The All Blacks begin their build-up today to their third Rugby World Cup final. As the Big Night Out looms, we'll be looking at the match from all sorts of angles; it's the one sporting occasion that we've been hanging out for.
In other RWC news, 900 tickets to Sunday night's final go on sale at midday today. They are tickets left over after the two teams and their respective unions' ticket requirements have been met, and are Category A, B and C. The temptation is strong, but the budget is not in great health after our recent shift, so we may have to resist the opportunity to witness in person a second France vs New Zealand RWC final.
But today's sales, and the remaining tickets available for the play-off match on Friday night seem poised to push the organisers past their sales target of $268.5 million. At the start of this week, they were within a million dollars of target, and with premium finals tickets poised to fly out the door this afternoon, it seems certain that the target will be exceeded. That is an outstanding result in the current economic climate. The target was set at 85% of maximum revenue; that means that RWC stadia have, on average, been 85% of full capacity; fantastic.
Even the IRB is starting to concede that this has been the best RWC yet, and the English organisers for 2015 have already stated that there is now way that they will be able to match the way that New Zealand has embraced the 2011 version. For that we can all take a pat on the back.
6 comments:
What on earth is wrong with Robert Winter? You and I, Inv2, both respect his measured commentaries and he's a sport's fan, like yourself, but where does he get off writing stuff like this?
http://robertwinter.blogspot.com/2011/10/charity-handouts-growing-so-is.html
when he could and should be writing about the build-up to the RWC final???
Priorities, Robert! Get with the programme!
Last warning Robert G; the yellow card is hovering.
I am chomping at the bit already for Sunday's game....
It has indeed been a fantastic RWC, so awesome seeing the country get behind it...
A highlight for me was driving down to Ohakune and seeing the vast number of flags on farm gates etc pretty much the whole way down... Just magical...
I do hope that England can go some way to making the RWC2015 at least half as good as this RWC...
BobG - Dude, pull your head in, keep on topic hey ;)
Sonny Bill Williams will, I'm guessing, be absent from the line-up?
Yellow card indeed!
"For that we can all take a pat on the back."
Yep, and especially the Tongans that set the tone right from the moment their team touched down.
Agree J.S. Tonga lit the fuse without a doubt, it was almost damp squib till they reached Jaffairport.
They set the tone.
Re Rivertons Wit, the kindest thing would be to call the Southland Hunt, sort of recycling really.
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