to a point you are correct but you would be amazed looking at site stats of people that leave a site when they can't do something and no record of them booking via the phone. You need the systems in place to capture those people, no room for error, the site is poor and has been down numerous times, latest issue is the amateurish site map showing SOLDOUT that comes from a 1990s web site.

Sorry, I will clarify, they are not using Tickemaster as a front end.

Yup very simple, if that was how they want the tickets sold.
The RFL may want a few more blocks open at 60-70% occupancy rather than a few less but every ticket sold.

RFL ticket policy used to be that if a seat had in any way a limited view of the whole field of play they either didn't sell it or if there was a huge demand for tickets they would be sold last.

I quite agree.

But we have what we have: a system that requires manual updates of the display. My problem is that whoever is administering the system can't even be d to do the manual updates once a day. Expecting potential customers to click on a section marked as 'not for sale' is simply inexcusable. As is hiding prime seats behind a 'sold out' sign.

Brad Walter tweeted this picture, taken today in Kensington.
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And what if 'seatssold' == 75%?

Should this have been on display weeks rather than days before the event?

My ticket for the final has been moved now the camera positions have been finalised. Made me feel very positive about the whole thing from a customer service point of view.

Kensington! we're going a bit upmarket aren't we! then again its no Capital of Culture is it

How do you know it hasn't been?

I'm sorry, but do you think the RFL has unlimited budget for this? They have had to spread a small marketing budget and a small group of people across the entire tournament. They might have made a few mistakes - some of which we can see plainly, others we may be unaware of - but they are above reproach for me. That said, these posters should be up in Ealing and Earl's Court not Kensington.

Leave the poste mortems till 1st December, the official announcement says over 65000 tickets sold, so a record could be on the cards - just support your country as a final win at OT will have huge impacts on the sport we all love

The chase announcement has ignited my enthusiasm for the journey on Saturday

Why? Earls Court hasn't been the centre of Aussie culture in London for years.

Yes, as I said yesterday they have one at Old Street roundabout (although background there is green and looks better). Saw it again this morning on the rolling advertising screen.

IIn other words, they are not just in Kensington as someone was bemoaning).

Anyone think there might be a boost in sales with the changes to the squad?

Really?

=> 75%.

I am not moaning about tickets sales. Well done if they have sold that many tickets. We want as many people to go to this or any game as possible, having sections sold out when they are not, meaning some people leave the site without buying ticjets because they don't want to sit in the gods, well it is an ecom no no. The lesson learned is whoever gave the go ahead for the company running this system, well it was a bad call.

Just noticed they have sold out of all of the hospitality packages, given the size of Wembley and the amount of corporate lounges it has, that is a very good effort!

You of course have the metrics for this...

Or that with only a few days to go the numbers had to be confirmed today?

I'm not sure if it was this or another thread, but seems to be a lot of nit picking going on.

I did mention the colouring system some weeks ago and the fact that it seemed to be a manual update. But for me it's something that has to go down as a lessons learned issue rather than something worth moaning about once the comp had kicked off.

When comparing to other events we have to keep in mind that for example Man U, sell the same stadia for numerus events, so their ticketing agent can use a more live system.

Saints use a live system too, when booking tickets.

However, these are one off games I'd imagine the price tag for a full updating system for each event would have been out of the reach of the organisers budget.

However, given the critique's made I would expect that the next time they have a more accurate system. But next time could be 8 years away so the way tecnology moves on the system would improve naturally.

Checked on Groupon to see if there was a deal on for Wembley. Didn;t find one for us, but found this: www.groupon.co.uk/deals/events/g ... 1/29493241 I thought it was just RL that did cheap tickets? Someone better tell William Eve.

Checked on Groupon to see if there was a deal on for Wembley. Didn;t find one for us, but found this: www.groupon.co.uk/deals/events/g ... 1/29493241 I thought it was just RL that did cheap tickets? Someone better tell William Eve.

Of course not but it is certainly a factor, oh you're the bloke that says this system is a good one...........ha ha

Quote ="Errlee Berd"Checked on Groupon to see if there was a deal on for Wembley. Didn;t find one for us, but found this: www.groupon.co.uk/deals/events/g ... 1/29493241 I thought it was just RL that did cheap tickets? Someone better tell William Eve.'" Albeit you're looking at the RL equivalent of a regular SL round of Wigan vs Saints being played Old Trafford, then perhaps you're trying to make some sort of point about needing discounted tickets to fill the capacity ?????

Quote ="Errlee Berd"Checked on Groupon to see if there was a deal on for Wembley. Didn;t find one for us, but found this: www.groupon.co.uk/deals/events/g ... 1/29493241 I thought it was just RL that did cheap tickets? Someone better tell William Eve.'" Albeit you're looking at the RL equivalent of a regular SL round of Wigan vs Saints being played Old Trafford, then perhaps you're trying to make some sort of point about needing discounted tickets to fill the capacity ?????