I suppose , those kind of ' mind games ' always seem pointless to me , eventually the majority start to ignore them I find when they do them at club level , or they drive down the price of the product

So you would prefer them to have done nothing, yet no doubt would then have complained that they were doing nothing. IIRC they stated that the original early bird ticket allocation had sold out, regardless of whether they had or not it's pretty standard marketing. We're talking about the World Cup Final, not Leigh Centurions season tickets.

Calm down dear

I asked a simple question , no alterior motives involved , that nice Mr smokey gave me an answer [ for a change
Standard marketing does work for the less intelligent , the more intelligent tend to question them and if it is standard marketing , then WCF or LC season tickets , its exactly the same

Poor sales. It is very rarely, if ever, an extension due to selling out quickly....if it sells out quickly then they notmally pull down the shutters and charge the higher prices as their is patently demand there.

The point earlier about marketing to Aussies is a very good one, but rather than advertise on sky for an extortionate price it would be much better to advertise in things such as the Aussie Times and Walkabout Bars etc. They have been working with a PR company called Fast Track on advertising the game in London, so I am sure all these things have been considered.

Be realistic gutterfax, we arent likely to sell out are we. If the early bird offer was priced well, and with such a large amount of tickets to sell, with a decent amount they expect not to sell, there is no real reason not to sell more early bird tickets. Especially if existing capacity was built in to the offer.

it would clearly be better for them to oversell early bird tickets now and get momentum going, so that with a fair wind, closer to the time people buying tickets are buying at full price, than be scrambling for sales and cutting prices and offering cheap deals closer to the time.

They're not inconsequential, and they're not just the opinions you read, they're the opinions of editors who choose not to retain RL journalists or run RL stories.

Did you read any newspapers at the start of the season? They were full of pessimism.

And by the way, that visible part of the narrative worries me less than the one that happens on the quiet - that is, news media not retaining RL journalists, and editors not running stories.

Thats how I always understood it to work , time for .com

Quote: RLBandit "Did you read any newspapers at the start of the season? They were full of pessimism. And by the way, that visible part of the narrative worries me less than the one that happens on the quiet - that is, news media not retaining RL journalists, and editors not running stories.'" pessimism like this? www.guardian.co.uk/sport/david-c ... per-league

Quote: RLBandit "Did you read any newspapers at the start of the season? They were full of pessimism. And by the way, that visible part of the narrative worries me less than the one that happens on the quiet - that is, news media not retaining RL journalists, and editors not running stories.'" pessimism like this? www.guardian.co.uk/sport/david-c ... per-league

The sport receives little mainstream media coverage because the international scene is pitifully weak in comparison to other equivalent sports such as cricket and RU, and outside of the CC and SL finals there are no real major events for the media to cover. And part of this problem is because the sport is unambitious and people are so worried about 'looking bad' that we end up playing England internationals at places like Doncaster and Leigh, which is totally defeatist and just ends up being a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The match at Wembley on national TV in 2011 did more for the sport's profile than 20 England v Australia matches at Wigan or Hull.