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       #Post#: 82477--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Harlequins 6Nations Ballot
   DIR By: Monte
       Date: January 18, 2022, 8:47 am
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       --- Quote from: Quintessential link ---
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       > Has any regular member ever got a 6N ticket via the club
       ballot?!
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Yes I have about 6/7 years ago for Calcutta Cup.
       #Post#: 82485--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Harlequins 6Nations Ballot
   DIR By: Fearless Fred
       Date: January 18, 2022, 9:54 am
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       I've applied and been successful a number of times in the past.
       Anecdotally I'd say I've managed to get tickets through the club
       between 10 & 20% of the times I've applied. I'm a bit more picky
       now about which games I'm going for though. I've seen England vs
       Wales England vs Ireland a few times now, but never a Calcutta
       Cup game, so this year I'm happy to watch at hope this year, but
       I'll be putting in for the France, Scotland & Italy games next
       year.
       #Post#: 82493--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Harlequins 6Nations Ballot
   DIR By: CQuin
       Date: January 18, 2022, 1:14 pm
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       BREAKING NEWS....
       Just received the below from the Harlequins Customer Experience
       team re 6 Nations ballot.
       "We have just received information about our allocation, so we
       will be issuing information to Members later this week.
       Please look out for further information from the Club later this
       week. "
       Now we wait for the ballot email ;-)
       #Post#: 82497--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Harlequins 6Nations Ballot
   DIR By: TeddingtonQuin
       Date: January 18, 2022, 3:28 pm
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       --- Quote from: DOK link ---
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       > I have. Discovered I have a much better chance as part of the
       England First XV (the old England Supporters' Club), but yes
       I've had tickets via the club ballot.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       I sacked off the ERSC as in 4 years of membership I didn't
       receive any 6N games (I didn't go for the Italy matches) and
       only ever got Australia in the Autumn internationals so felt
       that I was rather being taken for a mug
       #Post#: 82498--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Harlequins 6Nations Ballot
   DIR By: DOK
       Date: January 18, 2022, 3:30 pm
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       And some people win the lottery but I never have! [emoji2]
       #Post#: 82500--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Harlequins 6Nations Ballot
   DIR By: Fearless Fred
       Date: January 18, 2022, 3:43 pm
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       --- Quote from: TeddingtonQuin link ---
       >
       > I sacked off the ERSC as in 4 years of membership I didn't
       receive any 6N games (I didn't go for the Italy matches) and
       only ever got Australia in the Autumn internationals so felt
       that I was rather being taken for a mug
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       It was through the ERSC (as was) that I managed to get the ten
       tickets for RWC2015. It was a shame to not be allowed to try for
       England tickets, but to get to the two QFs at Cardiff, & take my
       late mum to see NZ vs Arg at Wembley (including the pantomime
       booing of St Richie of McCaw after his yellow card that we all
       enjoyed!) was worth the small outlay!
       #Post#: 82503--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Harlequins 6Nations Ballot
   DIR By: Bolly-Quin
       Date: January 18, 2022, 4:05 pm
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       --- Quote from: DOK link ---
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       > And some people win the lottery but I never have! [emoji2]
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       I've won't the lottery 37 times - once I won £7.80.
       #Post#: 82602--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Harlequins 6Nations Ballot
   DIR By: Kermitpower
       Date: January 20, 2022, 4:44 am
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       --- Quote from: Quintessential link ---
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       > Has any regular member ever got a 6N ticket via the club
       ballot?!
       --- End Quote ---
       I always found that the best possible chance of getting a ticket
       was by being a "proper" member of a smaller club.  Quins have
       several thousand members potentially wanting tickets through
       their ballot, whereas our local club has a few hundred, most of
       whom are members primarily because there has to be an adult
       member with any playing child.
       I wouldn't dream of paying the prices charged now for
       internationals worth seeing - the RFU ratcheted the prices right
       up for the 2015 RWC and never put them back down again - but
       prior to then, I was successful in every ballot I applied for,
       so have seen England play every other Tier One nation there at
       least a couple of times.
       #Post#: 82604--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Harlequins 6Nations Ballot
   DIR By: Brown Bottle
       Date: January 20, 2022, 4:57 am
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       --- Quote from: Kermitpower link ---
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       > I always found that the best possible chance of getting a
       ticket was by being a "proper" member of a smaller club.  Quins
       have several thousand members potentially wanting tickets
       through their ballot, whereas our local club has a few hundred,
       most of whom are members primarily because there has to be an
       adult member with any playing child.
       >
       > I wouldn't dream of paying the prices charged now for
       internationals worth seeing - the RFU ratcheted the prices right
       up for the 2015 RWC and never put them back down again - but
       prior to then, I was successful in every ballot I applied for,
       so have seen England play every other Tier One nation there at
       least a couple of times.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Absolutely this.
       Also they used to allocate tickets based on the numbers of teams
       and juniors, I believe. Not sure how they do the allocation now.
       Factor in that Quins keep a chunk of their allocation for their
       own corporate arrangements and the odds are relatively slim.
       #Post#: 82609--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Harlequins 6Nations Ballot
   DIR By: CQuin
       Date: January 20, 2022, 5:55 am
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       The RFU used to be public as to the percentage allocation of
       tickets for each type of ballot, sadly they have removed the
       image from the page that has
       this...
  HTML https://www.eticketing.co.uk/rfu/Common/CustomPage/Index/1...<br
       />but I found an old image on the internet...
       [attachimg=1]
       As to the Community Rugby Club allocations the RFU have changed
       this 2 years ago with 1100 Community Rugby clubs on average
       getting 2-3 more tickets than they used to.
       Hopefully Quins will put us out of our misery soon by actually
       starting the ballot process......
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