I wonder how many of the record crowd for Rugby Union club match understood why they were there

Take the pi22 as much as you want on this one......they still got 80,000+ for a league game that WILL never happen in rugby league.....



What you have missed tho.....get rid of the London Broncos, give the licence to a northern traditional RL club and stuff the southern softies.

Who gives a toss....if you get a load of upper class toffs paying to watch the ball being kicked for 99% of the game then fool them.

In 2006 (I think) they got 76,000 odd for a game. It was the Grand Final, but still...

This has what to do with Hull or Rugby league?

full credit to rugby union. and it was a great match of running rugby. really good rugby to watch and maybe some rugby league fans should stop this hatred of union. Ive said this before if there was no league there would be no union.

You should remember all the freebees givern out for these games .
Every firm get 2 to 4 free tickets for all games .
Know ours does.

so what if freebees are given out it does the trick and you cant knock them because it was a great game of rugby that everyone came to see.

82,000 is a phenomenal achievement and people can mock the product all they like but the public comes to watch it in numbers. It may not be to many people's taste but it is a significant global sport and they must be doing a lot more right than wrong to get the kinds of gates and tv revenue that they do.

Nothing....Just posted it to annoy you...and it worked

That will make the game really develop!

Voice of Reason...

Rugby league couldnt get 80,000 to watch a league game, if it was free admission and free transport. we have to hold our hands up, the general public prefer Rugby Yawnion in London. London Broncos take note .

The general public prefer Union in most of this country not just London.

The general public are daft gits then. I just can't watch yawnion, it's shiiiiite.

Exactly.

If they can get 82,000 people to an average league game (albeit between the top two in the league at the moment) then they are doing something extremely right.
Could St Helens vs Wigan get 76,000 at Old Trafford? Cold they even get 40,000 at Anfield?

I wish SL clubs would try this more often. Leeds haven't even tried taking a SL game to Elland Road despite selling it out numerous times for the WCC.

They've been doing this for a few years now and with some good marketing, it's been getting bigger and bigger. Saracens even took on South Africa at Wembley and got over 46,000 for it and have been playing Heineken Cup games at Wembley too with good crowds. They are definitely one of the more innovative clubs out there.

They've even done it in France with Stade Francais hiring out the Stade de France and selling it very well with a lot of cheap tickets.

It makes a great occasion, gets media coverage and brings in fans - many of them new. Compare that to Magic Weekend with some dismally attended games. Hats off to all involved and it'd be nice to see something like this tried in League.

The first sporting event held at stadium australia was on 6 March 1999 when a then-record rugby league football crowd of 104,583 watched the NRL [size=150first round [/sizedouble-header, featuring Newcastle v Manly and Parramatta v St George Illawarra
.i know it was a double header but still lets not get too carried away with rah rah attendances

i bet they could sell it twice over if they took a nsw v queensland state of origin decider to wembley

It's each to his own ..My love is Rugby League Watch it played it I also watch and played Union In my Forces Days
People are not daft because they like something different to others ..It would be a odd World if we all like the same things in life ..It would be boring.. ps it was a great turn out no matter what sport

We can only just half fill Wembley for an England vs Australia game, but we'd fill an Australian game (and twice over)?

Not too sure about that lad.

Think we'd do better for crowds if we separated the extra games and took them on the road to big nearby venues that both clubs agree on.

e.g. Wigan vs Saints and Salford vs Huddersfield double header at Old Trafford
Widnes vs Warrington at Goodison Park
Leeds vs Bradford at Elland Road
Catalans vs London at Paris or Avignon
Wakey vs Cas at Oakwell, Barnsley
Hull vs Rovers at Bramall Lane, Sheffield

Would get bigger overall crowds at these than at any of the MW we've had.

Couldn't agree more. It'd be great to see and, if you had some a little further away from the home towns, you'd still keep the whole "weekend away" part to it that many people enjoy with the Magic Weekend.

Congratulations on the marketing but not lets get carried away by the product of Rugby Union. Only a couple of weeks ago Saracens played London Irish in front of just 6,240 people.

Just a quick question- whats wrong with giving awat free tickets? You guys have the facilities so throw them at schools and get another 10thousand through the gates, all kids eat and drink so cant be losing out surely?

What's wrong?...

It costs money because of our deal at the stadium.
Giving things away for free devalues the price of a ticket anyway (who would buy a child's season pass if they keep getting in free?)
Just because it's free doesn't mean they'll come. If someone gave me a free ticket to Rovers, I wouldn't go and I imagine many others wouldn't. If they offered these people a very cheap ticket, they have the option of buying then and the ticket has value and you also know who is going.

And I'm not sure about this, but IIRC we don't take money from food and drink, the EMC do.