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Have the RFL announced which end at Wembley will be allocated to which semi final winner's yet?

leeds or cas have the east stand.got our tickets last week

Is that confirmed, because I just had a quick look on the RFL tickets site, and there was no info on there as to who have got each end at Wembley?

yep when i phoned up to get the tickets was told then .just like i did for last years tickets.

Cheers bonnie, thanks for the info.

It looks like we can order direct from the RFL website at the moment?

If that's correct, I might get my tickets for the East Stand now, saves all the hassle..."IF" we get there.

I've used it three times for the Grand Final and each time I've been sat behind the sticks in the lower tier, 3/4 of the way back, right in the middle. No complaints from me!

Double post

We all had the front couple of rows of the top tier last time, wasn't very pleased. We felt out of it and miles away from the pitch, not to mention it was a bit daunting being that high up after a couple of drinks!

You could just not have a few drinks (god forbid). Another suggestion would be that you could just man up.

I sat on the very back row behind the posts last year (you can get tickets less than a week before, but obviously not the best ones.....) but the view was absolutely fine.

Game was rubbish, view was fine.

We were about a third of the way up the top tier last year, and I thought the view was shocking. It's far too distant. I didn't really feel a part of it. I've been to plenty of large capacity stadiums and the view is much better in the upper tier seats at all of them.

I wouldn't be too sure about shifting lots of tickets for the final, I think one thing is very clear to anyone outside of Red Hall - there are far more important things to buy and keep within a family budget this year than tickets to a rugby game and the same will be true of the final - the sport is in danger of out pricing its core market, but it won't be the first to go down that road.

I agree with McF most have not had a salary increase for 2/3 years and inflation at 5% compound. Whatever spare there was is likely to be needed foe essentials such as food. Wait until the utility bills hit home - GH should doing some early selling of season tickets it could be tough come January.

One thing is for sure premier league soccer will not suffer - how people can afford it in the numbers that do constantly amazes me.

One thing I'd suggest that helps is that in a lot of cases, football tends to be attended by a bloke with a group of mates. Far less families go to football matches which makes it more affordable to go.

There is still a big % of families including kids who attend these games. It seems immune to the recession.

I've asked on my IF form for lower tier tickets. Last year paid £18 (through some school up near Skipton) and the view was superb!

I thought writing something extra on the form, for which there was no box, may be too much to handle for the ticket office. So I decided against doing so.

Never had a problem with it in the past. Theres a few instructions on my form. One of which, use the £20 which my customer number is in credit by, against the cost of the IF form. We'll see what we end up with....

You will end up with this:

I'm expecting something like that. Will just have to keep an eye on the mobile/email to see if there are any problems. Although, I cant see how hard it may be.

Still they did a great job on getting me a refund on my 'extra' ticket for this Sunday.

O/T - Did you look at the RLY car?

I've always put lots of instructions on my IF forms and more often than not they've taken notice including getting as near as dam it same seats/row etc for our repeat Grand Finals

You're excited by this aren't you?

No matey, i'm out of the office all week (in Malton on audit...borrrrrrrrrring), should be in on Friday though.