Most of the tickets in the lower are £31 or £41.

If you stated £26 as your first choice you were always more likely to be in the upper.

Either way, RFL website is the best option.

I'm not trying to be a smart alec after the event, but i wouldn't have gone for the cheaper tickets, in fact i haven't either time, i went 41/31/61. mainly due to one of our party being scared of heights.

From what i can recall the previous two occasions the cheaper tickets went like stink and when i say cheaper i mean the bothlower and upper tier, i fluked into getting the 41 quiders from the RFL as i'd just started a new job the morning tickets went on sale in 09 and couldn't queue up, and pre ordered the same in '10 from the club.

It's a good view from the back of the tier but at the same time, you dont feel much more part of the event as you're still a ways back from the pitch/front of the seats.

Dont let it ruin your day though.

hmm, arguable.

i went to the RFL in 2010 to try and get the same seats as 09 and they couldn't do it, as that was then all blocked out for the pre orders by the club.

The irritating part is that buying tickets for almost any event (sport, theatre, cinema, etc) the first question you are asked isn't 'How much do you want to pay?', but 'Where would you like to sit?'

I did have a quick look on eBay to see if I could pick up better tickets there and then sell my tickets, but they all seem to be in the Leeds end and being sold by people in wigan, Preston, Bolton, Poulton-Le-Flyde, etc who can't make it because they all seem to have family weddings to attend.

Anyways, all done now. At least I shouldn't (I hope) have issues this year with some guy in front of me wanting to stand for the whole game because 'That's what I do in the South Stand every week!'

You do realise you don't HAVE to pre-order via the club don't you? I got on a bus outside the ground after the semi, got the RFL website up on my phone and knew exactly where I would be inside Wembley before I even reached the Trafford Centre.

Without wanting to sound flippant, I've got better seats than you for the same price too, because I'm in the upper as well (by choice) and I'm 14 rows further forward than you which does make a difference because it's high up.

More importantly from your point of view though, I could easily have bought lower tier tickets in our end if I had wanted to for either £31 or £41 a go because the option was there.

As I say, you pays yer money you takes yer choice, but rather than saying what the club need to do "next time" (and here's hoping there is one soon but let's not take that for granted), maybe you should consider doing things differently yourself "next time".

There are alternative options.

When the game kicks off you won't care.

It did say on the website and the form that it was first come first served on the "what if" system. I put mine in on the day it was available the same as last time for £31 and have got block 111 again. The problem is if you are going for the cheaper tickets and with there being less £26 tickets in the lower tier than upper tier, then it all comes down to when did you put in your forms? If you put them in in last week of the scheme being available then it waqs most likely you would have been allocated upper tier. Really for an extra £15 you could have guarenteed lower tier as the £31 "what if" tickets were all lower tier im led to believe.

exactly.

I've not got any tickets for the final yet. I'm waiting for the right ones to come to me.

i went to the ground day after the semi about 1pm and there was no que and i got tickets for lower tier no problem. granted im not directly behind the sticks but i dont really wanna sit there anyway

Can you pay on the gate?

The last two times we've been we have been in the upper tier and middle tier. Both times i have been envious of the atmosphere in the lower tier so was keen to get in there this time, RFL couldnt get me in there so we ended up getting 3 tickets from getmein.com for quite a reasonable price. Were in block 111 row 5 which I think is behind the sticks, im just hoping the view is ok from there now!

Row 5 of the lower tier is very low. Not a great view of the whole pitch, especially if you're sitting down.

Getmein is a Ticketmaster run glorified touting site, so if you've paid above face value for this it's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.

i wouldnt like to be in a single figure row on bottom tier tbh