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50,000 Tickets Pre-Sold For MCG State Of Origin

NRL Boss Dave Smith has revealed 50,000 pre-sale tickets have been sold to the first State of Origin game at the MCG, in 18 years


NRL Boss Dave Smith has revealed 50,000 pre-sale tickets have been sold to the first State of Origin game at the MCG, in 18 years.

Smith dropping in to the Hot Breakfast to talk up the Blues and Maroons battle in Melbourne on June 17.

"I'd say it's the greatest sporting rivalry in the country," Smith said on Triple M's The Hot Breakfast.

"We're lucky enough to have this big brand called Origin.

"We're bringing it fittingly down to the 'G, hopefully it's going to be the biggest crowd we've ever had for Origin."




=D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>
and that wouldn't include members so its well over 60,000 in reality , with hardly an ounce of promotion at this stage & still
3 months out

this games crowd could well top 90,000 & be the 2nd biggest sporting attendance in Melbourne & Australia for 2015
AUSTRALIAS GREATEST SPORTING RIVALRY

sorta makes dickheads like cuzz the window licker & dumbo the metho swilling ****** ( I give it 5 minutes before it mentions gimmick )
look kinda stupid

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Melbourne once again proving why its the sporting capital of Australia. We'll pretty much attend any sport in large numbers =D> thats why we have the majority of sporting events in Australia

and Manchester City v Real Madrid have sold out of general reserve tickets, so come back and talk to us when you get that far.

Yes it just goes to show how much the melbornians love their league. And there'll be another 300-400 k watching it on the box in melbourne. Or put differently, one in every two to three households will have rl on their teles in melbs that eve

King-Eliagh wrote:

Yes it just goes to show how much the melbornians love their league. And there'll be another 300-400 k watching it on the box in melbourne. Or put differently, one in every two to three households will have rl on their teles in melbs that eve

no, its very standard for every sporting event in Melbourne, it has little to do with the fact the game is RL. Melbournites will always attend Cricket, golf, F1, soccer, tennis or any other reasonable event in good numbers

They love their rugby league you silly clown. Or...we'll wait a minute, raiderdave did suggest melbournians are like a pack of brain dead merinos once. He's often right so which is it nlol?

If Melbourne love their league or if Melbourne residents love sport in general and the MCG is evidence of this, lets run a little experiment.

Club teams

Biggest AFL teams in the world, one would be Collingwood, could one argue Geelong or Carlton (I don't know, I need some AFL fans help with that one)
Question, do they get over 90,000 at the MCG for regular season games? Yes

Biggest Football teams in the world, Real Madrid, Manchester United, Manchester City???? Barcelona, Chelsea.
Do they sell out or get over 90,000 people at the MCG, well Man City v Real, yes they do

Biggest League teams in the world? South Sydney, Brisbane Broncos, Roosters?
Do they sell out the MCG or get over 90,000, nope hell two of those teams couldn't even get more than 30,000 to ANZ in their own city.

King-Eliagh wrote:

They love their rugby league you silly clown. Or...we'll wait a minute, raiderdave did suggest melbournians are like a pack of brain dead merinos once. He's often right so which is it nlol?

if they loved RL the only Melbourne nrl team would have a crowd average at least as much as the lowest average AFL team. As it is the storm average almost 7k less than the lowest Melbourne AFL team, the bulldogs. Says it all really

The_Wookie wrote:

And it will likely still be outsold by the Anzac day game between Essendon and Collingwood which regularly tops 90 like its nothing.

Yet your game will rate 1 out of 4 compared.

Maybe if you are lucky.

ParraEelsNRL wrote:

The_Wookie wrote:

And it will likely still be outsold by the Anzac day game between Essendon and Collingwood which regularly tops 90 like its nothing.

Yet your game will rate 1 out of 4 compared.

Maybe if you are lucky.

because the game only represents 2 teams, not 2 states. The AFL's ANZAC day game outrates every AFL and NRL home and away game by some margin

post_hoc wrote:

and Manchester City v Real Madrid have sold out of general reserve tickets, so come back and talk to us when you get that far.

What are you on about?

Oh, a sokka game that more ppl in indonesia would have watched over us australians with it in our own backyard not giving a fuck as the ratings proved.



Btw, how them west sydney dora the explorer's going lately, still the biggest club in the world?

NlolRL wrote:

ParraEelsNRL wrote:

The_Wookie wrote:

And it will likely still be outsold by the Anzac day game between Essendon and Collingwood which regularly tops 90 like its nothing.

Yet your game will rate 1 out of 4 compared.

Maybe if you are lucky.

because the game only represents 2 teams, not 2 states. The AFL's ANZAC day game outrates every AFL and NRL home and away game by some margin

No it doesn't.

It rates around 1.2 million, rl gets that near every friday night when big teams are playing.

RL has all the high rating games, not the VFL, have a look.

ParraEelsNRL wrote:

NlolRL wrote:

ParraEelsNRL wrote:

The_Wookie wrote:

And it will likely still be outsold by the Anzac day game between Essendon and Collingwood which regularly tops 90 like its nothing.

Yet your game will rate 1 out of 4 compared.

Maybe if you are lucky.

because the game only represents 2 teams, not 2 states. The AFL's ANZAC day game outrates every AFL and NRL home and away game by some margin

No it doesn't.

It rates around 1.2 million, rl gets that near every friday night when big teams are playing.

RL has all the high rating games, not the VFL, have a look.

BS fwit. It rates 1.6-1.7M every year

AFL Acting General Manager Broadcasting, Scheduling and Legal Affairs Simon Lethlean said Wednesday’s match at the MCG drew a total average audience of 1.726 million viewers nationally - See more at: http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/news/20 ... 1XWCs.dpuf

The_Wookie wrote:

And it will likely still be outsold by the Anzac day game between Essendon and Collingwood which regularly tops 90 like its nothing.

Theyll be similiar crowds
But
Gate for the AAC ( no NZ in this game ) game
1.5 to 2 million maybe

Gate for the SOO
6 or 7 million

Not even close

Raiderdave wrote:

The_Wookie wrote:

And it will likely still be outsold by the Anzac day game between Essendon and Collingwood which regularly tops 90 like its nothing.

Theyll be similiar crowds
But
Gate for the AAC ( no NZ in this game ) game
1.5 to 2 million maybe

Gate for the SOO
6 or 7 million

Not even close

it will be one of less than half a dozen games RL gets over 50k for the entire year, including finals. The AFL will get well over a dozen