NZ series ticket sales latest news

[sweaty craiq]

DW, and other grounds, has a reduced capacity with unreserved seating - this game is reserved seating and will have a full capacity available

[brooza]

Great to see the third test selling out despite being a dead rubber!

[IM2]

just shy of 45k for saturday so far

[sweaty craiq]

50k

[Rob]

McNamara says 46000 sold so far

[Rob]

with 65% sold to London and southern post codes  (McNamara on talk sport now)

[Exiled Wiganer]

We own this sport... 50k would be lovely - is it possible to sell 4k in a day and a bit?

So, we are home and hosed with the second biggest aggregate for a Kiwi series, and by a distance the best for over 50 years.

That feels good.
For those of us who lived through the full horrors of 2000, days like these would have seemed a distant dream.

 

We are the Wall of White!!!

[sweaty craiq]

Get in touch with our armed services and give them the tickets that remain as a small thank you for all they have and are doing for us.

[John Rhino]

with 65% sold to London and southern post codes  (McNamara on talk sport now)

 

Read this out to the wife and delicate soul that she is responded "and they'll all do a bloody Mexican wave"

[J Dilla]

From a business point of view it sounds like its amazing and hopefully the kiwis can go home with some decent profits as well although i dont trust our ceo has any idea on how to get us out of debt. Wouldnt it be great if the likes of Samoa, Tonga and Fiji could tour england. You would get some solid competition from them and potentially put money in their pockets for their own development. A tour by samoa and fiji 2 tests each could reach a total of 100k possibly.

 

England is the new hotbed for tours of the future.

[GeordieSaint]

Get in touch with our armed services and give them the tickets that remain as a small thank you for all they have and are doing for us.

 

Tickets to the military are already available on Tickets for Troops (free) and they get a 50% discount on normal prices already; no need to give more away!  

[sweaty craiq]

Tickets to the military are already available on Tickets for Troops (free) and they get a 50% discount on normal prices already; no need to give more away!

Not what I said by a mile, actively promote their take up internally

[GeordieSaint]

Not what I said by a mile, actively promote their take up internally

 

Can you explain with a bit more clarity then? Are you suggesting we ask the military to sell the rest?

[deluded pom?]

Rugbyleagueitis Pom! A couple of days to go!

I was only using your figures Bish.

[Steve Fox]

It's hard to think that just 4 years ago we thought these days had passed. I remember on these forums people were moaning about how we used to get huge crowds but didn't any more.

 

I remember in the late 70s reading Keith Macklin's history of RL and being amazed at the tales of 40,000 crowds for tests (and 50, 60, 70,000 for championship finals) and thinking those days were gone forever.

 

It just goes to show...

[stevereed100]

Get in touch with our armed services and give them the tickets that remain as a small thank you for all they have and are doing for us.

or give them to the Police,NHS staff,Fire Service,Teachers,all OAPs etc in recognition of all they have done for us.

[J Dilla]

if we get another thriller like 2013 expect a kiwis tour 2018 3 tests at Etihad, St James Park and OP with 150k tickets sold.

[jannerboyuk]

The kiwis deserve a 3 test return tour, warm up test in png. Sorted

[Crunchers Dad]

if we get another thriller like 2013 expect a kiwis tour 2018 3 tests at Etihad, St James Park and OP with 150k tickets sold.

Very achievable, we should aim bigger and better each and every time

[Crunchers Dad]

Remember it was 23 526 at the KC, which would be 24 if we're rounding to nearest 1000s. A sold out DW is slightly more than 25, too.

Use the Union function on your calculator

[Guest]

The kiwis deserve a 3 test return tour, warm up test in png. Sorted

Yep. A test against png in port moresby. Then 3 tests against NZ in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

Maybe even take the u18's along to play the junior kiwis and junior kumuls.

[Saintslass]

The kiwis deserve a 3 test return tour, warm up test in png. Sorted

Totally agree.  They have come over here in spite of the sport there not being in the best of financial health when the Aussies couldn't be  bothered.  I think it would be great on those free years the RLIF has organised to run tests between us and the Kiwis, alternating between hemispheres with a warm up in PNG (given they are the one country to actually hold rugby league as their national sport!).

[GansonTheClown]

The world cup semi final in 2013 against NZ must be helping to sell the series, still think that was pretty much the best match I've ever seen live.

[Maximus Decimus]

Great to see the third test selling out despite being a dead rubber!

Can't disagree more, what a farce.

It's time we kicked out those numpties at red hall. When a true fan can't wait to see whether the final game will be a dead rubber or not before buying his tickets then something is seriously wrong. I've picked and chose my games for years and have attended a whopping 4 or 5 internationals in the last decade.

Other sports must be laughing at us and I'll personally never buy anything related to RL again including eggs.

[JonM]

Use the Union function on your calculator

 

It's telling me that 20 million people will watch the game in Japan.