Sydney Sevens enjoys sellout crowds and financial windfall for harbour city
February 6, 2016 5:23pm
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THE booming success of the Sydney Sevens will see the city pocket a $7 million windfall and the ARU have plans to use the tournament to inspire a golden new generation of Aussie rugby stars as well.
Allianz Stadium was awash with colour and atmosphere on Saturday as a sold-out crowd embraced the inaugural event and the fancy dress party theme. The second day is also sold out.
Tickets were exhausted weeks ago and that huge demand surprised both the ARU and the public. Many fans were caught unawares and missed the boat. The ARU established a waiting list and those on it have been assured they’ll get in next year.
“We were getting requests all over the place from people wanting tickets and for VIP programs and things like that,” ARU chief executive Bill Pulver said. “Sadly we were just flush out of tickets.”
The ARU weren’t the only ones happy to see the “house full” sign at Allianz Stadium.
Destination NSW, who backed the event to promote tourism to the state, said more than 20,000 spectators for the two days were visitors.
NSW Trade, Tourism and Major Events Minister Stuart Ayres said: “We estimate the event is going to generate a visitor spend of $7 million.”
The only downside was the fact the facilities appeared to struggle with the crowd. Beer queues snaked back a long way.
The ARU are also keen to use it — and the return of sevens to the Olympics later this year — as a platform to drive rugby participation among kids.
The ARU will this week reveal their five-year strategic plan and sevens will sit alongside women’s rugby as key engines to grow the code.
“The great strategic challenge for most sports is to achieve growth in participation, in young boys and girls,” Pulver said. “Sevens will be the primary source of that growth. The first game we want to introduce them to is a non-contact version of sevens called Viva Sevens.”
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Sellouts crowds in Sydney for the Rugby Sevens. Half filled stadium for the NRL Nines. Congrats ARU
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with the success of the success of the tugby 7s and 9s (one of the only times the NRLOL can draw a crowd) it would be interesting if the AFL ever came up with a concept similar, shortened game times played in a tournament over a weekend & few chenges to the rules
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Lol .Beaussie wrote:Sellouts crowds in Sydney for the Rugby Sevens. Half filled stadium for the NRL Nines. Congrats ARU![]()
Sydney Sevens enjoys sellout crowds and financial windfall for harbour city
February 6, 2016 5:23pm
IAIN PAYTENThe
Sunday Telegraph
THE booming success of the Sydney Sevens will see the city pocket a $7 million windfall and the ARU have plans to use the tournament to inspire a golden new generation of Aussie rugby stars as well.
Allianz Stadium was awash with colour and atmosphere on Saturday as a sold-out crowd embraced the inaugural event and the fancy dress party theme. The second day is also sold out.
Tickets were exhausted weeks ago and that huge demand surprised both the ARU and the public. Many fans were caught unawares and missed the boat. The ARU established a waiting list and those on it have been assured they’ll get in next year.
“We were getting requests all over the place from people wanting tickets and for VIP programs and things like that,” ARU chief executive Bill Pulver said. “Sadly we were just flush out of tickets.”
The ARU weren’t the only ones happy to see the “house full” sign at Allianz Stadium.
Destination NSW, who backed the event to promote tourism to the state, said more than 20,000 spectators for the two days were visitors.
NSW Trade, Tourism and Major Events Minister Stuart Ayres said: “We estimate the event is going to generate a visitor spend of $7 million.”
The only downside was the fact the facilities appeared to struggle with the crowd. Beer queues snaked back a long way.
The ARU are also keen to use it — and the return of sevens to the Olympics later this year — as a platform to drive rugby participation among kids.
The ARU will this week reveal their five-year strategic plan and sevens will sit alongside women’s rugby as key engines to grow the code.
“The great strategic challenge for most sports is to achieve growth in participation, in young boys and girls,” Pulver said. “Sevens will be the primary source of that growth. The first game we want to introduce them to is a non-contact version of sevens called Viva Sevens.”
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So you're comparing two events
One in a city of 5 million + people
The other in a city of 1.5 million .
Lol the whole country has population less than Syd .
One was an international tournament with 16 countries .
The other a pre season domestic comp with one non Aust team .
Lol
As for half full stadiums .
A straight out lie .
What the fuck is wrong with you fumblers & an inability to tell the truth .
Get help
I have a pic of the crowd but apparently it's too big to post
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A pic of half the stadium
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The other half
I had to cut them in half to make them fit .
There's proof that you straight out lied Bea .
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Why do you mob lie when it's so easy to catch you out
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There's proof that you straight out lied Bea .
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Why do you mob lie when it's so easy to catch you out
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Top decks completely empty. Yep, half filled stadium for NRL lol
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so your reply to being caught out lying is to repeat the lie .
Well done .
The top deck would hold about 2 k
So by your ******** logic the capacity of Eden park is 4 k .
You got caught once again .
Deal with it liar .
Well done .
The top deck would hold about 2 k
So by your ******** logic the capacity of Eden park is 4 k .
You got caught once again .
Deal with it liar .
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the capacity of the stadium is about 50k and only 37k showed up to see every NRLOL team in actionAFLcrap1 wrote:so your reply to being caught out lying is to repeat the lie .
Well done .
The top deck would hold about 2 k
So by your ******** logic the capacity of Eden park is 4 k .
You got caught once again .
Deal with it liar .
so it was only around 2 thirds full
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The claim/ lie was it was half full .
Bea got caught out again .
Bea got caught out again .
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so he claimed half filled, the final figure was the usual NRLOLs fudged 37k in a 50k seat stadium!AFLcrap1 wrote:The claim/ lie was it was half full .
Bea got caught out again .
12k more than half the stadiums capacity
detective dazza the deflector is on the case is on the case!
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i do vaguely remember that & Essendon won itThe_Wookie wrote:We did in 1996, it was called the Lightning premiership. We ran it for one year out at Waverly.leagueiscrap wrote:with the success of the success of the tugby 7s and 9s (one of the only times the NRLOL can draw a crowd) it would be interesting if the AFL ever came up with a concept similar, shortened game times played in a tournament over a weekend & few chenges to the rules
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Rules
Each game consisted of two 17 minute halves, with a five-minute half-time break
In the case of a tie after normal time, the siren would not sound until another score had been registered
Four boundary and four goal umpires were used
Three points were awarded if the ball hit the post, signalled by a different coloured flag
Three points were awarded for a deliberately rushed behind
The last player to touch the ball before it went over the boundary line was penalised and a free kick awarded to the opposing team. When it could not be determined who touched the ball last, it was thrown back in
The defender kicking in after a score did not have to wait until the goal umpire finished waving his flags
No umpire would bounce the ball, instead it was thrown up on all occasions
Six-man interchange bench
it was a pity the AFL only ran it for just the one season, with the introduction of the touch AFL played on smaller fields recently & the success of the rugby tournaments & even the BBL the AFL would be mad not to at least give it a thought playing a shortened tournament over a weekend with different rules, & even possibly smaller playing field
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So you agree it was more than half full .leagueiscrap wrote:so he claimed half filled, the final figure was the usual NRLOLs fudged 37k in a 50k seat stadium!AFLcrap1 wrote:The claim/ lie was it was half full .
Bea got caught out again .
12k more than half the stadiums capacity![]()
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Congrats .
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ITS NOT TROLLING TO CORRECT THE ABUNDENT LIES TOLD ON HERE BY YOU MOB .
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spazza trolling is when you consistently, when you pretty much never add anything constructive in to the conversation, rant rave and abuse people, then when you do on the freak occassion, you take a few words out of post and run with it to suit your needs to attempt to take the moral high groundAFLcrap1 wrote:So you agree it was more than half full .leagueiscrap wrote:so he claimed half filled, the final figure was the usual NRLOLs fudged 37k in a 50k seat stadium!AFLcrap1 wrote:The claim/ lie was it was half full .
Bea got caught out again .
12k more than half the stadiums capacity![]()
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leagueiscrap wrote:spazza trolling is when you consistently, when you pretty much never add anything constructive in to the conversation, rant rave and abuse people, then when you do on the freak occassion, you take a few words out of post and run with it to suit your needs to attempt to take the moral high groundAFLcrap1 wrote:So you agree it was more than half full .leagueiscrap wrote:so he claimed half filled, the final figure was the usual NRLOLs fudged 37k in a 50k seat stadium!AFLcrap1 wrote:The claim/ lie was it was half full .
Bea got caught out again .
12k more than half the stadiums capacity![]()
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You finally posted something sensible .
So you confirm Bea lied .
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ITS NOT TROLLING TO CORRECT THE ABUNDENT LIES TOLD ON HERE BY YOU MOB .
On topic please .
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