Challenge Cup Final - Should it be moved? : Mon Aug 29, 2011 1:14 pm  

If Leeds and Wigan cannot fill Wembley for the Challenge Cup Final, do you think (which is probably more than the RFL do) that it should either be moved to a non-bank holiday weekend or else moved to another ground closer to our roots (Old Trafford)?

Re: Challenge Cup Final - Should it be moved? : Mon Aug 29, 2011 1:35 pm  

No.

They should make a better fist of promoting the competition.

Re: Challenge Cup Final - Should it be moved? : Mon Aug 29, 2011 1:43 pm  

I don't think so either.

I think that they ought to scrap the 5 for 4 deal too but maybe offer a discount if tickets are bought early.

Wembley just has the atmosphere that you couldn't capture anywhere else in the UK, even at Old Trafford.

I've been to every final since 1998, and non of the other arenas can hold a candle to Wembley. The feeling of walking up Wembley way still thrills me even as a neutral. What is disgusting is the emptiness of the middle tier, the Wembley club tickets. Agree that that had to pay for the stadium somehow and this does bring extra in. But I'd give the holders 1 week after the semis then if not taken give them to the armed forces etc. free of charge.

I didn't see as many Superleague neutral fans as I have done in previous years either. Normal I play a stupid game whereby I try and cross off every SL shirt and any CH but failed miserably this year.

Re: Challenge Cup Final - Should it be moved? : Mon Aug 29, 2011 2:10 pm  

Wembley is the spriritual home of the CC final and the best arena in the country, I don't think it should be moved. Club Wembley peeves me off as well, I hope when those ten year tickets run out they scrap the idea, although they almost certainly won't due to the commercialisation of the entertainment industry and the finances that are inevitably gained from it.

Re: Challenge Cup Final - Should it be moved? : Thu Sep 01, 2011 8:35 am  

E.S.O wrote:

Wembley is the spriritual home of the CC final and the best arena in the country, I don't think it should be moved. Club Wembley peeves me off as well, I hope when those ten year tickets run out they scrap the idea, although they almost certainly won't due to the commercialisation of the entertainment industry and the finances that are inevitably gained from it.

Completely agree. Ask the Club Wembley members if theyre going. If not, flog their seats.

Re: Challenge Cup Final - Should it be moved? : Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:00 am  

No - make them come.

You buy a seat, you fill it.

Re: Challenge Cup Final - Should it be moved? : Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:51 pm  

If you are part of the Wembley club I think you pay a one fee but you still have to buy a ticket for any events that you want to watch.

I think the company I work for has an allocation and we can apply for that if the bigwigs don't want the seats. For the football matches and concerts I would imagine that they are never not taken up but will be passed on as corporate hospitality etc.

Re: Challenge Cup Final - Should it be moved? : Thu Sep 01, 2011 1:54 pm  

griff1998 wrote:

No - make them come.

You buy a seat, you fill it.

Proposterous suggestion, you can't make anyone do anything.

Re: Challenge Cup Final - Should it be moved? : Thu Sep 01, 2011 2:43 pm  

What we should do is ask ESO's Dad, he has the answer to everything apparently

Re: Challenge Cup Final - Should it be moved? : Thu Sep 01, 2011 2:45 pm  

brummie-eagle wrote:

What we should do is ask ESO's Dad, he has the answer to everything apparently

I think some people genuinely believe he works for the RFL, or indeed has a say in anything!!