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| Quote: Dropkick Murphy "My ticket for this year's final was £20 I think, from the RFL website. The year before it was £10 (admittedly that was a deal my mate found on the Leigh Sports Village website) and they ended up sitting us in £50 seats after closing the upper tier! Either way, there is no shortage of cheapish tickets.
I've never paid £50 for any rugby league ticket in my life, and I've done every Challenge Cup Final and Grand Final Wires have been in since 2009.'"
Yes thats right if you want to be up in the gods. The vast majority of people don't though.
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| I was on Row 1 of the upper tier. My ticket wasn't for there, but there was thousands of empty seats so it wasn't hard to move. I've been to the new Wembley 15 times for RL, football and NFL so I know from experience the view I had was far better than behind the sticks in the lower tier. I wouldn't call it "the gods".
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| Quote: Dropkick Murphy "I was on Row 1 of the upper tier. My ticket wasn't for there, but there was thousands of empty seats so it wasn't hard to move. I've been to the new Wembley 15 times for RL, football and NFL so I know from experience the view I had was far better than behind the sticks in the lower tier. I wouldn't call it "the gods".'"
I'm sure you were and I'm sure you have. I'm just saying that the vast majority of fans are put off by buying upper tier tickets as they don't think they'll be able to enjoy watching it from that height. I myself have sat in each end, side, corner and elevation at Wembley and the best views I ha was the halfway line half way up the upper tier.
My point is, In a sport where our supposedly working class fan base turn their nose up and grumble at the cost of things making the tickets cheaper and selling more is surely good business sense.
for a family of 4 to go to Wembley behind the sticks this year could cost circa £330. £130 on tickets, £100 on travel and up to £100 on food and drink easy.
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| Quote: moving on... "I'm sure you were and I'm sure you have. I'm just saying that the vast majority of fans are put off by buying upper tier tickets as they don't think they'll be able to enjoy watching it from that height. I myself have sat in each end, side, corner and elevation at Wembley and the best views I ha was the halfway line half way up the upper tier.
My point is, In a sport where our supposedly working class fan base turn their nose up and grumble at the cost of things making the tickets cheaper and selling more is surely good business sense.
for a family of 4 to go to Wembley behind the sticks this year could cost circa £330. £130 on tickets, £100 on travel and up to £100 on food and drink easy.'"
£130 on tickets
£60 on fuel
£20 on parking
4x Packed lunch. (£20 if you go to M&S Foodhall)
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Just saved you £80 there pal.
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| The problem is they are sold off cheap enough reducing it further won't attract new fans. Or significant add to it on its own.
The challenge Cup could be a domestic 9s tournament all played over a 4 day Bank Holiday with teams from the super league and championship.
Create more of a festival about it over the one weekend loads of different shirts hustle n bustle around Wembley over the weekend social media boosts to attract younger rugby fans in the London area add value for money by one ticket admits to all games. Lots to do outside fans areas have the games played on big screens around London.
It also reduces the number of games played a little which I think helps maybe we could have some kind of origin series yorks v lancs again or just give the players a rest?
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| Quote: Dezzies_right_hook "The problem is they are sold off cheap enough reducing it further won't attract new fans. Or significant add to it on its own.
The challenge Cup could be a domestic 9s tournament all played over a 4 day Bank Holiday with teams from the super league and championship.
Create more of a festival about it over the one weekend loads of different shirts hustle n bustle around Wembley over the weekend social media boosts to attract younger rugby fans in the London area add value for money by one ticket admits to all games. Lots to do outside fans areas have the games played on big screens around London.
It also reduces the number of games played a little which I think helps maybe we could have some kind of origin series yorks v lancs again or just give the players a rest?'"
Nice idea but, who would want to fork out the cost of a Wembley trip to watch a "nothing" nines competition, when most clubs would send "reserve" sides, to protect their main squad for more important fixtures.
Personally, I'm not sure that 9's has anything like enough "pull" to draw anything close to fill (or half fill) Wembley.
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| Quote: wrencat1873 "Nice idea but, who would want to fork out the cost of a Wembley trip to watch a "nothing" nines competition, when most clubs would send "reserve" sides, to protect their main squad for more important fixtures.
Personally, I'm not sure that 9's has anything like enough "pull" to draw anything close to fill (or half fill) Wembley.'"
Nor does the full 13 a side with first team players. We wouldn't be having these discussions if it was near capacity.
I'm just thinking out if the box as the one thing most agree with us somthing needs to change but aside from reducing price of tickets no real idea match day entertainment should be a given but what changes are we talking to refresh it?
Alternative ideas play semi n final over the weekend, take the final to Australia.
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| Isn't the Challenge cup just dead now?
I know it's full of tradition but maybe fans just don't care about it that much these days.
Maybe it's time for something new.
I certainly don't think it's just about ticket prices. If the competition has lost its appeal then cutting the ticket prices won't really make much difference.
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| It’s just a Mickey Mouse cup now. Just like all other sports domestic cup comps.
However. It gives teams who have no chance of winning super league an opportunity to win something
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| Quote: wrencat1873 "Nice idea but, who would want to fork out the cost of a Wembley trip to watch a "nothing" nines competition, when most clubs would send "reserve" sides, to protect their main squad for more important fixtures.
Personally, I'm not sure that 9's has anything like enough "pull" to draw anything close to fill (or half fill) Wembley.'"
Correct, I'm always at least interested in going to the CC final and have been loads of times. Wouldn't be bothered in the slightest about a 9s tournament unless for some reason I was already in London and could get a very cheap ticket. Winning it holds no prestige like the CC does and like you say, guaranteed it would be reserves too. Not sure I'd even watch on TV to be honest, not that BBC would give airtime to a full tournament like that anyway.
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| Quote: Steph Curry "It’s just a Mickey Mouse cup now. Just like all other sports domestic cup comps.
However. It gives teams who have no chance of winning super league an opportunity to win something'" you would say that having been well beaten in the last couple of years
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| Quote: Steph Curry "It’s just a Mickey Mouse cup now. Just like all other sports domestic cup comps.
However. It gives teams who have no chance of winning super league an opportunity to win something'"
Halifax picked up about 1/3 of £400k for their SF final appearance, so it's fair to say your team of 2019 losers probably picked up 300k....or a fair chunk of your Salary Capped squads wages.....about double what you got the year before when you choked a round earlier
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| I still love the Challenge Cup, pity it's not more popular, but that's just the way it is. Like the Caraboa Cup in football, it will really only interest the fans of the smaller clubs....like me !
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| Quote: puroresu_boy "Isn't the Challenge cup just dead now?
I know it's full of tradition but maybe fans just don't care about it that much these days.
Maybe it's time for something new.
I certainly don't think it's just about ticket prices. If the competition has lost its appeal then cutting the ticket prices won't really make much difference.'"
Yeah may as well bin it off and let the current holders keep it
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| Quote: Dezzies_right_hook "Nor does the full 13 a side with first team players. We wouldn't be having these discussions if it was near capacity.
I'm just thinking out if the box as the one thing most agree with us somthing needs to change but aside from reducing price of tickets no real idea match day entertainment should be a given but what changes are we talking to refresh it?
Alternative ideas play semi n final over the weekend, take the final to Australia.'"
Although Sky wouldn't want to share the coverage, maybe the GF should be moved to Wembley and turn the occasion into a "proper" end of season celebration (just as the Challenge Cup used to be and then we could move the cup final venue and maybe take it "on the road" ?
It has to be said that since the reintroduction of playoffs and a GF, the romance of the cup has largely disappeared and coupled with the numerous other RL trips, Magic, South of France, Toronto etc, Wembley doesn't excite folk anymore.
The trips to the coast in a sharrabang or the annual trip to London are yesterdays thing.
People are generally more mobile these days
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