Guess this means I'm in with the Wigan fans on Saturday then. Should be fun

Does anyone know why you can't select a block online? You can only choose your ticket price so it feels like pot luck.

Joke isn’t it, I’ll be fuming if I get tickets in the North/South stand.

Just been told by a mate that we've sold out our end. Still loads of people left in the queue too.

You can't even access online sales on the website when I tried just now.

I don't want to complain but it is things like this that you only find in RL. Can't think of any other sports or entertainment event Iv been to over the last decade where you cant go online, pick your preferred seat and pay within a few minutes.

The RFL site was awful last night but you could (eventually) pick your seats. There wasn’t a great deal more than singles left down our end when I looked earlier but they do seem to open up blocks randomly, so worth a try.

Only singles in the West via the RFL. Obviously lots in the East and some higher up in the North.

Think I'll hold my nerve for now - usually there's a big rush for seats initially for finals but when it calms down you can always get hold of decent seats. If not and 20,000 Wigan fans have suddenly come out of hiding then fair enough - I'll sit with the French lads.

Serge from Parr, John Pierre from Castleford and Benoit from Leigh will be down that end. All good lads.

All a bit chaotic down at the Stadium this afternoon. We turned up at 1pm and the queues was round the back of the North Stand. Kept hearing rumours that they only had 300 tix left. Queued up for 2h and they only had £85 tix left.

Staff wandered out from the ticket office to say there may be another allocation tomorrow, but couldn't guarantee it.

There will be 45k on next week and they'll be giving tix away by Thursday. Only the RFL could manage this so badly

F***ing joke (System/Club/Both?).

Got to the ground at 08:45, because I wanted to choose the block that the tickets were in, and that was the only way to do it, according to Wigan's own release to the website..

Queued until 13:15, only to be told "There are only £85 or a few standing tickets left, and they'll probably run out before you get to the front." (I was about 20th in the queue by then).

Who "planned" this?
I believe that the RFL had a plan to only release tickets in the lower tier behind the sticks, and to hold back the upper tier until they sold out - because it looks better on TV to have a full lower tier).

But with the club opening up a free-for-all, rather than giving a few hours of priority to either/both ST holders and physical sales, they've ed off a huge number of supporters today (the queue was still round to the NE corner, so probably a good 5-600+ fans still in it).

Why not release ALL of the tickets to Wigan, with the instruction to only sell from the lower tier block until that's gone, then switch to the upp;er tier block of tickets./

I'm going to wait for the next block to be released, but I'll now have to just take whatever I'm allocated online.

Thanks for wasting 6hrs of my Sunday, Wigan.
So much for us being able to "enjoy" going to a final.

Depressing to read as the sport can't afford experiences like this. Very rarely had positive experiences with RFL ticketing or the Wigan ticket office.

... and now it looks like the RFL website has packed in too

Sounds like Wigan were only given a 8,000 allocation today.

I just managed to buy tickets for the SAF stand (needed 6 together). £40 tix and I sat there for the WC Final, so they're decent seats, but I'll be a bit fed up if there's a load of tix behind the goal tomorrow.

Always a bit wary about buying from the RFL as you can be surrounded by fans from anywhere. I remember a GF when my kids were little and they wanted to go home at half time (and we were winning) as we had a team from York on their annual booze up directly behind us and a team from Bradford doing exactly the same directly in front of us. Put two teams on the pop all day, sit in between them with your 3 daughters and imagine how it felt. There will be no neutrals on Saturday.

Its been a joyless experience today and has taken away all the excitement of Saturday afternoon.

Crazy if we only got 8k! There will be a minimum 20k Emory seats, so why not give Wigan the full west end but stretch it right down both touchlines, towards the East? This is the RFL though, the same RFL that left the South Stand closed for the cup semi and put Wigan in the peeing rain, down the amateur standard away end, only to then open up the South Stand to KR fans, which was a third full.

Queued up for 4 hrs and left without a ticket. After a lot of aggro with the RFL website eventually managed to get seats in the Catalans end behind the sticks. Never known a website so slow but I guess half of Wigan was trying to book tickets by then. There are obviously a lot of seats free at that end as I believe Catalans have only asked for a thousand tickets. The RFL recently told clubs that they were withholding some central funding from the clubs due to cashflow problems. Not surprising given that they cant seem to organise the distribution of tickets for one of their annual events that had been planned months in advance. The RFL must be the most inept sports governing body in the world.

The annoying thing will be sitting next to a gobspite from Thatto Heath looking across at the empty seats in the Wigan end as everybody who didn't get fixed up today has bought tix elsewhere

I went on last night and the website is painful, managed to get tickets on the third tier of the West stand for £30, looking at the stadium plan you would think it’s gonna be a bumper crowd but I just don’t believe that, I’d imagine 50kish will be the attendance.

Just thought to hell with it and bought more expensive tickets in the North stand (closer to the West than East). I hope all that's left in the Wigan allocation are the ones in the sky but I'm fully expecting them to suddenly release a few thousand perfectly good West stand seats in the morning.

Bought 6 tickets, f**k knows where we're going to end up sitting, 2 kids who can't be on their own, seems like a ridiculous system in place. Can see this ending up being a mass ticket swapping exercise towards the end of the week. Hey ho, sure it will all work out in the end.

I've been out of town all day, and I wasn't even going to think about tickets until tomorrow, but just now, I thought, I'd better have a look. So going into the link on the club website, all I'm seeing is Coach Travel on Coach 12, Coach Travel on Coach 13, etc. No mention of actual tickets at all. And when I did click on one of the coach options, all I got was Online Sales Closed. This really is rubbish. We (sadly) expect it from the RFL, but the club should have done a lot better.

My next thought was, queue at the stadium tomorrow. But is that the best move? ATEOTD, OT won't sell out, will it? Is it better to wait a few days, and try the RFL site? But I suppose the club will be given a further allocation at some point? Have people really bought tickets through Man Utd?

You can buy tickets through the RFL, but I have no doubt you will be able to buy tickets from Wigan later this week and no, there is zero chance it sells out with Catalans in the final, might have got fairly close against Saints.

It won't sell out - just depends on how much you want to sit in the Wigan end. You could get tickets from the RFL easily in the stand opposite to ours but just pot luck whether you end up in amongst the small set of Catalans fans, neutrals or the Wigan fans who will bought there after not getting them in our end today.

I'd wait till tomorrow morning and see if the club puts anything on the website. Sounds like they've asked the RFL for more tickets. Why on earth only 8k were released initially is the confusing one.

Sounds like the clubs initial allocation sold out but they’ve not confirmed that. When the ground is likely to be only two thirds full, we’ll surely get another good sized allocation. The club really could do with letting people know what the deal is.

Thanks, guys. Yes, it absolutely seems what we need now is an announcement from the club ASAP. But what I'm reading about people queuing for literally hours today, and still walking away empty-handed, whilst blokes in front of them were buying 50 tickets at a time? This is not acceptable.