How easy is it to watch England ?

[James13690]

Hi All my very 1st post .

I am certain you have heard this question a million times but I can't find the link so please be gentle with me and I'm sorry if I am in the wrong discussion group

I have been a football fan for many years but have at my young's sons nagging have just started watching Rugby Union .

We live in Cheshire and have attended a couple of Sale Shark games and after joining the England supporters club have just seen the England games v Australia / South Africa and we are hooked

I have managed to get tickets for the six nation game v Italy but would love to go against and Scotland and France

Other than a debenture how can I obtain tickets on a regular basis . Are there season tickets as in football or if as I have been told that I need to join a local club to get tickets what clubs are out there ? Sale sharks don't offer tickets
Can somebody point me in the right direction and tell me what the procedures are to get regular tickets

Hope this makes sense as we are novices but very keen novices

Many Thanks

James & Alexander

 

[Tony Manx]

Many of the clubs, junior clubs and schools (and, I believe, referee associations) get ticket allocations from the RFU but history tells us that they are "given" to club "sponsors" and they "find" their way onto the unofficial hospitality trade meaning the clubs get a financial injection from the "sponsors" to top up their funds!

It was my understanding that this "scheme" was being hit hard by the RFU checking where the hospitality companies get their tickets, the name of the club to whom they are being issued being printed on the ticket, but maybe this has now died down after the press uproar in previous years having abated. After all, if the clubs do not get that finance, the clubs limit their activities, close or seek financial assistance from the RFU!!

Call me an old cynic but I believe that it still goes on...............which is probably why the club you refer to has no tickets available for members!

 

[BRSTLDRGN]

Many of the clubs, junior clubs and schools (and, I believe, referee associations) get ticket allocations from the RFU but history tells us that they are "given" to club "sponsors" and they "find" their way onto the unofficial hospitality trade meaning the clubs get a financial injection from the "sponsors" to top up their funds!

It was my understanding that this "scheme" was being hit hard by the RFU checking where the hospitality companies get their tickets, the name of the club to whom they are being issued being printed on the ticket, but maybe this has now died down after the press uproar in previous years having abated. After all, if the clubs do not get that finance, the clubs limit their activities, close or seek financial assistance from the RFU!!

Call me an old cynic but I believe that it still goes on...............which is probably why the club you refer to has no tickets available for members!

Oh yeah that happens.

One of my former clubs got tickets for England games that were "avaliable to club members on a 1st come 1st serve basis" and yet somehow, totally unknown as to how..., they somehow ended up in the club chairman, 1st xv captain and financial backers family and friends hands. Yet each time someone queired it was always "well they got there 1st" - they would if only they knew what was avaliable and when

 

[Big Ewis]

How easy is it to watch England ?..
"easy" ?..

 

[BRSTLDRGN]

Its not just in the RFU this happens. Just rememberd a few years ago me and my brother went to a Wales v France match as part of Dunvant RFC, which was fun.

 

[Jaguares]

Congrats! You have very intelligent children

 

[McTallshort]

If you join a local club as a player/parent of player/just member then depending on the club you can normally get tickets without too much fuss.