as 2017.

Re: The World Cup : Thu Oct 27, 2022 3:23 pm  

Teeside Live reporting that Middlesbrough's mayor spent 250k on the World Cup bid and sadly sales arent going well.

Would love to see a breakdown of what that has been spent on. If the World Cup team have managed to get a huge hosting fee then it makes sense why they seem quite blase about low sales as the money is already in the bank. But quite shocking what tax payer money is being spent on and it clearly isnt being spent on effective marketing by anyone!

Edit: "As part of the £250,000 bid, £75,000 will be spent on community engagement projects and advertising"

If anyone on Teeside can spot 75k's worth of advertising please let us know

Re: The World Cup : Thu Oct 27, 2022 6:36 pm  

I thought that was exactly the idea, you put the games in the cities that bid the highest (in exchange for a healthy cut of the ticket sales) and then they are heavily incentivised to market the game for you.

The higher the crowd, the happier everyone involved can be.

Re: The World Cup : Thu Oct 27, 2022 7:42 pm  

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UllFC wrote:

Teeside Live reporting that Middlesbrough's mayor spent 250k on the World Cup bid and sadly sales arent going well.

Would love to see a breakdown of what that has been spent on. If the World Cup team have managed to get a huge hosting fee then it makes sense why they seem quite blase about low sales as the money is already in the bank. But quite shocking what tax payer money is being spent on and it clearly isnt being spent on effective marketing by anyone!

Edit: "As part of the £250,000 bid, £75,000 will be spent on community engagement projects and advertising"

If anyone on Teeside can spot 75k's worth of advertising please let us know

Bit disappointing that ticket sales aren't going well, there was a lot of £25 tickets available in a lot of the ground, it's only an hour or so from Leeds too, so not too far from the heartlands...has the potential to be a good game too

Re: The World Cup : Thu Oct 27, 2022 7:54 pm  

Steve0 wrote:

[code][/code]Bit disappointing that ticket sales aren't going well, there was a lot of £25 tickets available in a lot of the ground, it's only an hour or so from Leeds too, so not too far from the heartlands...has the potential to be a good game too

Lived there for a brief time when Johnny Wilkinson was in his prime playing not far up the road and even then both codes of Rugby were completely off the radar in Boro, it was almost impossible to get SL on in a pub. Its a shame because the stadium is brilliant.

If I was a Teesside taxpayer id be asking serious questions where that cash has gone, they dont seem to have done much with the Captain Cook angle either which was the whole point of giving them a Cook Islands game.

Re: The World Cup : Fri Oct 28, 2022 6:52 am  

UllFC wrote:

Teeside Live reporting that Middlesbrough's mayor spent 250k on the World Cup bid and sadly sales arent going well.

Would love to see a breakdown of what that has been spent on. If the World Cup team have managed to get a huge hosting fee then it makes sense why they seem quite blase about low sales as the money is already in the bank. But quite shocking what tax payer money is being spent on and it clearly isnt being spent on effective marketing by anyone!

Edit: "As part of the £250,000 bid, £75,000 will be spent on community engagement projects and advertising"

If anyone on Teeside can spot 75k's worth of advertising please let us know

In the Nineties BBC paid Scottish Rugby Union 37 Million to show that code -now that was a waste of tax payers money.

Re: The World Cup : Fri Oct 28, 2022 11:37 am  

UllFC wrote:

A stand for unreserved seats would have been good too, some like to just turn up and sit with friends last minute.

Anyway, good effort from Wales. Tonga are either deliberately taking it slow or they just arent as good as 2017.

They aren't as good as 2017 they had Michael Jennings and Andrew fifita

Also no jason taumololo yet but he been back will help them

Re: The World Cup : Fri Oct 28, 2022 7:17 pm  

Ireland are done, but JWH should definitely cop a few games