2024 attendance thread

[fieldofclothofgold]

Really looking forward to the GF as I always do .fascinating fixture . Both teams will start preparing this morning working on game plans 

[up the robins]

1 hour ago, Just Browny said:

Try a ferret first and, if that goes well, go for a dog.

Ah could put cage next t pigeon loft

[Cumbrian Fanatic]

Just had a quick look this morning and they've partially opened another block in the top tier of the North Stand (~300 tickets) some of which have been sold.

Looking forward to it, be nice to break 70k

[Bring back GB]

3 hours ago, Dave T said:

The top tier being open (and not loads available in there) is a positive sign.

70k would be lovely and it's nice to finish the SL season off positively with some great playoff crowds too.

And hopefully into the Samoa tests!

[WN83]

Wigan's tickets went on General Sale at midday. There looked to be good availability on the live ticket map beforehand but within an hour there just seems to be single seats left, so it's all looking positive. 

[Worzel]

34 minutes ago, WN83 said:

Wigan's tickets went on General Sale at midday. There looked to be good availability on the live ticket map beforehand but within an hour there just seems to be single seats left, so it's all looking positive. 

Yeah if you now go on to the RFL site you can see the ones at the Wigan end there are now disappearing fast now the club allocation has gone - only a few hundred left in the back rows

Hull KR have about 2,000 seats to sell in top tier of the North East the corner and I don't think we'll sell those now. One barrier is there are no more coaches left for hire, the club has soaked up everything available and it's a lot harder to get to Old Trafford from Hull without that sort of service available.  

[Archie Gordon]

1 hour ago, WN83 said:

Wigan's tickets went on General Sale at midday. There looked to be good availability on the live ticket map beforehand but within an hour there just seems to be single seats left, so it's all looking positive. 

Wow! Just looked on the RLC tickets page and Wiganers look to have hoovered up nearly everything left at their end in about 2 hours.

Thinking this could reach 70k.

[daz39]

8 hours ago, Just Browny said:

Try a ferret first and, if that goes well, go for a dog.

By heck lad, tha knows nowt, ferrets hate dogs and wanna kill em!

[daz39]

How come Hull Kr take 90,000 to every away game but Old Trafford still isn't sold out? do they only bother with Warrington on a Thursday neet?

[Worzel]

1 hour ago, daz39 said:

How come Hull Kr take 90,000 to every away game but Old Trafford still isn't sold out? do they only bother with Warrington on a Thursday neet?

Aside from the fact that Wigan have been continuously successful for 40 years and have the fanbase that comes with that, the logistics are against us.

Hull KR can't put on any more coaches, we've soaked up the local capacity. Whereas Wigan is just a 45 minute drive, Old Trafford is 2 and half hours away from Hull by road. Unlike Wigan, just 30 mins from Manchester by train, there's no direct train service to Hull from Manchester at all. The last indirect train back is out of Victoria at 10.30pm and gets into Hull 3 hours later, at half past one in the morning. 

Hope that was helpful. 

[sweaty craiq]

7 minutes ago, Worzel said:

Aside from the fact that Wigan have been continuously successful for 40 years and have the fanbase that comes with that, the logistics are against us.

Hull KR can't put on any more coaches, we've soaked up the local capacity. Whereas Wigan is just a 45 minute drive, Old Trafford is 2 and half hours away from Hull by road. Unlike Wigan, just 30 mins from Manchester by train, there's no direct train service to Hull from Manchester at all. The last indirect train back is out of Victoria at 10.30pm and gets into Hull 3 hours later, at half past one in the morning. 

Hope that was helpful. 

Hull is an hour and half away. Get a car full and nominate a driver it’s far cheaper

[Worzel]

8 minutes ago, sweaty craiq said:

Hull is an hour and half away. Get a car full and nominate a driver it’s far cheaper

Perhaps in your Ferrari at 3am in the morning, but not by car during the day or early evening it isn't. You'd have done well to do it in 2 hours, it's normal to take 2 and a half or more. I say this as a Man U member and reasonably frequent attendee, who's done the drive from Hull many times. It's pretty much the same as when I travel from Oxford these days. so not a simple scoot at all. 

Anyway, either way the attendance will be bigger than the last couple of times Wigan were in the final, and Rovers will take more fans than attend our home games, so as far as I'm concerned that's a win. It takes time to build a club, and we're doing it year by year. 

[Hopie]

Just say they've got more fans, nothing to be ashamed of, making excuses about "its too far" is not really worth your time. 

[bratman]

I think the entire stadium is open now, looks like it will be over 70k, which would be fantastic. That's if we can trust the ticketing sites when they show blocks as sold out!

Edited October 7 by bratman

[WN83]

Wigan have requested more tickets, so I guess the areas that have been opened but with only a few rows available have gone to the club. 

Looking very healthy. The whole play off series has been a real success in terms of crowds. Outside of the Wigan game, they've all been great contest as well, so hopefully it's just the start and future years will continue this trend. 

 

[M j M]

Largest number of tickets currently available look to be the Hull KR allocation in the North East corner. Plenty up there, not much anywhere else.

Very top tier in the Alex Ferguson stand has the every other couple of rows pattern of availability but you'd think they wouldn't even open that if almost everywhere else wasn't sold out.

Edited October 7 by M j M

[Whippet13]

1 hour ago, Worzel said:

Perhaps in your Ferrari at 3am in the morning, but not by car during the day or early evening it isn't. You'd have done well to do it in 2 hours, it's normal to take 2 and a half or more. I say this as a Man U member and reasonably frequent attendee, who's done the drive from Hull many times. It's pretty much the same as when I travel from Oxford these days. so not a simple scoot at all. 

Anyway, either way the attendance will be bigger than the last couple of times Wigan were in the final, and Rovers will take more fans than attend our home games, so as far as I'm concerned that's a win. It takes time to build a club, and we're doing it year by year. 

It's a 6pm kick off on a Saturday, there will be many thousands happily driving from Hull to Manchester and it'll be quiet going back. I've done it plenty of times the opposite way round for international rugby games and it's pretty straight forward, even in my 10+ year old Kia.

[Worzel]

24 minutes ago, Whippet13 said:

It's a 6pm kick off on a Saturday, there will be many thousands happily driving from Hull to Manchester and it'll be quiet going back. I've done it plenty of times the opposite way round for international rugby games and it's pretty straight forward, even in my 10+ year old Kia.

I've had conversations with actual people about this. It's a factor, whether people want to believe it or not. There are thousands of people driving, or course there are, but there are also people - your less-committed fan, or more often the friend of a fan who may come along to big events - exercising choice because of that added challenge, in a way that there won't be in Wigan because it's much, much closer. That's life. 

This is how any market in goods and services works, barriers and hurdles reduce consumption at a marginal rate.  

 

Edited October 7 by Worzel
Typo

[Anita Bath]

2 hours ago, Worzel said:

Aside from the fact that Wigan have been continuously successful for 40 years and have the fanbase that comes with that, the logistics are against us.

Hull KR can't put on any more coaches, we've soaked up the local capacity. Whereas Wigan is just a 45 minute drive, Old Trafford is 2 and half hours away from Hull by road. Unlike Wigan, just 30 mins from Manchester by train, there's no direct train service to Hull from Manchester at all. The last indirect train back is out of Victoria at 10.30pm and gets into Hull 3 hours later, at half past one in the morning. 

Hope that was helpful. 

Cant coaches from outside Hull be hired?

[Worzel]

Just now, Anita Bath said:

Cant coaches from outside Hull be hired?

Yes that's already been done. We're on to the 3rd release of coach capacity now after the club has sourced some more this afternoon. But looking at the pattern of sales I think Rovers have sold what they'll sell. Probably 1,500 left.

The top tier of the Alex Ferguson stand is now on sale though. Only had the front half of middle blocks on sale this morning, now it's all of them - the back half of the middle, and alternate rows on the side. Reckon that might all go so we could even get over 70,000.

Good times!

[WN83]

I'm sure the HKR fans will find a way. It sounds like their first allocation went and they got more and there isn't much at all on the RFL site down that end, so it's going to be a great following. 

 

[Dave T]

46 minutes ago, Worzel said:

Yes that's already been done. We're on to the 3rd release of coach capacity now after the club has sourced some more this afternoon. But looking at the pattern of sales I think Rovers have sold what they'll sell. Probably 1,500 left.

The top tier of the Alex Ferguson stand is now on sale though. Only had the front half of middle blocks on sale this morning, now it's all of them - the back half of the middle, and alternate rows on the side. Reckon that might all go so we could even get over 70,000.

Good times!

Is Rhodri Jones the most wishy washy speaker we have ever had in a prominent role in RL?

A fortnight ago this was on the SL website:

And with pre-sales at their strongest level for years, the Grand Final is virtually guaranteed to have an attendance in excess of 65,000 for the first time since 2017.

Today, on Total RL Jones said:

 “Crowd expectation is 65000 mark is definitely achievable.”

That is far less cocksure than the earlier statement. 

[Henson Park Old Firm]

I think, to boost the GF crowd every year is too model it on the NRL.

Have the women's, wheel chair grand final played on the day also.

Or even have league 1 or Championship promotion game played at Old Trafford (granted that IMG are against promotion/relegation)

 

I think you could pull a good crowd every year. I do understand that Man Utd might not want more damage to the pitch.

[Dave T]

3 minutes ago, Henson Park Old Firm said:

I think, to boost the GF crowd every year is too model it on the NRL.

Have the women's, wheel chair grand final played on the day also.

Or even have league 1 or Championship promotion game played at Old Trafford (granted that IMG are against promotion/relegation)

 

I think you could pull a good crowd every year. I do understand that Man Utd might not want more damage to the pitch.

Generally speaking - the Grand Final does pull a great crowd every year, and it pretty much always looks good at Old Trafford. I don't see any need to play more games on the day tbh.

[Henson Park Old Firm]

Just now, Dave T said:

Generally speaking - the Grand Final does pull a great crowd every year, and it pretty much always looks good at Old Trafford. I don't see any need to play more games on the day tbh.

I just think it could be a way as a celebration of rugby league... especially if we have the women's and wheel chair grand final all rolled into one.