RLWC Attendance-O-Meter

[Jim from Oz]

19 hours ago, Jim from Oz said:

TOTAL after DAY 2: 74,464

France v Greece: 4,182

TOTAL after DAY 3: 78,646 

 

TARGETS:

2000 RLWC: 263,921

(8,514 per match)

 

2017 RLWC: 382,080

(13,646 per match)

 

2013 RLWC: 458,483

(16,374 per match)

 

2022 WOMEN’S EURO: 574,865

(18,544 per match)

 

ORIGINAL TARGET: 750,000

 

TOTAL after DAY 3: 78,646 

PNG v Tonga: 10,409 

TOTAL after DAY 4: 89,055
 

TARGETS:

2000 RLWC: 263,921

(8,514 per match)

 

2017 RLWC: 382,080

(13,646 per match)

 

2013 RLWC: 458,483

(16,374 per match)

 

2022 WOMEN’S EURO: 574,865

(18,544 per match)

 

ORIGINAL TARGET: 750,000

[Guest]

58 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:

Bet you'd have been chuffed if you had paid £70 and seen folk doing that.

Not blaming you at all mate, I would have done the same (indeed my dad and I did in 2013 at Cardiff for the Wales game after England), but I'm seeing a few people who have paid £70 etc for tickets and left doubting if it was worth it.

That is damaging imo, as ultimately these are the high value customers that are central to the drive in revenues the organisers are promoting. 

I had paid for the £50 bracket and it looked like people were in our seats, so we just went were we wanted. So not overly cheeky. 

[Dave T]

58 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:

Bet you'd have been chuffed if you had paid £70 and seen folk doing that.

Not blaming you at all mate, I would have done the same (indeed my dad and I did in 2013 at Cardiff for the Wales game after England), but I'm seeing a few people who have paid £70 etc for tickets and left doubting if it was worth it.

That is damaging imo, as ultimately these are the high value customers that are central to the drive in revenues the organisers are promoting. 

I've been looking to buy cheap seats for two of the Wire games, Samoa v France, and the QF, both have sold out that category. 

I'd be very surpriaed if that was actually true. 

It's fine for me, but again, it'll mean my group which will be a small one. I've always been happy to miss out on tickets as it means sales are going well, but when yiu miss out on tickets that have not been sold its pretty rubbish. 

[Dave T]

16 minutes ago, Dave T said:

I've been looking to buy cheap seats for two of the Wire games, Samoa v France, and the QF, both have sold out that category. 

I'd be very surpriaed if that was actually true. 

It's fine for me, but again, it'll mean my group which will be a small one. I've always been happy to miss out on tickets as it means sales are going well, but when yiu miss out on tickets that have not been sold its pretty rubbish. 

So, it turns out I've already bought these and they are sat in my ticket account

[gingerjon]

1 minute ago, Dave T said:

So, it turns out I've already bought these and they are sat in my ticket account

[Ragingbull]

9 hours ago, ShropshireBull said:

Sound did he mention that the NRL pulled the tournament to end up taking place in the worse economic situation in a generation. No? Then its disingenuous.

Behave!

[Just Browny]

23 minutes ago, Dave T said:

So, it turns out I've already bought these and they are sat in my ticket account

Maybe we're starting to understand why 'sold' seats are empty on the night.

[Dave T]

Dutton being Dutton. 

 

I'm interested in how they are correcting their mistake. 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Dave T said:

Dutton being Dutton. 

 

I'm interested in how they are correcting their mistake. 

Free ticket to the Middlesbrough game. 

[Dave T]

Even the fact that there are concerns about pricing and they take up a whole block of only 4 blocks of cheap seats for TV shows how out of touch they are with this whole process. 

[Jughead]

I’m calling rubbish on the RLWC’s claim about TV gantry. There is an existing TV gantry in the corner of the South Stand (that Sky use for Saints games for Jon Wells’ bits) away from the seats. Why would more need to be built?

[hunsletgreenandgold]

Does stink a bit this one. You can mark areas as unavailable but to put sold out is simply misrepresenting the truth. Some would say a lie for reasons that are patently obvious.  

[MattSantos]

3 hours ago, Jim from Oz said:

 

TOTAL after DAY 3: 78,646 

PNG v Tonga: 10,409 

TOTAL after DAY 4: 89,055
 

TARGETS:

2000 RLWC: 263,921

(8,514 per match)

 

2017 RLWC: 382,080

(13,646 per match)

 

2013 RLWC: 458,483

(16,374 per match)

 

2022 WOMEN’S EURO: 574,865

(18,544 per match)

 

ORIGINAL TARGET: 750,000

I enjoy these emails Jimzy.

1 request if i may, could you give us a rolling average for this year? Clear that the total is 89,055 but when we get deeper into the comp, remembering how many games will be difficult.

Yours with love.

[Tommygilf]

3 minutes ago, Jughead said:

I’m calling rubbish on the RLWC’s claim about TV gantry. There is an existing TV gantry in the corner of the South Stand (that Sky use for Saints games for Jon Wells’ bits) away from the seats. Why would more need to be built?

Tbf they used a different TV studio at Headingley in one of the corners tbf 

[Jughead]

The opposite end of the South Stand was also completely empty. This is an area never before used for TV gantries so it’s a blatant lie. 

[Dave T]

8 minutes ago, Jughead said:

I’m calling rubbish on the RLWC’s claim about TV gantry. There is an existing TV gantry in the corner of the South Stand (that Sky use for Saints games for Jon Wells’ bits) away from the seats. Why would more need to be built?

Apparently the gantry will be in that block for game 2.

[Jughead]

2 minutes ago, Dave T said:

Apparently the gantry will be in that block for game 2.

Interesting. Tickets in that block (SA) were on sale at one point as I’ve seen evidence online of people actually having tickets allocated in that block (one bought these a long time ago in 2021) for last night’s game. These people have also confirmed that they never had any email to say they were being moved to another block (or back to their existing block) considering there was going to be scaffolding on their heads. 

I’m still calling rubbish on this. It’s a greedy act to get more money out of people by claiming blocks were sold out and they’ve been called out for it now. 

[Dave T]

1 minute ago, Jughead said:

Interesting. Tickets in that block (SA) were on sale at one point as I’ve seen evidence online of people actually having tickets allocated in that block (one bought these a long time ago in 2021) for last night’s game. These people have also confirmed that they never had any email to say they were being moved to another block (or back to their existing block) considering there was going to be scaffolding on their heads. 

I’m still calling rubbish on this. It’s a greedy act to get more money out of people by claiming blocks were sold out and they’ve been called out for it now. 

I agree mate. I've called out the lies and gaslighting for a long time now. 

It's like they didn't realise that these things would catch up with them. 

[faithfulbyname]

2 minutes ago, Dave T said:

I agree mate. I've called out the lies and gaslighting for a long time now. 

It's like they didn't realise that these things would catch up with them. 

You're assuming that they've got the brains to think of a strategy like this in the first place. I'd just put it down to incompetence.

[Dave T]

3 minutes ago, faithfulbyname said:

You're assuming that they've got the brains to think of a strategy like this in the first place. I'd just put it down to incompetence.

It's absolutely incompetence, covered by spin and lies. And I don't just mean this instance 

[Barley Mow]

42 minutes ago, Dave T said:

Dutton being Dutton. 

 

I'm interested in how they are correcting their mistake. 

Interesting.

BBC seem to be moving to having their pre-match/half time/full time punditry team in the open air in the stadium. Tanya Arnold, Hunter-Paul and Kear were however in a studio in Salford last night instead.

I've booked tickets for the Leeds semi-final and am going with my dad. He used to be a Leeds Utd season ticket holder and we decided to get tickets in the same block in the north-east corner that his season ticket used to be. When the tickets became available I notice we are behind the posts at the Gelderd End instead. The north-east corner was where BBC put their pundits on scaffolding for the Challenge Cup semi-finals this year and it was otherwise empty. I assume they plan to do the same thing for the world cup semi.

[Dave T]

1 minute ago, Barley Mow said:

Interesting.

BBC seem to be moving to having their pre-match/half time/full time punditry team in the open air in the stadium. Tanya Arnold, Hunter-Paul and Kear were however in a studio in Salford last night instead.

I've booked tickets for the Leeds semi-final and am going with my dad. He used to be a Leeds Utd season ticket holder and we decided to get tickets in the same block in the north-east corner that his season ticket used to be. When the tickets became available I notice we are behind the posts at the Gelderd End instead. The north-east corner was where BBC put their pundits on scaffolding for the Challenge Cup semi-finals this year and it was otherwise empty. I assume they plan to do the same thing for the world cup semi.

I expect weather and channel affect the studio setup. Big games in key channels will probably have studios, lesser games maybe a casual style. 

We've been lucky with weather so far, maybe studios are a contingency 

[GeordieSaint]

15 minutes ago, Dave T said:

It's absolutely incompetence, covered by spin and lies. And I don't just mean this instance 

But why? Can’t get my head around it…

[Hull Kingston Bronco]

21 minutes ago, Dave T said:

It's absolutely incompetence, covered by spin and lies. And I don't just mean this instance 

Look, I’ve been critical of pricing strategy here and on twitter, and to be fair Mick Hogan has engaged and explained. Nothing’s perfect, but let’s all maybe keep some pespective and tone down the “incompetence” and “lies” vitriol? It ain’t that bad, and they’re doing a good job even if not perfect. There’s no conspiracies, or deliberate attempts to rip people off. 

We’re all on the same team here 

[MattSantos]

8 minutes ago, GeordieSaint said:

But why? Can’t get my head around it…

The 4 word. Incompetence. It's an attempt to mask incompetence.