We need to attract from beyond England, i.e the rest of the country as a UNITED KINGDOM.

This may well be my incompetence with a PC, but I couldn't work out what was going on with tickets on the site yesterday. Everything available was pretty much sold out, but a huge part of the upper tier was greyed out - presumably not open? If I've got it wrong, my bad, but if they're keeping it closed until everything else is almost gone, that's too long - I'm all for closing off sections if you know you'll never sell enough, but at some point you need to get them open so that purchasers have a range of options. The more options, the higher the chance of a sale. Lot's of people browse to see what's available - not all go online in the certainty that they're going to make a purchase.

I booked my tickets months ago, my train tickets were ordered more recently and they cost twice as much as the match tickets. I checked my bank account today and payday cannot come soon enough!

The semi final should sell itself as a must see event, but highlights markedly the poor media received from the sporting press towards the World Cup as a prestige event. Despite this the team have shifted enough seats to make the doublle header a winner.

This is a tough time of year to try and finance a trip to the smoke, even from East Anglia, but to see England, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji is amazing, to pay as little as I did for good seats is amazing too. A large crowd at Wembley of over 60,000 would be just great and I am proud that we will be there.

Make no mistake this will be a tremendous Rugby League occasion which, for my lady me, and thousands of others there and many hundreds of thousands more watching on Television will be an unforgettable event.

I am not in the least bit concerned about people who won't be there. This for me, has been a must see event since the day the fixture and venue was confirmed.

I would be more concerned if such a big occasion was undervalued by thousands of ticket giveaways. "The Big Hit" needs full media exposure this week accompanied by the ticket hotlline number. It will be a record attendance for a RLWC semi final.

A huge number of tickets have been sold and that is already good enough for me.

I think to sell it out in future we need to capture the imagination of the capital. That's why Super League needs London

What like the south east and London!

I'd be celebrating the size of the crowd Saturday rather then questioning it. I said on a thread yesterday that people shouldn't get hung up on the stadiums capacity but should celebrate the attendance. The figures banded about already are the ones we should compare to. The crowds at the semi finals of the World Cup in 2000 were pitiful and 2008 wasn't great either considering it was played on the doorstep of the super duper NRL and all its supporters. We also aren't afforded the luxury of having huge numbers of travelling support from Australia and NZ like they were when England fans went there in good numbers in 2008.



I do think we could have done better (if only some of the professional clubs would get off their backside and help drum up some support via club deals hey) but that's just another positive in my mind. There is room for improvement. In 2011 we got about 42,000 on at Wembley, fast forward 2 years and we've added another 25,000 to that figure which is surely exceptional progress?!



It's all positive in my mind.

Ticket price x3, Wife dropping me off at Wembley, cheap as chips

If your wife is going to drop you off at Wembley then why isn't she going to the game? Booooo, farce.





(That is a joke btw!)

She's at Work at 2, funnily enough I took her to her first Warrington game v Hudds in the playoffs, she loved it.

No need to justify, I was only joking. Some seem to think everyone within a 5-mile radius of Wembley should be herded into the game to sell seats...!



But in keeping with the charade "she's had months if not years to book that day off blah, blah, blah"











We get what we get, the RFL's World Cup team have certainly worked hard enough and the crowd will be cracking. My only addition would be to hope they made an intention target the Twickenham mob from last week and the football supporters from last night.



[iCome see England beat New Zealand with a win at Wembley.[/i (That's certainly a big poke in the eye for both RU and FA)

Probably a bit late now but unsold blocks of seats should be offered free to local schools - they may not know much about the game but what kid would turn down a free trip to Wembley?



I'm going to the game (its only tube travel for me) and taking a couple of mates from work - an NZ yawnionite and someone that has never been to a live Rugby game of either code.

I know you're messing mate, I have an Aus mate flying over staying at mine and I roped in a few guys from work, some of which have never seen a game of RL. Should be fun.