Spot on - the Club Wembley thing stinks.

Not sure how much say RL had about that, but as one of the key reasons for Wembley getting all of the grants it did was because of it's multisport credentials so I would have thought that the RL would have had some say.

Still think the whole Wembley thing is a joke - 3x as much as the Millenium Stadium - and (if I understand it) without closing roof.
Is it 3x the stadium?? No way.

Club Wembley is symptomatic of all that's wrong with it.

I was offered some Club Wembley seats and a private box for hire last week from someone with a couple of contacts, all very quiet and "don't tell them when you get there" sort of deal, seems like they have to offer them for re-hire through the stadium management company, sounds like its too much trouble for most of them to do that, I declined both offers mainly because I couldn't be ar$ed organising the whole thing at short notice - think it was the right decision now.

didn't seem like a sell out to me from watching it on the tele.. there was a lot of seats in the 'general sale' empty..

that or there was a lot of people in red t shirts

The attendence annouced was 85k. Less the club wembley seats that were included in that I think you're looking at around 75k.

They sold all the tickets made available to the RFL... that would therefore be a sell out! There were some empty seats we could see in the upper tier towards the Warrington end (and just because that is the way I was facing) but not many, so I can only assume there was some no shows which is fairly usual. It was only 5k off a full house, so with Club Wembley, that is not bad!

www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=3 ... 0192&saved Thats an album from when there were 84,256 (1k less than saturday) in last years NFL match. My guess is that there wasnt much more than 75k in the Stadium Saturday if the above album is anything to go by.

www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=3 ... 0192&saved Thats an album from when there were 84,256 (1k less than saturday) in last years NFL match. My guess is that there wasnt much more than 75k in the Stadium Saturday if the above album is anything to go by.

The NFL Wembley game is not included in Club Wembley, so they can sell all the Club Wembley tickets for this game with there only obligation being to offer Club Wembley ticket holders first dibs on their seats, if they don't take the option by the deadline set, they can sell them.

So even though there was 1k less people there for the NFL game than for the CC Final, the ground does look more full with Club Wembley full and the first 15/20 rows of touchline seats taken out instead. The NFL game was therefore probably closer to the actual available seating capacity than the CC final, even though more people were at the CC final.