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Re: Ridiculous Challenge cup scheduling : Sun Aug 24, 2014 4:53 pm  
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I think this years schedule was due to the Commonwealth Games.

Which semi final was in Glasgow?
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Re: Ridiculous Challenge cup scheduling : Sun Aug 24, 2014 5:06 pm  
Over the last few years I have seen fewer and fewer people in London over the cup final weekend wearing replica shirts. I was in the west end this afternoon and saw none for the first time. Is this to do with the game being played on the bank holiday weekend or are there other factors (lack of money, trips to France for away games at Catalans) affecting things?
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Re: Ridiculous Challenge cup scheduling : Sun Aug 24, 2014 5:37 pm  
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Which semi final was in Glasgow?


I think its more to do with the beeb being unwilling to interrupt their wall to wall coverage of the Empire Games for the semi's....I don't know for definite that this is why the semi's were pushed back to 2 weeks before the final, but It wouldn't surprise me.
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Re: Ridiculous Challenge cup scheduling : Sun Aug 24, 2014 6:24 pm  
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(there were nearly as many of them in my local than there were at Wembley)


How big is your local ? I was on coach number 35 out of Headingley , and there were still hundreds of people waiting to get on other coaches as we departed .

For the millionth time please stop exaggerating .
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Re: Ridiculous Challenge cup scheduling : Sun Aug 24, 2014 6:59 pm  
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How big is your local ? I was on coach number 35 out of Headingley , and there were still hundreds of people waiting to get on other coaches as we departed .

For the millionth time please stop exaggerating .


LOL !

Very poor turn out for the final, and this is not actually a dig about Leeds. No matter how many coaches you saw there were still HUGE empty spaces at Wembley which MAY have been better filled if there had been more time between the semis and the final.

SURELY it makes more sense to give people the maximum amount of time to make arrangements ???
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Re: Ridiculous Challenge cup scheduling : Sun Aug 24, 2014 7:17 pm  
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77,914 crowd isn't bad for a cup final though is it?

That's counting the club Wembley seats though and obviously hardly any of those turned up
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Re: Ridiculous Challenge cup scheduling : Sun Aug 24, 2014 7:42 pm  
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LOL !

Very poor turn out for the final, and this is not actually a dig about Leeds. No matter how many coaches you saw there were still HUGE empty spaces at Wembley which MAY have been better filled if there had been more time between the semis and the final.

SURELY it makes more sense to give people the maximum amount of time to make arrangements ???


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And make every ticket £25.
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Re: Ridiculous Challenge cup scheduling : Mon Aug 25, 2014 8:26 am  
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77,914 crowd isn't bad for a cup final though is it?

Who made that figure up?
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Re: Ridiculous Challenge cup scheduling : Mon Aug 25, 2014 8:47 am  
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Who made that figure up?


As its an all-seater stadium, the attendance figure for the final is based on how many tickets have been sold for the event. This includes not only the club wembley seats but also any tickets which have been sold to 3rd party retails, whether or not they subsequently sold them and the bum arrived on the seat.
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Re: Ridiculous Challenge cup scheduling : Mon Aug 25, 2014 11:50 am  
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As its an all-seater stadium, the attendance figure for the final is based on how many tickets have been sold for the event. This includes not only the club wembley seats but also any tickets which have been sold to 3rd party retails, whether or not they subsequently sold them and the bum arrived on the seat.


I think this could be the key issue here, I was in block 542 (top tier at Cas end), and a week before the final I am pretty sure the RFL website said this block and all of the top tier were sold out apart for the small block above the big screen.

If the RFL did indeed sell them they probably won't care as they will trouser the cash even if it looks horrible on T.V and made the atmosphere flat. So I would like to know who bought these tickets?, Amateur clubs?, lower league clubs?, Touts, individual opportunists who tried to sell them through E.bay etc?

If they didn't whoever was in charged with that stadium graphic on the website wants to be dragged into the bosses office in the morning!
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