Apart from the awful piece with Robbie hunter Paul or whatever he's called these days fannying around on the pitch trying to get interviews and getting in the way, what's that about? why do we need this silly feature? or the Sky-like obsession with showing the coaches hidden away behind glass windows while the game goes on in the background.
BBC coverage is a lot better than Sky usually, but they are starting to get as gimmicky now, just cut it out, show the game and leave the other stuff out.

Never a big fan of gimmicks myself and agree that BBC have slowly introduced them. Having said I still prefer their coverage over Sky's.

Fantastic day for me yesterday for obvious reasons! But the declining crowd for the final is a concern, i dont even think a final between our best supported clubs Wigan & Leeds would sell the ground out now, and the RFL need to urgently look in to why, is it the price, the marketing, the scheduling...because something isnt quite right.

Personally i think playing the game on one of the biggest weekends of the year for sporting and music events doesnt help with neutral crowd numbers or media coverage and a move to June or July would be a much clearer date in the diary. It also gets away from disrupting the middle8s as i doubt either Hull or Warrington will put on much of a show next weekend because the players are knackered.

Aren't ticket prices cheap enough without being practically free?

For me, the Wembley final has been on a downward spiral since the grand final was introduced and it was shunted to a bank holiday weekend in the school holidays, whereas previously it was THE showpiece event in the RL calendar, that has now been destroyed by Sky and super league, pubs, clubs, workplaces etc used to run coach trips to the final from almost every town, now i bet there are very few.
Also as well consider that RL fans, now have the Magic weekend, Grand final and cup final as big events, some will possibly pick one over the other, whereas the cup final was the big event, no question.

It's a shame,as with the FA cup final i grew up with it and all the euphoria around it, now it seems they are just another game.

Wembley lost its magic when it stopped being Wembley. Now, it's just another new stadium, albeit a very big one. Personally, I'd take it back to Cardiff.

Hasn't lost the magic for me and if your club got there and won I'm sure you would think the same.

I think lots come down to the financial state of the country, 10 years ago I'm sure there were miles more trips and neutrals attending, I reckon lots of people now can't afford it, so the neutrals are down massively.

Just looked and when saints played Catalan, there were 82k, so that 10k more than yesterday, Catalans support wouldn't have been near either teams yesterday so that around 20000 less neutrals

Society has changed. Far more people working on Saturdays. London isn't the extravagant big day out for everyone anymore. You've got the Grand Final to compete with (which isn't a negative for the sport) plus the centralisation of the nations media in London over the last 30 years.

Yet we still got 76k there. Pretty good as far as I'm concerned. The final isn't a worry to me. The worry is the semis and the earlier rounds. Got to get them fixed.

Yes Saints v Catalans got a higher crowd but it was the first one back at Wembley, I went to that purely for that fact. I also went to the year after for that reason too. But that factor wears off. 76K is a very good crowd and we should be banging that drum to the media and sponsors. Not bemoaning a few empty seats.

Having a magic weekend has a big effect to my mind, one that the RFL seem not to acknowledge as well as the very obvious positioning of the CC in the calendar.
They could have an all in one ticket CCsemi final/final + MM and GF and possibly Big Bash and sell it with home season tickets with a discount for buying all of them and make it known to all fans that discounts on individual tickets (like the cheap Magic weekend/GF/CC final on offer) will NOT be available for these events bought later in the season. This is why discounted tickets don't work to get more fans, undersubscribed stadiums and fans waiting to get a bargain.

Move it from Wembley, have it at Emirates (Especially if moved to May) Olympic stadium (my preference) or possibly Cardiff
It's not cheap for the RFL to use Wembley either. Move the magic weekend away from Newcastle, it's too far and too big and again £15/£20 tickets for two days games is ridiculous. This only occurs because fans know that the RFL have a big stadium to sell out and can't at the full price. Supply and demand.

Nope. Got to be Wembley. Olympic Stadium is shockingly bad, or it was for the international last year anyway.
Anything other than those 2 stadiums is yet another excuse for the media to ignore us. Plus we consistently get above the 60k capacity of the Olympic stadium for the Cup Final.

The Magic Weekend may well have had some effect on neutrals going but I think it's probably negligible in comparison to the other factors.
This is another example of where we need to be 1 sport rather than a collection of isolated clubs all pulling in different directions. All clubs should be marketing the big events (Cup Final, Grand Final, Cup semis, Magic Weekend etc) all season long not just when they are involved. And there needs to be far, far greater links with the amateur clubs. The RFL should be helping co-ordinate group tickets and travel for amateur clubs along with a cashback scheme as an incentive for the amateur club.

It's a good point re: Magic Weekend. It will detract many neutrals from going for the day out to the Cup Final.