RLWC2017 Crowd Watch

[NRLMad]

My logic for going to aus vs Lebanon was I won’t get to see a World Cup game otherwise. I bought a nice polo, scarf and hat for the memories. I’ll cherish those for at least a few years. I think if you live in Brisbane even if it’s expensive it’s worth going to as it’s like a GF. I’d go if I was in Brisbane

 

[roughyedspud]

And Sydney only got that many cos it was against Lebanon and thousands of free tickets got dished

 

[Perth Red]

Hold on my logic doesn't suggest to not take the host city money!? It suggests cheaper tickets to gain bigger crowds and greater acceptance of this code everywhere. That's the logic. Your logic promotes a failed look of less than half full stadiums with the negativity that comes with that look. Go figure!?

No, your approach takes money for the development of the game out of the rlif’s pocket just so you can sleep better becuause there was 75% full stadiums. Me I’d rather see the rlif have the money to grow the game internationally over the next 4 years.

Hav8mg a few thousand more people at the games will do nothing for the ambivalent media and Australian rl fans attitude to international RL. If it’s not origin they don’t care, a few thousand more through the gate won’t change that.

 

[Perth Red]

It should! And deserves to.Ticket prices are a very real factor this time around! The ticket prices destroyed a full house in the Melbourne opener which set a disturbing trend for the rest of the tournament in Australia. Poor venue allocation and high ticket prices stopped this world cup from being a massive success. It's a success but not massive which it richly deserved with the football entertainment shown.

This World Cup has been a massive success. Mostly decent crowds, plenty of profit made, png hugely successful hosts, tongan dream run and amazing fan support and tier 2 nations looking stronger. Just need England to pull of a miracle and snag a win now.

The only disappointment has been Australian rl fans not supporting it. You can blame opener on cost of tickets but what about the pool games that were dirt cheap? Good luck going to the final of any other professional World Cup for less than $100. You can see a World Cup final in a brilliant stadium for $70 in Brisbane. That is extremely good value!
Tickets have not been over priced, just your typical lazy fanbase the game has here. It’s on view every week in the nrl, why we should have expected it to be different for the rlwc I’m not sure. Australian rl fans prefer to sit home and watch the game on telly, this has just been another example of that.

 

[Perth Red]

There's a decent chance that in 2029 Australia will only get kangaroos group games

England’s drawn well and again the host city bidding has meant decent profits for the tournament. If it was just about attendances you’d Be right, we dont deserve anything other than those games but reality is tv money and host city bids will mean bulk of games will be in Australia and we can have another whinge thread about ticket prices for stallion

 

[Stallion]

This World Cup has been a massive success. Mostly decent crowds, plenty of profit made, png hugely successful hosts, tongan dream run and amazing fan support and tier 2 nations looking stronger. Just need England to pull of a miracle and snag a win now.

The only disappointment has been Australian rl fans not supporting it. You can blame opener on cost of tickets but what about the pool games that were dirt cheap? Good luck going to the final of any other professional World Cup for less than $100. You can see a World Cup final in a brilliant stadium for $70 in Brisbane. That is extremely good value!
Tickets have not been over priced, just your typical lazy fanbase the game has here. It’s on view every week in the nrl, why we should have expected it to be different for the rlwc I’m not sure. Australian rl fans prefer to sit home and watch the game on telly, this has just been another example of that.

Typically you have ignored poor venue allocation decisions. You have also ignored an embarassing turnout with a 2/3 full crowd for an opener with $155 ticket prices? This was significant in setting the theme of high priced tickets which happened in Brisbane.(2/5full stadium for a semi final (kangaroos v fiji)with $100 plus sideline priced seats) Their was also ticket giveaways for the Sydney games when the organisers realised that the fans were not coming given original pricing! Your ' money in the bank' logic would have been improved so much by enticing full to near full houses through lower pricing. The additional merchandise sales and popular look for the game would have spurned immense interest and anticipation for the international game going forward. Instead their was disappointment which you have been trying sugarcoat as fan apathy. The ridiculous prices were there and the fans were not! Perhaps even media institutions like Fox , the ABC, AIR RADIO news would have been compelled to cover this 'clearly popular' (thru visibly impressive attendances which seldom happened ) football world cup? (The way it should have been covered. )
To date these media organisations I've mentioned(perhaps more) have 'ignored' mentioning the RL world cup with alarming consistency throughout the tournament. When people disregard you and then see a moderate to poor crowd attending the 'event ' they have a disdain for, they continue their deliberate 'ignorance' as its suits their stance against covering this code. This has happened with the media just mentioned throughout this world cup.

 

[Stallion]

Rlif needs money now, RLWC won’t be back in Australia for over a decade. We aren’t building anything by giving tickets away to fill the stadium and the rlif not having as much money as possible to support developing nations.
Let’s be honest it’s half arsed Australians that haven’t turned up to this World Cup, that’s little to do with cost and a lot to do with attitude.

Lol. Due to ridiculous initial pricing the RL world cup marketing geniuses have had to give tickets away. I'm advocating cheaper priced tickets from the outset. It would have increased all sorts of business associated with this world cup :merchandise, neutral public interest, future host city tenders and genuine positive momentum for the code going forward.

 

[Burns]

Ticket sales for Final appear to be hardly moving.

 

[Stallion]

Ticket sales for Final appear to be hardly moving.

Seems familiar?! Someone paid $150 for a seat in the middle. Pretty sure most people would not have. When will the penny drop!?

 

[adamkungl]

You must really value international RL if you dont think a World Cup final is worth $100

 

[adamkungl]

For comparison, I paid $90 for some of the worst seats in the Gabba for the cricket the other day

 

[Perth Red]

Typically you have ignored poor venue allocation decisions. You have also ignored an embarassing turnout with a 2/3 full crowd for an opener with $155 ticket prices? This was significant in setting the theme of high priced tickets which happened in Brisbane.(2/5full stadium for a semi final (kangaroos v fiji)with $100 plus sideline priced seats) Their was also ticket giveaways for the Sydney games when the organisers realised that the fans were not coming given original pricing! Your ' money in the bank' logic would have been improved so much by enticing full to near full houses through lower pricing. The additional merchandise sales and popular look for the game would have spurned immense interest and anticipation for the international game going forward. Instead their was disappointment which you have been trying sugarcoat as fan apathy. The ridiculous prices were there and the fans were not! Perhaps even media institutions like Fox , the ABC, AIR RADIO news would have been compelled to cover this 'clearly popular' (thru visibly impressive attendances which seldom happened ) football world cup? (The way it should have been covered. )
To date these media organisations I've mentioned(perhaps more) have 'ignored' mentioning the RL world cup with alarming consistency throughout the tournament. When people disregard you and then see a moderate to poor crowd attending the 'event ' they have a disdain for, they continue their deliberate 'ignorance' as its suits their stance against covering this code. This has happened with the media just mentioned throughout this world cup.

How was going to a pool game for $20 or a World Cup final for $70ridiculous pricing? Good luck selling enough merch from an extra couple of thousand people to cover the loss in ticket sale prices you are suggesting lol.

The venues were due to bids, money in the bank for the rlif. You can whinge all you like but this tournament has made the rlif a hefty profit and will set up its work for the next 4 years. Job done.

Media and fan apathy is rife in this country for RL, nrl shows it every week. This is just a reflection of that and a couple thousand more fans at games would have had zero impact. Your dreaming and seem t9 have little grasp of how the game is travelling in Australia, especially the kangaroos brand and disdain for international rl shown from top to bottom.

 

[Perth Red]

Seems familiar?! Someone paid $150 for a seat in the middle. Pretty sure most people would not have. When will the penny drop!?

Lol, a world Cup final for $70-170 is dirt cheap. Once again the apathy is due to the fans, not the ticket prices. I bet the tv figurss are massive, get off your arses RL fans!

I’m spending $3k to go to the game, why? Because I’m a rugby league fan that supports the game. Some people won’t fork out $70and jump on a bus. No amount of cheap tickets will overcome that level of apathy.

 

[Stallion]

You must really value international RL if you dont think a World Cup final is worth $100

I value it immensely! Still think it should be priced to promote yhe game into the future and not a money grab. $40 or $50 tickets is fair. Looks like the public will work our what's reasonable. If it sells at high prices I concede ive read things wrong. If not then Im still wrong because you won't accept the verdict!

 

[DlEHARD]

OK I just took out a mortgage and bought two more tickets to the Final.

PAX is 36,360

 

[Stallion]

Lol, a world Cup final for $70-170 is dirt cheap. Once again the apathy is due to the fans, not the ticket prices. I bet the tv figurss are massive, get off your arses RL fans!

I’m spending $3k to go to the game, why? Because I’m a rugby league fan that supports the game. Some people won’t fork out $70and jump on a bus. No amount of cheap tickets will overcome that level of apathy.

It's the high prices you idiot! It's certainly not the entertaining football that's keeping fans away! If its a sellout at the prices you advocate im wrong. Im willing to have bad weather as an excuse for unsold world cup final but otherwise cop it sweet!

 

[Perth Red]

I value it immensely! Still think it should be priced to promote yhe game into the future and not a money grab. $40 or $50 tickets is fair. Looks like the public will work our what's reasonable. If it sells at high prices I concede ive read things wrong. If not then Im still wrong because you won't accept the verdict!

So you rate it at the same entertainment value level as a trip to gold clas cinema? It’s a World club final ffs! You rate it lower than going to a regular nrl game? Lower than going to a game of basketball? Your clueless!

 

[adamkungl]

You value it 'immensely', but not $100. Okaaay.

Why can every other sport, the theatre, musicians, comedians etc charge well into the hundreds for dog average tickets but RL fans crack the shits at being asked to pay $100 for a WORLD CUP FINAL?
The commonwealth games is charging minimum $150 for the Closing ceremony of all things!
The NRL charge upwards of $400 for Origin and Grand finals and sell out in the same stadium and the larger Sydney Olympic Park.

There are problems with some of the ticketing strategies employed in this tournament. For the opening game I backtracked on standing up for the ticket prices when it failed to sell out.

But if RL fans can't be arsed to fork out $100 for the final which won't be seen in this country for another 12 years minimum then they aren't fans, simple as that. Especially in Brisbane, the self-proclaimed God's Gift To Rugby League and huge supporter of Internationals.

 

[Perth Red]

It's the high prices you idiot! It's certainly not the entertaining football that's keeping fans away! If its a sellout at the prices you advocate im wrong. Otherwise cop it sweet!

Avg ticket price will be around $120
You want to sell them for $50

So if there are 35k x $120= $4.2million
To get the same at your $50 need a crowd of 84k!
Your advocating the rlif take a $1million less revenue from the game and that’s if they fill the stadium which given fan apathy is incredibly unlikely!

I hope you’re not in charge of business development in your job!

 

[Stallion]

So you rate it at the same entertainment value level as a trip to gold clas cinema? It’s a World club final ffs! You rate it lower than going to a regular nrl game? Lower than going to a game of basketball? Your clueless!

Your the spastic PR. You have not read the market right! If its full Im wrong. If its not full then shame on you and the ticketing marketers for embarassing rugby league on international tv. I know its not directly your fault however you have advocated high prices from the outset and that line of thinking has caused the embarassment in a number if ways.