The RLWC organisers need to get their act together here now regarding the Semi's at Wembley. Just out of curiosity I went onto the site and looked at the tickets of the remaining blocks; you cannot get more than 4 tickets together in any of the £20 areas (not sure about the blue areas); and in one of the blocks no more than 2 together and in one there are just single seats available.

Surely the organisers must realise that even if they are only 80% full the blocks, it would look better on tv to get further blocks opened, and it gives the customer more options. Imagine if you were a family of 5 or if you were going with friends, then you can't currently buy tickets together which may be offputting.

I wouldn't worry about it looking empty at 70-75k as they will use those massive RLWC banners over the stands which will probably cover 5000 seats on the top tier anyway. Get it to about 75k and distribute the remaining tickets over various other blocks and on tv it will look practically full.

I just feel that the lack of options for fans may make people decide not to purchase.

Youre missing the point. I saw the decent sections were all SOLD OUT and thought i'm not sitting in the gods i will watch it on TV. Only when i looked further did i find the tickets i wanted on half way yet it was SOLD OUT. How many other people will be put off by the SOLD OUT sections and not wanting to sit in the gods? In this day and age of technology i find it remarkable the RFL are using a system that resembles something from early 1990 ecommerce software.

What evidence do you have that they are not opening new blocks if they are available?

Its not the RFL's system, it it is a third party offering cobbling together the booking systems at all the stadia used, having some experience in this area what they have done is pretty damn good.

Block 511 is open even though it's greyed out

i never said they weren't opening more blocks, but at the minute it doesn't look like it. They need to be offering multiple price ranges (unless all of a certain band are sold out), they need to have enough blocks open to give customers a choice (some people like being behind the sticks, some along the pitch etc).

If blocks have been open then they need to make sure the pictures are up-to-date and not still showing greyed out; a lot of people will simply load the page, see this and go away without hovering over 'Sold Out' or 'Greyed Out' blocks to see if there are spare seats.

The whole site should of be done similar to when booking tickets on Manchester United's website. This shows each block with dots for every seat; when plenty of seats are together then the block as a whole is green, when you cannot get more than 2 together and/or singular seats then it turns amber, when nothing remains it turns red. The seats are greyed out when bought and shows the exact location of the remaining ones.

This is disappointing. I booked tickets for Wembley and Old Trafford two or three weeks ago and really struggled to find seats at all, let alone where I wanted. After booking I tried the quick seats option and there were loads available in better positions. Ridiculous.

There are some prime seats back on sale but only attendance obsessives (yes, I'm one) would know about them.

The technology is OKish. The problem is that someone can't be d to update the colour/text of the various sections. It is not a tech issue - just laziness on someone's part. It would be straightforward to change 'Sold out' to 'Limited' and to turn grey areas green. Who knows how many potential speccies have been put off because it doesn't look like you can (a) get bottom tier seats and (b) get several seats together.

And Ticketmaster do sell individual Wembley seats using the 'hover over the sections' technology used for the French/Irish games. Saracens use this feature.

The RFL are not using Ticketmasters system.

Yeah - I just meant it wasn't rocket science to do it.

As I say, I don't see the main problem as a tech one anyway, it's the admin updates letting the system down.

Ticketmaster have invested millions worldwide to get the system to the state it is in now, the system the RFL's partner uses had to cobble together various ticket systems across the venues to give a consistent interface knowing that it may never be used again.

At lease compare apples with apples.