Still waiting for my scarf and badge so I'll be in the 1989 shirt. Can't wait!

That is awful from leeds. A big city like that, should be able to sell 12,500 tickets no problem.

Straight for the jugular from Hetherington. Sounds as if he is trying to shame the Leeds fans into buying tickets.

It doesn't totally surprise me. It's amazing how a combo of success-overload as Leeds have had in recent years and then a sudden sense of decline as they are experiencing this year, can drive away your fair-weather fans.

It was similar at Wigan in 2002. We took relatively few numbers to Edinburgh and no-one really believed Maurice when he pronounced it a rebirth for the club.

Is that what we have sold from the club, 20,000? If so, id expect at least 30k from Wigan as loads have bought from the RFL because of the 1 per season ticket fiasco.

You're right, it's shocking.

We had about 14k home fans at the Cas game last friday night .. whilst it's not the same in terms of cost, I still can't understand* the fans who get a season ticket and yet are happy to miss the finals.

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Still I'll be there, with more hope than expectation - but hope for a great atmosphere regardless of how many we take. We know they'll be plenty of noise from you guys anyway!!

I think both teams only got 12.5k official allocation. Obviously more from both clubs will have bought from the RFL, which is probably where the 20k figure comes from.

Not surprised by the low Leeds ticket sales (and 6k from a 12.5k allocation is very low). We've been in some sort of final eight of the last nine years and paying several hundred pounds for a family plus travel and maybe accomodation is going to hard for a lot of people at the moment, particularly when a) it's not exactly a once-in-a-lifetime experience and b) the team have been dreadful for most of the season.

I also imagine there will be a load of Club Wembley tickets available on ebay and on the day for less than face value.

As we were told at the meeting on Thursday.
Between the end of the semi v Saints to just before the kick off in the Cas v Leeds semi just over 10,000 tickets were sold by the RFL. I would imagine most of those were sold to Wigan fans.

30K + from Wigan then id say.

Just before Leeds were playing Cas in the semi my wife asked me who I wanted to win. I replied that if Cas win we would have an easier game at Wembley but if Leeds win then they would take more fans to Wembley which is probably better for the game.
I now think Cas would have taken more fans.

I thought exactly the same. Although I think a Wigan v Leeds final will get a lot more neutrals and a lot more viewers on tele which can only be good for our sport.

They will still have 20k there on the day IMO. 2 weeks left, some people are waiting to be paid etc.

We will have well over 30k there. Over a 3rd of the stadium will be cherry and white (appart from my dad who will steal my 89' retro shirt)

With respect, Cas took all there fans and some to Doncaster - around 7k.

Despite poor sales, as Odemwingie says (don't normally agree with him...) I can't imagine we will have any less than 20k to be honest.

NO, Wigan havent sold 20,000 themselves, its through our sales and the RFL - I know many who gave up on getting the tickets from Wigan due to no phone calls/online orders and just bought them off the RFL site.

Cas only has a population of 37k so to take as many as us would mean literally more than half the town going (assuming that there isnt many fans of cas outside cas) that just isnt gonna happen. Leeds will definitely take more than Cas would have thats one thing we definitely cant slate leeds for. It will just be people waiting to be paid I think. I cant see Leeds, the second best supported team in the league (actually first currently this season according the the RLFans stats site though we are first for home games), not taking at least 20k.