Odsal Outlaw

I’ve got tickets for Leeds and Everton but not for Wembley yet. Simply because I don’t need to and can decide closer to the time.

Another good link! ‘Lions shafted by origin’

The Leeds one?

Sounds like a thriller at Barrow, Championship is a great division this year. I wonder if London’s big win is also the turnaround point for them?

I defo not my idea of a good time but thanks for the heads up!

I tried to get tickets for tonight’s game, and have been trying since start of the season. A friend and I fancied going to a HKR game. Tried both hospitality and normal and even signed up to club mailing list/ticket access. But no joy so going to the pub and then watching at home! But, great we have a club with such big demand, hope they now grow their capacity.

Block 143 can now be clicked on again and it’s done the same as block 102 and moved to orange/black shading. In the ‘Australia section’ the sales pattern does look strange, the front sections of 111-112 are all gone and the back almost all available. Can’t be right. They’ve also expanded the ‘Australia section’ to two additional blocks. Geek mode finished for today

The categories continue to move … there appears to be an expansion of the most expensive seats - the Bobby Moore ones as we have a new shaded area on the graphic that goes from black to orange (unless it’s a contraction of Bobby Moore seats, but I recall only two blocks of that originally, now 3.5) you actually can’t currently click on block 143 which is strange.

Fantastic and what a great choice to be the first. Amazing day for him and the sport.

I’m on level 68 with 10/13 starters being legends. But I was scoring 80+ since making the all star league. You need a quick right winger and then from receiving the kick off get him the ball on the outside of his man and then grabber kick thru past the FB! Sure fire winner

I think the issue with £20 tickets isn’t the price of them although I’d disagree with it as part of the pricing strategy. It’s more that it moves us back towards the bad old days of discouraging people to buy early knowing cheaper seats/offers will happen nearer the time. I have tickets for Everton and Leeds. Not yet bought Wembley but I’ll definitely be going. The current demand means I don’t have to buy and I now also know there’s a chance they will discount closer to the game. I think we should have had confidence from the start to open the top tier and then no issue with £20 tickets and people make their choice.

Unlike muppets on forums who can’t do their own research.

Yes they were always faded but from memory I thought they were faded in blue suggesting the £30 price band. i don’t have a huge issue with the £20 tickets as such, although do think it undersells the product somewhat, but think their approach to doing it is once again very poor.

It’s the yellow section in top tier. They just haven’t actually added yellow to the pricing table, but they are £20 when you add to basket. Only thing worse than them dropping the price of tickets is then not to show people they are available

With a new cheaper price category as well. £20 in top half of top tier. Interesting to create a new pricing tier that wasn’t previously advertised.

Would quite like a Wire win, then HKR and have the GF! Crowd looks a bit sparse vs the ticketing website availability

Was actually against Sydney Roosters! (I’ve renamed all the teams to their official names!)

I enjoy it and still play it, only issue is it gets to the point where it’s too easy. I won 114-0 recently on the hardest level!

Peak rugby league. ‘I would rather they played at mediocre facilities’

Just seen the Bulls advertising £10 cup final tickets … the fire sale could be starting (I’m really hoping they don’t revert to these tactics at scale, took out any need to ever buy tickets early)

I don’t think we need the pre match entertainment to attract people in isolation, we won’t have the budget for acts that would deliver that but it’s part of the overall package that means the day out will be great regardless of whether the match itself delivers. As an example, I went to the Joshua vs Dubois fight at Wembley. There were over 90k people there. Now if they’d just simply put that fight on and a couple of warm up bouts with nothing else at all would I go back next time? Would I even have gone in the first place? They had fireworks, they had entrances with music and lights on another level, they had Liam Gallagher singing pre fight - the build up around the event was huge. The event was unbelievably good to the point that if the boxing had ended after ten seconds of round 1 the night was still great. RL events are done on the cheap, so the answer to ‘how do we attract 10k more fans’ is simply to add two more teams. Instead the RFL have people like me, who love the game, enjoy sporting events, but don’t see the interest in this because it simply is not an event on a level that is available on a regular basis elsewhere.

To answer the question of how we turn it into an event, without spending too much time thinking about it I’d do the something like the following: 1. define our vision for the Challenge Cup. Not just the final but the competition as a whole. What do we want it to be (idea: ‘where history meets tomorrow’ … thinking being we play on our heritage but in a way that is relevant now. Clearly needs more work!) 2. I’d build a narrative that plays to that vision and think of stories that link with it. (Idea: each year have a theme and bring stories to life around that theme) 3. I’d identify who our target audience is and look at how we get the regulars to attend more but also how we recruit more of the people who match that audience profile. 4. I’d then find some relevant pop culture associations for the final itself that appeal to the target audience - likely a music act or similar to perform before. 5. I’d also get relevant influencers to be at the semi finals to help promote the final (free marketing). Clearly needs more work … but I think one issue is that we simply don’t know what a Wembley challenge cup final is supposed to be anymore.

All the discussion on CC final attendance seems too focused on how we account for a the low attendances by moving stadiums, changing formats … we could also create a real event that people want to be a part of. Does darts sell out in minutes because people love the sport? Or do they go for the event? Do you get 90k at Wembley for boxing because those fans go every week to local boxing clubs? Or do people go for the event? Our issue is the CC final isn’t an event and when the RFL decide to create an event their solution is simply to add more matches. That isn’t an event in fact I’d argue it’s more of a turnoff for neutrals. I travel to loads of sporting events for sports that I don’t watch regularly … I’m not going to the CC final as there is nothing apart from the 240 minutes of rugby league to entice me there. And honestly, that’s too much rugby league.

That’s a relief. If AI could tell us tickets sold it would stop the endless debates we get to have on here about it.

72-10, apparently a record equaling SL win for Wakefield. They beat Hull FC by the same score 7 years ago (I think they said 7 on Sky!).