The Rules for Club Wembley are that if you DON'T want to use your ticket you can GIVE it back to Wembley for resale. IF ( and only if ) they sell it they keep 25% of the value and give you the balance. As most of these tickets are corporate, what happens is that the owners hold on until the last minute in case any customers/staff claim them. By then - if they are not taken - it's too late for Wembley to sell them on hence the empty seats.

I still think Club Wembley is a bad idea as it will always leave crowds looking thin, especially for non wendyball occasions.

Not sure why an excuse is needed, there wernt that many. Far far more in the Leeds end, its not Wigan's job to fill the Stadium, but they certainly contributed the most. Good effort at trying to turn the argument round though.

Right that makes sense though I guess Wembley sold the tickets on to Reading and Swansea en mass with them having to pay for them if they were sold or not which would not be an option for many events there.

Agree it is a bad idea but I guess that that sort of funding up front helped build the stadium. In some ways the old Olympic Gallery was much better as right at the back you never saw how much of the corporate seats were being used and it did not look bad on TV.

What was last seasons attendance?.

85,217

Do people not think that due to the current financial climate that many neutrals wont of bothered attending?.

Just a thought.

I thought there seemed less other clubs shirts around than last year and I still think as a neutral you want a side to get behind in the way everyone bar Wigan fans would have wanted Sheffield Eagles to win in 1998, London to beat Leeds or Catalans to beat Saints etc and that element was never there this time.

The novelty factor of "new Wembley" is going and with the "big 4" clubs having all played there now it will be interesting to see how the gates hold up in future years especially if there is a run of finals with the same few teams getting there.

Only around 2k more than the 2009 final and 7k down on last year.

Yeah, what a stupid idea to sell thousands of tickets at a huge premium, well in advance of any event...

If people don't want to take up their seats, seats that they have already paid for, it is up to them.

If these seats have already been payed for,do they count on the attendance figure?

population of leeds, around 770,000 so absolutely shocking support, combination of glory supporters and arrogance.

I think so otherwise the last 3 years attendances would have been much lower.

next year the rugby league will make sure one (or both) of the Hull clubs is in the final

we'll fill the ground

From what i saw, there were a couple of smallish patches of empty seats in the upper tier of the Wigan end, there were whole sections empty in the Leeds end.

Can't tell much about the sideline where the teams came from, I was on the front row by the corner flag.

If thats the case then the actuall attendance is lower than the one given out?.