66,000 tickets sold for Wales Vs England

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Ticket sales for Wales' fixture against England have hit record levels as interest hots up ahead of this weekend's sizzling summer clash on Saturday at the Millennium Stadium. (KO 2.30pm)
Over 66,000 have already been sold for the Rugby World Cup warm-up game, exceeding the previous attendance record for summer rugby at the home of Welsh sport.
A bumper crowd of 62,500 fans watched Wales v France at the stadium before the Rugby World Cup in 1999 and 60,500 supporters turned out to watch Wales face current World Champions South Africa ahead of the summer tour to New Zealand in June 2010.

Rugby fans have now smashed the ticket record once more at the Millennium Stadium, with a massive surge in sales after Wales narrowly lost out to England at Twickenham last weekend.

And sales are expected to further increase this week with tickets available for Wales v England at £30 for adults and £15 for children at the WRU website or by calling the ticket hotlines 08442 777 888 or 02920 230130.

"Fans have shown unprecedented support for Wales' summer game against England and this is a great tribute to Welsh rugby ahead of the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand," said WRU Head of Sales and Marketing Craig Maxwell, who has driven a range of ticketing initiatives to get the fans behind Wales this summer.

"Wales versus England is an excellent choice for fans, with tickets available at £15 for children and £30 for adults, and we are expecting a superb crowd for what promises to be another thrilling and heated encounter on Saturday afternoon.

"While our fans have broken summer rugby ticket sales records at the venue, we still have a number of the lowest priced tickets available and I urge fans to act fast to secure their place in the stands and get behind the team this weekend."

As well as a competitive pricing strategy, over 7,000 summer rugby tickets have been snapped up by supporters at Tesco stores throughout Wales in a drive to increase accessibility for fans wanting to get to the game.*

Tickets can still be purchased at a range of Tesco stores for Wales' second home warm-up game against Argentina on Saturday 20 August until this Friday with the WRU's 'buy one get one free' offer available on £25 tickets.

Tickets for both warm-up fixtures can also be purchased at www.wru.co.uk/tickets or by calling the ticket hotlines 08442 777 888 or 02920 230130. Additional prices are available for Wales v Argentina.

*List of Tesco stores participating in the WRU ticket promotion:

Tesco Extra Stores: Bangor, Bridgend Extra, Cardiff Excelsior, Cardiff Pengam, Carmarthen, Culverhouse Cross, Haverfordwest, Llanelli, Merthyr Tydfil, Newport, Risca, Swansea Cadle, Swansea Llansamlet, Talbot Green, Wrexham

Tesco Superstores: Aberdare, Ammanford, Barry, Bridgend Brewery Lane, Caerphilly, Cardigan, Chepstow, Ebbw Vale, Neath Abbey, Pembroke Dock, Penarth, Pontypool, Pontypridd, Port Talbot, St Mellons, Swansea Marina, Ystrad Mynach

WALES' SUMMER (JUNE - AUGUST) FIXTURES TO DATE:

NB: RWC years previous to '99 there were no warm-up fixtures, apart from one meeting with France on the 04/09/1991 Wales 9 - 22 France, National Stadium Cardiff Arms Park. In 1995 Wales played two qualifying games in Portugal and Spain.

26/6/99 Wales 29 South Africa 19, attendance 27,000 MS- Stadium opening

21/8/99 Wales 33 Canada 19, attendance 50,000 MS- RWC warm-up

28/8/99 Wales 34 France 23, attendance 62,500 MS- RWC warm-up

16/08/03 Ireland 35 Wales 12 - (AWAY AT LANSDOWNE ROAD) 20,000

23/8/03 Wales 9 England 43, attendance 47,500 MS- RWC warm-up

27/08/03 Wales 54 Romania 8, (AT WREXHAM, RACECOURSE) 14,000 - RWC warm-up

30/08/03 Wales 23 Scotland 9, attendance 24,740 MS- RWC warm-up

18/8/07 Wales 27 Argentina 20, attendance 36,736 MS - RWC warm-up

26/8/07 Wales 7 France 34, attendance 49,655 MS - RWC warm-up

Also 2007 England 62 Wales 5, (AWAY AT TWICKENHAM) 66,131

Last Saturday's meeting with England sold in excess of 80,000 tickets

Probably Nottins. After all, as I've said before. The only vaugely interesting thing about the RWC is that NZ have only won it as many times as England. A poor record indeed.

nottins wrote:I wonder if you'll be calling for the RWC to be scrapped if NZ win it this time ?

It would bookend things quite nicely!

TheGreyGhost wrote:Probably Nottins. After all, as I've said before. The only vaugely interesting thing about the RWC is that NZ have only won it as many times as England. A poor record indeed.

You asked! ask a boring repetitive question, get a boring repetitive answer.

nottins seriously, is rich coming from you.

nottins wrote:

welshjohn369 wrote:

Apologies in "replying" to you John, for some reason I thought I was replying to emack2.

But the RWC does have a place, rugby evolves. Next you'll be telling us that we should bring back amatuerism.

No I do think a return tot he Amateur game would be a good thing.

I think that the policing of the modern game needs to beefed up i.e. International games take presidence over club / regional teams not allowing the release of players.

Most certainly international games need to be advertised as e.g. WALES XV v England XV so that it is quite clear that the game is not a TEST and caps will not be awarded, it will reduce the mockery involved around test matches and the disappointment of fans who expect to see a test match.

You can see how in wendy ball the FA Cup was a time of excitement and wonder but now you have clubs playing reserves and in Man Utd case withdrawing from the competition in order to play in some trumped up wrold club comp! Rugby does not need to follow the path wendy ball goes down.

In reality the world cup is a dull 6 weeks with some excitement at the end..... you can not polish a turd and you can not really inject excitement with the same old teams. Tours by the National teams will be the way back to a resurgance in RU provided we pull into the equation the Russia's, Uraguay, Georgia and the rest.

Yeah I hate the phrase "friendly".
I'm not sure if this has come about only because of the World Cup though. But it does denigrate the game. Does that mean we don't care who wins the friendly? If that were the case then the name fits and then it shouldn't be counted as a test.