Well over 20k is what the club are saying has been sold, only tickets left are upper tier down the sides for us and I've been told there are only a few thousand of those left.

It's going to be a great occasion and probably the best atmosphere at a cup final since the new Wembley opened.

I hope the game lives upto it has its the potential to be one of the all time great finals.

Times like this I miss Cardiff. I prefer the city centre location, but also, with the roof closed the atmosphere is something Wembley can't touch. The 2003 and 2005 finals were the best atmosphere I've come across watching any sport.

Cardiff is much better than Wembley. Old Trafford is better still. Wembley is awful.

Totally agree. Of all the venues I have watched CC GF & WCC finals I enjoyed Cardiff the most. Travelling aside, every time Alex Ferguson used to have a moan about the pitch at OT after the GF, I had my fingers crossed that the RL would move it to Cardiff.

I'm surprised the upper tier has sold slower. I bought my ticket near the front of block 523 on Sat night (top tier on the south stand) so would have a better view of what is happening when play is down the other end. Have people just snapped up where was cheapest first?

I thought I would push the boat out a bit with my £42 ticket but when I looked last night, only about another 150 tickets in my area had been sold since Sat!

They are saying at the Cas shop around 23 thousand will come from Cas I scratch my head where all our extra fans have come from hope fully they might turn up at home to Bradford the week after should be great time with it been a proper Yorkshire derby can not wait.

Wembley Stadium itself is OK, but the other grounds are catching it up so fast that it hardly has the same "massive stadium monopoly" that it used to. My big issue with it is location. It is very easy for me to get to from here, but I'm not sure that access from South Warwickshire is one of the RFL's main criteria. It's a trek out of London, and there's naff all to do around the ground.

I'd prefer to keep the GF at Old Trafford, but the voyage south has always been part of the Challenge Cup ritual, so I'd prefer Cardiff. The stadium is probably better in many ways, and having it right in the city centre is a major plus.

I'm not totally convinced that we really need a "national" stadium anymore, given the plethora of great facilities dotted around the country (Old Trafford, Cardiff, Emirates, St James's etc would all be good venues for the national football team, for example, and the same could apply to RL).

Cas and Leeds were allocated the same amount of tickets for the final so neither side should be outnumbered significantly - it should be fairly even. All depends really on how many Cas/Leeds fans bought early through RFL but I know quite a few who have done that and do so every year.

I reckon it will be about same personally.

got block 111 about 3.30pm sunday no queue



by coincidence the group I forgot to join on their 'if' form are same block and row

Just looked on the RFL website and tons of tickets available in all parts of the ground. Looks like this could be lowest attended final since the re-opening. Surely the RFL will look at this and realise how in convenient an August bank holiday final is, I know lots of people who simply can't afford more expense at this time of the year and will instead watch it in the pub or at home. May bank holiday final all the way RFL .

That looks the same as it did at start of last week so probably hasn't been updated.

im sure there will be around 80k at least.

Closed stadium roofs I judge the same as purple broccoli: keep it, I'll have the normal stuff.

Except I expect all 'neutrals' will be supporting Cas so it won't feel that way!

Wembley is a fine stadium but not as good as some of the more modern football stadia like the Etihad and my own local the Emirates.

Sadly Wembley is in one of the most depressing parts of London (a kind of post modern, bleak and neglected industrial estate) with bugger all by way of food, drink and entertainment nearby. I thoroughly hate the place - probably embedded by the fact I have been there so often and seen us lose!

As a kid I always used to marvel at Highbury when I went past on the train and the Emirites doesn't disappoint me either looks trerrific

The Emirates (or Ashburton Grove as die hard Gooners call it) is a great stadium (it should be it cost enough!) and is in a good part of London for eating, drinking and clubbing being only a few minutes walk from Upper Street in Islington, only one stop on the tube from Kings Cross too so pretty handy.

I love Headingley but when you spend as much time as I do at the Emirates it does make you realise just how 'tired' HQ really is (and how much money needs to be spent to bring it fully back to World Class standards). A big ask given the levels of turnover and profit of even a very successfully run RL club like ours.

Yes if only

i blooy hate wembley. nothing around it, takes ages to get there (and i live near heathrow!) and the staff are useless at serving beer. missed 20-30 mins of eng v aus 4 nations game there waiting for bloody beer =/ pretty certain they ran out of beer at 2011 CC final too by half time....

You were really that desperate for a pint of watered down Carlsberg that you missed a big chunk of the game queuing up?

The stadium itself is superb, it's just got nothing around it.

With Headingley, it might be tired looking compared to these fancy new stadia but it's got more heart and soul to it than them too.

It'll get steadily redeveloped over time but it'll still retain that heart and soul.

Whilst the area around Wembley Stadium is a soulless hole, Wembley proper has a huge Gujurati population and a lot of Tamils too and some great restaurants. Completely different type of Asian meals than you'd get in Bradford or Leeds, but up with their best (if you walk past Wembley Central tube on the high road and avoid the few places obviously set up for the Arena crowds not the locals).

There's a place opposite the William Hill which always has some kind of BBQ outside, it always looks and smells amazing!

You seriously missed 20 minutes of a game to get a pint of beer!!

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