Re: The World Cup : Sun Oct 16, 2022 2:31 pm  

ploinerrhino wrote:

So Cooper , Hill and M. Mickey in , shows how bad we are plus a past his best Tomkins and never good enough Sneyd .

A gamble on proven nothing yet Kai Pearce - Paul and long time out of form one trick pony Williams .

so in my opinion we have the below who are good enough

Makinson
Watkins
Young
Farnworth
Welsby
Thompson
Whitehead
Radley
Knowles
Lees

Well all them players went well -Hill,Cooper,Mickey and Tomkins-really all the team in my opinion.

Re: The World Cup : Sun Oct 16, 2022 2:34 pm  

I can’t believe Wayne didn’t pick Ryan Hall the worlds best winger

Re: The World Cup : Sun Oct 16, 2022 3:55 pm  

6k for Italy-Scotland is a solid effort considering it was in Newcastle and given they haven't been discounting tickets this time round it should mean the revenue is good so far

Re: The World Cup : Sun Oct 16, 2022 4:31 pm  

Why do they keep playing that crap Mexican trumpet? It's bloody horrible

Re: The World Cup : Sun Oct 16, 2022 7:15 pm  

Need to have singers for the anthems, it's really spoiling it pre game

Re: The World Cup : Sun Oct 16, 2022 8:32 pm  

I take back my earlier optimism about crowds 5k for an NZ game is really poor.

Time for some discount codes for people who have bought tickets to go to another game maybe?

Worryingly we also have games in non heartland places like Coventry and Middlesbrough coming up

Re: The World Cup : Sun Oct 16, 2022 8:36 pm  

UllFC wrote:

I take back my earlier optimism about crowds 5k for an NZ game is really poor.

Time for some discount codes for people who have bought tickets to go to another game maybe?

Worryingly we also have games in non heartland places like Coventry and Middlesbrough coming up

People moaning about the ticket prices, but the cheapest ticket categories aren't even selling out, there was only 6k at headingley today, the £20 seating and standing areas hadnt sold out, tomorrow night in Doncaster, every ticket is £20.21...£2.21 concessions but it still won't sell out. The cheapest prices for most world cup games are cheaper than or similar to super League prices. You can't get to many top level sporting events, gigs, theatres etc for much lower prices than the rugby league world cup prices are...too many years of underselling ourselves via low ticket prices and Groupon codes etc have come back to bite us this year.

Re: The World Cup : Sun Oct 16, 2022 8:40 pm  

UllFC wrote:

I take back my earlier optimism about crowds 5k for an NZ game is really poor.

Time for some discount codes for people who have bought tickets to go to another game maybe?

Worryingly we also have games in non heartland places like Coventry and Middlesbrough coming up

Possibly the opening 5 games where in a compact area? Now they move.

Re: The World Cup : Sun Oct 16, 2022 8:40 pm  

Steve0 wrote:

People moaning about the ticket prices, but the cheapest ticket categories aren't even selling out, there was only 6k at headingley today, the £20 seating and standing areas hadnt sold out, tomorrow night in Doncaster, every ticket is £20.21...£2.21 concessions but it still won't sell out. The cheapest prices for most world cup games are cheaper than or similar to super League prices. You can't get to many top level sporting events, gigs, theatres etc for much lower prices than the rugby league world cup prices are...too many years of underselling ourselves via low ticket prices and Groupon codes etc have come back to bite us this year.

Agree that they have got fans hooked on cheap/free tickets over the years and that isn't helping.

Also think they are going a bit too far with the 'tickets are selling out' stuff, I've seen a few social media comments where people are saying they thought there wasn't any good tickets left so didn't bother.

Re: The World Cup : Sun Oct 16, 2022 8:43 pm  

atomic wrote:

Possibly the opening 5 games where in a compact area? Now they move.

Will cut the organisers some slack in that originally the Scotland game was meant to be at a new stadium in Cumbria and the Australia game in Hull so a bigger geographical spread but a lots happened since that venue announcement.

Just hope the bad press doesn't start to build as it's hard to shake of a 'flop event' tag.