The Las Vegas Thread

[Wb1234]

flights are cheap as for English fans

 

[BuffaloRules]

flights are cheap as for English fans

Unfortunately when they get there a beer is $15 USD …..

+ Tax

+ Tip

 

[Wb1234]

Cleary’s Penrith to spearhead Las Vegas quadruple-header in 2025

Las Vegas 2025 is being marketed as ‘bigger, bolder and better’. See which NRL and Super League teams will feature – and when.

www.smh.com.au

“Where the NRL teams will be based is still being finalised, as is the venue and date for the World Club Challenge.”

why is the raiders game on so early Australian time that seems stupid

surely the women’s test match should follow the super league game then have the nrl games back to back

 

[BuffaloRules]

Cleary’s Penrith to spearhead Las Vegas quadruple-header in 2025

Las Vegas 2025 is being marketed as ‘bigger, bolder and better’. See which NRL and Super League teams will feature – and when.

www.smh.com.au

“Where the NRL teams will be based is still being finalised, as is the venue and date for the World Club Challenge.”

why is the raiders game on so early Australian time that seems stupid

surely the women’s test match should follow the super league game then have the nrl games back to back

Do you think why might go to 6 games in 2026?

Might be an early start for the Las Vegans

 

[Wb1234]

Do you think why might go to 6 games in 2026?

Might be an early start for the Las Vegans

nah

this format works as it’s 930 pm in England for the kick off to the super league game

Jilaroos should be next then the two nrl games on at normal times for us

this could also be a prelude to more nrl involvement in super league if things work out well

Wigan fans travel

when hull fc played a super league game at the gong that got like 3k plus pommies coming here. Involving English clubs is a good move (it was their idea they approached the arlc)

 

[BuffaloRules]

nah

this format works as it’s 930 pm in England for the kick off to the super league game

Jilaroos should be next then the two nrl games on at normal times for us

this could also be a prelude to more nrl involvement in super league if things work out well

Wigan fans travel

when hull fc played a super league game at the gong that got like 3k plus pommies coming here. Involving English clubs is a good move (it was their idea they approached the arlc)

get another super league game earlier happening so it can kick off at 7.30pm England time …

And another 10k English fans headed over

 

[Wb1234]

get another super league game earlier happening so it can kick off at 7.30pm England time …

And another 10k English fans headed over

Play that at north Sydney oval

 

[BuffaloRules]

Play that at north Sydney oval

In the preseason

 

[titoelcolombiano]

"Thank you to all our partners, including the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority

Rugby League Las Vegas Festival 2025 - Bigger, Bolder, Better

Rugby League in Las Vegas 2025 will be bigger, bolder and better, with more games, more teams, more nations and more opportunities for travelling supporters to take advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime festival of global Rugby League.

www.nrl.com

It probably wasn't the original intention but this is going to become a huge sports tourism asset for Rugby League, the line above hints at LV paying something for this event and as the number of travellers goes up, so do the $$$

 

[PARRA_FAN]

Wow this is massive. Well done on those NRL games but also the Womens and Super league game.

 

[The Great Dane]

Nobody here will admit it, but adding the two extra games to the Vegas schedule is massive mistake.

Most avid RL fans won't be interested in sticking around for 10 hours of football, so I can't imagine that many Yanks without much investment in the sport will be interested in making that kind of time investment at all. That'll lead to a patchy crowd of people only showing up to watch the match they're interested in then leaving, which will look bad on TV and make a bad impression for American audiences. It'll also make the event a much harder sell to most potential American attendees and absolutely screw the ratings in the US (and Canada?) by spreading the viewership out over a 10 hour slot (if they're all being broadcast?).

The added games will undoubtably necessitate a jump in prices as well, and frankly the two games they've added aren't going to push tickets to the target audience in AUS, NZ, and America (I couldn't give less of a f**k about the English audience). I'm sorry but next to nobody is traveling to the other side of the planet to watch a women's international or ESL, which is why they've been tacked onto the Vegas event instead of being made into their own events in the US.

If there wasn't enough demand to justify renting the venue over two days, or spreading the event over multiple venues, then there wasn't enough demand to justify adding more games full stop.

 

[The Great Dane]

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I don't understand the thinking behind having the women's test between two nrl games.

Does anyone have any idea the thinking behind it?

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If they block the NRL games together the majority of the crowd would just show up for those two games, which would be a terrible look.

Putting the women's game in-between the two NRL games forces anybody who wants to watch both NRL games to sit through the Test as well, which gives it an artificial boost to it's crowd.

The ESL game being first is because it's in the worst broadcast slot in Australia. Despite Jills v Ferns being the better matchup on paper, they've chosen to include the Lionesses over the Ferns in the hopes that'll convince a larger portion of the ESL fans to stick around for that game as well.

Put simply they know that very few people are going to sit through the whole roughly 10 hour event, so they're spreading the matches out in such way to try and keep the stadium looking as full as possible for as long as possible.

BTW, the RL Lionesses sharing a name with the women's national football team (i.e. the real Lionesses) is stupid even by English RL standards. It'd be completely screwing their marketing.

 

[The Great Dane]

 

[final say]

Well, certainly sums up all the negatives. And all that to say " we might see some empty seats as people come and go through the day"
*note : there was 25k empty seats last time.. so if it sells out.. then there's potential a lot less empty ..

As a positive though... everyone was negative the first time....

The positives however, the potential positives: it's declared a sellout...not only the gate takings but event status that becomes something a city is willing to pay big money to host..
The UK sees a massive boost to their TV viewers ... a genuine festival of Rugby league that now covers and brings together all of the Rugby league family from around the world across genders.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Don’t see the wcc being held a few weeks before this involving Penrith and Wigan / Warrington in England that’s why

The wcc is a big deal for the poms, its a trial (in every sense of the word) for Australian clubs.

Anyone who thinks that super league is anyway near the NRL has got rocks for brains.

 

[Wb1234]

Nobody here will admit it, but adding the two extra games to the Vegas schedule is massive mistake.

Most avid RL fans won't be interested in sticking around for 10 hours of football, so I can't imagine that many Yanks without much investment in the sport will be interested in making that kind of time investment at all. That'll lead to a patchy crowd of people only showing up to watch the match they're interested in then leaving, which will look bad on TV and make a bad impression for American audiences. It'll also make the event a much harder sell to most potential American attendees and absolutely screw the ratings in the US (and Canada?) by spreading the viewership out over a 10 hour slot (if they're all being broadcast?).

The added games will undoubtably necessitate a jump in prices as well, and frankly the two games they've added aren't going to push tickets to the target audience in AUS, NZ, and America (I couldn't give less of a f**k about the English audience). I'm sorry but next to nobody is traveling to the other side of the planet to watch a women's international or ESL, which is why they've been tacked onto the Vegas event instead of being made into their own events in the US.

If there wasn't enough demand to justify renting the venue over two days, or spreading the event over multiple venues, then there wasn't enough demand to justify adding more games full stop.

Aren’t you the guy that said the dolphins will and are failing ?

and that afl is bigger than nrl in Canberra

 

[Pippen94]

Nobody here will admit it, but adding the two extra games to the Vegas schedule is massive mistake.

Most avid RL fans won't be interested in sticking around for 10 hours of football, so I can't imagine that many Yanks without much investment in the sport will be interested in making that kind of time investment at all. That'll lead to a patchy crowd of people only showing up to watch the match they're interested in then leaving, which will look bad on TV and make a bad impression for American audiences. It'll also make the event a much harder sell to most potential American attendees and absolutely screw the ratings in the US (and Canada?) by spreading the viewership out over a 10 hour slot (if they're all being broadcast?).

The added games will undoubtably necessitate a jump in prices as well, and frankly the two games they've added aren't going to push tickets to the target audience in AUS, NZ, and America (I couldn't give less of a f**k about the English audience). I'm sorry but next to nobody is traveling to the other side of the planet to watch a women's international or ESL, which is why they've been tacked onto the Vegas event instead of being made into their own events in the US.

If there wasn't enough demand to justify renting the venue over two days, or spreading the event over multiple venues, then there wasn't enough demand to justify adding more games full stop.

Lol

 

[Pippen94]

Aren’t you the guy that said the dolphins will and are failing ?

and that afl is bigger than nrl in Canberra

Lol, Vegas will be a massive success yet he'll be here next year trying convince people it failed!!

 

[Generalzod]

You are an absolute wanker. Good news is it’s now widely known. Keep posting and proving my point.

He is Nothing Man...

 

[taste2taste]

Well, certainly sums up all the negatives. And all that to say " we might see some empty seats as people come and go through the day"
*note : there was 25k empty seats last time.. so if it sells out.. then there's potential a lot less empty ..

As a positive though... everyone was negative the first time....

The positives however, the potential positives: it's declared a sellout...not only the gate takings but event status that becomes something a city is willing to pay big money to host..
The UK sees a massive boost to their TV viewers ... a genuine festival of Rugby league that now covers and brings together all of the Rugby league family from around the world across genders.

I'm sure the NRL knows what they are doing and will have learnt from last year.

They'd have a significant amount of data to back up the decision.

I think the crowd will build through out the day, small crowd for game 1 and will probably peak around game 3 with the final game having alot of empty seats.

I just hope we get good games of footy, sharks and Raiders aren't exactly must watch TV !