Was going to get a ticket for Tonga/PNG at Saints tomorrow night. But no 'old git' reduction on tickets, students only, is that right? £55 quid seems a hell of a lot of money (Cat B). Am I missing something?

They do seem to be ridiculously overpriced

Some bloke on Twitter before reckoned it was just usual RL fans moaning when I said I felt prices were wrong. I went to Newcastle for 2 games, I’m going tomorrow and Wednesday and a few other games but it’s costing a fortune. I’m a die hard fan but many just won’t bother. I don’t know how most families could do more than just the England games, if they can afford them in the first place. I go with friends, rather than family, so only have costs for my tickets to worry about.



If we look at back at the 2013 World Cup, tickets were too cheap and they built a culture of fans waiting for discounts. They were absolutely right this time to say no discounts but you can only do that when you’ve priced the tickets sensibly in the first place. As a basic price structure you would think they could’ve had Cat A, B and C games. Tickets from £15-30 for C, £20-£40 for B and £25-£60 for A. In fairness you could probably have priced England games up differently to those brackets and charged up to £70-£80 and that would still be fair enough and as proven with the game Saturday and by this Saturday looking like a sell out, you’d still sell in big numbers.

Steve Mascord just tweeted that ticket income is already £1m past 2013 and slightly ahead of 2017’s final total with 51 games left. That’s all well and good but I think we’re losing an opportunity to both make good money and build the game by making it more affordable. It doesn’t have to be cheap, it just needs to be sensible.

Yeah I'm umming and ah-ing about going tomorrow. It's only ten miles up the road, but it's live on the telly...



If it was 20 quid I wouldn't hesitate.

What are the categories at the DW quarter final and prices.

Made over a million more than 2013 already

Made.more than the Aussies in 2017



Only British RL fans would sit and complain from their armchairs about not enough people buying tickets so that they can sit in their armchairs and it look good on TV



tickets for some group games still available at £10

Doncaster games £20 & kids £2

Saints 25 and 15

Leigh 15 and 5



Hearing not many left for France game Saturday



Ticket sales going well for Qtr Final



Well done to John Dutton and the organisers

85 quid for my ST seat.





Cat B - £70

Cat C - £55

CAt D - £35

Cat E - £25

75 for mine I believe

I bought a 35 instead

That can't be right? £85 to watch International RL, you're having a laugh.

There’s lots of positives for sure and I do agree, many who complain wouldn’t go to a game if it was free but plenty of people at the games on Saturday and Sunday were talking about pricing and many felt it’s not quite right for a good number of the games. If we just want to look at income and profit from ticket sales, maybe this is the way to go. Giving tickets away or building a culture of fans waiting for discounts certainly isn’t the way to build the international games but IMO a few venues are off, the pricing for some of fixtures is off as well. One major issue is the quality of the ticketing website. It’s as bad a ticketing site as I’ve known tbh. All you can ask is feedback is taken on board and used in future years. There are loads of positives but plenty to work on as well.

You know I don’t have a huge issue with England games being expensive. I think £85 is probably going a bit far but £70 is about where I’d top it off. The game needs to put a premium on the England fixtures. As the hosts, our games will clearly be the best attended and we undersold ourselves in 2013. I have an issue more with the split on the more expensive tickets for the England games. An example is the Arsenal semi (if we get there), where the cheapest bottom tier tickets left are £70. There were 4 really small blocks of £55 tickets available but they went months ago and huge swathes of £70 and £85 tickets. I’d happily pay the £70 but you can’t actually choose a seat, so for £70 you could be on row 1! There will be thousands of people on the upper tier that day paying £30 and will get better seats then many who’ve paid £70 or even £85. It’s really poor that you can’t select seats.