Someone stop them placing the statue at wembley, it's time to move to another stadium.

Wembley used to be an event, neutrals would be there in thousands, weekend pub trips would run from villages across Yorkshire and Lancashire, this tradition has finished and whilst the final is in August I cannot see it being reversed.

The tickets are that cheap that a lot of people probably buy the heavily discounted ones and don't bother attending when their team doesn't make the final.

It's time for a rethink, Wembley is far too big and London is too far and too expensive for neutrals to attend in the numbers they used to.

Also train travel and hotels costs are at a premium on the Bank Holiday weekend.

I cannot work out if this is tongue firmly planted in cheek or serious .

If serious it is the most stereotypical RL FANS FORUM reply I have ever read.

Club Wembley seating accounts for 16,532 seats on the middle tier (AKA - the ring of indifference with respect to CC Finals) along with approximately 5,000 premium viewing seats on the lower tier around halfway where teams enter and presentations take place.

Given that hardly any Club Wembley seats were occupied at the CC Final on Saturday, a reasonable guesstimate as to the actual attendance would involve deducting around 20,000 from the official figure.

58,000 (around two-thirds full) out of a capacity of 90,000 would appear to be about right.

Whilst I agree the attendance looked less than 77k only bums on seats on the day count to the attendance not tickets sold. Club wembley tickets are only counted on those who turn up.

They have at least removed one band of pricing for next year (down from 7 categories to 6) which is a step in the right direction for making things simpler.

they've also finally seen sense and not put the top tier on sale for one side of the ground as yet, so that the areas facing the cameras are sold first.

I tried to get tickets for the main side in the centre and it was ale gladly sold out, but this was one of the emptiest areas. So what's that abut.

RFL had already allocated them to organisations / 3rd parties who didnt show. know people who couldnt get seats they wanted online and they rang the RFL and enquired about seats in "sold out" areas and got them.

I am fairly sure that is incorrect.

August is an expensive month for families, if most aren't on holiday they are spending to keep the kids entertained. We need the final shifting from August if we can.

On a side note believe England Footy team have a friendly at Wembley in a couple of weeks, it will be interesting what the crowd will be, ticket pricing etc

Well we used to get the 1st CC match free with your season ticket. However a certain Mr Hethrington complained when Leeds were drawn at home to Saints and around 15000 people got in for free.

That's not anywhere near being true.

Club Wembley tickets are counted as sold and part of the announced attendance.

Well maybe free is taking it too far, or if away fans also get it free there needs to be some kind of redress from the away club. But there needs to be some kind of scheme to incentivise people to attend and since people seem to prefer a season ticket system (season ticket games are higher attended than non-season ticket) then targeting those people would seem a decent idea.
Maybe a discounted ticket plus bring a friend discount?

Why it's mostly £21 and £27 tickets they are empty blocks.

The reason for the long gap between the 1/4 and 1/2 is the BBC who have a mountain of sport to ram into those weeks and not helped this year with the commonwealth games. They could of course bung it on the red button imagine the uproar on here if they did that.

exactly!! If we want the competition broadcast live on BBC 1 we have to accept the scheduling that that affords the competition. With Wimbledon, the football World Cup and the Commonwealth games all taking place in July (when the natural spot for the cup semi would be) we were never going to be able to get a prime slot on BBC TV. So we either accept the timings available, or look to an alternative broadcaster.

Next year may be different, not sure what other sporting events they will have on BBC in July. We also will have to contend with the split for the Super 8's taking place at some point, and the probable need to slot the cup in before the split.

^^^this plus another couple of weeks and Leeds might have learned how to spell Castleford.