Interesting that the French media were very happy with the crowd. Yet it's all been negatives in the UK press.

It's on the wrong weekend. Needs moving to when the schools are in, so many schools use to send coaches down. Then there is issue with transport the west coast mainline is always under repair that weekend. The hotels are in full peak pricing.

The attendance did not affect my enjoyment of the game in any way.

Inspired by Catalans win, Red Star Belgrade of Serbia have applied to join for the Challenge Cup for 2019.

Same here. It was an edge of your seat thriller and the presentation by Auntie was tremendous.

Despite the low attendance, the Catalans win has attracted more mainstream publicity than any other CC or GF I can remember. The vast majority was very positive as well - even ITV news had highlights on Saturday night which is unheard of in recent years

No trains to Euston wouldnt of helped.

Yes the attendance should be higher but this is on the whole RL community. Two clubs alone no matter who is in the final will sell out Wembley.

The game needs to reach a wider audience. An audience of people especially in the South East who may only go to one game a year.

And no mention of the crowd. Because the product on display and story that came out of the game were far more worth talking about.

Whenever the FA Community Sheild is, the Challenge Cup Final should be the weekend before.

The double header for the semi is a great idea, put that in late June; keep Magic in late May but don’t make it an EXTRA game (if we don’t make it an extra game it’ll give us an extra free week in the season), make it a home or away fixture for two teams and play the same fixture the year after (but reverse who’s home fixture it is) and then after two years you can change who plays who but make it the same for two years again with AvB in Year1 and BvA in Year2.

Mid-season international game in the USA should be the weekend after Magic. That gives fans who’ve spent a fortune at Magic a week off so don’t have to keep shelling money out.

Then the Super 8s or Play-offs or whenever structure we have will be an uninterrupted run later in the season to the GF.

Absolutely.

18,000 fewer than Wigan and Hull last year....... Those sides not filling Wembley is more thread worthy than your repeated anti expansion rants......

Have the CCF here next year!

There’s something in those ideas.

I do a shirt watch each year; excluding Wire & Cats shirts these are my rankings over the weekend;
1. Leeds – by a factor of 10. Fantastic turnout.
2. Hull FC. Usually top dogs & still a good turnout.
3. Wakefield. No idea why, but I saw numbers everywhere.
4. Hull KR.
5. Cas.
6. Huddersfield.
7. Halifax.
8. Saints.
9. Wigan.
10. Salford, Widnes, London, Whitehaven

I’m not sure how you are going to encourage Lancashire fans to turn up when they aren’t playing.