: Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:56 pm  

Old Feller wrote:

I want to buy 3 tickets for the game in France in June. I went in to the ticket office again yesterday (Monday) & was told they are still not available. The girl behind the counter took my contact details & said the club would phone me when they are on sale.
If they have them why on earth aren't they selling them & pocketing the cash? Does not make business sense to me.

i can't offer advice to a sucessfully run rugby club on how and when they sell their tickets can i?

If i give them the tickets its up to them when they sell them, makes all the panic they were making out though seem pretty stupid now! apparently they had hundreds of people asking for them and needed them to sell!

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 2:03 pm  

Cala Millor Rhino wrote:

i can't offer advice to a sucessfully run rugby club on how and when they sell their tickets can i?

If i give them the tickets its up to them when they sell them, makes all the panic they were making out though seem pretty stupid now! apparently they had hundreds of people asking for them and needed them to sell!

Be fair, they probably haven't worked out how many to give to club employees, offer to corporates, etc, etc, yet, so how do they know how many they should sell?

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 2:21 pm  

Lord_Percy wrote:

Be fair, they probably haven't worked out how many to give to club employees, offer to corporates, etc, etc, yet, so how do they know how many they should sell?

i won't go in to it, but it really isn't rocket science!

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:59 pm  

How many tickets have we been allocated for the game? I didnt anticipate it been hard to get one? Thanks for the comments above, nets been down for a few days, hence no replies!

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:47 pm  

AdmiralHanson wrote:

That's broadly what I heard, that the official line was the the club 'hadnt got them yet'

Like some of the other posters on here, I've got my flights, accomodation and travel to / from France all sorted, but the last thing I want is to go all that way and not actually get in to the ground by missing out on a ticket beforehand.

IIRC, isn't the capacity at the Gilbert around 12K and we got something close to that last year ?

To be honest, I thought that the ground was oversold last year. There were certainly enough people having to climb up perimeter walls just to get a view of the pitch.

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:31 pm  

bramleyrhino wrote:

To be honest, I thought that the ground was oversold last year. There were certainly enough people having to climb up perimeter walls just to get a view of the pitch.

I seem to recall a couple of guys last year had booked tickets with less than a week to the game and they hadn't turned up in the post .... So, they were 'sweating' a bit and it wasn't the hot sun doing it !