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| Quote: Budgiezilla "50,672 ![]()
What wre people expecting?
1. Catalans were never going to bring many
2. The semi final and final are in the same pay month so Catalans and Wire would have taken more fans who could have afforded it had there been more than 0 pay days between the games (if you’re paid at the end of a month)
3. With the gap between the semi and final being too short the RFL have no given themselves enough time to sort out an initiative to shift tickets to neutrals and locals
4. Magic Weekend stops all the coach loads of fans from around the country going to the CC final these days as they go to Magic instead
5. When have the RFL ever marketed anything properly without obstacles 1-4 anyway?
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Many big soccer clubs were at home in London yesterday too, <REMOVED>....
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The cup is on the wrong weekend, it is the busiest weekend of the year for other events like festivals, the Premier League is in full swing, many are abroad.
Moving it back to end of July just before the football starts again would get more media attention, and also it is better for the teams involved for their league run-in (not an issue for Catalans this year as they are so far away in the league, but it did hamper Hull in the last 2 seasons)
also as many have commented we need to work on selling the event to neutrals. If a well supported club had made the final instead of Catalans we would have added 20-25k to the crowd but that still leaves it at 70/75k and still well below the capacity.
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Has the date been set for the 2019 Cup Final?
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| Quote: UllFC "The cup is on the wrong weekend, it is the busiest weekend of the year for other events like festivals, the Premier League is in full swing, many are abroad.
Moving it back to end of July just before the football starts again would get more media attention, and also it is better for the teams involved for their league run-in (not an issue for Catalans this year as they are so far away in the league, but it did hamper Hull in the last 2 seasons)
also as many have commented we need to work on selling the event to neutrals. If a well supported club had made the final instead of Catalans we would have added 20-25k to the crowd but that still leaves it at 70/75k and still well below the capacity.'"
I must agree!
The date needs to get binned ! |
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Well played Catalans!
Agree the final should be end of July. BH weekend is wrong time of year.
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| Quote: Call Me God "The RFL should allocate 5,000 tickets to every club in SL, the championship and Championship with another 5,000 tickets to Barla......simply put, whomever sells their allocation first gets to keep all that revenue whilst every ticket sold would carry a 20% commission......£250,000. If a club wants to add a ticket to their ST offering, then so be it.....but the upshot would be if all those clubs and barla sold only 2,000 each, we'd have 78,000 tickets gone before the cup started!'"
Not a bad idea at all ! |
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| Quote: Budgiezilla "50,672 ![]()
Wow....at a tenner a head almost enough to prop you up for another season then,,,,, 
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Interesting that the French media were very happy with the crowd. Yet it's all been negatives in the UK press.
It's on the wrong weekend. Needs moving to when the schools are in, so many schools use to send coaches down. Then there is issue with transport the west coast mainline is always under repair that weekend. The hotels are in full peak pricing.
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The attendance did not affect my enjoyment of the game in any way.
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Inspired by Catalans win, Red Star Belgrade of Serbia have applied to join for the Challenge Cup for 2019.
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| Quote: PopTart "The attendance did not affect my enjoyment of the game in any way.'"
Same here. It was an edge of your seat thriller and the presentation by Auntie was tremendous. |
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Despite the low attendance, the Catalans win has attracted more mainstream publicity than any other CC or GF I can remember. The vast majority was very positive as well - even ITV news had highlights on Saturday night which is unheard of in recent years
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No trains to Euston wouldnt of helped.
Yes the attendance should be higher but this is on the whole RL community. Two clubs alone no matter who is in the final will sell out Wembley.
The game needs to reach a wider audience. An audience of people especially in the South East who may only go to one game a year.
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| Quote: Joff "Despite the low attendance, the Catalans win has attracted more mainstream publicity than any other CC or GF I can remember. The vast majority was very positive as well - even ITV news had highlights on Saturday night which is unheard of in recent years'"
And no mention of the crowd. Because the product on display and story that came out of the game were far more worth talking about. |
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HOW MANY TIMES?????
£20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000.
The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover.
There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them. 
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