Re: A Disaster ! : Sun Aug 05, 2018 9:14 pm  

fun time frankie wrote:

I’d target the schools in and around the London area with free tickets to boost the Catalans end

Who goes to school in August?

Selling them to the general public in London is a better idea. Lots of locals attend England games in London, the Challenge Cup Final needs to be marketed to these fans

Re: A Disaster ! : Sun Aug 05, 2018 9:16 pm  

what about chucking a load of cardboard cutouts in the seats with a string of onions round their necks to make the numbers up

Re: A Disaster ! : Sun Aug 05, 2018 9:16 pm  

UllFC wrote:

Yes the crowd may be 20k down on if Saints had got there,

Budgiezilla wrote:

Hopefully they might bring over 500 fans....but I bet there will be more Leeds Rhinos supporters there !

Can anyone explain why, when Toulon RFC and Clermont RFC, 2 Union clubs from the South East of France managed to get 50,000 fans to a game in Dublin 3 weeks after they won their semi-finals, we think that Catalans will only bring 5,000?
Catalans average attendance is about 7,500......St Helens is 11,500, but apparently St Helens would have brought nearly 2 times whilst catalans will only bring 66% of theirs?

Re: A Disaster ! : Sun Aug 05, 2018 9:20 pm  

Catalans have been in a Challenge Cup Final before with a massive following

Re: A Disaster ! : Sun Aug 05, 2018 9:23 pm  

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

Catalans have been in a Challenge Cup Final before with a massive following

That won't wash buddy....like it hasn't the other 5,000 times you've claimed it.

[Durham Giant]

Re: A Disaster ! : Sun Aug 05, 2018 9:23 pm  

Budgiezilla wrote:

Now you are being silly. Let's just wait till 25th August shall we ? Hopefully they might bring over 500 fans....but I bet there will be more Leeds Rhinos supporters there !

More Rhinos fans than there will be Leigh fans at SL games next season

Re: A Disaster ! : Sun Aug 05, 2018 9:48 pm  

Fast forward to tomorrow morning where the RFL related twitter accounts are giving away hundreds of tickets...

Re: A Disaster ! : Sun Aug 05, 2018 10:31 pm  

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

Salford, Widnes and Wakefield would all take fewer fans to a final than Catalans, should we stop those clubs competing in any RL competitions with a final?

Back talking crap again - wakefield always sel there allocations for cup semi finals and would easily take 20k plus. Do you seriously think Leeds has the monopoly on bandwagon jumpers. Only an idiot would mix up a teams core support with that which turns out for success - but then it is you.

Last time wakefield played Widnes in a CC was 1979 and between us we filled the place - yet at the time both clubs average attendances were the same as now - so work out Einstein.

Re: A Disaster ! : Sun Aug 05, 2018 10:31 pm  

EastHullUTR wrote:

Fast forward to tomorrow morning where the RFL related twitter accounts are giving away hundreds of tickets...

.....and?
The revenue from the CC Final is of no concern to HKR, or any other of the top 2 tier sides, who are to a man jack funded by SKY, their own fans and sponsors and their owners.....tickets start at £20 a pop....if a Neutral RL fan can't be bothered to visit the capital for one of the 2 showpiece games in the club game, then so be it, but te empty seats won't be the fault of Catalans.....just lazy RL fans and the RFL....

Re: A Disaster ! : Sun Aug 05, 2018 10:41 pm  

vastman wrote:

Back talking crap again - wakefield always sel there allocations for cup semi finals and would easily take 20k plus.

2016 Challenge Cup Semi-finals....20,846 fans for Wire v Wakey and Wigan v Hull with 6,205 empty seats across the 2 stadiums and 1,642 of those at the Wakey Wire game.
It's all well and good having a pop at Sir Kev (he deserves it) but the acts don't back up your claims of selling allocations for semi-finals