England v Australia 2025 - coming to the UK!

[RP London]

2 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

I was using said word as a metaphorical exaggeration to ensure an emphasis on my point. Due to this being a common pattern used in casual speech I expected the majority of the receivers of said speech to understand the meaning of my word choice and so not reply with their own pedantic point.

And the vast majority of receivers did appear to understand why I made the vocabularic choice I did and thus indulged my metaphor.

But how can it be that someone called "Anita Bath" is talking to a "Hallucinating Goose" and doesn't get the fact that maybe, just maybe, everything isn't 100% literal.

 

[Anita Bath]

5 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

I was using said word as a metaphorical exaggeration to ensure an emphasis on my point. Due to this being a common pattern used in casual speech I expected the majority of the receivers of said speech to understand the meaning of my word choice and so not reply with their own pedantic point.

And the vast majority of receivers did appear to understand why I made the vocabularic choice I did and thus indulged my metaphor.

Ive told you a million times not to exaggerate

[The Hallucinating Goose]

1 hour ago, Anita Bath said:

Ive told you a million times not to exaggerate

Err, 999,999 times. No need to exaggerate!

[Hopie]

"Limited" Wembley tickets eh? There are more available than there are sold ones! I guess some of the old habits die hard. 

[Father Gascoigne]

12 minutes ago, Hopie said:

"Limited" Wembley tickets eh? There are more available than there are sold ones! I guess some of the old habits die hard. 

Edited May 1 by Father Gascoigne

[Bongo1]

23 minutes ago, Hopie said:

"Limited" Wembley tickets eh? There are more available than there are sold ones! I guess some of the old habits die hard. 

I mean they aren't wrong, tickets are limited to 70k

[Will Holt]

Just listening to Rhodri Jones responding to the Luke Keary quotes and he says that ‘over 30 thousand’ tickets have been sold for the Wembley test. 
 

link here: 

 

[Exiled Wiganer]

Thanks for the link to Rhodri’s comments. Over 30k this far out is superb. 

[WN83]

I think we can be really pleased with that. I'm not saying we'd be happy with it but I was there in the 2011 Tri Nations game and there was 42,000 on, all in the lower two tiers and that felt pretty good, so we look well on course to smash that and hopefully get past that 2013 Semi final crowd. If the lower two tiers are full, a crowd of 65-70k would look good and lead to a good atmosphere. 

[Toby Chopra]

It's very positive but they really need to get those highlighted upper tier blocks on sale. There will be people who would prefer a side-on view from higher up over being behind the posts lower down. My concern is we're entering the territory now where where people can't buy the ticket they want at the price they want and walk away even though we know those tickets will go on sale at some point. We can be very hopeful of hitting 70k now- it would be disappointing if we didn't - so lets at least have 70k on sale covering all ticket options.      

[Cumbrian Fanatic]

Over 30k for Wembley and 2 sold outs is tremendous this far out. I'd imagine that a push for Wembley will come after the Challenge cup final and before the play offs begin when the focus can be on promoting one big game 

[hunsletgreenandgold]

I'm not going to call Rhodri an outright liar but......there is no way 30k have been sold. Considering the upper tier that we suspect will be opened, at least on one side, has never been on sale the remaining lower bowl and middle ring holds 50k. It isn't anywhere near half full. 20k at best have been sold. Out of 94 seating sections, only 14 have sold out and 10 of those are in the much smaller middle ring - the rest vary between 2%-94% availability with an average of 68% availability. I'm using a tool that scans for colour other than the grey gradient that = sold seat to get these numbers btw. Too much time I know.....

[Gav Wilson]

10 minutes ago, hunsletgreenandgold said:

I'm not going to call Rhodri an outright liar but......there is no way 30k have been sold. Considering the upper tier that we suspect will be opened, at least on one side, has never been on sale the remaining lower bowl and middle ring holds 50k. It isn't anywhere near half full. 20k at best have been sold. Out of 94 seating sections, only 14 have sold out and 10 of those are in the much smaller middle ring - the rest vary between 2%-94% availability with an average of 68% availability. I'm using a tool that scans for colour other than the grey gradient that = sold seat to get these numbers btw. Too much time I know.....

Might it be possible that some sections have been pre-sold to tour operators etc?

I know it won't account for 10k of course, but maybe some? 

[The Masked Poster]

15 minutes ago, hunsletgreenandgold said:

I'm not going to call Rhodri an outright liar but......there is no way 30k have been sold. Considering the upper tier that we suspect will be opened, at least on one side, has never been on sale the remaining lower bowl and middle ring holds 50k. It isn't anywhere near half full. 20k at best have been sold. Out of 94 seating sections, only 14 have sold out and 10 of those are in the much smaller middle ring - the rest vary between 2%-94% availability with an average of 68% availability. I'm using a tool that scans for colour other than the grey gradient that = sold seat to get these numbers btw. Too much time I know.....

Does it really matter in this instance? He won't be massively wrong, even if it is less than 30k. But he was talking about the game during ostensibly a football show, why wouldn't he use a bit of hyperbole and try to talk it up a bit? That's surely part of his job.

Whether *at this stage* there has been 30k or 28k, or even 25k sold is not the major point, let's have a bit more bravado I say. 

[hunsletgreenandgold]

9 minutes ago, Gav Wilson said:

Might it be possible that some sections have been pre-sold to tour operators etc?

I know it won't account for 10k of course, but maybe some? 

For the upper tier? I mean I guess, but pretty poor if they were never even offered to pre sale customers either. 

[hunsletgreenandgold]

4 minutes ago, The Masked Poster said:

Does it really matter in this instance? He won't be massively wrong, even if it is less than 30k. But he was talking about the game during ostensibly a football show, why wouldn't he use a bit of hyperbole and try to talk it up a bit? That's surely part of his job.

Whether *at this stage* there has been 30k or 28k, or even 25k sold is not the major point, let's have a bit more bravado I say. 

Sure and that’s why I wouldn’t accuse him of outright lying - but definitely artistic license. 

[The Masked Poster]

14 minutes ago, hunsletgreenandgold said:

Sure and that’s why I wouldn’t accuse him of outright lying - but definitely artistic license. 

Which we often lack, always telling it "like it is" when sometimes a bit of flannel works well. 

[sam4731]

1 hour ago, hunsletgreenandgold said:

I'm not going to call Rhodri an outright liar but......there is no way 30k have been sold. Considering the upper tier that we suspect will be opened, at least on one side, has never been on sale the remaining lower bowl and middle ring holds 50k. It isn't anywhere near half full. 20k at best have been sold. Out of 94 seating sections, only 14 have sold out and 10 of those are in the much smaller middle ring - the rest vary between 2%-94% availability with an average of 68% availability. I'm using a tool that scans for colour other than the grey gradient that = sold seat to get these numbers btw. Too much time I know.....

Do the middle and lower bowls hold 50k? I find it hard to believe the the upper tier holds 40k.

[JonM]

1 minute ago, sam4731 said:

Do the middle and lower bowls hold 50k? I find it hard to believe the the upper tier holds 40k.

Lower tier 34,303

Middle tier 16,532

Upper tier 39,165

(That's when it's at the 90K capacity - may be reduced for various reasons.) 

[sam4731]

4 minutes ago, JonM said:

Lower tier 34,303

Middle tier 16,532

Upper tier 39,165

(That's when it's at the 90K capacity - may be reduced for various reasons.) 

I stand corrected.

[Dave T]

1 hour ago, The Masked Poster said:

Which we often lack, always telling it "like it is" when sometimes a bit of flannel works well. 

Whilst I agree with the point overall - we do have quite a long history of lying about ticket sales. 

How many times have we been told we are getting x thousand and then it falls short.

We'll get a test this weekend - he claimed we'll get 65k, I won't be surprised if it's up to 5k below that.

[The Masked Poster]

36 minutes ago, Dave T said:

Whilst I agree with the point overall - we do have quite a long history of lying about ticket sales. 

How many times have we been told we are getting x thousand and then it falls short.

We'll get a test this weekend - he claimed we'll get 65k, I won't be surprised if it's up to 5k below that.

That's a fair point and is absolutely true. But I don't think in this instance, being a few out on the sales is that big a deal and were he to mumble something about lower than expected sales, I'd say that was the worse option. 

[Bongo1]

Couple bits of new ashes training wear on the England shop

[bratman]

Anything above 50k at Wembley is good I reckon, if we've sold 30k already then it sounds very promising.

[turn it in]

32 minutes ago, bratman said:

Anything above 50k at Wembley is good I reckon, if we've sold 30k already then it sounds very promising.

30k sold this far out with no real promotion and media campaign blitz yet to start mean 70k is in play.

with magic out of the way now and once Wembley cup final is done and dusted I think we’ll see another surge from northern based fans and then it’s upto southern based fans and sales to push is over 70k.