Barcelona record crowd?

[Yakstorm]

Confirmation that over 10,000 tickets have been sold to the match: https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/els-dragons-catalans-juguen-per-primera-vegada-al-camp-nou-el-18-de-maig/

[barnyia]

I'm surprised by how many people around my area who are not real rl fans are going to this game, 

[Oliver Clothesoff]

23 minutes ago, barnyia said:

I'm surprised by how many people around my area who are not real rl fans are going to this game, 

Good stuff. 

I noticed absolutely nothing advertising the game in the town of Perpignan last week. 

[wackojacko]

47 minutes ago, barnyia said:

I'm surprised by how many people around my area who are not real rl fans are going to this game, 

Events, isn't it?

[Man of Kent]

18 hours ago, audois said:

 

Yesterday a press conference at Brutus. Bernard Guasch and the President of the Occitanie Region Carole Delga. An entente between the two which will see an aid package exceptional to support the mobilisation of fans for the Camp Nou event. The club want to see especially the schools of rugby in attendance in great numbers on the 18th May. Additionally the club have appointed Philippe Pidemunt as 'oganisations coordinator' for the historic event with around forty helpers involved. The club are pushing the boat out for this one like never before.

An aid package to mobilise fans sounds intriguing.

What does that mean? Airlifts? Army convoys?

[Yakstorm]

50 minutes ago, Man of Kent said:

An aid package to mobilise fans sounds intriguing.

What does that mean? Airlifts? Army convoys?

I think we'd take forcing people at gunpoint if it means we get as big as crowd as possible.

[audois]

3 hours ago, Man of Kent said:

An aid package to mobilise fans sounds intriguing.

What does that mean? Airlifts? Army convoys?

the Occitan Region covers most of south west France and has a population of over 5 million. Includes Toulouse, Perpignan, Carcassonne and Albi. Presume that the sponsorship here will possibly subsidise coach hire etc especially from further a field than Perpignan. The biggest crowds ever this side of the Channel for the game were way back. WC 1954 in Toulouse France/GB 37,471 and the Final in Paris France/GB 30,368. To get anywhere near those figures would be extraordinary.

Yesterdays paper said 1,000 replica shirts now sold!

[EssexRL]

5 hours ago, wackojacko said:

Events, isn't it?

Exactly. That’s why I’m going. It’s an event - well tobe precise it’s an event in the Nu Camp in Barcelona. 

[Man of Kent]

1 hour ago, audois said:

the Occitan Region covers most of south west France and has a population of over 5 million. Includes Toulouse, Perpignan, Carcassonne and Albi. Presume that the sponsorship here will possibly subsidise coach hire etc especially from further a field than Perpignan. The biggest crowds ever this side of the Channel for the game were way back. WC 1954 in Toulouse France/GB 37,471 and the Final in Paris France/GB 30,368. To get anywhere near those figures would be extraordinary.

Yesterdays paper said 1,000 replica shirts now sold!

Sounds like it’s transcending Catalans Dragons and becoming a rugby league event for all French fans. Great stuff!

[Eleftherios]

It'll be a great chance to see "let boulet de canon" or "la bala de canon"!

[fighting irish]

C'mon the Catalans, c'mon France, c'mon Wigan c'mon Rugby Treize. Wake up Sky Television and the whole of France and the rest of the world, to the value of our amazing game!

[The Alchemist]

I'm going for the same reason I went to Sydney last year and three years ago with Wigan, big events...............you can remember these occasions for the rest of your life............

[Damien]

On 13/04/2019 at 23:18, The Alchemist said:

I'm going for the same reason I went to Sydney last year and three years ago with Wigan, big events...............you can remember these occasions for the rest of your life............

It certainly is one of those big events and for me the stage is probably the biggest of them all. Never did I think I would see Rugby League at the Nou Camp.

[Yakstorm]

So the prime seats - Grandstand - 1st Central, is literally down to less than 50 seats across this section with only a handful of seats left together (good luck getting a group of 6 or more into there).

Considering how popular the section is, I wonder if they'll open up the closed off 11 rows at the back of the section, or if they'll try and force sales up and around.

Not-unexpectedly, due to the limited seats in Grandstand - 1st Central, next tier up, Grandstand - 2nd Central Lower has been selling well from the middle out, however almost no one has bought into Grandstand - 2nd Central Upper.

Grandstand - South hasn't sold a seat, Grandstand - North side has a few sales,  whilst Corner South 1st - Grandstand has possibly sold about 30% of inventory.... the different 5 euros makes in sales...

The Nike End / South Goal is possibly lucky to have 100 sales across the three tiers, whilst the Lateral - 2nd Lower is possibly the third strongest selling area (that we can see) after Grandstand - 1st Central and Grandstand - 2nd Central Lower.  

[fighting irish]

I wonder what the Barcelona v Man. United result will do, for ticket sales at our game? They might just roll up, to see if the Catalans can repeat the rout. There's a novel marketing opportunity here, to link the two games in the minds of prospective spectators.

[saintspete83]

Update here 

https://www.lindependant.fr/amp/2019/04/26/dragons-catalans-franchir-la-barre-des-30-000-places-vendues-pour-le-match-au-camp-nou,8168711.php?__twitter_impression=true

[The Hallucinating Goose]

13 minutes ago, saintspete83 said:

Update here 

https://www.lindependant.fr/amp/2019/04/26/dragons-catalans-franchir-la-barre-des-30-000-places-vendues-pour-le-match-au-camp-nou,8168711.php?__twitter_impression=true

Okay think I've worked out what's he's said there using some pretty rubbish French language skills. Basically he's said they have sold 18,000 tickets with 2,000 more expressing interest or something and they are aiming for 30,000??

[Man of Kent]

2 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Okay think I've worked out what's he's said there using some pretty rubbish French language skills. Basically he's said they have sold 18,000 tickets with 2,000 more expressing interest or something and they are aiming for 30,000??

Precisely, yes. Barcelona will kick off a sales drive on Monday week. 

It’s a call to arms by Guasch to all treizestes to get off their butts, basically.

[barnyia]

They've sold 20000 tickets and from all over France, they are starting to push the game over the border in Spain now and the Barcelona club will start promoting the game soon. 

Even my local building suppliers are offering the weekend away for the game  for their big spending clients, which was very surprising, 

 

[gingerjon]

12 minutes ago, barnyia said:

They've sold 20000 tickets and from all over France, they are starting to push the game over the border in Spain now and the Barcelona club will start promoting the game soon. 

Even my local building suppliers are offering the weekend away for the game  for their big spending clients, which was very surprising, 

 

This is really good to hear.

[Southerner80]

I feel as long as it's breaking the SL attendance record it's a result. 30k would be very good and hopefully this could be something Les Dracs aim to do every year or other year.

[Whippet13]

Unclear from the article whether or not the 20k includes sales by Wigan.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

3 hours ago, Whippet13 said:

Unclear from the article whether or not the 20k includes sales by Wigan.

I would say its good either way. 20k if it includes Wigan, more than 20k if it doesn't. 

[Yakstorm]

20K is the largest crowd Catalans has ever drawn for a home match and the largest crowd for Super League in mainland Europe so is still incredible so far.

Most encouraging is that there is still 3x weeks to go and FC Barcelona hasn't yet started their promotion.

40K+ is still very much in the realm of possibility, however at least if nothing else the match will set a new SL record.

[bobbruce]

3 hours ago, Yakstorm said:

20K is the largest crowd Catalans has ever drawn for a home match and the largest crowd for Super League in mainland Europe so is still incredible so far.

Most encouraging is that there is still 3x weeks to go and FC Barcelona hasn't yet started their promotion.

40K+ is still very much in the realm of possibility, however at least if nothing else the match will set a new SL record.

Didn’t they get 24k v Warrington