{"id":483507,"date":"2026-06-18T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/483507\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:02:09","slug":"no-extra-seating-for-hurricanes-v-chiefs-super-rugby-pacific-final-at-hnry-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/483507\/","title":{"rendered":"No extra seating for Hurricanes v Chiefs Super Rugby Pacific final at Hnry Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news for Super Rugby Pacific fans who don&#8217;t yet have a ticket to Saturday&#8217;s final in Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>Hnry Stadium chief executive Warrick Dent has confirmed no extra seating will be available for those who missed out when tickets went on sale earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>He told RNZ there just wasn&#8217;t time to organise additional seating, after 34,500 tickets for the Hurricanes v Chiefs game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/community\/598425\/a-real-shot-of-joy-hurricanes-campaign-a-bright-spot-for-wellington-as-final-sells-out-in-minutes\" class=\"underline-brand-hover visited:text-foreground-secondary hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sold out in 15 minutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The stadium had discussed temporary seating with the Hurricanes, but Dent said, with the game only confirmed last weekend, installing temporary seating at such short notice was not feasible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The demand for the game has been amazing,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s always the challenging thing with big events that do sell out is that there will be people disappointed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He encouraged people to gather at the local rugby club or with the family at home, and &#8220;cheer the Hurricanes on from afar&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bad news for Super Rugby Pacific fans who don&#8217;t yet have a ticket to Saturday&#8217;s final in Wellington.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-483507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}