Sadly, they are worried that fans mixing could lead to trouble!

Salford had to put a press release out urging their fans to think twice before starting trouble!

Yep, 15,200.

And yeah, if we've sold 5k and Salford 4.5, which are the figures I've seen quoted, where are the other 5k+ ?

Probably the idiotic Dire fans wearing Salford shirts..

Same bunch that came to the WCC game against Cronulla wearing Cronulla gear..

Probably the same bunch of misfits that attended the semi against Catalans a while back..

Anyone got a pic of those morons, one was Gaz Hock in drag....

Dire fans..you gotta love em, not even allowed the Super League board anymore until they confirm SL Status...

Couple of thousand wont be sold due to the BBC studio and segregation in the south stand, i'd expect.

Yea that platform is pretty big too isnt it?

Sad if this is what the new-look Salford are going to bring to the game's top table.

Don't remember anything like that when they were a force to be reckoned with back in the 70s. It was usually Warrington and Leigh who brought the trouble-makers.

Seems stupid to not sell on the gate, compared to football Trouble is few and far between and surely not that bad to lose profit?
I will only find out tommorow if I can attend so that's a possible couple of tickets they would have sold tommorow,I'm guessing there would be a few hundred others too.

Its an RFL event so it will be down to the RFL or the police's discretion. I'd expect it will be the police who made the call. With two sets of supporters sharing the one terrace in a semi final, it can easily boil over no matter what the sport is. They would never allow pay on the gate in a situation like this because they will try and stop the fans from clashing as much as they can. By allowing pay on gate, it removes their control inside the ground. Salford seem to have had a few crowd issues over the last couple of years so i'd expect security to be a bit tighter tomorrow.

Fair play if this is true. That's a 1,000 more than last season!

You should be selling out your full allocation in no time when the game is only down the road to you.

The actual truth is we'll have about 5,500 at the game and whilst that's not great it'll be better then Salford or Leeds mustered this weekend.

Semi Finals are nothing new to us though so it doesn't quite catch the imagination for us like it does for a team like Hull. We've been in plenty of challenge cup semi's (and finals)over the last decade and since Hull last appeared in the Grand Final, we've been in 5 finals and numerous semi finals. As a team that's been generally very poor in the history of superleague, days like today are still fresh and exciting for a relatively unsuccessful club like Hull.

I long for the days when people wouldn't celebrate only taking 8 or 9,000 to a semi final though. It's not healthy when people think that's impressive.

And that is the truth of it,all very sad

We are hardly small time.

I'm not even trying to claim that Hull match Wigan's historical success, however we've just reached our 4th final since Hull last appeared in the Grand Final (and only one in 2006), which is not too far from your five (and we also had won the Cup in 2005)

However, it would be nice if semi final games were better attended by all clubs. Hull were once again well supported today, but still well down on the numbers that followed us to numerous semi finals in the 80's.

While many club's league average attendances have improved, Challenge Cup crowds have suffered. Not sure why, as the only change is they are now played in July as opposed to March/April?

Enjoy your match with Salford. Could go either way, but I expect Wigan's big game experience to see them through.

I've not said you're small time anywhere, just that semi's and finals are fresh and exciting for you. When you play in loads of semi's and finals the part timers who'll follow you in the earlier ones start to dwindle away as the novalty wears off. It happened with Wire during their run of Challenge cup and Grand Final appearances. In the earlier ones they were taking huge crowds to finals but as it became the norm their followings got smaller.

It'll be a close game today. Hope to see you in the final (where you'll probably take twice as many as us).