Re: World Cup Ticket Sales : Thu Sep 19, 2013 11:00 pm
gutterfax wrote:
Give me Petone Panthers v University in front of 100 ..........it's not about the product, it's about the way its marketed 
FFS.......you lot really don't get it. 400k over 24 games and a TV audience of 2 million on the BBC and an England win won't change a friggin' thing......the game as it's run in the UK looks, smells and tastes like an amateur northern pastime....delude yourselves all you like, but the reality is that come Feb 1st 2014 RL in the UK will reap no benefit from RLWC 2013.....it's up there with curling after the scots won a medal a few years back.....
FFS.......you lot really don't get it. 400k over 24 games and a TV audience of 2 million on the BBC and an England win won't change a friggin' thing......the game as it's run in the UK looks, smells and tastes like an amateur northern pastime....delude yourselves all you like, but the reality is that come Feb 1st 2014 RL in the UK will reap no benefit from RLWC 2013.....it's up there with curling after the scots won a medal a few years back.....
I think once again you have proven that it is you who does not get it. The RLWC is not about RL in the UK reaping some sudden benefit. Where you seriously expecting this tournement to turn around our position in the the grand scheme of things.
It was that blind marketing principle that nearly ruined RL the last time the World Cup was on our shores.
Do you think Marks & Spencer wander around all day bemoaning that they are not Apple. No they concern themselves with their own business, to make profits and grow their business.
That is what we should be doing and in this world cup hopefully we will. A World cup with more spectators, more profits will do me nicely. If you were expecting a world cup were millions are thrown at advertising, leading to slightly larger crowds, a marginal increase in press and a huge debt after the marketing budget eats all the profits. Well that would be a basket case.
It does not look or smell like anything in the slightest. You seem to be going epileptic, about nothing. You are demanding things that where never going to be and never could be given our current position.
By all mean carry on being depressed that we are not another sport, personally I watch lots of them. They really don't have this obsession with crowd counting. Cricket is a great example, lots of internationals never sell out. But do they get all cheesed off over it. No. Because they are not comparing themselves constantly, they are more concerned with growing their game and making it profitable.
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. Gonna buy tickets to a few more when I get paid. I like the spectator guide which came with the tickets too, despite it not being the Irwell on the maps of Old Trafford and Salford City Stadium - typical, can't get anything right 
