Off Topic RWC 2015

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matelot-tiger said:
I'm on the fence with both codes, as a kid played RL, but I joined the forces in the late1980's and RU was the only game played then, so naturally I've played more RU than RL. Nowadays the forces all play RL too and have done for a while now but the Army v Navy game sells out Twickenham every year, and it's a great day out.

Union will never get the same coverage as RL in these parts, same as RL doesn't get the coverage anywhere else other than the M62 belt.
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There was an article in one of the papers today about RU in the states. There are 450,000 registered union players there. Getting more popular again in colleges. No chance of it being a major professional sport but that doesn't matter as more people attend college games than pro ones. Rugby union for quite a long time was more popular than gridiron. But in the way of America they abandoned it after a thrashing by Australia to,concentrate on a sport where the "world champions" would always be an American team.
The USA are the reigning Olympics Champions at rugby union though.
 
matelot-tiger said:
I'm on the fence with both codes, as a kid played RL, but I joined the forces in the late1980's and RU was the only game played then, so naturally I've played more RU than RL. Nowadays the forces all play RL too and have done for a while now but the Army v Navy game sells out Twickenham every year, and it's a great day out.

Union will never get the same coverage as RL in these parts, same as RL doesn't get the coverage anywhere else other than the M62 belt.
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Them point is though that there is a World Cup and it didn't get a mention despite England playing this weekend.
More people in the area covered by Radio Humberside will be interested in that game than the two Hull RL clubs, cricket, City, Scunthorpe or others that were discussed.mEngland.'s opening game was the most watched sporting event on TV so far this year so not mentioning it smacks of Gollum's prejudices shining through. It got a mention the other night with a different presenter.
 
Castro's Coffin said:
Them point is though that there is a World Cup and it didn't get a mention despite England playing this weekend.
More people in the area covered by Radio Humberside will be interested in that game than the two Hull RL clubs, cricket, City, Scunthorpe or others that were discussed.mEngland.'s opening game was the most watched sporting event on TV so far this year so not mentioning it smacks of Gollum's prejudices shining through. It got a mention the other night with a different presenter.
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That's Gollum for you though. ****e presenter really and clueless.
 
Not cheap either, the bloke I go to City with is going to the Elland Road game tomorrow, he was going the England game, but the tickets he was offered were £315 each (face value).

He's also got the option of semi-final and Final tickets, but he has to take four for each and they're £500 each and if wants to make sure he's at the England semi, he'd have to buy them for both semi-finals.
 
originallambrettaman said:
Not cheap either, the bloke I go to City with is going to the Elland Road game tomorrow, he was going the England game, but the tickets he was offered were £315 each (face value).

He's also got the option of semi-final and Final tickets, but he has to take four for each and they're £500 each and if wants to make sure he's at the England semi, he'd have to buy them for both semi-finals.
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Average ticket price £100. Someone I know was offered tickets in the ballot for a game ar Elland Road for £60.
Yet over 95% of tickets have been sold. As I have written previously, the RU has a good marketing team or there is more interest in .RU than the RL fraternity would care to admit.
One notable fact is that they have sold tickets to people from 120 countries, which is far more than the number of countries which play the game. As I said, good marketing.
Amusing how some journalists who constantly go on about high prices for football have been quiet about this or have tried to justify the high prices. These were needed because you have to pay the world body for the privilege of staging the World Cup, which cost the RFU something like £80million and then price it to recoup that plus call the other associated costs. Seems to work, 95% of tickets sold and no loss for the RFU. One shudders to think what would happen if you had to pay .FIFA (officially, not behind the scenes bungs) to stage a World Cup.
 
Castro's Coffin said:
Average ticket price £100. Someone I know was offered tickets in the ballot for a game ar Elland Road for £60.
Yet over 95% of tickets have been sold. As I have written previously, the RU has a good marketing team or there is more interest in .RU than the RL fraternity would care to admit.
One notable fact is that they have sold tickets to people from 120 countries, which is far more than the number of countries which play the game. As I said, good marketing.
Amusing how some journalists who constantly go on about high prices for football have been quiet about this or have tried to justify the high prices. These were needed because you have to pay the world body for the privilege of staging the World Cup, which cost the RFU something like £80million and then price it to recoup that plus call the other associated costs. Seems to work, 95% of tickets sold and no loss for the RFU. One shudders to think what would happen if you had to pay .FIFA (officially, not behind the scenes bungs) to stage a World Cup.
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I think as a one off event its not really fair to compare the prices to football, especially given that RU is significantly cheaper week in week out. Any major tournament is bound to be expensive because they know people will pay it.

The reason ticket prices are so high is that for some games up to 75% of tickets are kept for officials, sponsors, charities and partners, meaning very few tickets are actually put on sale.
 
HCAFC (Airlie Tiger) said:
I think as a one off event its not really fair to compare the prices to football, especially given that RU is significantly cheaper week in week out. Any major tournament is bound to be expensive because they know people will pay it.

The reason ticket prices are so high is that for some games up to 75% of tickets are kept for officials, sponsors, charities and partners, meaning very few tickets are actually put on sale.
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The comparison is with one off events which the papers always criticise football prices for.

Internationals at Twickenham are generally dearer than internationals at Wembley.

It really does seem to bug you that a lot more people are prepared to pay more money to watch RU than RL.
Do you think they will make back the £80million they paid for the rights to stage the tournament plus all the other costs by only selling 25% of the tickets? It isn't like the RL World Cup where they had to give tickets away for most games and even then only got meagre crowds for games not involving England.
 
HCAFC (Airlie Tiger) said:
I think as a one off event its not really fair to compare the prices to football, especially given that RU is significantly cheaper week in week out. Any major tournament is bound to be expensive because they know people will pay it.

The reason ticket prices are so high is that for some games up to 75% of tickets are kept for officials, sponsors, charities and partners, meaning very few tickets are actually put on sale.
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I'm going to the Wales v Australia match at Twickenham with my son - £250/ticket

Season for the Ospreys costs £190 !
 
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