To be fair ashton, garswood, billinge and leigh have wigan postcodes and a lot of people in those areas would be saints fans so doesnt really mean much if thats what going off. Plus if it was saints v wire final would say all wire fans as St Helens has a WA postcode!

They probably have a way of selling tickets so that there aren't too many single tickets left. Putting parties of 3 next betwen 2 parties of 2 etc.

but 6-7K tickets are still available apparently, despite there being very few places that you can get 2 or more together!

that would suggest that there are at least a few singles! better to sell them for a tenner on the day than have them empty i'd say!

People will still buy single tickets as long as they're reasonably close together, no doubt at all.

I have bought a ticket (albeit very cheaply) for the north stand upper tier and I am near my mate but not next to him but hes an ugly get so its reet

Not necessarily - it could be that cheaper tickets are more in demand than the pricey (if better) tickets.