Are we 100% that there were no discounted tickets in 2000???

Also if this tournament turns a profit would you agree that profit is the true measure of success?

A large chunk of the Final tickets were given away for free in the Manchester Evening News in 2000.

Why would you want to count the attendance at a double header twice?

For example, let's say 60.000 attend Cardiff in two weeks time. You wouldn't count that 60,000 attendance twice... once for England V Australia and again for Wales V Italy would you?

There were 60,000 in paid attendance for two games... not 120,000.

I've paid for entry for 2 games at Headingley, does that mean I only count on one of them?
FWIW in Union they count the Double Header crowd for each game.

Same here and same explanation.

Looking like everyone who booked early for this game hasn't got their tickets. Ring a week before was all i got. Could be a massive problem if these have been nicked and resold because the match will be a sellout.

Are both those games covered by the purchase of just one ticket or the purchase of two tickets?

Why lie? Everyone can see you did. You either tried to load the dice in your favour and hoped no-one noticed or you were too stupid to realise you had done so. Whatever the reason for it. It happened

you think all tickets in 2000 were paid for? Never mind full price, half price or any price we saw tickets given away for free in 2000. And yes, selling more tickets than we did in 2008, in Australia where the modern season ticket loving cheap ticket needing super league fan couldn't be responsible for attendances should be our bare minimum aim

60k in attendance for 2 games is a 120k attendance over two fixtures.

In a further desperate attempt to load the dice in your favour you are asking us to either ignore a game happening at all and discount it from the calculations or pretend that two games which 60k attended had only 30k attending. It's amongst your most twisty-turny-spinny agenda pushing yet.

Do you have a spreadsheet of the attendances of the games you ignore or dismiss as made up because they don't fit your agenda? So far I think we have the WC double header, les Catalans in Toulouse, the challenge cup final, any more?

As does the NRL

Another one here still not received my England v Ireland tickets, hope they turn up soon, all the others came in good time

Unlike you, I loaded no dice... nor... unlike you... did I request a safety blanket.

JB Down Under offered me 2 bets [url=http://viewtopic.php?p=17602982&tsmp=1381866992#p17602982HERE[/url. I declined one bet and accepted the other bet, though it does appear that JB Down Under has now chickened out.

1) [uThe Total Attendance Bet[/u - which was declined by me for obvious reasons. The 2013 World Cup consists of 28 fixtures where the attendances will be based primarily on discounted half price ticket entry. This is in stark contrast to 1995 which consisted of 15 fixtures where attendances were based primarily upon full price ticket entry.

2) [uThe Average Attendance Bet[/u - which was accepted by me, where the 2013 World Cup average is competing against the 1995 World Cup average of 17,707 per fixture. A very reasonable bet considering that 2013 attendances are being boosted by the heavily discounted half price ticket community of fans who wouldn't turn up otherwise.

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Oh, and just for those who are unaware of SmokeyTA's betting cowardice...

SmokeyTA made an assertion that SL attendances in 2013 were on course to becoming the 2nd best in the history of the game (2012 being the highest).

He was offered a bet by RLBandit who disagreed with that assertion. The bet offered by RLBandit was that 2013 SL attendances would be lower than 2011 SL attendances.

SmokeyTA and his assertion lost their bottle and would only accept the bet provided he was allowed a 5% dispensation on the bet. In other words, so long as the 2013 attendances were no more than 5% lower than 2011 SL attendances, then he won the bet. RLBandit generously allowed the 5% dispensation.

SmokeyTA won the bet because the 2013 SL attendances were only 4.16% down on the 2011 SL attendances.

In other words, his safety blanket dispensation of 5% saved his @rse!

Shame the same cannot be said for SmokeyTA's credibility however.