Attendances

[TDD91]

13,666 apparently. More than Australia managed against France in 2017.

 

[Billythekid]

Fantastic crowd for England and a pretty good crowd for Australia. Disappointing that Samoa got smashed but hopefully it brings some excitement around the English lads.

 

[League Unlimited News]

 

[yakstorm]

Leeds crowd was a bit underwhelming, however not surprising. With another match at Headingley today, plus playing on the same day as the opener was always going to make it a harder sell.

So we're at a very solid 56,485 after the first day of action.

 

[PARRA_FAN]

Gus has a strange hatred of the International game. Did he ever get a International jersey when he played? If not then it explains his bitterness toward Test football

The same blokes in the media seem to snub the International game and want everyone to play Origin.

Great crowd for the first game, pity about the result but take nothing away from England's performance

 

[Perth Red]

Brilliant opening crowd. Who’d have thought we could get over 40k in a non RL city for an opening game not against australia? A few years ago it would have seemed impossible.
hopefully englands big win against a favoured Samoa side will peak interest even more.
wtf happened with the opening ceremony? Another billy idol moment lol

 

[morningstar]

Calling bullshit on 350k pre sales before tournament start.

Somethings very fishy here. Halliwell Jones is empty for NZ game after getting 15k for the corresponding fixture in 2013.

 

[Northern]

The crowds at Leeds & Warrington look very poor. I went to Leeds last night. £70 for a seat. Too expensive for a group game. Looking at these attendances I think the game tomorrow will look shocking for France v Greece.

 

[Northern]

While I’m here, the website is awful. For games where it says low availability or medium availability, it would be good to understand their definition of availability. It’s such a shame. Couple of guys pulled out of last night’s game due to price. We tried to get 4 of the £55 seats together but website said no. Looked to be plenty of empty seats at the ground. I realise pricing was set last year in better economic conditions but surely better to have set lower prices and give stadiums a better look.

 

[kiwileaguefan]

Calling bullshit on 350k pre sales before tournament start.

Somethings very fishy here. Halliwell Jones is empty for NZ game after getting 15k for the corresponding fixture in 2013.

6k at Scotland vs Italy....and it didn't like much at all for Jamaica vs Ireland...pre match said they were expecting 5k for NZ vs Lebanon

 

[yakstorm]

Scotland v Italy - 6,206
Ireland v Jamaica - 6,320

NZ v Lebanon looks like it will only be 4 figures as well, which is possibly the most disappointing... you want the top seeds being able to draw 5 figure crowds.

 

[League Unlimited News]

 

[yakstorm]

Calling bullshit on 350k pre sales before tournament start.

Somethings very fishy here. Halliwell Jones is empty for NZ game after getting 15k for the corresponding fixture in 2013.

The 350K comment was across the Men's, Women's & Wheelchair tournaments, so you're talking 31 Men's games, 7 Women's events and 8 Wheelchair.

Take out the 35K for the opener (at the time), 50K for the Final, 23K for France v England and 10K for the first Women's double header (118K), it brings that down to only 5K avg per match for the rest (and even less assuming the England v Greece, QF & SF have sold more than 5K).

So I can believe it to a point (hopefully they weren't doubling any double header crowds), but yeah it's concerning some of these other matches aren't generating any momentum.

 

[yakstorm]

Rolling total is now 74,464 after two days of action. Still got 3 more games for the round, hopefully will get us close to 90K.

 

[KingstonDD]

Doesn’t help that Headingley had two games on consecutive days.

I love international rl but there’s a lot of mis-matched fixtures where the cheapest ticket is £30/40. No way I was paying that to watch Ireland v Jamaica.

 

[Northern]

Doesn’t help that Headingley had two games on consecutive days.

I love international rl but there’s a lot of mis-matched fixtures where the cheapest ticket is £30/40. No way I was paying that to watch Ireland v Jamaica.

Totally agree.

 

[Billythekid]

This feels like the story of every RLWC, crowds are always talked up as expected to be much bigger and then end up disappointing somewhat.

Doesn’t help that Headingley had two games on consecutive days.

I love international rl but there’s a lot of mis-matched fixtures where the cheapest ticket is £30/40. No way I was paying that to watch Ireland v Jamaica.

Yeah I know we don’t want to devalue the game but we have to be realistic. Much better to have those games priced extremely cheaply to make for a better TV atmosphere.

 

[morningstar]

The 350K comment was across the Men's, Women's & Wheelchair tournaments, so you're talking 31 Men's games, 7 Women's events and 8 Wheelchair.

Take out the 35K for the opener (at the time), 50K for the Final, 23K for France v England and 10K for the first Women's double header (118K), it brings that down to only 5K avg per match for the rest (and even less assuming the England v Greece, QF & SF have sold more than 5K).

So I can believe it to a point (hopefully they weren't doubling any double header crowds), but yeah it's concerning some of these other matches aren't generating any momentum.

Get your playing Devil’s advocate Yak, but you’d have to think outside of the big sellers they spruiked pre tournament (Final, Bolton, Women’s opener, Men’s opener) most of those pre sales would be for the first round. And the crowds to date aren’t reflecting that.

Let’s agree they sold 350k pre tournament, take away:-

Final - 50k
Mens’ Opener - 35k
Bolton - 23k
Women’s Opener - 10k
Say 75% of other 4 games played so far - 23.5k
Wheelchair - 10k

That’s 198k pre sale tickets to account for. I’m getting major 2000/2017 vibes.

 

[yakstorm]

Get your playing Devil’s advocate Yak, but you’d have to think outside of the big sellers they spruiked pre tournament (Final, Bolton, Women’s opener, Men’s opener) most of those pre sales would be for the first round. And the crowds to date aren’t reflecting that.

Let’s agree they sold 350k pre tournament, take away:-

Final - 50k
Mens’ Opener - 35k
Bolton - 23k
Women’s Opener - 10k
Say 75% of other 4 games played so far - 23.5k
Wheelchair - 10k

That’s 198k pre sale tickets to account for. I’m getting major 2000/2017 vibes.

I'd like to say playing Devils, though there is certainly an element of trying to convince myself that surely we have learnt from our past mistakes and aren't repeating them (predominantly the exaggerating sales publicly)

 

[LeagueXIII]

Th

This feels like the story of every RLWC, crowds are always talked up as expected to be much bigger and then end up disappointing somewhat.

Yeah I know we don’t want to devalue the game but we have to be realistic. Much better to have those games priced extremely cheaply to make for a better TV atmosphere.

The organisers have made the decision to make as much money from the tournament in order to fund the international game for the coming years before the next world cup.