RLWC Attendance-O-Meter

[pahars]

1 hour ago, JonM said:

Which is a shame, because  Sheffield, Newcastle, Leeds, Huddersfield, Bolton, Coventry, Hull, York etc. all have either thousands of university students, or tens of thousands. Easy target market to reach, and doesn't cannibalise your full-price sales elsewhere.

I wonder whether they could have gone to the individual student unions and pitched it as a fundraiser. We'll give £3 to your student rag (or to fund womens sport in your university, or whatever) for each £15 ticket you sell. Or reserved a couple of blocks at Bramall Lane for students and said - here's 1000 tickets with face value £25. Sell them to your students for whatever price you like and give us £10 000 at the end, whatever you take above that, you keep.

Well quite. I’m assuming that they thought they were going to sell all these £70 tickets so why waste recourses on £10 tickets. 
 

The fact is a relatively small uptick in attendance and we could be looking at both the biggest gate receipts and the best attended World Cup. On top of this I’m sure a lot of students would have been new to the game. 

[Dave T]

15 minutes ago, Chrispmartha said:

What was the Australia Fiji attendance? Id be shocked if this wasn't higher - the Members offer seems to have sold out as its no longer available and I know quite a few people that this is the headingley game they have chosen to go to.

 

Mind you if they haven't been able to buy tickets because of the useless website I could be totally wrong

Aye, I hope you're right. My comment was slightly tongue in cheek based on the fact that every crowd has probably come in below expectations. 

Maybe Aus v Scotland at Coventry could be classed as par. 

[Northern Eel]

Been on the phone to the customer service desk to see what the status of tickets is for WCF, as I am trying to get hold of some Cat D tickets (£60). There are no two seats together in any block in that category in the stadium. Whilst it doesn't help me, that has to be a really good sign.

Apparently, more may become available in time, but only due to returns or stadium set-up. All blocks are on sale.

Still no idea about Bramall Lane attendance tomorrow. It is has been amazingly quiet on socials. I really do hope it isn't an embarrassing look.

[Hanover XIII]

Just on the final. A friend who has done all the ticket organising for a group of us tried to buy tickets last week and struggled to get any together. 

He finally managed it in the £85 section. 

I don't know the pricing bands but certainly at £60 he was only being offered singles. 

 

[saintspete83]

Just Bought 2 for the 1/4 final at Warrington. Looking Like Samoa V Tonga on a Sunday afternoon. If that does not raise 10k then I look more toward the supporters of the sport rather than the organisers. How could anyone not want to watch that !!!!

[N2022]

About 4 miles from Headingley and can tell you they couldn't ask for a much better evening for it than this in the last few days of October. Funny to see the weather has been great for most of the games, while the cricket in Aus is struggling to get a game played at the moment ...

[N2022]

26 minutes ago, Hanover XIII said:

Just on the final. A friend who has done all the ticket organising for a group of us tried to buy tickets last week and struggled to get any together. 

He finally managed it in the £85 section. 

I don't know the pricing bands but certainly at £60 he was only being offered singles. 

 

Yes - but how many singles could there be in a block of 450 seats if the ticketing system doesn't configure it right?

[Ragingbull]

We've made 100 pages!! 

Outstanding work everyone!

[Black Country Wire]

52 minutes ago, saintspete83 said:

Just Bought 2 for the 1/4 final at Warrington. Looking Like Samoa V Tonga on a Sunday afternoon. If that does not raise 10k then I look more toward the supporters of the sport rather than the organisers. How could anyone not want to watch that !!!!

Personally I'll be watching the England wheelchair team at the Copper Box and can't be in two places at once!

[Northern Eel]

13 minutes ago, Ragingbull said:

We've made 100 pages!! 

Outstanding work everyone!

Here's to at least another 50!

[Damien]

18 minutes ago, Ragingbull said:

We've made 100 pages!! 

Outstanding work everyone!

I think Dave's done 20 by himself 

[Eddie]

Just had an email from RLWC saying there will be no trains or buses in or out of Hull for the NZ v Fiji QF next weekend - sadly I expect that will put a dint in the crowd. What are people’s guesses, I’d go 9k  

[Dave T]

Just now, Damien said:

I think Dave's done 20 by himself 

Quantity, not quality

[Eddie]

6 minutes ago, Northern Eel said:

Here's to at least another 50!

Brian Lara’s 400 is the target, could easily be beaten if there are some sparse crowds over the next two weeks. 

[Leyther_Matt]

7 hours ago, Spidey said:

They claimed the restricted views were due to handrails, which was a bit flimsy at best.  Modern stadiums don't have restricted views in the traditional sense

 

7 hours ago, Dave T said:

It was no coincidence those £25 tickets weren't shown on the map. I suspect they were just getting whatever sales they could and giving people whatever. 

Not been through the thread so apologies if already mentioned but there are some restricted views from handrails at the UniBolt. 4 seats per vomitory and in reality not particularly relevant for RL as it relates to having a clear view of the goals rather than the rest of the pitch.

Source:- me as I used to work there 

[N2022]

1 hour ago, Leyther_Matt said:

 

Not been through the thread so apologies if already mentioned but there are some restricted views from handrails at the UniBolt. 4 seats per vomitory and in reality not particularly relevant for RL as it relates to having a clear view of the goals rather than the rest of the pitch.

Source:- me as I used to work there 

One question - why have they not renamed the stadium on local road signage. Reebok changed to Macron but left like that. 

[Chrispmartha]

Well it feels as busy as a rhinos game, in fact North stands seems busier in the concourses

[Chrispmartha]

The ‘sold out’ east stand seats are pretty empty though ive  pretty much got the whole row to myself!

[Hanover XIII]

2 hours ago, N2022 said:

Yes - but how many singles could there be in a block of 450 seats if the ticketing system doesn't configure it right?

Plenty I imagine. Until we get there we don't know whether the blocks will have lots of empty seats because of ticketing system  problems or whether they have actually been sold. 

[Exiled Wiganer]

4 minutes ago, Chrispmartha said:

Well it feels as busy as a rhinos game, in fact North stands seems busier in the concourses

Thanks for your positivity. I hope the game is a good one.

[Chrispmartha]

There are lots of Irish here so fair play to them!

[Chrispmartha]

4 minutes ago, Chrispmartha said:

The ‘sold out’ east stand seats are pretty empty though ive  pretty much got the whole row to myself!

Sorry for quoting myself but its actually nearly full now

[Dave T]

Those kids reactions to the Irish anthem

[Guest]

Looks a decent crowd

Main stand looks pretty full

 

(usual complaints about side camera is showing)

[Chrispmartha]

12 minutes ago, Leonard said:

Looks a decent crowd

Main stand looks pretty full

 

(usual complaints about side camera is showing)

Its fuller than it usually is for Leeds games is the North stand