Re: RLWC 2021 : Sat Oct 17, 2020 8:54 pm  

Technically you can't buy tickets this year, you can enter the ballot to be allocated tickets once it opens, but your seats will be allocated later. That may be fine for most, but prevented me from giving them my money.

Also of relevance, prices go up in 2021.

Re: RLWC 2021 : Sat Oct 17, 2020 10:39 pm  

Hopie wrote:

Technically you can't buy tickets this year, you can enter the ballot to be allocated tickets once it opens, but your seats will be allocated later. That may be fine for most, but prevented me from giving them my money.

Also of relevance, prices go up in 2021.

The prices already seem pretty steep in A, B and C at a lot of venues. Given most are in the North and so likely to appeal to the existing fan base, I’m not convinced they’ll sell too well as people won’t want to be paying those prices to attend several matches, especially for non-England games. Going to need to attract new punters but I’m not convinced people will travel from the South except for the final.

Re: RLWC 2021 : Sun Oct 18, 2020 10:17 am  

Steep? They want £70 to watch England play Greece. I'd call that daylight robbery/rank stupidity

Re: RLWC 2021 : Sun Oct 18, 2020 11:25 am  

Egg Chasing wrote:

Steep? They want £70 to watch England play Greece. I'd call that daylight robbery/rank stupidity

They start at £15, from what I've seen.

Re: RLWC 2021 : Sun Oct 18, 2020 12:36 pm  

MorePlaymakersNeeded wrote:

They start at £15, from what I've seen.

So we'll sell a load of the £15 tickets (behind the goal i assume) none of the £70 tickets (on the side) and have the camera aimed at an empty stand.

Re: RLWC 2021 : Sun Oct 18, 2020 1:17 pm  

Egg Chasing wrote:

Steep? They want £70 to watch England play Greece. I'd call that daylight robbery/rank stupidity

I used to always get the most expensive tickets until that World Cup Final at OT years ago. We were given the worst seats in the house and then they let people in on the day for £10 to try to boost the crowd and they had great seats. After that I’ve always bought cheaper tickets on principle.

Re: RLWC 2021 : Sun Oct 18, 2020 3:35 pm  

Egg Chasing wrote:

So we'll sell a load of the £15 tickets (behind the goal i assume) none of the £70 tickets (on the side) and have the camera aimed at an empty stand.

You can spend your money however you like EC, I was just pointing out that you can attend this fixture (should you be able to do so) without spending £70 on a ticket.

Re: RLWC 2021 : Sun Oct 18, 2020 6:49 pm  

MorePlaymakersNeeded wrote:

You can spend your money however you like EC, I was just pointing out that you can attend this fixture (should you be able to do so) without spending £70 on a ticket.

I'm aware of that yes, and I'm not arguing or looking to argue, my point (or more my opinion) is that for this game, £70 should include hospitality. This is the sort of game that we should play at a stadium like Leigh that holds 10k, not one that holds 40k and has tickets at £70.

Re: RLWC 2021 : Sun Oct 18, 2020 7:15 pm  

Egg Chasing wrote:

I'm aware of that yes, and I'm not arguing or looking to argue, my point (or more my opinion) is that for this game, £70 should include hospitality. This is the sort of game that we should play at a stadium like Leigh that holds 10k, not one that holds 40k and has tickets at £70.

Neither am I looking to argue, and take your point that £70 for the best seats does seem steep, but we can all choose how much were willing to spend. Take your point about hospitality that could have been a way of selling more top end tickets. However, making a profit over the entire tournament would make this undesirable from the RFL's point of view.

Re: RLWC 2021 : Tue Oct 20, 2020 9:58 am  

At what stage do we look at postponing the WC by a year. I am starting to fear that there may still be restrictions in place this time next year. The earlier any call id made to postpone the better albeit I suspect it will be left until around Feb / March before making that call.