Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Tue Oct 15, 2013 4:07 pm  

Terrific effort at Huddersfield for the Ireland game.No doubt rlfans.com,sorry I mean gutterfax,will criticise that as well.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Tue Oct 15, 2013 5:03 pm  

Find it odd that they haven't opened up more blocks at Cardiff when so many are now greyed out on the website.

we are showing a TV ad to the nation during the England football game tonight, surely we aren't expecting people to see that and then sit there on the website for ages trying to find decent (i.e not £99 or up in the gods for £20) seats together?

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Tue Oct 15, 2013 5:04 pm  

Someone tell me what you get for £99!

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Tue Oct 15, 2013 5:07 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

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.

yes 24k capacity.. so will be a sell out

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Tue Oct 15, 2013 5:18 pm  

so just went on the rugby league world cup website to buy my tickets for the world cup final...

clicked on the sold out area, side on best seats and it let me have two sat together!

bit strange when its shaded purple and says sold out but its now

anyway im not complaining!

£30 for side on seats... brilliant..or cheaper if you use the code

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Tue Oct 15, 2013 6:22 pm  

Mark_W wrote:

Someone tell me what you get for £99!

The best views in the ground, access to the best catering facilities in the ground, plus 2 x high quality RL games featuring some of the best RL players the world has to offer and the Opening Ceremony.

Cardiff, Wembley and Old Trafford all have £99 seats. All are gone at Wembley and only a very small number are left at old Trafford. Cardiff have sold a lot of £99 seats as well. Arguably they have a few too many at Cardiff but they've sold in good numbers. The £79 seats at Wembley are all gone as are the vast majority of the £50 seats. The £60 seats at Cardiff are largely gone bar four blocks (L4, L5, L9 and L33).

Therefore you can conclude from this that there has been some very good demand for the more expensive tickets whilst there are adequate cheaper seats all around each ground, largely sold out for the ones currently available.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Tue Oct 15, 2013 6:40 pm  

SmokeyTA wrote:

I think you described 5% as cowardly.

You requested a 5% safety blanket therefore you were.

SmokeyTA wrote:

I wonder what that makes your 20% safety blanket?

There is no 20% safety blanket because I haven't requested one.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Tue Oct 15, 2013 6:44 pm  

Supreme Saint wrote:

Remember this William eve is the same bloke who spent all season criticising attendances before stating on the Leeds board that he is in a habit of not attending.

Correct.

I've attended somewhere in the region of between 40 and 50 RL games over the past 12 months.

None of them were SL games.

I no longer waste my time on meaningless SL fixtures.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Tue Oct 15, 2013 6:53 pm  

SmokeyTA wrote:

As a minimum we should look to sell 300k tickets.

You believe 300k is acceptable as a bare minimum?

Bearing in mind almost 264k attended the 2000 World Cup and paid full price for their tickets... add in the fact that it also had a £1,000,000 sponsor (The Lincoln Financial Group)... and that it made huge losses and was considered a disaster...

Why would you consider 300k as a bare minimum ok figure in 2013 when the vast majority of folk are in attendance on the back of heavily discounted 50% off tickets and it doesn't have a named sponsor shelling out a million quid this time around?

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Tue Oct 15, 2013 6:57 pm  

William Eve wrote:

You believe 300k is acceptable as a bare minimum?

Bearing in mind almost 264k attended the 2000 World Cup and paid full price for their tickets... add in the fact that it also had a £1,000,000 sponsor (The Lincoln Financial Group)... and that it made huge losses and was considered a disaster...

Why would you consider 300k as a bare minimum ok figure in 2013 when the vast majority of folk are in attendance on the back of heavily discounted 50% off tickets and it doesn't have a named sponsor shelling out a million quid this time around?

One difference this time round is that all of the games are being staged at grounds that regularly host RL, so you would imagine that the rates we are being charged are lower than hiring out football grounds or Twickenham like in 2000.

also while the tournament hasn't got a main sponsor, Cardiff have shelled out a big fee to host the opener there, and other sponsors are on-board.