Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sat Oct 05, 2013 6:16 pm  

wigsey wrote:

Has anyone received their England V Ireland tickets yet ?

I have tickets for all the other games in hand but not those

No, still not got them either.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sun Oct 06, 2013 11:54 am  

What are the sales like for the USA-Scotland game at Barton? Looking forward to that one.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sun Oct 06, 2013 12:01 pm  

Mail on sunday reporting only 280k total sales according to nigel wiskar on twitter

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sun Oct 06, 2013 12:09 pm  

flew with Jet2 the other day and was impressed to see a 4-5 page spread about the World Cup, with full fixture list and details of where to buy tickets. Appreciate they are a Northern airline (based at Leeds-Bradford) but its yet another different audience being made aware of the World Cup.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sun Oct 06, 2013 12:40 pm  

rochdale wrote:

Mail on sunday reporting only 280k total sales according to nigel wiskar on twitter

Let's just cancel it and not bother.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:00 pm  

rochdale wrote:

Mail on sunday reporting only 280k total sales according to nigel wiskar on twitter

So the real story is that in 2013 before the thing even starts they have already sold 18% more tickets than the cumulative attendance at the 2000 version? And that the average attendance for all games is already guaranteed to be in excess of 10,000?

This seems good to me - unless one takes the Gutterfax approach to things and prefer to drag Rugby League popularity totally away from its historical context?

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:07 pm  

MjM wrote:

This seems good to me.

I complete agree, especially considering very few tickets will have been sold so far for the QFs and many 'traditional fans' will not have bought tickets for games within their local area. So to be 3wks out and have strong ticket sales so far is very encouraging. That said, we shouldn't rest on our laurels and should continue to push the competition as much as possible with Cardiff being the key for mine. Push that as much as possible and severely ramp up promotion in the South Wales area itself (hardly been any of note so far!), and we'll have a mega crowd, not just the good one already attending...

But the plus point for mine is this will be the most successful competition to date, which is important as we wholeheartedly should not judge ourselves against other sports but against our own performances of the past. We are not a mega popular sport so everybody involved within the sport should get behind the competition if they can. Looking forward to it immensely!

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:34 pm  

rochdale wrote:

Mail on sunday reporting only 280k total sales according to nigel wiskar on twitter

You must really hate rugby league for mentioning that here.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:39 pm  

MjM wrote:

So the real story is that in 2013 before the thing even starts they have already sold 18% more tickets than the cumulative attendance at the 2000 version? And that the average attendance for all games is already guaranteed to be in excess of 10,000?

This seems good to me - unless one takes the Gutterfax approach to things and prefer to drag Rugby League popularity totally away from its historical context?

If you are going to cite historical context, why didn't you include a comparison with the pre-SL era 1995 World Cup when the average attendance was 17,707?

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:41 pm  

or..

Mail on Sunday reporting that 280,000 tickets have been sold already, with 3 weeks still to go. That's 18% up on the total attendance for all games played in 2000 (when it was last held in the UK) and many more are expected to sell now the GF is out of the way.

This is shaping up to be an amazing, very well attended tournament.