What do people reckon the crowd will be for Saturday's showpiece?

I'm gonna go for just under 60,000. Will certainly be the lowest at the new Wembley and probably the smallest Challenge Cup final crowd since the 1940s.

Sure there will be a massive Warrington contingent there, as well as a few thousand Catalan fans. Could the RFL have done more to attract neutral fans?

I'd be pleased/amazed with anything over 50,000

Not much that anyone can do under the present timetable, which leaves less than three weeks between semi-final and final. There will also be numerous potential attendees absent on holiday in August (even more of a probelm for French fans than in the UK). I'm in favour of moving the final to June, before the school holidays, and making the gap betweeen semis and final at least five weeks to allow for marketing and sales of the tickets whoever reaches Wembley.

As a comparison on marketing and interest levels in London, the NFL have held games at Wembley since 2007 with close on 85K attendance in Autumn/Winter too.

Lowest RL CC attendance at Wembley is 36,544 in 1929/30. I think we are safe there. But post-war 54,730 in 1945/46 is the lowest so far.

There will be 50k+ easy.
Attendance figure are always 16500 lower since last year otherwise we'd be looking towards a 70k attendance figure in old money.

Imo Wire fans have really pulled out the stops this year. I don't think any other set of fans could have made such an effort.

Didnt Hull v wigan last year only attract about 68 thousand? Anything close to 60k will be very good. Over 60 thousand I would be very impressed with. Especially when people like me can't go due to work!!

Yep 68,525.

Do you know the sales figures?

The BBC has said that about 4,000 will travel to London from France for the final.

Which is about 10/15k down on what we would expect a normal following for a British based side?

55k would be a good effort I think considering the Wigan Hull crowd of 68k the year before. I'm hoping it will be 50k plus

The cheapest tickets at £20 and £30 haven’t been available to buy for sometime, the RFL haven’t even tried to sell the top tier.

I believe this holds around 30,000 so 60,000 will be the maximum possible attendance.

45k in the top

Upper Tier holds 39165 the whole stadium holds 90k so if reports are right that they have shut upper tier and upgrading supporters there will be a max attendance of 50835 , not looking good imo

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My prediction: 48569

ive had the dreaded email today saying im being upgraded from the upper tier

Been moved from our £30 seats to £50 seats..that'll do for me

Been relocated too, not sure where though. Have you been told where you are going?

I'm on the road with work quite a lot and listen to Radio 5 live. Today I've traveled to Gloucester and back and during that time time heard the Challenge Cup Final mentioned once.

The point being is that the RFL fail miserably in promoting the game even when they have one of the showpiece events. Its almost as if the games being played in secret.

Whos presenting the trophy? Eddie Warings auntie? Facetious comment but you get my drift!

You would have thought that with BBC Sport moving to Manchester in 2012 the RFL would have courted a stronger relationship. Sadly that does not seem to have happened.

Could be worse...they could say you've been down graded again and put back up there!

It is - wait for it -














ANDY BURNHAM!!!!!!!

HRH Andy Burnham if you don't mind.

May I ask where the £50 seats are? Reason being I paid £100 for 2 seats behind the sticks in the Warrington end.

I read somewhere earlier this week that any tickets sol fun the upper tier were being “upgraded” to behind the sticks in the West Stand!



If this is the case Wire will have the East stand and a lot of tickets being the sticks in the West too.