Bought some tickets from the office on friday and only front row left.Was told only 3 sides of the ground will be open as the RFL/BBC don't want to show any empty seating
How pathetic for a semi

No more pathetic than the attendance v Blackpool.

Leeds V St Helens - CC Semi Final - McAlpine/Galpharm

2003 - 19,118
2008 - 19,842

is that front row of the side or behind the sticks?

I am not sure that is strictly true or the explanation as I heard it.

They want to fill three stands first and are not going to put any tickets on sale for the other stands until these have all gone!

So they are selling seats in both lower and upper tiers of the Direct Golf Stand (the main touch line stand to the East if you like), the whole of the South Stand (Saints end) and the lower tier of the Fantastic Media North stand (Leeds end).

Previously, they have always just not sold tickets to start with for the two upper tiers of the main East stand and the North/Fantastic Media stand.

They are making a huge mistake IMO and I think it will potential wreck the match day atmosphere with an empty West Stand along one whole touch-line and people forced to sit in the god in the East Stand, just to make it look good on TV... it is the RFL that are bloody pathetic!

Its normally empty when the giants play there

I still haven't got my tickets yet, been having some money problems at the moment.
Am I right in thinking that once the front row seats are gone they will be opening the upper tier of the Fantastic Media Stand?

That's the impression i got mate when we bought ours for the lower tier.

Thanks for that mate...!

I might see if I can chance it and wait a little longer to see if they open it up. Last time I was in there 2003 (think that was the year) it was a cracking view.

Just phoned to get 4 tickets and they haven't got 4 together. They're currently waiting on the RFL & Galpharm to decide whether to open another area or not.

To be fair, I think the reason this has been kept a bit vague is that I think they have always intended opening at least the upper tier of the Fantastic Media Stand for walk-ups. I suspect that if they do completely sell out in advance they will open the West Stand for walk-ups too!

There is no-way on this earth they are going to turn people away if they sell out the stands they want to sell out in advance!

That is what is so crap about the whole thing, once again the RFL puts the wants of TV above the fans

Bloody hell really mate? That's stupid! Surely both the RFL & Galpharm must of seen this coming?

Nearly 3 weeks left to the semi and hardly any tickets left...They must open the FMS now.

Like people have been saying what about people who are going to pay on the day, were will they now sit?

They did see it coming and this is exactly what they hoped would happen. Bet you they announce selling tickets for another currently closed stand very soon and if they go well they will open the whole place to walk-up's on match day!

Hopefully matey!

Can't get any until pay day (Next week) anyway so it gives the buggers more chance to open another stand

Just hope the Atmosphere in that said stand will be decent...

well when we got our tickets we wanted upper tier behind the posts, we were told the stand would not be opened for the game and only bought tickets in the lower tier because of this, the ticket office were told to expect us back if the upper tier does open and to be very angry about lies we were told!

Hmmm...

Id have prefered the upper tier personally. Im in row 2 right now as thats the only place they had 2 seats together.

Isn't there usually a lot of moaning about empty seating in televised games on these forums? Aren't they just addressing that?

Assuming the attendance is similar to those TVOc has pointed out a few eeks hence does it matter what order they sell the tickets in? Isn't this, for once, clever marketing, artificially limiting supply?

If someone was desperate for tickets in a particular stand they should have bought earlier.

seems like some were desperate for the top tier but only allowed the bottom tier

When you go to the supermarket, do you just pick the first item on the shelf? or do look behind them for the ones with the furthest from out of date?

I would be pretty pished off if the supermarket refused to serve me the ones behind just because they want to get rid of the older ones first.

Unfortunately, I am unable to go to the semi as flying that day for vacation. But glad I dont have to mess around with the musical chairs farce it appears the RFL are putting people through.

Yes and No!



I just think closing the whole of the single tier large West Stand as opposed to what they have previously done, closing the Upper East and Upper North tiers, is just depriving the fans of choice of the better places to sit to watch Rugby League LIVE in favour of making the place look full, one assumes for the wider non RL media and public. They are forcing people to sit in them god damn awful upper tier seats along the Eastern touch line instead of the better seats along the Western touch line. The people that wait or even pay on the day might now get the seats that all those people now forced to sit in the gods would have preferred in the first place had they had a choice!

In the two previous fixtures we have had crowds just short of 20k, which only leaves 4500 empty seats, must of which would be in the upper East stand, the ground is 4/5th's full, what is wrong with that?

No the supermarket only puts out on the shelves the stuff it wants to sell, if it has plenty of lettuce it will keep the fresher stuff back as then it has more chance of selling the older stuff before it has to start discounting it.

You need to stop going to the cheap scandinavian ones.



Not in my supermarket. The older stuff to the front the newer to the back, that's the way it's done.

Well fingers crossed this get's sorted out

That doesn't mention the recently arrived stuff that's kept in the warehouse until there is room on the shelves for it. BTW they don't have cheap Scandinavian ones in Ireland, cheap German ones I'll give you but not cheap scandinavian ones but I don't tend to use them for fruit and veg.

Fruit and Veg?



What about your filling processed foods, your yoghurts, deserts, pizzas?