Comments on: RWC 2015 fixture times and ticket prices announced

By: brighty

brighty — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:52:19 +0000

I’m intrigued by the pricing. Cat A tix for Wales v (probably) Fiji are listed as

Cat A Cat B Cat C (Child) Cat D (Child)
£175.00 £125.00 £85.00 (£15.00) £50.00 (£15.00)

I mean … really? I’m going to see Wal v Aus this weekend for £60, Wal v Fra in the 6 nations for £80. I’ve never seen anything approaching £175 – I’m intrigued by what a Cat A seat the MS looks like given it’s normally all the same price given the relatively great views from every seat (with some exceptions).

I’m not moaning – if you don’t like it then don’t pay I think. I’m just amazed that a game v Fiji looks like it will be £125 a ticket for the “medium quality” seats? Will they really get ~75,000 in against Fiji at that price? Am I just hopelessly out of touch here and this is actually fine, the lustre of it being a WC match is worth the extra ~£85 compared to paying to see Wales play Fiji in an AI?

Umm, do you know what, I am going to moan now I have seen this

26/09 – 20:00 England
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Wales Twickenham
Cat A Cat B Cat C (Child) Cat D (Child)
£315.00 £215.00 £160.00 (£15.00) £75.00 (£15.00)

£215 for a medium quality adult ticket? For a game I can watch every year for about £80? Wow. I mean, I know it’s the WC but I still don’t get the attraction enough to ~triple the ticket price?

By: Blub

Blub — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:07:11 +0000

Honestly, I think the pricing is OK.

Sure, it would have been lovely to have far cheaper tickets, but England at Twickenham for any game is not cheap.

I can take my son to watch New Zealand-Argentina at Wembley for £65 for the two of us. have to say that that feels like good value.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:06:09 +0000

Ah sorry, should have made it clearer – the £15 entry point doesn’t refer specifically to the 41 of 48 games, but rather the tournament in general.

By: Mr B

Mr B — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:04:00 +0000

Hi Jamie I know but the £15 adult tickets are not availible at 41 of the 48 games unless they are intending selling them on the day, in the link only 7 games have adult tickets for £15.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:00:02 +0000

The £7 in the article refers to children’s prices – adult prices start at £15, as you say.

By: Mr B

Mr B — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:11:09 +0000

Plus I have been sent a link regarding the ticket prices and of the 40 pool games only 7 are £15 or less for adults all the others are £20 or more, bit of misinformation on your article I think.

Please see link I have recieved below:

http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/ticketing/prices/index.html

By: Mr B

Mr B — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:59:31 +0000

So no surprises here then, expect a lot of Grannies to be appearing on E-Bay to pay for some of these tickets.

As I live in Coventry, Villa Park and Leicesters Crisp Bowl are the closest to me and I may be tempted to part with £50 Argentina V Tonga or South Africa V Samoa as I would like to see a competitive game but these would be for the nose bleeds/cheap seats, or maybe the £20/£35 tickets for Argentina V Africa 1.

I would be interested in the Canada V Europe 2 game if kick off were later than 17:00 on a Tuesday, Leicester isn’t a busy place a rush hour at all (sarcasm implied). If this were later and say Georgia were the opposition it could be a interesting game but I’m totally not interested Australia V Play Off Winner as it will be like shooting fish in a barrel and to be honest I don’t want to just watch a game to say ‘I Was There’.