Sydney Ticket Sales

[lockyno1]

I'll go now that I have calmed down now. I'll buy my seats this afternoon. What are the best seats availiable?

 

[ouwet]

I'll go now that I have calmed down now. I'll buy my seats this afternoon. What are the best seats availiable?

Take your pick...

 

[lockyno1]

So Eastern side is ok, right. That is where I sat for the broncos prelim.

 

[brendothejet]

we cant let the victorians win anything. ever.

lol

 

[International RL]

To be honest I'm disappointed with only 20,000 pre sold...

In my opinion the general promotion of the series isn't what it could be in terms of letting people know where and when games are on.

Furthermore the slanging match between britain and aus has been lost due to the whole fein thing.

hopefully somewhere close to 30

Im guess 25 :sarcasm:

 

[Nook]

On track for a very dissapointing crowd.

Can't blame the ARL this time. Plenty of publicity and plenty of coverage.

If Sydney can't crack 30,000 for a match against GB, it doesn't deserve another test match any time soon.

 

[International RL]

On track for a very dissapointing crowd.

Can't blame the ARL this time. Plenty of publicity and plenty of coverage.

If Sydney can't crack 30,000 for a match against GB, it doesn't deserve another test match any time soon.

Fair point.

Though I still think more could of been done in waht is considered the worlds toughest sports market.

 

[Nook]

Though I still think more could of been done in waht is considered the worlds toughest sports market.

Sure, a lot more could have been done

But it shouldn't have to.

Plenty of RL fans about - they'd all know this match was on. A big number wil watch on TV but most won't be arsed going to the game. Sydney should easily sell this match out, nevermind cracking 30,000. Even with minimal promotion. Short of physically rounding people up and dragging them away from their tvs and to the game there isn't alot the ARL can do that looks to have any chance of working.

 

[mikdalton]

It looks a little dissapointing yes and I dont think theres any excuses really. I've been here near 3 weeks and pretty much everyday the telegraph has on its backpage a small advertisement for the match but big enough to notice. All publicity has been pretty negative this week, the whole Fien saga has seriously damaged the rep of the tri-nations I think. It means that Aus have already qualified so theres nothing riding on this game now, I think thats reflected in only about 1000 tickets being sold this week which is pathetic. I hoped the Pryce thing might help but its doubtful it has.

Apart from a clear lazyness on the behalf of aussie fans I think a lot of it comes down to the fact that you just dont give us a chance of winning, which might be fair enough but means a lot will probably watch it on the box in case its clear theres not a contest. People like Phil Gould etc dont help when their views might have a point but are extreme. No credit at all was given to us, we lost in dubious circumstance by 4 points when a lot of you predicted 30-40. So wheres the credit for that?

I'll go for 26-28000. I went Sydney FC and there were 4000 walkups to that so hopefully we can get some. I'll be there screaming on the boys to a hopefull victory. The Maguire thing has done us a favour if you ask me. He was so crap against NZ its unbelievable.

 

[miccle]

On track for a very dissapointing crowd.

Can't blame the ARL this time. Plenty of publicity and plenty of coverage.

If Sydney can't crack 30,000 for a match against GB, it doesn't deserve another test match any time soon.

Spot on, and the recent figure in Melbourne and for the last two tests against the Kiwis in Brisbane (both over 40K, right?) pretty much means there really are no excuses.

 

[milton]

got mine before almost 21000

 

[JK]

21,000 with crap weather looming...sigh.

 

[Nook]

The Poms (generally) do much better than this - at least they can sell out 25,000 stadiums in advance.

We'll be relying on walk ups to get us much beyond that. Rugby League is by far the biggest game in town here - not so anywhere in England, even in Wigan. Pretty pathetic.

 

[ledzep]

you can add two cause my dad and i will be in the members

 

[dimitri]

I will be taking 3 friends along to the members

 

[ali]

To be honest I'm disappointed with only 20,000 pre sold...

In my opinion the general promotion of the series isn't what it could be in terms of letting people know where and when games are on.

Furthermore the slanging match between britain and aus has been lost due to the whole fein thing.

hopefully somewhere close to 30

Im guess 25 :sarcasm:

I disagree, there has been plenty of promotion. The problem is the attitude of so called Rugby League people such as Phil Gould, Ray Hadley and others. The problem our admin does nothing about the negative publicity from within the game, e.g. 2GB getting their contract renewed.

Also the constant comparison between the Super League and the NRL hasn't helped. Basically it's been a non stop barage of people telling us how crap the poms are, most of which would have been lucky to see them play once. I'm not sure what the result will be, but the 64-10 result was a one off. This team will not be done by 60. In this case, I don't think all publicity is good publicity. I'd say there was more positive stuff in the lead up to the 02 test. Anyone remember King Keiron on the Daily Tele?

I heard GB is paying $6 on the tab. I probably wont back them head to head, but if that value if reflected through all the markets I plan on cleaning up tomorrow night. I watched that game last week and didn't think GB was as bad as many people have made out.

Maye the weather will cost us a few people tomorrow night. But if it produces a tight game, maybe even a lions win, then it may be a massive positive.

 

[carlnz]

Well if a city of Christchurch who has a population of 367,700 and can attarct a crowd of 17,005, and Sydney with a population of 4,254,900 cant even attract 30,000 that must be telling you something about Rugby League in Sydney

 

[ali]

Well if a city of Christchurch who has a population of 367,700 and can attarct a crowd of 17,005, and Sydney with a population of 4,254,900 cant even attract 30,000 that must be telling you something about Rugby League in Sydney

Yes, on the majority we are arrogant pricks who think the game begins and ends in Australia and to a lesser extent Sydney.

The media is partly to blame, they are making Sydney siders think like this. I don't know how to change it, but this is the biggest issue facing RL in Australia in my opinion.

 

[Jeffles]

I agree with what ali says. Great promotion not assisted by many of the game's stakeholders.

I think there will be around 35,000 in attendance. I am still yet to purchase my tickets. The 21,000 pre sold is great as it does not include members. Members alone could number another 6000 - at least and then there is the walk up. The promotion for this Test is as good as any I can recall in Sydney. For as big a promotion, we have to go back to 1992 and the Lions tour.

 

[Ari Gold]

As you can see by this thread, a lot of people are going to be walking up tomorrow (including myself), so 20,000 is a good foundation.