Jeeze you have as much grasp on finances as Alex Salmond...

A trip to Wembley for may is a train ticket, a match ticket, overnight accommodation, beer money, food to buy, tube fares etc...
If it was a trip round the corner to the local ground you could say it was the price of a packet of fags (you are seriously over paying BTW). 65k is a fantastic turnout and many would have been to other games too, oh and there is something happening on the 25th of next month too.

RL fans are never bloody happy.

Me and my lad are going on Saturday, but when you add up all the costs, the ticket price (which is very reasonable) makes it an expensive day out. Well worth it (to me) to go to a World Cup semi, with 60-70k there as well - and I've not been to the new Wembley either.

We'll have a great day (regardless of result), but really do understand why it's not a sell-out.

if it were up to me, you'd get a Knighthood for "Optimistic services to Rugby League"

What like the south east and London!

I'd be celebrating the size of the crowd Saturday rather then questioning it. I said on a thread yesterday that people shouldn't get hung up on the stadiums capacity but should celebrate the attendance. The figures banded about already are the ones we should compare to. The crowds at the semi finals of the World Cup in 2000 were pitiful and 2008 wasn't great either considering it was played on the doorstep of the super duper NRL and all its supporters. We also aren't afforded the luxury of having huge numbers of travelling support from Australia and NZ like they were when England fans went there in good numbers in 2008.

I do think we could have done better (if only some of the professional clubs would get off their backside and help drum up some support via club deals hey) but that's just another positive in my mind. There is room for improvement. In 2011 we got about 42,000 on at Wembley, fast forward 2 years and we've added another 25,000 to that figure which is surely exceptional progress?!

It's all positive in my mind.

Ticket price x3, Wife dropping me off at Wembley, cheap as chips

She's at Work at 2, funnily enough I took her to her first Warrington game v Hudds in the playoffs, she loved it.

No need to justify, I was only joking. Some seem to think everyone within a 5-mile radius of Wembley should be herded into the game to sell seats...!

But in keeping with the charade "she's had months if not years to book that day off blah, blah, blah" 5.16015625:5