Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Tue Sep 17, 2013 9:20 pm  

keighley1 wrote:

You are spot on there. It would be huge and should generate an open top bus parade in Leeds or Manchester at the very least. We will have to see if a visit to the palace ensues.

The minimum if they win it.

keighley1 wrote:

It should at least give Sky pause for thought on their refusal to televise the tournament and maybe bring them on board for the next one of the four nations.

Unlikely.....SKY are pulling back from a lot of things and they really wont suffer that much this autumn for not having the RLWC on...

keighley1 wrote:

If the final and many of the other games are full of flowing rugby and top class tries and the other lot at Twickers have a penaltython and scrum orgy for their games at the same time and lose to boot, it will be a massive opportunity for the game to seize the public's attention.

I have some bad news for you regarding the tooth fairy and Santa. England play Australia, Argentina and NZ and only a loss to the Argies would be considered "bad"...... What worries me more is that SKY TV have access to the majority of sports fans in the UK.....SKY TV will hardly give the RLWC a mention, but will be more than happy to show highlights of a half empty stadium for RL before switching to bore-lights of the kick-a-thon at TW2 with 82,000 crammed in. Perception is everything...to make joe public want it, the perception of demand for it must first be created....

keighley1 wrote:

As you say though, it's unlikely that England will win but I live in hope.

No reason England can't win it.....but to do so, they will need to beat Australia twice IMHO.....an easy(ish) semi-final followed by the final, after the Kiwis kick the crap out of the criminal element, is preferable to having to do battle with the Kiwis to get a crack at the title.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Wed Sep 18, 2013 6:35 am  

Hi all,

Coming over from Oz for the RLWC and have purchased tickets for the Opening Ceremony, Wembley semi's, and Old Trafford Final with the OC tickets received in the post - and hopefully the others turning up real real soon !!!


Plan to purchase the tickets for other games upon arrival in the UK - but getting a little concerned as to the availability of seats at such a late stage (I arrive one week before the OC in Cardiff).

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Wed Sep 18, 2013 11:25 am  

There is no way the whole tournement will sell out wall to wall in every ground. But I think we need to be positive, if Wembley does not sell out but has 10k tickets left, that does not mean it's failed, far from it.

It's about whether we are growing or standing still compared to the previous tournement.

If it was the football world cup with almost limitless demand, they maybe concerned about not selling out every venue.

We need to be concerned about having a good vibrant tournement, that is building on the previous good work and will move us forwards to the next one. Hopefully with some of the teams becoming more of a feature in future internationals, like USA etc.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Wed Sep 18, 2013 11:36 am  

The Partisan wrote:

Hi all,

Coming over from Oz for the RLWC and have purchased tickets for the Opening Ceremony, Wembley semi's, and Old Trafford Final with the OC tickets received in the post - and hopefully the others turning up real real soon !!!


Plan to purchase the tickets for other games upon arrival in the UK - but getting a little concerned as to the availability of seats at such a late stage (I arrive one week before the OC in Cardiff).

You should be ok there are plenty of tickets left for plenty of matches. Australia v.s Fiji at Langtree park has plenty of tickets remaining.

You may struggle to get any tickets for Ireland v.s Fiji though. What games you thinking of attending?

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Wed Sep 18, 2013 12:02 pm  

Everything's where it should be for me, except the opening ceremony in Cardiff seems to have been too ambitious and the game in Ireland seems like a complete waste of time, and not sure about Bristol

I'm pretty happy so far. We're our own sport and have to measure ourselves as such.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Wed Sep 18, 2013 12:25 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

There is no way the whole tournement will sell out wall to wall in every ground. But I think we need to be positive, if Wembley does not sell out but has 10k tickets left, that does not mean it's failed, far from it.

It's about whether we are growing or standing still compared to the previous tournement.

If it was the football world cup with almost limitless demand, they maybe concerned about not selling out every venue.

We need to be concerned about having a good vibrant tournement, that is building on the previous good work and will move us forwards to the next one. Hopefully with some of the teams becoming more of a feature in future internationals, like USA etc.

If there's 80,000 on at Wembley for the semis then I think everyone can be very proud of that. That would be a real breakthrough IMO for international rugby league and something to build on.

Anything above 50,000 would be a success IMO.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Wed Sep 18, 2013 4:14 pm  

just bought a load of tickets for the WC final on the promo code 100days.May not be the best view in the house, but 12.50 is outstanding value for the most high profile game to be played in this country in many years.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Wed Sep 18, 2013 4:47 pm  

Biff Tannen wrote:

just bought a load of tickets for the WC final on the promo code 100days.May not be the best view in the house, but 12.50 is outstanding value for the most high profile game to be played in this country in many years.

I just pray England make the final. Imagine the atmosphere with 75,000 fans inside Old Trafford cheering us on!

That first match is so important. If we can win that the final must be in sight for us.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Wed Sep 18, 2013 5:22 pm  

Tre Cool wrote:

Everything's where it should be for me, except the opening ceremony in Cardiff seems to have been too ambitious and the game in Ireland seems like a complete waste of time, and not sure about Bristol

I'm pretty happy so far. We're our own sport and have to measure ourselves as such.

I thought the game at Cardiff was too ambitious, but the sales so far have proven me wrong. Cook Islands-USA is the weakest game of the tournament, and interest in the heatlands would have been poor...so they have done right giving the enthusiastic team down in Bristol a chance to show they can make RL work down there.

Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Thu Sep 19, 2013 12:30 am  

Everything looks on course for this to be the most well attended RL tournament ever. Bristol tickets are promising as it will only let you buy tickets from selected areas so some of the stands must have sold out as they are not grayed out like other seating plans.

I thought the opening ceremony and Wembley would be poorly attended and not sure but think I slagged it at the time but now can only congratulate the promoters. I bought the tickets last year in November so it is so pleasing to see areas of the ground I am sat in to be sold out. Should also be able to attend all Hull games too which is a bonus (I work in a bookies so can't take the P with weekends off). In total I'll be attending 6 different events and have also subscribed to premier sports telling the operator RLWC made me subscribe. Not trying to act like super fan as I am sure many will beat that but for somebody whose not usually pro international RL I dont think is a bad effort.