I still believe they are. I firmly believe Hull could have sold 10k for this if the venue was correctly sized. The scarcity of tickets will put off many casual fans who may well have attended if they knew they could get a ticket.

I am aware that times have moved on, but I still remember the days of us taking 15k+ to semi finals

Tickets aren't "scarce" though, and pay on the day is becoming a thing of the past I am afraid (changed security rules etc.). Did you ever imagine a bag search at FC v Wakefield for instance.

So as a non-member I should be able to buy the dozen tickets I need on Wednesday? I don't feel confident, should I be?

Do you NEED them in the allocated seats? Why not just buy from RFL last week?

It's all allocated seating

No, it isn't. You could buy from the RFL

I believe Hull FC asked the RFL to sell their allocation of tickets down the East and West sides. When it became clear that they were selling out rapidly, Hull FC asked them to hold back a section down the West side in order that they had more than just the North Stand seats to sell to members at the weekend.

Sounds feasible, and good sense. I'll be surprised if anyone misses out, unless they want 10+ together and buying Wednesday.

Historically, season pass holders always got first dibs, then to a general sale. As far as I can remember, I cannot recall a pay on the day for a neutral venue game in the CC which Hull have been involved in (perhap the exception was the 1988 semi replay, only 4 days after the original game, this this was held at Elland road, plenty of room there).

I reckon there will be pubs / clubs / local RL clubs who could have organised their own buses if they knew enough tickets would be available.

Even if the tickets do not fully sell out, there is a scarcity.

What I think has been the major issue regarding the ticket availability for the SF is the total lack of any sort of clarity on the whole ticket sales situation.

1. Tickets available before Saturday inline with RFL request but not the Hull FC members allocations
2. Tickets go on sale at 10am weds in fact it was 9am so for those that tried at 10 it was an impossible task
3. Tickets for the disabled members & fans again difficult to obtain whether plenty available or not
4. Members tickets having to be bought from the Stadium on Saturday and no facilty for online sales again for members making it difficult to obtain tickets.

Whether there were tickets a plenty the issue for me is as a club Hull FC have for whatever the reasons made what should have been a fairly straight forward process of buying tickets in to a total farce and made obtaining tickets difficult.

It hasn't been difficult though.

In your opinion and for you maybe not but for me and many others I've spoken to its been very difficult and certainly more difficult that it should have been.

Maybe not for you, but for those of us that require special arrangements it was almost impossible. There was no mention on Hull's media release about where to buy Disabled tickets, no mention on Ticketmaster about buying same tickets, had to ring Ticketmaster (spent £20 trying to get through) to be told RFL selling them. Spent another £10 ringing someone called Lucy Hirsts voicemail at the RFL (which told me she was busy and cut me off every time), then had to ring our club to try and get somewhere. I then called a very harassed receptionist at the RFL who took my number and I eventually got a call back from the RFL. It took 2 hours and 45 mins from start to finish (starting at 10am as per Hull's press release to realise they actually went on sale at 9am, whose fault there then?) All this time I was on holiday, feeling quite angry having to go through all of this when there shouldn't have been any need whatsoever.

I buy disabled seating tickets for various RL games and concerts around the country and I've never, ever had the problems that I did on Wednesday.

It's great having Standee back isn't it

But you called the Keepmoat direct (who would have such information?) and got sorted? If you're paying that much for mobile calls suggest you hop around a bit.

I sympathise with your specific circumstances, but the sale of general tickets was handled as advertised.

hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Standee??

Apologies, I thought you had posted the number for Doncaster a few days back, must have been someone else.??

You're not fooling anyone Martin.

Not quite as mentioned the club advertised tickets on sale at 10am but infact went on sale at 9am, it has been handled poorly.

Quite what your opinion on someone else mobile phone cost has to do with anything either but calls to certain numbers cost when calling from mobiles.

I hadn't realised the RFL was a premium rate number, I apologise if White Star was offended.
He/She did post the Doncaster number on Wednesday, so mind isn't totally shot!

Hopefully everyone has/gets the tickets they need.

Oh I should have bought them last week! I wish I had thought of that instead of being on the phone for two hours NOT buying them last week.

Are you sorted now? (I hadn't seen mention of 2 hours on the phone last week, did you also try online and have the same issue?)

The Keepmoat number was for the disabled car parking as passed on to me from the RFL. I wasn't offended, just wanting some people to accept that there was a problem for some of us who chose to go down the route that the club advertised for Wednesday tickets.

As others have said, what should have been a straightforward transaction (a little wait on the phone or a queue on line acceptable) turned into something of a farce. For what its worth I was on holiday on Wednesday, coming home Saturday afternoon, I originally was happy they were on sale online or via RFL because I thought they would be going on sale from the club while I was away. I'd be intrigued to know what the reasons where for doing it the way they did, it worked perfectly well last year, the tickets being sold from a couple of terminals from the club shop.

I don't think the club will explain, unless people write to them etc. Let's hope we win and any issues people had are worthwhile.