And while people like you have this opinion (and the clubs and RFL) the grounds are sply populated.

It's okay being stubborn over pricing, and if the RFL/SLE are happy with the money they are making (feasible) then fair enough, but based on the way the RFL like to stage big games in small grounds to look good to sponsors and viewers, I suspect they probably aren't overjoyed.

The Grand Final and Challenge Cup finals are classed as probably the most important games in the British RL calendar, but the RFL sell tickets cheaper than this for those games, can you explain why that may be?

People like me?

I haven't a clue why they sell final tickets cheap (actually thought they were the same unless you buy cheaper early tickets)

I not think theres much wrong with the prices around £20 to see my Rugby team play when its £40 most of the time for football seems ok but maybe its just "me"

Apologies, 'people like you' sounded worse than I meant. It was meant as 'people with your opinion'.

You can get tickets to the CC Final for a tenner on certain promotions, or as cheap as £21 as standard.

You can get GF tickets as cheap as £16.

You can get G4N Final tickets for £20/10.

I personally don't disagree that £18 is too expensive to watch my team, but clearly people can't justify the cost. People wouldn;t pass up the opportunity of seeing the team lift the LLS without a good reason, and whilst I don;t find the adult tickets too bad, I think the kids prices are crazy tbh.

'Round 1'

2009 -26.9%
2010 -17.2%
2011 -29.6%

'Round 2'

2009 -16.2%
2010 -18.4%
2011 -24.5% (1 game only)

The money from all play-off games and the Grand Final go to SLE (with a % taken out for hostng the game). People can complain about the format and the ticket prices but getting full grounds isn't actually the objective, strange as it sounds. This is quite literallly the business end of the season, the viewing figures are more important than the attendance, though that still makes a nice profit.

Warringtons last game probably netted circa £150k, but probably had around 220-240k people watching on Sky. It's the same reason why Magic Weekend is deemed such a sucess, some fans love it, some hate it, but enough turn up to watch it. More importantly, lots of people tune in to watch it, the broadcaster (and the game) can dominate the channel for two days at minimum cost.

The ideal would be massive attendances and huge viewing figures, but invariably you can't have both.

Leeds had nearly 4000 there last night and about 3500 the for the league game a couple of weeks back. For whatever reason the huddersfield fans stayed away in large numbers and there's no doubt handed us the initiative. When the leeds team ran out the players looked over and started applauding the away support, the huddersfield players probably felt like sh**e and responded accordingly for the first half hour. The huddersfield team deserve better support than what they get.

Well firstly the league has already been decided so many fans will have lost interest in the end of season playoff tournament, also this year it clashes with the World Cup so maybe people's attention is on that rather than going to watch the 'greatest game'.

Wait for it...

What do you mean? Surely their agenda is to get people in the ground, shouldn't our agenda should be the same?

Stick an extra £20 on season ticket prices which gets you in the PO games, if we don't get there, PO vouchers can be used as a £20 discount on renewal season tickets or the new seasons shirt.

Never had this problem when we were crap playing in a dump with no atmosphere.

Give me today's "problems" every year.

Similar problem for me. Last Friday cost me £18 for a ticket, £48 for petrol, add in the essentials (beer) and it's an expensive weekend. I can understand season ticket holders not going to all the play-off games because of the additional expense, but in our case next Friday is the most important game that we've had for years, so I would expect a sellout.

This.