We have all the North! But been told we have 5000 over 3 stands! I presume the extra tickets would go to team who sells out first but the distribution of tickets seems very strange!!!

Correct decision,dreams of 25,000 at a footy ground are fanciful.Should be a brilliant atmosphere - well done the rfl.

Get in there!!!! It will be bouncing. Sell out easily, terracing, awesome. Bring it on.

How can Wigan have all the North Stand when Saints will be selling tickets for it?

They dont. According to both sites the North stand will be half Wigan and have Saints. Saints have all of the West stand. Wigan have all of the South and as far as i am aware there is no mention of Saints having any of the East but there are prices for the stand on the Wigan website.

I just read Wigans details and it said inner and outer North just presumed!! Thought it was wired you to not have any of north!!

Seems fair enough.

This is what happens when our weekly round attendances are around the 7,000 mark and our semi attendances have consistently been less than the opposition. IMO we only had 4-4.5k there yesterday.

According to Saints on Twitter, Wigan and Saints fans will have about equal allocations.

As it should be.

A semi final between the game's 2 biggest clubs, in a 13,000 seater stadium should be an easy sell out for both clubs.

I just took what it said on Saintsrl.com

Saints will have the entire West Stand and "Part" of the North Stand, which within theory leaves Wigan with the other "part" of the North Stand, the entire East Stand and Entire South Stand?

I put that to Saints on Twitter after being told the allocations would be about the same but as yet no reply!

Presumably the hospitality lounges will be open, so that'll account for part of the North and East.

no one seems to have east stand yet but id guess wigan would end up with it

So have I! @spn245 by the way

If anything it's nowhere near ambitious enough. I mean the fact of the matter is that the semi final venue is SMALLER than both the DW and the new Saints stadium, which is a tad embarrassing.

But I suppose it depended on whether you can arrange a bigger venue at short notice, especially given that venue would invariably be a football stadium. It makes even less business sense given that only a Wigan & St Helens semi would have any chance of filling (or almost filling) a larger venue, and the actual chances of that fixture being drawn, would be quite slim.

Still we can dream - Anfield or CoM stadium would have been nice, but probably a bit unrealistic.

As I told you yesterday.

I have an answer from Saints

"The RFL have a section of seats also - but Wigan have a slightly bigger allocation due to more season ticket holders"

For gods sake change the record man. Saints average attendance this year is around half the capacity of the HJ. Allocation should be split. End of

Considering Wigan is 3-4 times the size of St Helens you should get a better av attendence?

It must crawl you that little St Helens is the most succesfull superleague side

And Wigan's is about the whole capacity of the HJ, so by your reasoning, Wigan should get all the tickets.

Would you be saying the allocation should be split equally if you were playing, say, Harlequins or Catalans in the semi final?

Mind you, in that case, Edge Hall Road's capacity would suffice for the game, wouldn't it?

Furthermore Saints have said we've been allocated LESS than the number of Season Ticket holders we have.
IMO I think we've only been given what we normally have for an away game at the HJ, The West Stand and first block of the North Stand.

That seems fair enough! they keep telling us how well the game is doing, 13,000! I remember as a young kid on Central Park closer to 40,000 and packed that tight, it just shows how in some ways we have gone backwards!

In 1990 a crowd of 26,000 saw the semi final game between Saints and Wigan at Old Trafford - would it be too unrealistic to suggest a similar crowd should a venue be found or has the Cups popularity really diminished so much in 20 years that the RFL have no other choice but to use smaller venues?

Initially I would hope the RFL would ask both clubs how many they want/expect and work in accordance with that, if anyone has over estimated any unsold tickets could be reallocated if there was demand, which I believe is what happens generally, admittedly the short turnaround would make that a little more complicated. (Last year they were 10 weeks apart not 2!!!!!)

I don't mind the slight difference given the level of season tickets per club but I'm sure I have read somewhere on here that Wigan failed to sell out their tickets for their last cup semi final with an allocation less than what they have for this one (surprising given their recent lack of success at that point) do they really need so many more all of a sudden?

I know Saints fans have had 11 of these semi finals in a row and the casuals are not coming like they did at first but there are still enough fans to sell about half the capacity, if we don't it is a pretty poor turnout.

It is the biggest derby in RL & the first time we've met in the serious latter stages of the Cup since 2004 (2005 was the qf), I like many others are overly excited already but we're all going to look a bit daft bickering over tickets if it doesn't sell out!

It is a real shame its not like that but sadly at the moment there is no chance of that type of attendance for a cup semi final, they have been in steady decline for years and the RFL don't appear keen to do much to arrest the slide.

It is alike a throw back semi final to me back to when I first started going in 1992, I've been to all but two of our previous 12 (missing 2003/4) and there are none I've been as excited about, we are clearly underdogs and its our biggest rivals, there should be huge demand for a game like this.