On Radio Merseyside last night they reported that the club had sold 22-23k of tickets direct.

It's not unreasonable that a fair number were already going or have gotten tickets from elsewhere to make it very close to 30k.

This is what finals should be about. We've had one team dominance for too long. Tomorrows game could go a long way to guaranteeing another generation of fans for both of those clubs.

Let's hope so.

BBC Radio 5 Live have just had a feature talking about this weekend's sport.
Not one mention of the Challenge Cup final being shown by, you guessed it, the BBC.
The Australia-Scotland one day cricket match and the Belgian grand prix were both featured.
As a finishing tag the news that the Harlequins rugby union chairman has stepped down was repeated.
It beggars belief really.

A poiontless waste of time, but glad Belgium got mentioned!

That truly is astounding. I know we shouldn't be surprised, but every year they seem to outdo themselves.

Well at least they had an ad for it on BBC one, with the correct time.

I usually defend the amount of media coverage we get because some people are totally unrealistic.

However this is disgraceful. 80,000 people at Wembley for an arm wrestle between 2 old ladies would deserve a mention.

It reminds me of when I was best man at my mates wedding and he gave his speech but forgot to mention the bride and went to me, 'well I guess that's everyone over to you.' The BBC are just doing the same, 'let me see I've mentioned a pointless cricket match, the Belgian Grand Prix, oh yeh that Rugger nonsense and...nope that's it I think, over to you Mr Inverdale.'

You can't blame the BBC. They are London based and London focused. The majority of their staff are not RL fans so naturally RL slips way down the priority levels.

It is the job of the RFL to hammer their door down until they promote the sport. Most magazine features on radio and TV (Even Sky Sports News) would cover the CC build up if the RFL provided them with content.

Some times people on here have a go at the bbc about their coverage and get called paranoid,however i was amazed early this morning with the latest sports news....Football,football,showjumping,dodgy snooker match from last year,the new union season,the weather ! maybe i'm paranoid too!!

BBC radio one had a lot of coverage about it today

good morning poms

Morning fredie?
Actually after looking at the time I really oughta go to bed, its a freakin early start tomorrow!
The pubs opening at 5am
Just under 25k I believe Wire are taking in total, I was told the shop said they'd sold about 16,000 themselves.

8am here now. early opener

Pish poor excuse.


Sky have been conspicuous by their lask of Challenge Cup build up. Could it be down to the fact that they aren't showing it?

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People of Warrington and Huddersfield be ashamed, shocking crowd, looks (and sounds) rubbish on TV.