I agree with you. Not only will we good exposure, but, hopefully, we will get high class exciting games and with the RU internationals also on view, the general public will get to see what we all already know, i.e. that out game with expansive handling, non stop action and many tries is a far better spectacle than the line out, scrum resets, penalty goals and aimless kicking borefest that characterises RU.

All but 4 of mine have turned up, doesn't seem to be any pattern to them.

Why?
The reticence of the organisers to actually announce numbers is alarming to say the least.....all we've ever been told of 40% of the 500k target had been shifted and 120k of those to non-traditional RL areas.

I have tickets for 6 games and none have turned up so far.

Do other governing bodies announce actual figures? Genuine question.

No.. Gutters' argument is invalid and irrelevant.

Bollox...we were told of the 500k target in July and it hasn't been mentioned since......
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They will have almost 2 years to shift close to 3 million tickets.....how close do you reckon they'll get? I'd suggest they'll get closer % wise than the RLWC 2013 will get to the 500k figure.....
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I was first branded a Union troll for suggesting that RL could learn from the IRB/RFU and I stand by that.......even more so given that Twickenham will see close to 320k fans for 3 internationals and a Barbarians match this year.....and the RLWC 2013 organisers would see that many fans at 24 games as a success

Yep on the balance of your posts you are certainly are very positive about the RLWC.

Maybe it's just me but downers you have about the tournement, maybe what's giving people the wrong impression.

I don't know why anyone is still paying attention or replying to his posts.

when you remove your head from your maybe we could debate how wonderfully you thin the game is doing?

I want nothing more than RL to do well.....unfortunately, I don't believe the right people are in place to make that happen....and get tarred and feathered for saying so.

1.5 million NZ people tuned in to watch the rich guys race boats in San Fran today.....will that many tune in to watch the Kiwis defend their title? Will they f***! But you continue to applaud pigeon steps,.......

Hang on, you said if you were in charge you would have had England v.s Australia at Huddersfield!!! Now your laughing at RL because it will be dwarfed by the RU World Cup.

The RU World Cup, will be bigger, more highly attended and make huge profits we could only ever dream of. That does not mean out World Cup wont/isn't a success.

No matter what happens you will Compare our World Cup to something better and then mock it.

If we get 60k at the millennium you will point out the empty seats. If we make more profit than any other WC you will compare it to how small it is to the RU WC.

You can mock the RL World Cup, but give me Cook Islands v.s USA in front of 5k, over England v.s Australia At an 80k twickers any day.

Again with the positivity..

Give me Petone Panthers v University in front of 100 ..........it's not about the product, it's about the way its marketed



FFS.......you lot really don't get it. 400k over 24 games and a TV audience of 2 million on the BBC and an England win won't change a friggin' thing......the game as it's run in the UK looks, smells and tastes like an amateur northern pastime....delude yourselves all you like, but the reality is that come Feb 1st 2014 RL in the UK will reap no benefit from RLWC 2013.....it's up there with curling after the scots won a medal a few years back.....

News to you... rugby union is bigger than rugby league .. well done mate. Now what point are you trying to make ??

...that Rugby League could be bigger than Rugby Union!

I think once again you have proven that it is you who does not get it. The RLWC is not about RL in the UK reaping some sudden benefit. Where you seriously expecting this tournement to turn around our position in the the grand scheme of things.

It was that blind marketing principle that nearly ruined RL the last time the World Cup was on our shores.

Do you think Marks & Spencer wander around all day bemoaning that they are not Apple. No they concern themselves with their own business, to make profits and grow their business.

That is what we should be doing and in this world cup hopefully we will. A World cup with more spectators, more profits will do me nicely. If you were expecting a world cup were millions are thrown at advertising, leading to slightly larger crowds, a marginal increase in press and a huge debt after the marketing budget eats all the profits. Well that would be a basket case.

It does not look or smell like anything in the slightest. You seem to be going epileptic, about nothing. You are demanding things that where never going to be and never could be given our current position.
By all mean carry on being depressed that we are not another sport, personally I watch lots of them. They really don't have this obsession with crowd counting. Cricket is a great example, lots of internationals never sell out. But do they get all cheesed off over it. No. Because they are not comparing themselves constantly, they are more concerned with growing their game and making it profitable.

Being more of a RLWC fan / Internationalist than a Kanagaroos fan I'm actually hoping to see more games with the lesser known teams than those of the Big 3 - which i know i will see in the finals ( barring some major upsets !)

On the 'hope to get to' front the games are : Ireland v Fiji; England V Ireland; Scotland v USA, Australia v Ireland. Cook Islands V USA in Bristol pretty much planned as staying there a few days as well.

Dependent on time / travel plans (and most importantly funds !!!) perhaps a few more games.


Really looking forward to meeting local League fans and exchanging ideas on the current state and future of a game that we all love to support regardless of our location.


Plus also genuinely curious to find opinions on why the game struggled to expand outside the North and in particular the M62 corridor. (Never understood that - must be a strong cultural thing.

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Don't expect a reasonable reply or sensible conversation with anyone you meet.

They've borrowed the union calculator for the Americas cup?

I wonder if union fans are ashamed and embarrassed that their RUWC is a pale comparison to the football World Cup? I pity you gutters if you are not a union troll, your the only RL fan on here who isn't genuinely excited by the rlwc and by the big stride forwards we seem to be making for int RL through the tournament. The int game has been struggling since 2000 but this could well be the rebirth of int RL if fans get behind it and England perform. What's not to be excited about?

excellent post

That's the spirit

Thanks for those links - But they don't actually answer the question in any way.

Once again, it's a genuine question - Do other governing bodies give exact updates in terms of tickets sold?

Mmmm........not sure what you mean by this comment ?

I'd like to think a common interest in a sport we all want to see prosper on various levels would be enough to form some kind of kinship amongst like minded fans.

My Semi Final tickets came yesterday, can't wait

. Gonna buy tickets to a few more when I get paid. I like the spectator guide which came with the tickets too, despite it not being the Irwell on the maps of Old Trafford and Salford City Stadium - typical, can't get anything right

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