Yep this game should be a 20,000 plus but for various reasons be lucky to get 15,000. Remember early 80s semis and 2005 being rammed! Anyhow can't wait let's sing our hearts out for the lads and hope we can beat the wires!

Wasn't tommy saxton a non playing sub for the 2005 final?

Yeah he was in the 17

Never let a pedantic issue get in the way of the way of the overall point eh? Substitute any number of bang average signings made around that time in for him if it helps.

Any beancounters who are going to watch the crowd today and not the game, might like to know that the crowd for the 2005 semi final was 16,171. When it's only 14,000 (or 12,000 - my prediction) you can use this statistic in your post match crowd analysis report.