Quote gutterfax="gutterfax"Good for you.
Seems lots of posters are rushing to buy multiple tickets and I have no doubt that Ms Bolton will be announcing that Ticket Sales have surpassed the total from 2008 making this the most attended RLWC in the history of the game, followed by a snippet on 50 tickets being sold in bulk to some Cornish fishermen and that there are only 18% of category "y" tickets available for the Limerick game, so RL fans had better get a move on.....all without actually mentioning any real figures.
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For the record, this release was made 10 weeks ago...not a word about any other milestones being hit yet.....not even the 293,965 total from 2008...or the 263,921 from the last event in England?
Other sports, across the board, fight for the media's attention......with 31 days to go, the silence is pretty deafening when it comes to good news on the RLWC 2013 site and/or in the mainstream media.
...but there are loads of forum fans who are buying multiple tickets to multiple games and they've opened the top tier in Huddersfield....so it'll all be OK in the end
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Taking a conservative tack, I figure the following
from the seating plans it looks like there will be at least 40,000 at Cardiff, Wembley and Old Tafford so that's
120,000
It looks like there will be at least 15,000 at each of the other England games that's 30,000
150,000
15,000 at Avignon and 10,000 at Perpignan, thats 25,000
165,000
At least 15,000 between Rochdale and two games at Workington
180,000
The other group games at least 20000 in total.
200,000
Four quarter finals one, hopefully involving England at least 30,000 in total
230,000
So that leaves us 34000 short of the 2000 figure of 264,000 you quoted for 2000.
Now that;s being conservative. I would hazard a guess that we will get at least 60,000 to the final so add another 20,000
250,000
So it needs only a modest increase at some of these other games and the totals will surpass the totals for the 2000 tournament. I personally think we will do very much better than that.
The alternative was to say " Oh it will never work, we can't compete with RU, let's not even bother having a World Cup ". Is that what you want ?
If we pull in our horns and never dare, we will never win. The effort will be worth it and the game will be better for it.
