Stewarding, policing and other staffing has a cost though.

Actually, if you're opening the whole ground, I assume you have to be able to steward and police the whole ground, so you might as well have people in it as not?

Fairly minimal in the overall scheme of things I'd have said.
& you should know how many to expect so as to be able to cut your cloth accordingly, although I do appreciate that their are minimum standards to be adhered to so as to comply with ground safety regulations.

Well I personally think this is a good idea, The family are all season ticket holders but at normal price for the Challenge cup game , we would have stayed at home and watched it for free on the BBC.

It will hopefully attract a lot more people to watch the game live, I would have anticipated a crowd of no more than 6000 but now Leeds should travel in good numbers.

Rugby league supporters always seem to have lots of negative thoughts about the game and how it is run but rarely give any positive advice. Come on people the glass is half full not smashed to pieces and laying on the floor.

Damned if they do, damned if they don't. If they charged full price and nobody turned up then everybody would be on here saying that the clubs didn't do enough.

If low ticket prices cheapen and destroy the league, how come the German football league's top flight charges around £8 - £10 for standing fans to attend their very top flight games.

Don't Dortmund get something like 70K - 80K for a home game ?

They must be doing something right at those levels, given the German national side has been consistently good for many years and currently it looks like an all German Champions League Final this season.

Well.... a great rant this... on the positive side I mentioned that I was going to this game to my colleague that I sit next to at work, his reaction "Will it be a good game" I replied "I would have thought so", his reaction "while you are ordering your ticket do you fancy ordering one for me and my 7 year old son!" The last time he went to a game was 1994 at Keighley. If a ticket price of £8 and £3 respectively for him and his son (who has never been to game before) wins over some RL supporters (of any club), then it is the right move, in my book!

I cannot understand why such a positive move by the two clubs produces such negativity from some folks.

I must be in the minority but I really like knock out rugby be it CC or SL payoffs. I think the main reason the CC no longer draws the large crowds of yesteryear is TV. Secondly messing about with its traditional dates has given it a 2nd class status plus of course the advent of the Grand Final has meant the CC Final has lost its exclusivity and end of season highlight position. So the RL spectators have lost the habit of going to a good CC game

This match with the top two Yorkshire clubs both in form should be a cracker and it deserves to have the atmosphere that only a large crowd can provide. It should appeal to the neutrals too. If this price reduction does bring in a good crowd and it is a good game it may kick start a revival for the CC.

Our game is in the entertainment business and as a business must constantly be looking at marketing ideas. Almost every other business sector uses discounts, sales, 2 for 1 etc as a central part of their business plans. The sight and sound of empty stadiums on TV games is a real devaluation of our game and anything that can arrest this decline is to be welcomed.

So I say well done for this initiative.

£16 for the two of us... it'd rude not to go.

is behind the sticks sold out now?? where are they putting us after that!!?

Over 8000 advanced tickets sold so far. So there will be a good attendance which will make the game on national TV look a lot better.
That is how you attract sponsors and make the game of RL more attractive to newbies and sponsors.

Playing to empty stadiums is bad for the image of the game as a whole.

How often do Huddersfield plan on flogging tickets that cheap? And for how long will it be financially viable?

Are you coming to the game Will?

Depends how many they sell - if they get 15k instead of 5k then it will have been a well received promotion. Let's face Huddersfield have been flogging tickets this cheap for quite some time so it would suggest the strategy has some merit?

If they get 15k instead of 8k it doesn't work though does it, although I'm sure the astute owners of the club know where the break even point is - could we be seeing a realisation that the cow has been milked dry and a new realism needs to be applied to cover costs and to hell with the £20+ perceived valuation of a ticket ?

Too many knockers about the clubs trying to promote the game and make it affordable for families to come down and watch.

The weather has improved, the football is almost done, summer rugby, entertainment at affordable prices, and a fantastic all West Yorkshire cup tie, brilliant, stop knocking people who are trying to generate interest in a sport that's been struggling to interest people in watching it.

Can't wait!

Well Hudds are up in financial terms in my case. What would have been one £20 ticket sold has been turned into 4 £8 tickets plus the increase in drink/food etc due to persuading 3 mates to come who wouldn't have paid out for £20 tickets

This is more to the point.

2 @ £8 is much better than 1 @ £16 for a multitude of different reasons but mainly 2 people paying £8 each are more likely to buy 2 £3.50 burgers and 2 £3 beers.

The more folk through the gate the more they're gunna spend.

Well certainly is the case with us. It would have just been me and the old lad going at normal prices. With these prices it'll now be me, two sisters, both their chaps and my nephew and niece

They got £24 out of me today. I haven't been to a cup game in 3 years and my grandad hasn't been to a game at all in 2 but we have bought 3 tickets today. It seems to be working for the Giants anyway.

Which stand did you get tickets for?

Direct Golf Stand. Behind the sticks has sold out but because of the company I am taking to the game (2 guys in their 70's) I was getting these anyway.

FYI I don't think the Giants see a penny of the food and drink income on matchdays.

Stand to be corrected, but I believe it all goes to the Stadium Management Company.

Have we? i cant remember us selling tickets for £8 before never mind 'for some time' - this is obviously a one -off deal agreed between both clubs to get a decent crowd on TV.

In 2010 your season ticket price was £95 for 13 games so the equivalent of £7.30 a game? the price was the same for 2011!!

that was for certain tickets for 1 year, not something we've done for years as you've suggested.