Hopefully there will be a good crowd as we have already sold 2500 tickets, granted the club are offering season ticket holders a free ticket but nonetheless its still a good amount. What do you think that the crowd will be come saturday?

If you have sold 2500 on top of your season ticket holders there should be a big crowd in, maybe even close to 5 figures which would be excellent!

I think it should say "2500 season ticket holders have claimed a freebie"

I think that allowing SL teason ticket holders in for free is a major blunder by the powers to be and I feel the same about us being allowed in free for the previous round.

Is the cup losing it's appeal? There seems to be even more offers on Wembley tickets this year.

Its rather unfair as by this draw we should have earned the extra revenue the game would bring.

Imagine if say Swinton, who arent amazingly well off, drew Wigan or Saints. The revenue from a game like this would keep them going for at least a year. As its quite local lots of Saints or Wigan fans would go but Swinton would miss out on a small fortune as all the season ticket holders can get a freebie.

The same went for Thatto Heath when they came to DVS.


To be blunt, i think it completely stinks!

Ditto, but as Airborne Eagle says, the cup is losing its appeal. Much like the FA Cup in football.

I'm sure that this "freebie" done by wigan comes out of wigan's own pocket and wouldn't affect sheffields income from the gate! I'd like to think that this was the case anyway

You're joking aren't you?! It's the RFL's initiative to try and get more people through the gates at CC games, in the last round any season ticket holder from Championship or Championship 1 was allowed in free, and in this round any season ticket holder from a SL club is allowed in free, meaning we are going to lose out financially.

It's insane n makes me reyt mad, what a crock. I'm not going for that very reason and I never miss a home game! I was so happy 2 draw Wigan thinking abt the money it would make for the club, only 2 find out the majority of Wigan fans won't be paying. I wasn't aware this was happening until just after the drawer!

I understand your sentiments, but what are you really achieving by not attending? It's not going to make a difference whether you turn up or not, the RFL aren't going to find out and it's not going to change their decision, if you want to attend the game then you should, also you're making the Eagles miss out on about a tenner

It saying in the star tonight that the rfl consulted all the clubs before announcng the scheme.

A lot of people must have been sniffing thinners then, I can't see one good thing about it, apart from shafting the smaller clubs.

They might have consulted the clubs but that doesn't mean they listened to a word the clubs said, you know what the RFL are like!!

it is a disgrace, for me the cup has lost some of the magic it had, it is great to be able to test yourselves against the bigger teams and must be a great experience for the players but the way the rfl has done this the club dont get much from it, apart from the experience. Lets jus hope we dont get too many injuries.

Like someone has said for the smaller teams the cc can be a lifeline and i think this takes away some of excitement.

I can understand that you are annoyed when your club will lose some of the income it could have made from this tie but the initiative also includes a compensation figure for the Eagles so you aren't being completely ripped off. Next year you could get a game against minnows and be up on the deal.

As far as your point about the magic of the cup and the excitement disappearing I think if you spoke to players and fans of Siddal and asked them about it they would disagree. One club making less money out of one tie than they would have a few years back should not diminish the excitement and passion within the fans and players for their shot at toppling the big boys. If at the end of the game on saturday Sheffield had come as close to beating Wigan as they did to beating Hull KR last year (or had managed to do the unthinkable from a Wigan point of view and win) are you honestly saying you would be decrying the end of the magic of the cup.

Not completely, no, but i do think it takes some of the shine off. maybe it is different being a smaller club, the excitement is still there, with the butterflys in the tummy but its not as an appealing a prospect as it was before it was announced we wouldnt be getting the gate money from the away fans. It is great we are playing as big a team as wigan are but not to have the financial gains that all the wigan fans would bring in is a bit of a blow.

do you sell pies and beer? if so you'll make a fortune

also worth noting, if you head over to the wigan board to a thread with a similar title to this, theres a few people with spare tickets.

To be honest come Saturday afternoon, I wont be caring about the financial side of things, it will all be about the 80mins

Oh i agree, but in the past we have always been able to say.. Oh well, if we get beaten at least we get a payday from it! Now, we dont have that as a "consolation". I do agree, it will all be about the rugby, that is what matters at the end of the day, that the players put in a reasonable performance and try and raise their game as you would hope they would due to the opposition and the history between the clubs.

I agree it's a joke. Should only happen if you're drawn at home imo.

i dont think it should be allowed in this round of the cup when the SL teams come in to it.

Pies and beer are available in Sheffield but please be aware the latter may be of much higher quality than you may be used to (DVS is the exception)

It's a bit like putting high octane petrol in ordinary cars

ESO I hear what ya saying, and the closer it gets to the day, the more excited i keep getting! I was just sooooo f peeved abt the whole season ticket thing. We need all the money we can get (including mine). No doubt I'll give in cus i'm just so passionate abt our Great Club. Cya there!