Wembley : Mon Aug 20, 2018 7:38 am  

Seats in the top tier at Wembley have all been taken off sale. While on here were probably aware of the groupon offer, many non RL fans won’t be. If Londoner Joe Bloggs decicides he might give the cup final a go, the cheapest available from the RFL is £50. I’m not normally one for bashing the RFL but that is ridiculous when there are going to be 20000 - 30000 empty seats on Saturday.

Re: Wembley : Mon Aug 20, 2018 9:51 am  

Reflecting the complete failure of a sports governing body to carry out part of their responsibility, that is to market and promote events.
RU laughs at RL. Rightly so.

Re: Wembley : Mon Aug 20, 2018 10:00 am  

Once they knew it was going to be a Catalans v Warrington final and the drop in people attending, it should have kick started a good marketing promotion to give a couple of thousand of tickets to the London Bronsos, London Skolars, London Schools/Clubs who play league etc at a tenner a ticket.
It should have been looked at after the quarter final result months ago.

Re: Wembley : Mon Aug 20, 2018 10:41 am  

RL fans have an obsession with attendances. I could give a monkeys, CC finals whoever is playing these days are never full houses and always look bad on tv, live with it. I just hope its a great game of rugby and we could be seeing a little bit of history should Catalans do the business.

Re: Wembley : Mon Aug 20, 2018 4:20 pm  

Judder Man wrote:

Once they knew it was going to be a Catalans v Warrington final and the drop in people attending, it should have kick started a good marketing promotion to give a couple of thousand of tickets to the London Bronsos, London Skolars, London Schools/Clubs who play league etc at a tenner a ticket.
It should have been looked at after the quarter final result months ago.

it should be looked at regarding of who is playing. we haven't filled Wembley for about a decade now

Re: Wembley : Mon Aug 20, 2018 4:36 pm  

Those days of a full Wembley for the CC Final were often back when there was no Grand Final, Magic Weekend, Summer Bash etc, hence it was a gathering place for the RL community.

You can only milk the same (limited quantity of) supporters for so much money - it's the number of neutrals who've dropped off considerably.

Re: Wembley : Mon Aug 20, 2018 5:08 pm  

Biff Tannen wrote:

RL fans have an obsession with attendances. I could give a monkeys, CC finals whoever is playing these days are never full houses and always look bad on tv, live with it. I just hope its a great game of rugby and we could be seeing a little bit of history should Catalans do the business.

I like this point of view. We're normally too busy bashing rugby league that we forget to enjoy it!

Re: Wembley : Mon Aug 20, 2018 5:55 pm  

shinymcshine wrote:

Those days of a full Wembley for the CC Final were often back when there was no Grand Final, Magic Weekend, Summer Bash etc, hence it was a gathering place for the RL community.

You can only milk the same (limited quantity of) supporters for so much money - it's the number of neutrals who've dropped off considerably.

Removing from sale the cheapest 2 categories of tickets and only leaving the most expensive tickets isn’t going to encourage neutrals to go

Re: Wembley : Mon Aug 20, 2018 6:17 pm  

Rather embarrassing for Warrington that they'll be involved in a Wembley Challenge Cup final which will certainly have it's lowest ever attendance.

Re: Wembley : Mon Aug 20, 2018 6:50 pm  

Jonno you really are obsessed with the Wire, I'll miss you next season, will I find you on the Batley forum?