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<blockquote data-quote="wayner" data-source="post: 274577"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (William18 @ Aug 11 2009, 01:00 AM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=408011" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p>You pretty much summed it up. If the tickets were too much higher then a lot of lower income earners could not afford it. This could then turn those people away from the game. If the tickets were too high people just wouldn't show up. It's the fans that keep the game going, not the NZRU.</p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p>For some reason North Americans seem to be willing to pay much more for sports than people in the rest of the world. Most major cities have both basketball and hockey teams where the good tickets are well in excess of $100 per game and there are over 40 home games for each team. The arenas generally hold 18,000 but if you look at how much revenue is being raised it seems to be a lot more than in other parts of the world, even compared to soccer and there are at least four major teams sports. Perhaps it is that corporations here are willing to shell out the money to entertain clients and that isn't as much of the culture in other countries.</p><p></p><p>I had never really seen English club rugby until the last year or so and I am very surprised that the stadiums are so small. It seems that many of them only hold around 10,000 or so - I thought rugby was able to draw more than that in England. Where do they get the money to lure players from the SH - is it TV rights?</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="wayner, post: 274577"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (William18 @ Aug 11 2009, 01:00 AM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=408011']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> You pretty much summed it up. If the tickets were too much higher then a lot of lower income earners could not afford it. This could then turn those people away from the game. If the tickets were too high people just wouldn't show up. It's the fans that keep the game going, not the NZRU. [/b][/quote]For some reason North Americans seem to be willing to pay much more for sports than people in the rest of the world. Most major cities have both basketball and hockey teams where the good tickets are well in excess of $100 per game and there are over 40 home games for each team. The arenas generally hold 18,000 but if you look at how much revenue is being raised it seems to be a lot more than in other parts of the world, even compared to soccer and there are at least four major teams sports. Perhaps it is that corporations here are willing to shell out the money to entertain clients and that isn't as much of the culture in other countries. I had never really seen English club rugby until the last year or so and I am very surprised that the stadiums are so small. It seems that many of them only hold around 10,000 or so - I thought rugby was able to draw more than that in England. Where do they get the money to lure players from the SH - is it TV rights? [/QUOTE]
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