Re: Catalans Challenge Cup : Sat Jan 05, 2019 1:22 pm  

Based on an average attendance since we moved to new Wembley its was over 700k less in revenue than the average. No coincidence that Catalan were in the final. Question is were does that money come from if Catalan make the final?

Re: Catalans Challenge Cup : Sat Jan 05, 2019 1:32 pm  

ThePrinter wrote:

:lol: at the moral high horse going on here, 99% of people will have forgotten about this by this time next week and ANYONE who claims they won’t attend WILL BE there if their club gets to the SF and Final without fail.

not me pal when I say something I will stick by it, until the RFL drop their stupid ruling

Re: Catalans Challenge Cup : Sat Jan 05, 2019 1:33 pm  

supercat wrote:

Based on an average attendance since we moved to new Wembley its was over 700k less in revenue than the average. No coincidence that Catalan were in the final. Question is were does that money come from if Catalan make the final?

It depends on the usual ticket allocation for sides that make it to the final.

Certainly most of the sales should be made well in advance of the final, with a certain number kept back for the two finalists and some bright spark at RFL HQ has decided that this is around 500,000 quids worth.

Fundamentally though this is irrellevent. Any club that is eligble to enter the competition and fills in the neccessary paperwork etc should be treated equally or, we may as well start at the semi final stages, with Leeds, Wigan Sanits and either Warrington or Hull FC making up the numbers.
Mind you, even with the so called big boys involved, Wembley hasn't sold out for a very long time.


Last season, just as soon as Catalan secured their place in the final, tickets should have been allocated to all SL sides to sell at discounted prices in an attempt to fill the gorund.


The real pity is that last seasons game was one of, if not, the best games in the las 10+ years

Re: Catalans Challenge Cup : Sat Jan 05, 2019 1:56 pm  

snowie wrote:

not me pal when I say something I will stick by it, until the RFL drop their stupid ruling

Of course you will. Wakefield make their first Challenge Cup final in 40 years, hoping for their first win in over half a century and you don’t go because a French team were asked to cough up some money.

Re: Catalans Challenge Cup : Sat Jan 05, 2019 2:07 pm  

ThePrinter wrote:

Of course you will. Wakefield make their first Challenge Cup final in 40 years, hoping for their first win in over half a century and you don’t go because a French team were asked to cough up some money.

unlike you I do have principles and while you jest I can tell you I'm getting truly sick of the game and could walk away all together at anytime I'm that close

Re: Catalans Challenge Cup : Sat Jan 05, 2019 2:16 pm  

snowie wrote:

unlike you I do have principles and while you jest I can tell you I'm getting truly sick of the game and could walk away all together at anytime I'm that close

Ok goodbye

Re: Catalans Challenge Cup : Sat Jan 05, 2019 2:46 pm  

snowie wrote:

unlike you I do have principles and while you jest I can tell you I'm getting truly sick of the game and could walk away all together at anytime I'm that close

I can remember last year when you said you'd done for good on RLFANS, look how that's turned out

Re: Catalans Challenge Cup : Sat Jan 05, 2019 2:50 pm  

supercat wrote:

Question is were does that money come from if Catalan make the final?

It comes from the RFL doing its job and selling what it keeps insisting is a prestige "blue ribbon" protected event of national importance.

This is basically the RFL running the white flag up the Red Hall flagpole. It's an admission that the body has given up, that it no longer has the ideas, the skills of the competence to sell this sport to a new audience and that they'd privately rather have Leeds v Wigan in the final every year.

It's pathetic and if this is were any other kind of business with this sort of attitude, we'd rightly be saying that they deserve to die.

Re: Catalans Challenge Cup : Sat Jan 05, 2019 2:56 pm  

little wayne69 wrote:

I can remember last year when you said you'd done for good on RLFANS, look how that's turned out

Never believe anybody who publicly threatens to quit something. If they’re really going to do it they just do it without the histrionics and high horse need to promote it.

Re: Catalans Challenge Cup : Sat Jan 05, 2019 3:23 pm  

bramleyrhino wrote:

It comes from the RFL doing its job and selling what it keeps insisting is a prestige "blue ribbon" protected event of national importance.

This is basically the RFL running the white flag up the Red Hall flagpole. It's an admission that the body has given up, that it no longer has the ideas, the skills of the competence to sell this sport to a new audience and that they'd privately rather have Leeds v Wigan in the final every year.

It's pathetic and if this is were any other kind of business with this sort of attitude, we'd rightly be saying that they deserve to die.

Agreed but, surely, any other business would replace the top management. They wouldn't just curl up and die.

Our sport has ZERO vision, we STILL keep on hoping that "innovation" and quick fixes will catapult the sport into the mainstream but, instead, we just look desperate and amateur.

It's time for the clowns that thought up the "overseas club bond" to either walk away or be finished, it's just not good enough.

And, yes, your right about our so called "event of national importance". Unfortunately, all of the importance disappeared just as soon as the Grand Final came into being.