Ticket Sales for August pre-RWC matches

kevin99

is it true the ticketsales for the friendly matches at the AVIVA are 70% cheaper than for other internationals?

ormond lad

kevin99 wrote: »

is it true the ticketsales for the friendly matches at the AVIVA are 70% cheaper than for other internationals?

Rugby World Cup Warm Ups Ticket Prices
Premium €50
Category 1 €40
Category 2 €30
Category 3 Family Ticket €60 (Adult €20, Child €10 based on two adults and two children)
Category 4 €20
Schoolboy/girl €10
tickets for ireland south africa last november were premium 125 euro and all stand tickets were 100 euro

six nations tickets were priced
Schoolboy: €15
Category 4: €50
Category 3: €65
Category 2: €80
Category 1: €90
Premium Level Tickets:€125

Hopefully ticket prices can stay low like that for all but the biggest of home games

theboss80

The august friendlies from what I've seen are left are between €20 and €40. Savage value imo to go watch France or England.

Chrussell2

I don't think these are very cheap tickets. Perhaps in comparison to what they usually are, but most certainly not as cheap as other august internationals.

I'm Irish, but I got to uni in Scotland. I bought 4 Student tickets for Scotland v Ireland for a total of £22 (including booking fee). The seats are mid section and slightly near the corner, but they're not bad. For the same number of category 4 tickets for the Ireland v England game it'd cost me 96euro (including booking fee)...

It annoys me that the IRFU don't do student tickets. TBH I don't think the FAI do either. I would put my neck out and say that Murrayfield for the Ireland game will be rammed, but the Aviva won't be as busy. The FAI had trouble shifting their tickets for the carling cup of nations this year and the place looked embarrassing.

I'm quite frustrated because I am a student, and I would like to go but I'm being majorly priced out of it. The IRFU should perhaps take a note from the SRU and think more about putting arse's on the seats to create an atmosphere than to make money, in fact they'd probably make more money by selling more tickets at a reduced price, maybe even making their money back on merchandise, food, drink yadda yadda yadda.....

This post has been so much longer than I was planning it to be!

I am also Irish and in Uni in Scotland, my tickets for the same game were £20 apiece, paid £11 for the SA game and £20 for the All Blacks game too.

It's a whole lot different when you have a stadium that can fit 80k people though, charging 50k people £30 is less revenue than charging 80k people £20 with very similar fixed costs.

I think the ticket pricing given for the games above is absolutely spot on (for a change!) and would be doing my best to get to all the games if I was at home.

As an aside, I've never seen a friendly rugby match!

JustinDee

Chrussell2 wrote: »

I don't think these are very cheap tickets. Perhaps in comparison to what they usually are, but most certainly not as cheap as other august internationals.

I'm Irish, but I got to uni in Scotland. I bought 4 Student tickets for Scotland v Ireland for a total of £22 (including booking fee). The seats are mid section and slightly near the corner, but they're not bad. For the same number of category 4 tickets for the Ireland v England game it'd cost me 96euro (including booking fee)...

It annoys me that the IRFU don't do student tickets. TBH I don't think the FAI do either. I would put my neck out and say that Murrayfield for the Ireland game will be rammed, but the Aviva won't be as busy. The FAI had trouble shifting their tickets for the carling cup of nations this year and the place looked embarrassing.

I'm quite frustrated because I am a student, and I would like to go but I'm being majorly priced out of it. The IRFU should perhaps take a note from the SRU and think more about putting arse's on the seats to create an atmosphere than to make money, in fact they'd probably make more money by selling more tickets at a reduced price, maybe even making their money back on merchandise, food, drink yadda yadda yadda.....

This post has been so much longer than I was planning it to be!

Poor comparisons.
FAI are not in the same circumstances as the IRFU. Nor are the SRU. Entirely different markets.

The soccer tournament you mention has no connection or similarity to a pre-RWC series of international rugby union matches against the likes of France and England.

Digifriendly

Deleted User wrote: »

I am also Irish and in Uni in Scotland, my tickets for the same game were £20 apiece, paid £11 for the SA game and £20 for the All Blacks game too.

It's a whole lot different when you have a stadium that can fit 80k people though, charging 50k people £30 is less revenue than charging 80k people £20 with very similar fixed costs.

I think the ticket pricing given for the games above is absolutely spot on (for a change!) and would be doing my best to get to all the games if I was at home.

As an aside, I've never seen a friendly rugby match!

Surely Murrayfield is 65k and not 80k? Twickenham/Croke Park AFAIK are 80K+.

Chrussell2

JustinDee wrote: »

Poor comparisons.
FAI are not in the same circumstances as the IRFU. Nor are the SRU. Entirely different markets.

The soccer tournament you mention has no connection or similarity to a pre-RWC series of international rugby union matches against the likes of France and England.

I have to say I disagree with you. What I'm saying about the carling cup of nations is that the stadium was empty or close to, for most of the games so far.

Yes the IRFU and the FAI target demographic's are different, but only slightly in the context I am speaking. What I'm saying is, for friendlies in rugby or football (and lets be honest the carling nations cup is nothing more than a couple of friendlies) that are both pre-tournament warm ups (the rugby world cup in the case of the IRFU and the european qualifiers in the case of the FAI), I'm saying its important to get bums on the seat to cheer them on. the benefits are a sense of some sort of national pride and not only that but for the teams to have full seats will give them a boost.

The SRU and the IRFU are indeed in different markets, obviously. But I don't see why one organisation can offer student tickets and the other can't. The same with the FAI, most students like rugby and soccer. I would consider Scotland v Ireland to be on the same calibre to the scottish as Ireland v France is to us, yet they'll make tickets a fiver. I understand that 5 euro isn't worth anything, but even ten euro.

Emmett02, I'm pretty sure I found the cheapest tickets I could!

Morf

The prices are reduced because the games are less attractive than 6 nations and autumn internationals to the public and it's a bad time with summer holidays etc. etc..

It doesn't compare to Scotland though where majority of the public couldn't give a monkeys about rugby matches.

Compare it to Twickenham where to my knowledge prices are even higher than Aviva and they very rarely fail to sell out.

JustinDee

Chrussell2 wrote: »

I have to say I disagree with you...etc

You're missing the point entirely. The only similarity between your examples is that they are sporting events.
Look at it this way: if the SRU could charge more in August then they would. The soccer comp too.
Different markets.