https://twitter.com/thechallengecup/sta ... 89857?s=12 Saturday's @Betfred #ChallengeCup Semi-Final between @WiganWarriorsRL and @Saints1890 peaked at over 1 million viewers and pulled in the highest audience share in the UK for any game of Rugby League since the 2017 World Cup Final...

https://twitter.com/thechallengecup/sta ... 89857?s=12 Saturday's @Betfred #ChallengeCup Semi-Final between @WiganWarriorsRL and @Saints1890 peaked at over 1 million viewers and pulled in the highest audience share in the UK for any game of Rugby League since the 2017 World Cup Final...

As the BBC said - THE Derby

There’s nothing wrong with the ticket prices, you can’t give them away at the end of the day and £30/£15 for the cheapest seats is great value. It doesn’t change the fact it’s tough times for many families though and as a bloke who goes to football, rugby league and cricket, we’re absolutely a family game and more so then those other two games. Football stadiums are filled by huge swathes of young blokes and cricket internationals are exactly the same. Lancashire games have plenty of families there but it’s very affordable. I look around me at rugby games and there are so many groups of mum/dad and kids (and maybe grandparents). It’s totally different having to fund a trip down south for a family of 4,5,6 etc than it is if you’re going on your own with your mates.

I don’t have an answer to it mind. The tickets are cheap enough IMO and I wouldn’t want the final on our doorstep, so I’m stumped.

Personally I don't want to move the final away from Wembley because I'm a fan of all things "traditional". The one good thing about this year is I get to go to a new stadium otherwise I'd be peed off that we aren't going to Wembey.

The only place I can think of as a more northern venue that is "good enough" would be Newcastle. 52,400 seats, good area for the weekend and it's not THAT far away. Problem then is where does Magic Weekend go to?

You can't play it at OT because that takes away from the Grand Final, so as you say....what's the answer?

Good idea.

I know those RU tickets are like gold dust. The clubs can sell their allocation (to approved suppliers), or sell to members who want to see England play.

Hopefully the new Everton ground (if it goes ahead) will be a good option.

I think its unfair to compare us to say Liverpool, whilst they may have had three trips to Wembley, its likely the majority of those crowds won't necessarily be the same supporters over the three games (apart from the few thousand mega rich ones). They could fill their allocations made up of non season ticket holders who have purchased their match tickets from regular season ticket holders or touts. Not many working class lads can afford three Wembley matches, a season ticket, champions league final tickets.... Unless they are drug dealers or their missus is on OnlyFans.

Does look like a good option, more so than Anfield which has similar legroom to Elland Road (and Economy Ryanair).

Go back to the 80s and at least a quarter of the crowd at Wembley were made up of neutrals made up of Amateur Clubs and rival/lower league clubs. Coaches and coaches of them.

There will be plenty that have done them all. I know someone who watches them home and away and he is certainly not "mega rich".

At least going to Spurs, nobody can moan about the M62.

Bizarrely there isn't a link to buy tickets for the Cup final through the ticketing webpage nor are the club promoting it with a banner on the main webpage. The only link is via the news item released earlier today saying tickets had been put on general sale.

7,300 is a decent number at this stage though, especially as it won't include RFL sales.

Just seen the 7,300 quote from the club. Pretty happy with that after 3 days and us not having not long since set up the new ticketing system. There doesn’t look to be loads left on the ticket site as well, so whilst it might not be the old days of 30,000+ going down to London, it’ll be a healthy number when you factor in the RFL sales and what we sell from now on.