Not trying to jump the gun here, could useful to both sides.

When will tickets be able to buy for the winning team?
Will it be the following day?
Will season ticket holders get advantage?

i was going to start a thread about this yeaterday but i thought i had better not start counting chickens

i would also like to know the information needed about tickets.

Season ticket holders have first dabs on an approximate initial allocation of 2,000. I imagine those will be sold. We/Widnes will then get a second allocation of unsold tickets. I'd be surprised if it was a sell out. Capacity is 9,650.

well lets hope we do get another allocation cause i dont have a season ticket but have gone to every game this season so would like to be able to go to the final should we get there that is.

A Fax Widnes final wouldn't of been far off a sell out, I am sure we took 5 - 6000 last time

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Yeah, but it's not going to be a Fax - Widnes final. Hence, it won't sell out.

so just to confirm this game will be all ticket if we get there.

you cant pay on the gate.

At no point did I say it would sell out this time round?

It will be all ticket i would expect because all the teams are playing in the 9's competition.

2700 tickets will be allocated to the 18 teams not in the actual final as each get 150 to sell to fans who want to see the 9s. Plus they can be upgraded to all weekend tickets which means they will be allocated against the gate.

2000 for each team means you already up to 6700 tickets. The capacity of Bloomfield Road is 9,650. I would think that sponsors and other people who don't care will get their cut. Plus you can buy tickets from the RFL so that will probably be the rest of the allocated tickets.

At a guess!

In previous years they have sold tickets on the day when it hasnt sold out

Don't be so sure. I think Fev and Barrow would snap up a 2,000 allocation in no time. If Barrow get there, Blackpool is closer to Barrow than any other pro RL stadium. Of the 6,500 that wathced the Wigan CC match, almost 5,000 were Barrow fans. Barrow AFC took 7,000 to The Riverside for this years FA Cup match, so the public of Barrow really do turn up for the big games.

If you add-on the 'neutrals' who are making a weekend of it having watched the 9's, under 10,000 doesn't seem to big.

By no way am I (or any other Barrow fan) counting our chickens. I feel pretty nervous about tomorrow and think it'll be REALLY close.

It would just be surreal watching Barrow in a cup final. It just seems too good to be true !

Funny really, how in the past 5 years or so you've managed to be promoted twice, but given how RL works its a bit strange you've managed to avoid a final of any sorts.

It would be a refreshing change.

That's what I thought initially but I reckon the town could turn out. I've spoken to a few people that haven't been in years but are off to Blackpool should we make it. Plus with the footy team going t!ts up and having a naff reformation season it'd be good for local sport as whole. Which reminds me, has anyone told that set of moaning Town fans how nice the pitch is looking?

None of the northern rail cup final games have sold out - can't see it being a problem this year either.

There was 6000 odd there for Salford against Doncaster last year. I'd expect any combination of this years four semi-finalists to top that, though.

What not even when Hull KR took millions???

These are the past cup finals - 2005 was first NRC one.

2002 =redHuddersfield Giants 32 - 6 =blueHull Kingston Rovers Chris Moyles Stadium, Featherstone 4,352
2003 =redSalford City Reds 36 - 19 =blueLeigh Centurions Spotland, Rochdale 6,486
2004 =redLeigh Centurions 42 - 14 =blueHull Kingston Rovers Spotland, Rochdale 4,383
2005 =redHull Kingston Rovers 18 - 16 =blueCastleford Tigers Bloomfield Road, Blackpool 9,400
2006 =redLeigh Centurions 22 - 18 =blueHull Kingston Rovers Bloomfield Road, Blackpool 7,547
2007 =redWidnes Vikings 54 - 6 =blueWhitehaven Bloomfield Road, Blackpool 8,326
2008 =redSalford City Reds 60 - 0 =blueDoncaster RLFC Bloomfield Road, Blackpool 6,328

We've done really well to avoid a final for 26 years !!!

(Where a 2nd Division Barrow beat a very good Widnes team in the 1983 Lancashire Cup ..... happy days !!!)

given the last two years results i predict this years will be a very tight one