Just emailed the RFL ticket office to ask where my tickets for the game on sat night! response made me smile

"I am in the process of packaging tickets up and posting them. As we have been extremely busy with phone calls since the finalist have been announced it has taken longer to get through tickets."


only paid for em 2 weeks ago, seems like it has come as a bit of a shock to them that all of a sudden a load of folk from Wigan and Warrington are now ringing up for tickets!!
Its interesting that the finalists were announced not decided!!!
This shower cant even sort tickets out for the major game of the season why should we think they would have any clue how to run the sport on a national level.

Just another example of how the RFL never have their eye on basic administration of the game, too many other things to consider such as the "Policy Review" and ensuring they have complete control of the game???

Blah blah lets all constantly criticise the RFL for absolutely any minor thing we can think of.

As long as you get them before the game who gives a flying...

Its not minor mate, its a service I have paid for!

You paid for what service? To get your tickets before game day. Which you will. What's the issue?

He thinks it is minor, it will come under the heading they are doing a reasonable job! and we should expect no more, the RFL can't do wrong by Tre Cool, since Woods took over as CEO, after doing nothing at Halifax, the game has not improved as it should, to say it has, is real heads in the sand.

Got my RLWC semi finals tickets in the post this morning!

They can improve in some areas, but in other areas they do a good job.

Branding them as incompetent morons just makes people sound stupid.

I would never call someone a moron! can you show me where I said that please? I do think Nigel Woods is incompetent, he has had a fair tenure and has failed, time for him to be replaced.

It's Monday - The game isn't for 5 days!

Got mine last week - with a nifty little marketing brochure.

I'm with mickey here, having been in a similar position before. We always head up to OT on Friday and when it gets to Tuesday it only takes 1 piece of lost post to cause a massive inconvinience that you shouldnt have to deal with when you ordered weeks ago. Its dreadful service. I'm going to a Bundesliga game in November and the tickets were dispatched and in our hands within a week.

What do you think the turnover of the Bundesliga is compared to Super League?

Agree... it is frustrating and as mentioned, a simple lost postal item will mean missing on the event you've paid for.

Think they'll have delayed as they'll want to print the team names on the tickets... probably the delay I'd guess.

I understand your frustration, but to be fair the RFL are a bit busy on the ticketing side at the moment what with a world cup about to start and multiple ticket transactions to process. Not to mention the other domestic divisional finals. No need to panic just yet!
If your tickets haven't arrived by your desired date(!), you have a booking ref for your ticket transaction, ring the RFL and tell them your tickets are not with you and they should arrange for you to pick up a new pair at the matchday ticket office. The biggest inconvenience to you is you will have to arrive earlier and queue with other victims.
IIRC this happened to me at the recent Wembley double header. My Tickets hadnt arrived in the week leading up to the big day. I made a phone call and was advised to head for the ticket office on match day armed with identity and booking reference. Queue on the day wasn't too long. This time it probably will be....
No, I don't work for the RFL, but they must be up to their necks in the Ticket Office. Those at the top of the tree the Rimmers and Woods (pardon the pun) are deserving of brickbats for their own ineptitude and inabilty to run the game. Feel free to give them a hard time not the Workers.
My Double Header Tickets for Rugby World Cup 2013 Semi-final arrived last week, along with slick promo book for all the other matches and Venues. On the positive side what a fabulous festival of Rugby ( both codes) we have coming up this autumn.

If I left buying my tickets until I knew who was in the final, then I would have expected the response that I got. I ordered and paid for my tickets 3 weeks back, now maybe, only maybe mind, if they had got the tickets that were already bought dispatched then they would not have been that busy this week as they would only be dealing with those that left it until they knew if there team as going to be there!
Just a thought!!!

be interesting to see if my WC tickets turn up at same time

How hard is it to print 75,000 tickets once you know the date and venue of the event and despatch when they are purchased?
Apparently very!

Thang God the Warder will never be presented with such a dilemma!

I doubt it. I've got 24 tickets for the WC semis. I got 1 (yes one) last Friday, another 6 on Saturday and I'm still waiting for the rest.

It does help if you know who will be playing. Usually the team names are printed on the ticket. Also they like to sell tickets to Wigan fans and Wire fans as well as to "neutrals". They didn't know that it wasn't going to be Hudds vs Leeds until recently.

Not even the rfl are daft enough to wait until 6 days before an event to print and deliver 75000 tickets
6tg tickets don't have the team names on them I would suggest same will be said for wc final ticlets unless they already have aus nz on em

Wrong, he did summat at Halifax. He called us bluesox, the big fat W*****!