The Wallabies may be struggling for wins recently but they won’t be lacking for support at the World Cup, with vast numbers of Australians heading to the tournament.
When the Wallabies lost in the quarter-finals of the 1995 Rugby World Cup, they flew back a day later and players had to pass Australian fans waiting in customs in Perth, about to fly across to South Africa having wanted to watch them play in the semi-finals.The fans have since wised up – most now book tickets for pool games – but the experience certainly didn’t scare Wallabies supporters from making a four-yearly pilgrimage to the Rugby World Cup.
But despite France being a far longer plane trip than Japan in 2019, group tour agents Gullivers have had a 25 per cent increase in the total size of their supporter group numbers. Tours have been booked out for several years, and many ex-pats are also expected from the UK. “That’s boosted the numbers, and whereas in Japan, one in three we had were women, now it is one in two.”
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