Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sat Jun 15, 2013 3:00 pm  

jonny the leyther wrote:

Heard that the Ireland game in Limerick had sold around 3500 and the Fiji v Ireland game at Rochdale was around the same mark.

Think that's pretty positive at this stage.

That does sound quite good actually. I fear for Scotland v USA on a Thursday night in Salford tbh.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sat Jun 15, 2013 3:18 pm  

jonny the leyther wrote:

Heard that the Ireland game in Limerick had sold around 3500 and the Fiji v Ireland game at Rochdale was around the same mark.

Think that's pretty positive at this stage.

Not sure how accurate the Limerick figure is, had a look and there is only one stand open and not many seats sold.

The Rochdale game looks to be selling well. Think some fans need to be realistic about ticket sales. The tournaments still 4 month away and we've probably sold more already than the 2000 World Cup. Wonder how many tickets the 08 World Cup had sold 4 months before the tournament?

[Hillsborough Lad]

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sat Jun 15, 2013 3:20 pm  

BigRedV wrote:

That does sound quite good actually. I fear for Scotland v USA on a Thursday night in Salford tbh.

I bought a ticket for that on Wednesday - I got ticket number 38 in the South Stand...

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sat Jun 15, 2013 4:14 pm  

jonny the leyther wrote:

Heard that the Ireland game in Limerick had sold around 3500 and the Fiji v Ireland game at Rochdale was around the same mark.

Think that's pretty positive at this stage.

that's pretty good, the RFL commented that they picked Rochdale for the Fiji game due to the town having a big Fijian population...and those sales seem to back that up.

as others have said, the Scotland-USA game at Salford mid-week is a concern, can't understand why they didn't attempt to play at least one Scotland game in Scotland.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sat Jun 15, 2013 5:58 pm  

UllFC wrote:

that's pretty good, the RFL commented that they picked Rochdale for the Fiji game due to the town having a big Fijian population...and those sales seem to back that up.

as others have said, the Scotland-USA game at Salford mid-week is a concern, can't understand why they didn't attempt to play at least one Scotland game in Scotland.

In 2000 they played Scotland, Wales and Ireland games in their own countries and Scotland in particular was just embarrassing (and oh boy, did the BBC use it as a stick to beat the tournament with).

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sun Jun 16, 2013 7:41 am  

Bull Mania wrote:

Not sure how accurate the Limerick figure is, had a look and there is only one stand open and not many seats sold.

The Rochdale game looks to be selling well. Think some fans need to be realistic about ticket sales. The tournaments still 4 month away and we've probably sold more already than the 2000 World Cup. Wonder how many tickets the 08 World Cup had sold 4 months before the tournament?

It's not a confirmed figure, it's what I was told by someone in the know whilst doing my work for RLP.

I think a lot of fans, and I mean a really high percentage of us havn't bought tickets yet. I've got tickets to 3 games but will be attending at least 8.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sun Jun 16, 2013 9:47 am  

I'm the same, I've got tickets for the big 3 matches but will be going to all the England games, NZ v Samoa, Ireland vs Fiji, Cook Islands vs Tonga and a couple of quarter finals as a minimum.

The signs are very positive I think. It certainly isn't going to be a repeat of 2000.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sun Jun 16, 2013 9:57 am  

Bull Mania wrote:

Just slightly off-topic, but i caught the highlights of NZ V.S Aus cricket match in the ICC trophy and noticed there were a lot of empty seats. Wonder if anyone is concerned about the health of cricket

If the RL world cup has even one game that has some empty seats, i'm sure these message boards will be full of some "fans" gleefully telling everyone international RL is pointless, no one is interested and it is dead.

I was at the volunteer launch yesterday and with all the preparation behind the scenes, the only thing that will fail with this World Cup is people not buying tickets and getting to games.

[Wheels]

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sun Jun 16, 2013 10:36 am  

BigRedV wrote:

That does sound quite good actually. I fear for Scotland v USA on a Thursday night in Salford tbh.

Well I'll be there!

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Sun Jun 16, 2013 11:27 am  

Although I find international rugby a bit of a farce as at the world cup every country will have Australians in there team so that devalues the tournament straight away I will go to the games at craven park and the kc