{"id":21680,"date":"2018-12-10T17:07:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T17:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=21680"},"modified":"2018-12-11T17:16:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T17:16:48","slug":"wales-rugby-fans-facing-most-expensive-tickets-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wales-rugby-fans-facing-most-expensive-tickets-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales rugby fans facing most expensive tickets in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fans going to see the 2019 Six Nations may have to buy the most expensive tickets in Welsh history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Category A tickets are being set at \u00a3110 with a limited number at the minimum price of \u00a340.<\/p>\n<p>Many supporters have expressed outrage at the move including WRU Supporters Club member Ian Thompson, who said that a family of four going to see both matches would be facing a bill of nearly \u00a31000 when taking account of the match-day experience with includes travel and other fees. He added that people in Wales don&#8217;t have the disposable income that fans from the south-east of England would have, meaning that working-class Welsh rugby fans will be priced out despite being the backbone of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>For last years 6 Nations, supporters going to Twickenham were paying up to \u00a3161 for their games against Wales and Ireland, with prices being over \u00a330 more for their autumn clash with the All Blacks.<\/p>\n<p>For last month&#8217;s Autumn Internationals at the Principality Stadium, the priciest category saw tickets for matches against Australia and South Africa selling for \u00a375, a decrease of \u00a335 from the cost of matches this spring.<\/p>\n<p>A WRU spokesperson said that Six Nations matches &#8220;are steeped in history and always much anticipated&#8221;, and stressed that matches against England and Ireland &#8220;sell-out quickly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the price rise, the WRU are still confident of selling out their matches against two of the highest-ranked teams in world rugby, expecting the matches to sell-out through their member clubs rather than going on sale to the general public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans going to see the 2019 Six Nations may have to buy the most expensive tickets in Welsh history. Category A tickets are being set at \u00a3110 with a limited number at the minimum price of \u00a340. Many supporters have expressed outrage at the move including WRU Supporters Club member Ian Thompson, who said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,750,11],"tags":[698,124,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21680"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21783,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21680\/revisions\/21783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}