Expected crowds for the tournament

[thommo4pm]

Back on topic,
3 venues are sold out, 62000 tickets sold for the final, 50,000 sold for Wembley and other venues selling well with around 40,000 people a day visiting the official world cup website.

Let's enjoy our sports time in the limelight instead of resorting to petty cheap shots

Agree, great crowds looming by the looks of it.

 

[Harrigan]

Just been told by someone sat next to me(who has previously been mentioned on this thread as a good source by someone else) 68,000 have been sold for the final,

Avignon have now sold those 15 tickets to sell out

46,000 at Cardiff next week.

Close to 8,000 sold for both Workington games too.

 

[roughyedspud]

can't be far off 400,000 tickets sold

 

[newman]

Just been told by someone sat next to me(who has previously been mentioned on this thread as a good source by someone else) 68,000 have been sold for the final,

Avignon have now sold those 15 tickets to sell out

46,000 at Cardiff next week.

Close to 8,000 sold for both Workington games too.

Ticket sales have been fantastic and you have to tip your hat to the marketing team, but only 46k for the opening ceremony? Millenium stadium with a capacity @ 70k will look half empty.

 

[roughyedspud]

it'll be fine

 

[hutch]

Ticket sales have been fantastic and you have to tip your hat to the marketing team, but only 46k for the opening ceremony? Millenium stadium with a capacity @ 70k will look half empty.

Or half full depending on how you look at things. Either way, it will be bigger than Sydney in 2008 and by far the biggest international rugby league crowd in Wales.

 

[newman]

Or half full depending on how you look at things. Either way, it will be bigger than Sydney in 2008 and by far the biggest international rugby league crowd in Wales.

Half full/half empty I'm not fussed. I'm perplexed at why they would've picked such a gigantic venue. 40k in plenty of other stadiums could have been sensational.

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

Half full/half empty I'm not fussed. I'm perplexed at why they would've picked such a gigantic venue. 40k in plenty of other stadiums could have been sensational.

After the 2000 WC, the RFL thought it cheaper to hire out a stadium with a roof instead of building every supporter an arc.

 

[Usain Bolt]

How many of the Italian team know the national anthem?

 

[Misanthrope]

How many of the Italian team know the national anthem?

How many Australians know the second verse of Advance Australia Fair?

 

[hutch]

How many Australians know the second verse of Advance Australia Fair?

There's a second verse?

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

:lol::lol::lol:

 

[Harrigan]

Ticket sales have been fantastic and you have to tip your hat to the marketing team, but only 46k for the opening ceremony? Millenium stadium with a capacity @ 70k will look half empty.

Actually, if you want me to be pedantic it'll actually look about 63.448% full. ;-)

That's with a weeks worth of tickets still to go. If they can get it to around the 70% mark (around 50k tickets) then I think it'll look pretty good on TV.

 

[Springs]

It will likely be bigger than any crowd in the 2000 and 2008 tournaments, the biggest crowd for league in Wales and the biggest crowd to an England international since the end of the Kangaroo Tours.

I cannot see how a 50,000 crowd could possibly be a failure.

 

[roughyedspud]

it is'nt a failure...

 

[deluded pom?]

Half full/half empty I'm not fussed. I'm perplexed at why they would've picked such a gigantic venue. 40k in plenty of other stadiums could have been sensational.

You'd need to be psychic to know how big the venue needed to be before a ticket has been sold. Isn't it better to be able to accommodate the audience that does want to turn up rather than turning potentially ten thousand people away?

 

[Panther_Daz]

Official launch is today so hopefully that leads to another spike in ticket sales.

 

[Springs]

it is'nt a failure...

I didn't say it was. I was responding to newman's complaints that it will look half empty.

 

[newman]

It will likely be bigger than any crowd in the 2000 and 2008 tournaments, the biggest crowd for league in Wales and the biggest crowd to an England international since the end of the Kangaroo Tours.

I cannot see how a 50,000 crowd could possibly be a failure.

When you put it like that..... I'll shut up then.

 

[miguel de cervantes]

Avignon have now sold those 15 tickets to sell out

No, I just bought 2 and there are about 5 individual seats left.