Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Tue Oct 15, 2013 7:39 am  

gutterfax wrote:

What is in doubt is how big an opportunity the game has missed through a number of bad choices, starting with venues, through to TV partners and the lack of a MAJOR brand in the sponsorship stable of contra deals......

funny, but I swear that I heard a radio advert yesterday from Gillette and ASDA promoting a special offer on RLWC razors at ASDA stores. Both of those are what I would class as MAJOR brands.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Tue Oct 15, 2013 8:04 am  

EHW wrote:

funny, but I swear that I heard a radio advert yesterday from Gillette and ASDA promoting a special offer on RLWC razors at ASDA stores. Both of those are what I would class as MAJOR brands.

Neither are sponsors of the RLWC and ASDA are a local brand......

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Tue Oct 15, 2013 8:43 am  

Am I really seeing some blocks at Cardiff priced at £99? And some are sold out too. £60 for the lower tier seems a bit expensive.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Tue Oct 15, 2013 12:03 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

ASDA are a local brand......

Sorry, but you lose any credibility with that statement!

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Tue Oct 15, 2013 12:11 pm  

ThePrinter wrote:

SL HASN'T created the Season Ticket thing though. Season Tickets are to be found all over the sporting world, it's not the SL inspired problem that he makes out. He doesn't like them yet what would he prefer.....harking back to day when ST weren't around?

How exactly would that help clubs financially? Not having that lump sum at the beginning of the year from ST sales. Would we see then a bigger attendances in cup and playoffs game...possibly but what if your team doesn't get a single home knockout game all year or just the one against a lower division team that doesn't get the crowd flocking? Clubs would see a lower attendance overall for the season and therefore less money......how would this help the sport he claims to be a true supporter of?

Nobody is claiming that it is season tickets themselves that are the problem. It's the people who don't want to go to other games throughout the season that aren't on the season ticket that are the problem. That is the mindset that has been created in the modern era.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Tue Oct 15, 2013 12:23 pm  

22k tickets sold for England Vs Ireland at Huddersfield

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Tue Oct 15, 2013 12:27 pm  

Still no Eng v Ire tickets here.

Spoke to the RLWC2013 ticket line yesterday. Lots of ambiguity. Tickets have been printed but don't know if or when they have been sent.

For all I know they could be lost in the post.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Tue Oct 15, 2013 12:41 pm  

Credibility,you are having a laugh.To associate either rlfans.com or gutterfax with credibility,really is going too far.What he is trying to suggest,is that Asda is part of Wal Mart.Inevitably he is wrong,confusing local with national.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Tue Oct 15, 2013 1:09 pm  

He said Major brand, so whether it's local national or international the whole word major is subjective and therefore open to arguement.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Tue Oct 15, 2013 1:18 pm  

brearley84 wrote:

22k tickets sold for England Vs Ireland at Huddersfield

Is the capacity still 24500?

You know for those posters who like to look at the game as 11% empty rather than 89% full. I rounded those percentages in Williams favour.