He is indeed, he's saying hadn't (at a week before the game) the southstand sold out at this stage for game 1. Therefore game 2 at Headingley will need sales to pick up to rival the 18k crowd.

Using the attendances from Sporting Life

Average Group Game attendance 2008 14890 from 12 games.
Average Group Game attendance 2013 14435 from 21 games

This is a really good figure when you consider that in 2008 25% of the group games were the big three playing each other. Aus, NZ and England had all already played each once by this time in 2008, whereas only England and Aus have played one game in 2013.

Also the additional 8 games are additional games between the minnows where you would expect lower attendances

303,151 cumulative attendance so far, 258,099 tickets sold.

If we can average about 15k for the quarters, got 70k to Wembley, and sell out the final we would be looking at about 580k cumulative attendance giving an average of circa 20714 with 465k tickets sold, compared to 2008 with a cumulative attendance of 293,972 and an average of 17,292

Edit: I missed out a game, this has been added back in

Not to nit pick but if the current cumulative attendance is 289,193

+ (15k x 4 = 60,000)
+70,000
+75,000

= ~494k cumulative attendance not 560?

EDIT: Ignore that, I can't count how many semi finals there are.

Demand must be pretty high, can't get on the page to order tickets on line, and the phone number won't even put you in a queue, just asks you to call back later....

There are 2 semi finals, thats where your other 70k is.

Try the normal RFL number: 0844 856 1113

The World Cup number is hopeless.

After all the gutter talk earlier in the thread about cheap tickets, I noticed an advert for Scotland v Australia RU tickets starting at £20...

D'oh. Huge fail on my part there, sorry.

That's what lack of sleep from a new born does to you.

If you price it low, you don't value the sport correctly! Or something.

Just tried to get an additional Southstand ticket and they're sold out

i missed a game out too, so have had to edit the figures. Cant even blame it on a baby either.

Try now on Southstand 6 section, it let's me add 1 to my basket

In short, all is good. Indeed, it's better than anyone could have hoped.
It does make you wonder how big our World Cup could get by 2017/2021. If the Aussies and Kiwis put Sally B in charge and gave her a bigger budget and team - and god knows she deserves one - then they could sell even more than we are doing this time round. If we look at how many tickets we sold in Rochdale to the Fijians, then we can apply that many times over in NZ/Australia. For 2008, they basically opened the doors and got 300k through them with no build up, effort or belief. If I have enough time, I am sure I could put together a blue print for 700k attendances in Oz/NZ with the same sets of teams we have had. Certainly, you could double 300k with a bit of gumption.
It would be a stretch for us to match those figures, but the only way is up over here. More games in bigger stadia in France, bigger stadia for the England group games, years of work and investment in Wales (if need be, salary cap exemptions for Welsh union players), there is a lot to build on just in areas in which we have already shown there is interest.

Anyone got a half price code for the semi finals?

LONDON2012 brings the £50 and £40 tickets down to £20.13, so far as I can tell. There only appears to be a couple of pairs of those still available, though - or at least, that's all it's allocating me on the Fast Tickets tab.

People seem to forget that the 2008 World Cup was run by Colin "what is my commission?" Love and Geoff "when is my lunch break?" Carr. Those two overpaid sleazebags will have nothing to do with the next World Cup. We can look forward to the management of the ARL Commission making the next World Cup a huge success.

Can't seem to get either price to show me seats.

Can we? Really? If so, it's only because the RFL have shown how it should be done against all the odds. If they were in place, they were allowed to stay there by the ARL/NRL, so the Aussie administration should share corporate responsibility.

Anyone want some cheap tickets for [url=http://tickets.telegraph.co.uk/england-vs-new-zealand-tickets/twickenham-stadium-london/16-november-2013/E-1072424/?utm_source=tmg&utm_medium=td_tickets&utm_campaign=EnglandVNzTwickers[/url instead?

ARL strategic plan page 5 "The 2017 RLWC in Oz and NZ will be the most succesful ever" www.nrl.com/portals/nrl/RadEdito ... e_Plan.pdf They arre setting their stall out early.

ARL strategic plan page 5 "The 2017 RLWC in Oz and NZ will be the most succesful ever" www.nrl.com/portals/nrl/RadEdito ... e_Plan.pdf They arre setting their stall out early.

And I complain about £15 at the shay

Get big games on in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin!

Over 20k sold for DW

Yeah, 9,000 sold since Saturday according to a local journo. It shouldn't be a million miles off a sell out.

should look good on the bbc ..saturday night at 8PM bbc2