Ok lets put a different slant on things....Wire v wigan at the jjb stadium on a friday night for the past several seasons as attracted over 16,000 fans.

So your expecting all those Wigan fans to turn up are you

or Hull KR v Warrington Challenge Cup 1/4 final (with "free" transport) first sub 8,000 crowd at Craven Park this season.

It wouldn nt be the first time their fans have come out of the woodwork now would it.Ive seen 30,000 people on central park in the late 1990s ,mind you they was winning everything in those days..

Name one team whos fans travel in big numbers to craven park,Dont say hull.?

I understand that you are too young to remember the hysteria in 2004 when they named Widnes as the semi venue but when people looked back after the game it was acknowledged as embarassing. You are doing the same.

just a quick question weres best to sit in the ground

Enough crap about sell-outs and the like (and what's wrong with a sell-out anyway) this is serious. Why are we selling all North Stand tickets at £25 and all South Stand at £20 yet Wigan are discounting some depending which block they are in? www.wiganrl.com/news_full.asp?newsid=4825 Has anybody got Helen Jones' phone number?

Enough crap about sell-outs and the like (and what's wrong with a sell-out anyway) this is serious. Why are we selling all North Stand tickets at £25 and all South Stand at £20 yet Wigan are discounting some depending which block they are in? www.wiganrl.com/news_full.asp?newsid=4825 Has anybody got Helen Jones' phone number?

hull kr

As the other thread was locked and I can't find the one about tickets, I've read the Wolves site but again am still not clear when I can get tickets.

Not a season ticket holder, so would have thought Thursday 11th, but am going to the Bradford match but it seems to imply that I could get a ticket for that match and one for the semi at the same time

Could anyone explain?
Maybe I'm being a little dim here !

If you buy a ticket for the Bradford game you can buy a ticket for the semi on Monday 8th June (take your Bradford match ticket with you if you've already purchased it).

Over the last few years CC semis haven't attracted the greatest of crowds and as we know the previous game v wigan didn't sell out and we probably outnumbered Wigan support by about 2-1. Although this time I would be surprised if Wigan didn't sell their allocation.

The RFL must be holding a number of tickets back waiting to see the demand before releasing.

I will be surprised if this match didn't sell out but remember not all season holders will attend with some being on holiday, working etc or maybe rather watching it on tv so that should free some tickets for non season ticket holders.

Steviewire, can we have less of the sensible posts please.

Thank you.

In all seriousness, I doubt it will sell out. wigan will sell there allocation (which they have not announced yet) and we might do. There will be tickets available for those that want them - the only thing that may prevent people is being able to get to the ground to purchase during next week.

As above, if it did sell out, I suspect the RFL would release a small amount of tickets to each team...

I was at Maine Road and it was no where near sold out.

Some fans from both teams NEVER travel away apart from Wembley. If it was at one of the football grounds mentioned, it would be around 12000 and half full.

So sorry for that Purple, on the other hand maybe we should aim a lot bigger say Old Trafford or how about the Olympic Stadium, maybe SM could charter planes for all our fans to get over there

Does anyone know if ticketholders will get a designated seat or can they sit anywhere within that stand?

Hopefully its the latter. I'm an ST holder who usually goes with a non ST holder(my daughter) who's too young to sit on her own.

It's reserved seating.

Quite - they were only over 27,000 at Maine Rd that day .

Thats the spirit!

I hope it sells out in only a couple of weeks so they are forced to move it to a bigger venue. Silly idea considering the improved attendances since 2004.

The RFL want to see full stadiums, with no empty spaces. Hence why the Galpharm was probably turned down...

I think it would have been feasible to sell up to 20k tickets for this game.

I am going to buy 3 tickets tomorrow, as we only have 3 season tickets. Had we have been able to get 2 per person I would have got 6, and had we been allowed more, we could have possibly have taken a group of 10 or 12, and made it a family day out, especially with it being my birthday that weekend.

The problem that the RFL had was the lack of suitable grounds around that capacity. If Saints ever get their 18k capacity stadium, I have no doubts that these games would be played there.

The way the ticketing arrangements are should allow for all regular fans to attend this match who want to, however it doesn't really allow for a load of new fans (glory hunters, call them what you will) which these games can potentially attract.

I think Saints have more season ticket holders than us, and allow for 4 per ticket. Now seeing as they have plenty of experience of selling tickets for these games, that suggests that they are well aware that there is a decent section of ST holders who do not buy tickets.

Only in rugby league are we obsessed with attenadances/amount of empty seats etc.

Id rather see 2500 empty seats in a 22000 seat stadium than 250 in a 12000 stadium