World Cup Ticket Sales : Thu Jun 06, 2013 8:42 am  

Anyone know how sales are going - RFL very quiet ?

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Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Thu Jun 06, 2013 9:15 am  

Sales were pretty good early on I heard

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Thu Jun 06, 2013 9:34 am  

rochdale wrote:

Anyone know how sales are going - RFL very quiet ?

they sold 1,500 tickets to the semi-finals to Junior RL in the south east...that was the last update they released.....

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Thu Jun 06, 2013 5:17 pm  

I would be surprised if they were pushing the WC just before the exiles game. They were giving updates pretty frequently until easter but then they started pushing MM. Whenever you get so little coverage I guess you have to pick what you promote and when.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Thu Jun 06, 2013 6:44 pm  

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Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Thu Jun 06, 2013 7:05 pm  

I struggled getting the tickets I wanted for all of the big 3 matches on the bottom tiers. It looks promising that so many extra blocks have been opened up at Cardiff and that the vast majority of the stadium for the final is already open.

What would people deem a success for those 3 games?

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Thu Jun 06, 2013 7:22 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

I struggled getting the tickets I wanted for all of the big 3 matches on the bottom tiers. It looks promising that so many extra blocks have been opened up at Cardiff and that the vast majority of the stadium for the final is already open.

What would people deem a success for those 3 games?

Nothing but a sell out. It's a world cup final and double headed semi.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Thu Jun 06, 2013 7:24 pm  

They do seem to be opening more seats for the opening game which is great news. I really struggled to get 5 tickets for the final, had to go for the £50 ones, really wanted the £30 ones but couldn't get ANY.

For me a success would be 50k for opening ceremony, 60k for Semi and sell-out for final. Plus all the smaller games well attended.

Some fans will complain if every single seat for the tournament isn't sold.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Thu Jun 06, 2013 8:54 pm  

Bull Mania wrote:

They do seem to be opening more seats for the opening game which is great news. I really struggled to get 5 tickets for the final, had to go for the £50 ones, really wanted the £30 ones but couldn't get ANY.

For me a success would be 50k for opening ceremony, 60k for Semi and sell-out for final. Plus all the smaller games well attended.

Some fans will complain if every single seat for the tournament isn't sold.

I believe that there are about 550k tickets available for the tournament. Semis (90) opener (75) and final (75) represent 44% if the available seats for 18% of the games....if the 3 above sell out and the rest get 50% capacity sold, then that's 345k sold and 63% capacity sold and an increase of 50k on 2008.
Anything less than that will be a real disappointment....

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Fri Jun 07, 2013 10:56 am  

Easty wrote:

Nothing but a sell out. It's a world cup final and double headed semi.

I agree that the final must sell out and by the looks of things, it will.

As for the semi it's a tough one. The stadium holds 90k but we'll have 75k to shift when you take in to account club Wembley. Is that possible? I'd like to think so but we'll need people in the heartlands to get off their backsides. In the 2011 four nations game at Wembley, the amount of tickets sold in the heartlands was pretty poor by all accounts. We can't afford for that to be the case again.

I'd be happy with 70k at Wembley, a full house at Old Trafford and 60k at Cardiff I think.