still think they've missed a trick not having it at deepdale, there's a lot of interest in wigan rugby around preston, locals would fill up what seats were left with the right promotion

Typical small minded rugby league........absolute idiots...pick a stadium that can only hold 2/3 of both clubs season ticket holders never mind other fans for their biggest game of the season.........which means half the fans miss out and theres no opportunity to bring new fans to the game.

This game could have sold 20k easy without marketing....and 25k with a bit of effort, yet what do the short minded rugby league heirachy do.....send it to widnes....capacity circa 13.5k!

Rugby league will never reach the level it deserves in the sporting world as long as it is run by idiots at red hall with no foresight. Say what you want about lindsay....at least he sorted the game out properly!!! Union take their semis to massive stadiums like cardiff.....we take them to tiny backwater 2nd tier rugby grounds like widnes

and hold our game back with a restrictive salary cap. Is it any wonder RU and soccer is so far ahead of us in terms of stature despite having a vastly inferior product!

It's strange when they'll take a full round of fixtures(seen as a basic away game for most fans) on the road 200 miles away in a stadium that holds 67-75,000 yet they won't try and use abit of imagination for games as important as the Challenge cup Semi Finals.

Play a double header at a ground that holds around 40k, charge a flat rate of £15 a ticket with £5 for concessions and you'd get 30k plus on imo.

If they built on that every year it would become an event in itself and fans would look forward to their sides getting a crack at a semi final almost as much as a final.

too much sense for the RFL that mate!! Its pathetic

Agreed. Total madness and means we will all have to stand in some mammoth queue for half a day.

Corking idea.

Will never catch on with the powers that be still in the 19th century

Good idea, take note RFL

I completely agree with that idea.

The tickets are a bit expensive...

They want it to look full on tv - then why the fook do we bother with millenium magic? Its a joke , there is no oint in advertising this game , the season ticket holders will get all the tickets (nothing wrong with us gettin priority) but what about the neutrals and gloryhunters? I think theyve missed a trick as usual

The RFL must have these ideas of grandeour where all the tickets sell out within an hour and people are selling them on ebay for over a grand each

When we play saints at home we get around 20,000 Wigan fans there maybe just under, but then surely this is the amount of people we should be marketing the game to, if they are willing to go to a big game like a derby then surely they wouldnt mind going to a semi final. Warrington have around 11,000 home fans when they play saints at home so it should be the same for them. Therefore if its a sellout of around 13,000 for this game they are missing out on selling around 18,000 other tickets. There are so many reasons why we should and COULD be aiming alot higher.

What a bunch of pathetic moaning whinging ungrateful humble pie eating maurice lyndsays you lot are.

I hope it rains buckets when you lot arrive. You moaned last time (You know, when the stobart stadium bailed you out) and unlike certain people attached to your club you didn't sell out then either.

What is it with you tight Wiganers?

You need to face up to the fact that at the JJB you pay well below market value. You have the cheapest matchday tickets around, so when you go to a game elsewhere you will pay more.

Indeed.

£18 for a cup semi and they're still whinging. Only in Wigan.

Surely playing it at the Galpharm wouldn't be too much faff for either set of supporters? If we can potentially attract 31,000 fans then the Galpharm would still be filled easily.
I think we have to rule out football stadiums as their respective seasons start around that weekend and Mark Lawrenson would have a fit if rugby was played on them the week before the Premiership starts

Agreed. At times it's a real embarrassment.

Can you imagine if you told football, Rah Rah or cricket fans that it would cost £18 to go to a major game? Would be a slightly different reaction wouldn't it?

Speaking of which I choked on me beer during Saturdays FA Cup Final when seeing the FA are selling tickets "from £29" for the England International against mighty Andorra!!!!!

Cricket isn't that expensive really until you get to England level

Do you think you will sell your allocation this time round? I hope so, would be great if full, gonna be a close game, too close too call. Wigan are used to playing in big pressure games more than us but about time we started.

There's a chance that something might be on at the Galpharm that Saturday afternoon, whether you would class it as football is open to discussion

Seeing as we have more season ticket holders than we'll get tickets I would be mightly peed off if we didn't.

It's a great idea but the BBC have already scheduled in the two games, one for Saturday and one for Sunday.

The BBC have done it for the Union Anglo-Welsh Cup in the past. This year both games were double headered at Ricoh Arena in Coventry with one match 2:30 on BBC 1 and the other 5:15 on BBC 2. 45-60min gap between games isn't good mind but in theory I guess they could do it.