Right bear with me with this. I have been monitoring the ticket page for a few weeks now (sad individual with bugger all to do in the evenings - the joys of working life in the evening!

). Now I have no doubt this could be wrong but cross referencing the rows sold along with the odd press release about details and the actual physical number of seats has been reasonably accurate. So analysis:

Lower Tier - 23,500 seats - 71 rows left (L32, L33, L4, L5 and L9) x 28 seats per row = 1988 seats left
Mid Tier - 18,000 - 7 blocks (counted rows available) x 20 seats per row x 15 rows = 2100 seats left

That leaves 4100 seats left (or 37,400 sold!), which is roughly accurate to 10% of 41,500 - THIS IS THE SAME AS QUOTED BY THE RLWC13 TEAM RECENTLY

Upper Tier - 33,000 = 11,800 seats sold (7800 West Stand and 4000 North Stand unavailable)
(Cat 3 - 7800 seats - 54 rows x 28 seats = 1500 seats sold)
(Cat 6 - 5200 seats - 173 rows x 28 seats = 4800 seats sold)
(Cat 7 - 8500 seats - 197 rows x 28 seats = 5500 seats sold)

So adding together 37,400 and 11,800 actually gives smack of 49,200 seats sold. Compare that with those still left available (4100 lower/mid tier, 11800 unavailable and 9400 unsold) leaves me about the exact capacity of the ground. Give or take the accuracy difference mentioned in the first paragraph and I reckon the current tickets sold could be anything from 47,500 to 52,000...

I also asked one of the ticket girls when I rang the other day to book a couple of tickets near where my group are located, she reiterated that 90% of the lower/mid tier had gone, plus the Cat 6 (mostly gone!) and 7 seats had been selling very well. So I can't be far off...

There is probably the odd Maths mistake in there but I personally can't wait for the Opener no matter the crowd size. Confident of a 50k crowd though...

and people reckon Billy has too much time on his hands

Go onI will reply and the point I think you are making is the total attendance would be 579,000 and the woman incharge said she was looking at 500,000 sales as a target

So the ones arguing over the proposed attendance seem to miss the point

So heres my guess at what the crowds will verus your ground capacity

England v Australia - Cardiff, Wales Millenium Stadium 72,500-55,000
Wales v Italy - Cardiff, Wales

Papua New Guinea v France - Hull, England Craven Park 11,500-6500
New Zealand v Samoa - Warrington, England HJ Stadium 14,000-11000
Ireland v Fiji - Rochdale, England Spotland 10,000-8000
Scotland v Tonga - Workington, England Derwent Park 10,000-3000
USA v Cook Islands - Bristol, England The Memorial Stadium 12,000-4000
France v New Zealand - Avignon, France Parc de sports 17,500-17500
England v Ireland - Huddersfield, England John Smith's stadium 24,500-23000
Australia v Fiji - St Helens, England Langtree Park 18,000-7700
Wales v USA - Wrexham, Wales GLYNDWR UNIVERSITY RACECOURSE STADIUM 10,500-8000
Scotland v Italy - Workington, England Derwent Park 10,000-3000
Papua New Guinea v Samoa - Hull, England Craven Park 11,500-7000
Tonga v Cook Islands - Leigh, England Leigh Sports village 11,000-6000
Scotland v USA - Salford, England Salford City Stadium 12,000-4500
New Zealand v Papua New Guinea - Leeds, England Headingly 17,500-12000
England v Fiji - Hull, England KC stadium 25,400-17000
Ireland v Australia - Limerick, Ireland Thomond Park 26,500-4000
Wales v Cook Islands - Neath, Wales The Gnoll 5,000-5000
Italy v Tonga - Halifax, England The Shay 14,000-8000
France v Samoa - Perpignan, France Stade Gilbert Brutus 13,000-13000

1st Pool B v 1st Pool C - Leeds, England Headingly 17,500-12000
1st Pool A v 1st Pool D - Wrexham, Wales RACECOURSE STADIUM 10,500-7000
2nd Pool A v 3rd Pool B - Wigan, England DW Stadium 25,000-25000
2nd Pool B v 3rd Pool A - Warrington, England HJ Stadium 14,000-12000

Semi Final Double Header - Wembley Stadium, England 90,000-70000

World Cup Final - Old Trafford, England. 75,700-75700

My prediction would be for a total 424900 fans,which would be good or bad?...over to the bean counters

That would be an outstanding effort at a tad under 85% available capacity. I still think 360k is nearer the mark myself, which again at 72% would be OK, but I can't help feeling that we could have done better. The recent comment in the Guardian about the opener having sold more than the opener in 2008, whilst brilliant, still points to the 2008 total having not been overtaken as of yet, but there are a few variables that still need to be confirmed, so I see 360k as reasonable and your 425k as brilliant.

Will you answer my question, William? Along with acknowledging you were wrong in saying my tickets were half price.

F***ing hell, do you have the same drug dealer as Miley Cyrus!

Your support of your little buddy William is cute I'll give you that.





For every game "Billy" attends during the World Cup can we count it as 2 seen as though Gutterfax's head is quite firmly stuck a long way up Mr Eve's bottom and I can't see him getting it out anytime soon.

Apologies for posting something positive in the thread, but i have just received my 32 tickets for the multiple games im attending throughout the competition with friends and family. Though a few folk are pretty jealous of my beanie hat.

Also just paid off a bill I owed for the 56 tickets i sold in my club for the final.

*I can post a picture of all the tickets if the above statement needs ratifying, as well as pictures of invoice and me attending each game, (dont want to leave any grey areas for some folk on here to revel in)

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Well it's my observation that in a country to two or three million, where RU is akin to religion and their team were favourites and with another top team a short flight away, with a 20 million population and since the England fans traditionally follow their team in the hundreds of thousands, that perhaps the attendances were a little disappointing.

Well gawd only knows how the RLWC 2013 aggregate and average attendances are going to unhinge your already unbalanced sensibilities then, because the host nations come in at around 150,000,000, the M62 population is bigger than New Zealand's

Bad news for you and your mate Billy though as regards the hoped for low crowd at the opener. Go on, I dare you, since its about 16,000 more than attended the last opener in the UK, make a positive comment on the record crowd fir international RL in Wales in over 100 years.