Why do you like to talk so much about a sport you hate?

That's one way to look at it. A very pessamistic way at that.

The successful 2008 WC sold 293000 tickets in total.

Our final is well on the way to selling out but i'll say 65K
even if we only get 10k more at Wembley as in the 4 Nations (which we wont) 52k that's 117k sold.
Looking at 50k minimum for Millennium Stadium 167k.
France will sell out both of their games-got 17k at avignon for a freindly and 14k in the Alitalia Cup, will get 12k miniumum at GB-another 29k - 196k
England v Ireland 18k min with sales really good. 214k
Eng v Fiji 18k min 232k

Then, being very liberal...

Fiji-Ireland 4k, Aus v Fiji 12k, Aus v Ireland 3k, PNG v France 7k, NZ v Samoa 12k, NZ v PNG 8k, Tonga-Scotland 4k, Scotland-Italy 4k, Tonga v Italy 4k, USA v Cook Islands 3k, Wales v USA 5k, Wales v Cooks 3k, Tonga v Cooks 5k, Scotland v USA 3k.

309k Total

Quarters Wrexham 6k minimum with a bad fixture, Wigan 20k will get a good fixture, Headingley 14k, HJ 10k? Sounds Fair I reckom as one will have England and will sell out.

Thats 359k being very liberal.

That blows the triumph of 2008 away.

Spin Spin Spin.

There's tons of people like me who are planning to buy but aren't in any rush to do so. We're 8 months out, the procrastinators haven't got their wallets out yet.

Like the news story says, 60% of the customers haven't bought tickets to a RL event before and 70% of the Wembley customers haven't bought a RL ticket before.

The hardcore RL fans are yet to purchase because we think we've got loads of time when there are parts of stadia selling out.

Great news. I think a lot of people are in the same boat with buying tickets. I have got my final tickets as wanted to get good seats for it and spend a bit of money on them and now i am picking up the other tickets slowly as there isn't much of a rush. Bring it on I can't wait

I'm in a similar mindset.

Got a "big event" package as a Christmas gift and those are the games that I was really keen on seeing. That said, I'll almost definitely go to some of the 'local' games as well - most likely England v Ireland at Huddersfield and PNG vs New Zealand at Headingley.

Terrible news for all the doom and gloom mongers.
What are they going to do if the World Cup is a success and not the flop they are all hoping for?

They're going to wish they had made an effort and enjoyed a game or two like the rest of us.

18k to England v Fiji? just that one figure lost me.
Lucky if its 8k I would have thought.

Did I read the post wrong?


I hope its a great success the game needs it and I believe England need to either win this Tournament or at the very least come runners up in a tight Final.
Anything less will be a poor result for this Code.
Only three real contenders and NZ travel to England really badly, it should be a certain England v Oz Final you would think.

England A v Tonga got 6k in 2006 at the KC. I think we would get a lot more for a world cup game./

When it says Catagory 1 nearly sold out are they the cheap tickets?



Edit Sorry ignore that just checked and its the most expensive. Thats good to hear

Why would it be 8k for a World Cup game with England playing? Don't see how that has lost you so easily.

England got 8k at Salford and just under 9k down the road at Craven Park in a tournament that wasn't organised and didn't mean anything v France.


I'll take a £500 charity bet that there are more than 8000 on.