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| Quote gutterfax="gutterfax"Without wanting to attract abuse from certain quarters, there is an organisation based in Dublin that the International League board could do with keeping an eye on. Since I started watching League I have always wondered how a game that is so much better remains the poor relation on the international and English stage.....and I always come back to the 1 thing that stands out about League......it seems almost afraid to market itself.
I am not saying that millions need to be spent, but simple tactics, planned well in advance and executed on time can raise the awareness levels for the game....simple fixture planning (as with yours), allocated marketing budgets and setting up channels of communication that cost nothing.
The Kiwis v England game used "contra" marketing with the local paper, radio stations and regional free sheets.......prizes, tickets, shirts etc were used. TV was funded centrally and was pretty much SKY heavy in that they pushed the games on their own channels.....
Local clubs who play in the WRFL competition were used as routes to market and there were various "bus-trips" from some of these clubs which attempted to stop at every pub on route to the game
 ......the result of a load of hard work was a crowd 25% up on the last League test played at the cake tin...
Rotarua was a big error in the planning of this tournament....it was never going to sell well....and the double header at Eden Park was/is a gamble......it is a pig of a stadium to get to and now it's a dead rubber it will be at least 5k down on what it could have been........
The positive from this years tournament has to be the Wellington crowd........it was nearly double the Australian gate for the Parra game and it showed that League has a place in the area........with only a free ticket Lions game, all blacks v South africa and finals soccer attracting bigger crowds to the stadium this year....'"
Gutterfax:Are you talking about the IRFU who want South African fans pay for two matches to watch South Africa? |
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| Quote woolie="woolie"Gutterfax:Are you talking about the IRFU who want South African fans pay for two matches to watch South Africa?'"
eh? Don't catch your drift? |
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| Quote gutterfax="gutterfax"eh? Don't catch your drift?'"
Think he means this...
[url=http://www.espn.co.uk/rugbyunion/sport/story/54017.html?CMP=OTC-RSSThe Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) has been forced into an embarrassing climb down over its ticketing strategy for the upcoming autumn internationals.[/url  |
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| Quote gutterfax="gutterfax"there is an organisation based in Dublin that the International League board could do with keeping an eye on...'"
Quote gutterfax="woolie"Gutterfax:Are you talking about the IRFU who want South African fans pay for two matches to watch South Africa?'"
Nope.....I was referring to the bigger organisation based in Harcourt Street Dublin. The ones with the World Cup and Seven Tournament....the ones that got 7's into the Olympics (I still say that the RFL should make League players available for that comp......imagine the Kudos if GB won gold with a team full of League Players 
The Irish RFU are an insane bunch of old men incapable of anything.....with a smaller Public School network than the UK they have an even smaller pool from which to attract players and fans and yet they think that a massive 'force'..when in reality, without Munster and Leinster's showing in the recent European tournaments they would be (a) skint and (b) even more of a minority sport. Ireland is skint......the country in a worse state financially than at any period in its history and yet the numbnutz at the IRFU reckon that a 25% hike in ticket prices AND forcing people to buy more than 1 ticket was a good idea......even the RFL wouldn't be that inept |
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| Quote Catalancs="Catalancs"Aren't those two things directly related to marketing though?'"
No. I use them in the widest possible sense...
They fully encapsulate our issues worldwide. |
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Apparently more than 35,000 tickets sold for the Eden Park game.
Should be a ripper.
First time we have been permitted to play there since 1988.
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| Quote Old Darlin="Old Darlin"Apparently more than 35,000 tickets sold for the Eden Park game.
Should be a ripper.
First time we have been =#BF0000permitted to play there since 1988.'"
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| Yeah sad isn't it that union's tactics are so consistent...?
Find out a little about the composition of the Eden Park Trust sometime.  |
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| Quote Old Darlin="Old Darlin"Yeah sad isn't it that union's tactics are so consistent...?
Find out a little about the composition of the Eden Park Trust sometime.
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This is the 21st century and union never has are would stoop to such levels! Surely you jest. |
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Yes I jest.
Rugby union is a fine upstanding game and always has been. (Kneels and waits for punishment like a good proletarian lad etc.)
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| Quote Old Darlin="Old Darlin"Yes I jest.
Rugby union is a fine upstanding game and always has been. (Kneels and waits for punishment like a good proletarian lad etc.)'"
The NZRU and stadium trust needed a way to test the new build and security systems at Eden Park....do you really think they would put Union fans at risk |
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Maybe we should do the same with Lang Park and send the rah back to the swamp at Ballymore...
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Fairness and all that. One sport provides it, the other avoids it.
Quality stuff from the rah.
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