"What ticket shortage ... ?"

[copa]

Thats cool, got a link I can browse so as to become a little more educated.

http://www.rlef.eu.com/

You can try this one for starters... but there are many links really....

Can you be more specific about what you'd like to know?

 

[copa]

Problem is that it's not travelling all that well here.

You know that country where we live. Perhaps you should move and bask in RL's glory in the UK .We won't be troubled by you any more and you won't have to suffer this "provincial" sport .

RL is travelling very well here... all the important stats are in the positive... if it is getting stronger how can it be said it is going badly?

NRL 2005 stats.

Sponsorship:
- Club sponsorship revenue up 12%
- NRL sponsorship revenue up 39%
- Bundaberg Rum and Sony Playstation 2 have joined the main sponsor family which now includes Telstra, QANTAS, Kelloggs, Harvey Norman, Coca-Cola, Wizard (GE Finance), AAMI and Carlton & United Beverages.

Crowds:
- Crowds have grown by 27% over the past 3 seasons (more than 530,000 extra people)
- Crowd average of 16,484 sets the 3rd successive year of crowd records.
- Origin and Grand Finals both had their earliest ever sellouts

Licensing:
- Up 41% in royalities revenue, excluding the Rugby League video game by end of quarter 2
- Top 5 Selling Clubs are: 1. Bulldogs, 2. Roosters, 3. Broncos, 4. Dragons, 5. Eels
- NRL Merchandise to be expanding in the UK and will be sold in between 70 - 80 outlets by November 2005

TV:
- Origin has provided the top 3 rating shows of any kind in Sydney and Brisbane in 05
- NRL games account for 9 of the top 10 subscription TV programs in 05
- More than 3.9 million different viewers have watched RL match coverage on Fox Sports.

Radio:
- Commercial coverage expanded to Perth and Melbourne in 05
- ABC network takes coverage to more that 500,000 listeners across NSW, Queensland and ACT.

Participation:
- Junior participation up for the 4th year in a row
- All Sydney districts were up in numbers (except Manly who were steady)
- Jnr League increases: CRL (up 7%), NSWRL (Up 7.5%), QRL (Up 8%) Affiliated States (Up 11%)
- Including school figures (still to be finalised), Rugby League will have 12% growth in 05, and break the 300K participation barrier for the first time.

Welfare and Education:
- Over 110 players have recieved grants from the NRL to help with the completition of Uni or TAFE courses
- Rookie camp to be kept for next year
- Carreer transition program has helped 25 players nearing the end of their career help secure their financial future
- All 15 clubs have completed the 'Playing by the Rules Workshop' dealking with sexual ethics
- Alcohol and sexual ethics education programmes have been taken to all U/20's squads.

Community
- NRL has helped 450 charties, clubs and schools with fundraising in 05.
- Legends relay raised $334,419 for the Make a Wish foundation
- Tsunami appeal - over $100,000 raised
- Heart Foundation - $75,000 raised
- Breast Cancer Foundation - $110,000 raised

 

[MickZu]

RL is travelling very well here... all the important stats are in the positive... if it is getting stronger how can it be said it is going badly?

NRL 2005 stats.

Sponsorship:
- Club sponsorship revenue up 12%
- NRL sponsorship revenue up 39%
- Bundaberg Rum and Sony Playstation 2 have joined the main sponsor family which now includes Telstra, QANTAS, Kelloggs, Harvey Norman, Coca-Cola, Wizard (GE Finance), AAMI and Carlton & United Beverages.

Crowds:
- Crowds have grown by 27% over the past 3 seasons (more than 530,000 extra people)
- Crowd average of 16,484 sets the 3rd successive year of crowd records.
- Origin and Grand Finals both had their earliest ever sellouts

Licensing:
- Up 41% in royalities revenue, excluding the Rugby League video game by end of quarter 2
- Top 5 Selling Clubs are: 1. Bulldogs, 2. Roosters, 3. Broncos, 4. Dragons, 5. Eels
- NRL Merchandise to be expanding in the UK and will be sold in between 70 - 80 outlets by November 2005

TV:
- Origin has provided the top 3 rating shows of any kind in Sydney and Brisbane in 05
- NRL games account for 9 of the top 10 subscription TV programs in 05
- More than 3.9 million different viewers have watched RL match coverage on Fox Sports.

Radio:
- Commercial coverage expanded to Perth and Melbourne in 05
- ABC network takes coverage to more that 500,000 listeners across NSW, Queensland and ACT.

Participation:
- Junior participation up for the 4th year in a row
- All Sydney districts were up in numbers (except Manly who were steady)
- Jnr League increases: CRL (up 7%), NSWRL (Up 7.5%), QRL (Up 8%) Affiliated States (Up 11%)
- Including school figures (still to be finalised), Rugby League will have 12% growth in 05, and break the 300K participation barrier for the first time.

Welfare and Education:
- Over 110 players have recieved grants from the NRL to help with the completition of Uni or TAFE courses
- Rookie camp to be kept for next year
- Carreer transition program has helped 25 players nearing the end of their career help secure their financial future
- All 15 clubs have completed the 'Playing by the Rules Workshop' dealking with sexual ethics
- Alcohol and sexual ethics education programmes have been taken to all U/20's squads.

Community
- NRL has helped 450 charties, clubs and schools with fundraising in 05.
- Legends relay raised $334,419 for the Make a Wish foundation
- Tsunami appeal - over $100,000 raised
- Heart Foundation - $75,000 raised
- Breast Cancer Foundation - $110,000 raised

More specifically where is your source of information coming from? I don’t know where you get your stats, but AFL has always been superior to league in ratings on five city metro average, which includes Sydney and Brisbane. Take a look at the last four years top twenty, NRL State of Origin is not there!!

http://www.afc.gov.au/gtp/wftvtopprog01.html

http://www.afc.gov.au/gtp/wftvtopprog02.html

http://www.afc.gov.au/gtp/wftvtopprog03.html

http://www.afc.gov.au/gtp/wftvtopprog04.html

If your going to post these claims, please post some links to back up what your saying.

 

[Baby Blue]

On ten news they said that there were still a few thousand tickets left and they'd be available to the public from tomorrow. So much for tickets selling for $500 on ebay and people camping out for days.

 

[copa]

More specifically where is your source of information coming from? I don’t know where you get your stats, but AFL has always been superior to league in ratings on five city metro average, which includes Sydney and Brisbane. Take a look at the last four years top twenty, NRL State of Origin is not there!!

http://www.afc.gov.au/gtp/wftvtopprog01.html

http://www.afc.gov.au/gtp/wftvtopprog02.html

http://www.afc.gov.au/gtp/wftvtopprog03.html

http://www.afc.gov.au/gtp/wftvtopprog04.html

If your going to post these claims, please post some links to back up what your saying.

The stats I provided have come form the official report on the NRL 2005. I didn't just make those figures up. Do you dispute them? You can find a smaller summary here
http://www.nrl.com/news.cfm?ID=12663


Here are some Georgian news...
http://www.geocities.com/kartuli_liga/

PLenty of other sites available... with photographs, stats etc etc..

 

[bloodsports]

How is your "code" going in the UK? says a lot about that code doesn't it?

The UK ?

What's that got to do with ********e???

Bloody pommy.

 

[littleduck]

I would have thought you'd learnt your lesson about your assumptions.

AFL tickets are released in stages, to give various groups earlier access. (ie fully financial members first). The Swans cap members at less than the SCG capacity, so they will always have a few thousand avaliable for general public throughout the year. So even if every member wanted tickets, there would be some still left by the time they became open to the public (yesterday lunch time).

RL release Finals tickets in stages also, first to season ticket holders, stadium members, then the general public... each stage being on a different day and tickets going on sale at 9am.

as i said the "reasonable assumption" was 9am.

 

[littleduck]

Two Sydney clubs Sydney Roosters v Canterbury Bulldogs drew a massive 8,000 people to their game at Aussie Stadium recently.

Imagine the uproar if two Vic Clubs got 8,000 to a game at the similar sized Docklands!!

it was a last round nothing game with both teams out of finals contention.

 

[littleduck]

There was an uproar about the 25 000 you guys got on the weekend. In NRL terms, 25 000 crowd would have been beyond their wildest dreams.

yeah, 85% of the time.

 

[littleduck]

Half the Wests crowd will be on free tickets.

how do you know?

 

[big bear]

This code has already sold over 10,000 tickets to the challenge cup final at Wembley stadium one year from now... and in the UK it has gone from 32,175 players in 2002 to 126,064 players in 2005. Says a lot about the RL code doesn't it?

How is your "code" going in the UK? says a lot about that code doesn't it?

You may be involving more people in England but what about Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia and Northern Territory. Your game has jach ******** support. Compare your pathetic numbers in England to the followers of soccer.

 

[littleduck]

Problem is that it's not travelling all that well here.

You know that country where we live. Perhaps you should move and bask in RL's glory in the UK .We won't be troubled by you any more and you won't have to suffer this "provincial" sport .

What!!???

RL is achieving record crowds, record tv ratings, record junior participation... there isnt alot more you can do than constantly break average crowd records, achieve more sellouts than ever, achieve stunning rep footy crowds, achieve 10%+ growth in junior participation each season in recent times, expand the competition, secure a record broadcast deal that dwarfs previous deals, record investment into non-heartland victoria ....

*stop the fight*

need i go on??

 

[littleduck]

You may be involving more people in England but what about Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia and Northern Territory.

it goes very well in the NT thanks very much... and TAS VIC SA WA represent just 'under' 50% of the country.

Your game has jach ******** support.

really...

Compare your pathetic numbers in England to the followers of soccer.

what would be the point of that?

 

[Rob]

it was a last round nothing game with both teams out of finals contention.

Which does tend to back up the theory that rugby league 'supporters' go for the event rather than to support their club and/or the game.

Seriously, 4,000 diehard supporters per club is abominable. You can hardly blame the venue either (as you tend to do )

 

[BuffaloRules]

Which does tend to back up the theory that rugby league 'supporters' go for the event rather than to support their club and/or the game.

Seriously, 4,000 diehard supporters per club is abominable. You can hardly blame the venue either (as you tend to do )

Yeah, i agree the crowd was pretty pathetic, but in the bigger picture,does it really mean/prove anything??

27,000 turned up to watch the same two teams play each other in April. That doesn't really mean/prove anything either...

 

[DST]

So what if Rugby League has this year drawn record crowds, TV ratings, sponsorship, junior participation rates etc

The FACT is Rugby League is so far behind the AFL in all key statistical data it will take it another 15 years of records just to draw close.

And even that timeframe is being generous considering the inroads AFL has made in Queensland & NSW compared to Rugby Leagues abandonment of having a national comp including WA & SA.

DST

 

[Minkus_Swan]

If you actually lived in the UK, you would find out how much league is so far behind most other sports there. Last year over a million poms paid a 20 quid skysports fee to watch the darts final between two fat blokes.

You might have a chat about league with someone if you're up north, but anywhere else they wouldn't know what the hell you're going on about.

 

[fabulousphil]

and TAS VIC SA WA represent just 'under' 50% of the country.

You have said this about 300 hundred million times......i am not exagerating


so ************g what

 

[Toots Hibbert]

Yeah, i agree the crowd was pretty pathetic, but in the bigger picture,does it really mean/prove anything??

27,000 turned up to watch the same two teams play each other in April. That doesn't really mean/prove anything either...

Rugby League is going to be pushed aside by Union which is a much more attractive game. Now that Union has gone professional League is living on borrowed time.

 

[Sydney Crow]

Don't bother with these RL buffoons. For some unknown reason they have a problem with Geography and believe that QLD & NSW equal Australia and therefore a "National" game....oh yeah and there's that team down south that may as well be called the Melbourne Showers with all the support they get. Maybe the Melbourne Drizzle.

End of the day the game will sell out at the SCG and if it had the opportunity it would have sold out Telstra as more people from the western suburbs would have attended.

Getting in and out of the SCG is an absolute nightmare at the best of times let alone on a Friday night!!!!!!

PS You can have England and wherever else you like. The fact is that the league is highly made up of players from Aust and NZ who are passed their prime and out to make a buck....and yes I know there are exceptions (Jamie Lyon for example).

 

[finders]

The last word both games WILL be sold out!

ednesday 7 September 2005

news
Wednesday ticket update
5:56:57 PM Wed 7 September, 2005
Àustralian Football League

The AFL wishes to advise the ticket update at 5pm, Wednesday 7 September, for both of this weekend's finals matches is as follows:

Sydney v Geelong at the SCG - 2,200 tickets remaining for sale.

Remaining tickets are on sale to the public. Tickets available from Ticketek outlets - phone 132 849

Adelaide v Port Adelaide at AAMI Stadium - 4.500 tickets remaining for sale.

Tickets will be available to the general public from 9am, local time, on Thursday 8 September from BASS outlets and BASS Dial ‘n’ Charge on 131 246. On-line sales will not be available.

For a full list of prices, visit afl.com.au.

 

[BuffaloRules]

So what if Rugby League has this year drawn record crowds, TV ratings, sponsorship, junior participation rates etc

The FACT is Rugby League is so far behind the AFL in all key statistical data it will take it another 15 years of records just to draw close.

And even that timeframe is being generous considering the inroads AFL has made in Queensland & NSW compared to Rugby Leagues abandonment of having a national comp including WA & SA.

DST

I had DST once...luckily I was able to make a complete recovery.

 

[Rex]

Sydney vs Geelong
SCG

Availability:

premium Available
prime Single seats only
standard Single seats only
premium no alcohol Available
prime no alcohol Alloc. Exhausted
standard no alcohol Alloc. Exhausted
restricted view Alloc. Exhausted

I wonder how ticket sales are going for the Wests Tigers NRL final. As of 5pm yesterday only 15,000 had been sold. Don't forget the cheapest ticket to the NRL finals is $8.

Yet it's cheaper to get into an AFL home-and-away match than an NRL one.

The cheapest ticket for this Friday night's Sydney AFL final is 16.80 (in Adelaide it's 15 bucks), while the cheapest league ticket at telstra stadium for week one of the finals is 8 bucks as has been mentioned. The cheapest tickets for the other league finals this weekend are 14 bucks. Not too far different from the AFL.

 

[bloodsports]

I had DST once...luckily I was able to make a complete recovery.

How sad that once you Rugger boys are beaten on statistical analysis, you stick around on BF resorting to personal insult.

Now P1ss off and don't come back until this weekends crowd results are in for both codes.

Then you can come back and we will kick your arse again.

You can't win rugger buggers and you know it and that is why you are compelled to keep coming back to bigfooty.

Why don't you all convert? It will be better for you in the long run.

 

[Rex]

I'm sorry, wasnt League invented in England? So why is there pride in a small amount of growth over there? Especially when those numbers are dwarfed so severely by Football. Wow, a whole 120,000 in a population of 60,441,457.. well now thats alomst 0.2%... keep up the good form!!

England invented a lot of sports including union, soccer and cricket. They can't all be number one.