In natural sense, there is 7'500 tickets (baring whats already been bought) up for grabs, id say thats about 1 a season ticket holder?

I think we usually have more than that

To be fair,it's hardly just Leeds fans that have shown an apathy to the CC ties over the last few years.

It's because of declining numbers that the RFL in conjuction with the clubs came up with the free 4th round entry for super league season ticket holders in the hope of getting bums on seats but i don't think even that has really worked,as whilst you might get a decent/reasonable attendance figures in the 4th round for a top all super league tie,after the 4th round the figures just drop again.

In general it seems that a lot of season ticket holders throughout the game,not just Leeds will chose not to give up their hard earned cash to pay for none season ticket games.

In todays climate and given the cost of many season ticket packages then this apathy towards the Cup prior to the Semis/Final will continue unless the clubs/RFL take further action.

This year they even set a cap for all clubs ticket prices for the 5th round but even with that IIRC the 'glamour' tie of the round between Huddersfield and Warrington only attracted circa 6000?

Got my ticket & I'll be attending the cricket too.
The issue re the North stand is all the crowd mulling round the cricket ground waiting to get in & the leaving at the end.
Just to close the North stand for the cricket specatators is not the problem IMV.
From a numerical POV you could do that & comfortably accommodate those who wish to watch the cricket in the rest of the ground despite the fact that the new pavilion won't be open.
The H&S people must reckon that allowing people to access the Paddock & the North stand upper levels solely from the rugby side is not practicable.

Rhinos have 10000+ season ticket holders but only 7500 tickets available??

Where will the season ticket holders from the North stand go?

Carnegie i would surmise.

TBH i can see the club being able to add a little to the capacity should the demand be there for it, i just cant see them missing out on the readies. Although i freely admit that the past few years of apathy from fans means that 10k fans is the max we would have attracted anyway sadly.

Besides, the clamour for tickets means that peoples hard earned will be safely tucked up in Leeds's bank account earning some interest on it, so it cant be ALL bad.

Meh if I get a ticket I`ll go if I dont I will watch it on t.v and spend the money on beer instead ..........

Just a thought here but if our capacity is around the 20000 mark normally.
It is now cut to 10000 in other words half.
Have Wigan had their allocation cut by half to 2500 or would they have been given that amount anyway?
I suppose what I am saying is why don`t we give Wigan 1250 and we get the 8750?

No we've been given 2500, that was our original allocation.... Why should be given just 1250 tickets???

Because we have had to take a reduction in spaces available why shouldn`t you?
As I say just a thought.

S'on the telly innit?

Because as you said 'we have had to take a reduction', thats got nothing to do with us so i dont think that we should have any less tickets...

I'm sure the policy is that the away team gets 'x'% of tickets available, not 'x'% of the stadium's capacity so therefore you should have a smaller allocation than you would if we had the normal 22 000 tickets available.

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