All Blacks 2025
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@Kruse said in All Blacks 2025:
I was looking at going over to it - saw there's a train directly to Chicago - some sort of scenic route... looks promising...
47 fucking hours.Ugh. You can live a real life planes trains and automobiles
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@Bovidae said in All Blacks 2025:
@Kruse said in All Blacks 2025:
I was looking at going over to it - saw there's a train directly to Chicago - some sort of scenic route... looks promising...
47 fucking hours.Seattle to Chicago does go through Rugby, North Dakota.
That really does seem like "a sign" - doesn't it?
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Nothing screams "Rugby" like "North Dakota"
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2025:
Nothing screams "Rugby" like "North Dakota"
first thing that comes out in word association.
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@Bovidae said in All Blacks 2025:
47,000 tickets were sold for the NZ-Ireland test in Chicago in 3 days when they went on sale recently.
im assuming the crowd will be pro Ireland , Irish sports fans like to travel
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def an Irish 'home' game...
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@taniwharugby said in All Blacks 2025:
def an Irish 'home' game...
"Most Irish cities" ...Well it is certainly not Dublin...could be one of the most "full of Americans" cities outside of America. .
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2025:
@taniwharugby said in All Blacks 2025:
def an Irish 'home' game...
"Most Irish cities" ...Well it is certainly not Dublin...could be one of the most "full of Americans" cities outside of America. .
From both sides of the Gulf of America.
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@Tim said in All Blacks 2025:
@Darren said in All Blacks 2025:
Good seats are $500 each
USD?
Either way that is a lot.
Oh just checked again, nosebleed for $300
Good seats 1 - 2k + nowI looked a couple weeks ago and was half that
Yes USD
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@Tim said in All Blacks 2025:
@Darren said in All Blacks 2025:
Good seats are $500 each
USD?
Either way that is a lot.
Absolutely ridiculous. No Rugby Game will ever be worth that
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@Darren said in All Blacks 2025:
It's because they are all resale seats now, so can charge whatever they want. It sold out before I could get it. Scalpers and bots I guess.
Yup and tbh I looked at seats just a few hours after they went on sale two weeks ago and 90% of the inventory was resale. Virtually every seat hoovered up by resellers immediately, it's such a screwed up way of selling tickets.
Looking at the bigger picture - at those prices I doubt you are going to get a dad taking his son to check out rugby for the first time and I get it, they are just trying to coin it in but it doesnt really do much to grow the game/brand/sport outside of the diehards which must in the long run be counter productive.
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if it is all about the money, NZR should just bite the bullet and sign a mega contract with Nike for Flair Jordan rugby boots. Signed, of course.
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@nonpartizan said in All Blacks 2025:
@Darren said in All Blacks 2025:
It's because they are all resale seats now, so can charge whatever they want. It sold out before I could get it. Scalpers and bots I guess.
Yup and tbh I looked at seats just a few hours after they went on sale two weeks ago and 90% of the inventory was resale. Virtually every seat hoovered up by resellers immediately, it's such a screwed up way of selling tickets.
Looking at the bigger picture - at those prices I doubt you are going to get a dad taking his son to check out rugby for the first time and I get it, they are just trying to coin it in but it doesnt really do much to grow the game/brand/sport outside of the diehards which must in the long run be counter productive.
I guess if no one buys the seats at that price there will be empty space in the stands. Which wouldn't be a good look either. Perhaps some will wait until the last minute for a price plummet
