By the end of this world cup I will have been to 13/28 games and I must admit this tournament has re-ignited my love for the sport.
As a Wigan fan, even though last year was a season dreams are made of, I found myself picking and choosing some games, even though I am a season ticket holder.
It's great to see 70k+ at a semi final, a sell out for the final, sell outs for the England games, 14k+ on a blustery night in St. Helens for Aus v Fiji, 10k+ at Leigh & Halifax for Tonga v Cook Islands & Tonga v Italy respectively. Sell outs in France. What a tournament, I'm now seriously considering a trip to Aus in 2017 for the next world cup!

Is it just me or do other people find it difficult to have a sensible conversation with somebody who litters their posts with these stupid little smiley faces? Making a good and valid point would be more impactful if you didn’t congratulate yourself by adding the ‘I’m patting you on the head’ gesture

Another derailment

Are you a union man/boy? That would explain a lot. How's your dividing everything by 2 going?

I cannot believe people still respond to gutterfax after all this time.

Some agreeable facts about this World Cup...
- it will have the highest ticket sales and the highest average attendance of all the modern era World Cups;
- it will have 2 of the top 3 crowds in the glorious history of our 14 World Cups;
- France's World Cup crowds are their highest for 30 years;
- the attendance for Wales' first game was the highest for any home international;
- the average for games among the founder members will be higher than any other World Cup for 50 years;
- it will have the highest attendance for any World Cup or indeed international in the history of the game;
- it had the highest crowd for a home Ireland game;
- it had the most sell outs of any of the expanded world cups; and
- it had more 20,000 plus and 5 figure crowds of any World Cups...
I am sure there are more, but it's none too shabby.

Yeah great, but how does that compare with Union?
These facts mean nothing unless compared with another sport apparently.

Ticket maps been updated:



looks as though some corporate seats have been released for general sale. Block 542 on the upper tier is also now open, but they haven't coloured it in yet.

now if someone had said a month ago we would have sold out this many sections of Wembley I would have told them to stop taking drugs


however this is brilliant

Lets hope the corporate returns are low as all the hard work of making the crowd look fantastic is wasted as the camera is focussed around that area for large parts of the game, personally I would take all the corporate reruns and give them to our armed forces around the area asking them to wear uniform

If I can just add a point, would it not have been better to open ALL the 1st 20 ish rows in the top tier as opposed to have everybody on 1 side ? Some people will have tickets to the back row while the 1st row is empty on the other side.

The only upside to doing it their way is so they can close the concourse bars / toilets etc - but keeping them open would mean smaller queues and therefore more sales ..... surely ?

Also, then we wouldn't have a whole stand empty !!!!

good point



Not sure how much the TV will see of the back 5 or 6 rows anyway.

I agree, I honestly thought selling out the bottom 2 tiers would have been all we could have hoped for.

I hope the great crowd here encourages us to keep playing games at Wembley. We should be hosting Australia there for each 4 Nations or Test Series.

So how many seats have been sold at Wembley so far?

And can we expect an 8,000 - 10,000 walk up, to break the world record for international rugby league attendances?

Last official update was 65K, but I assume we are closer to 70k now. Not sure we will get much of a 'walk-up' if you are from the heartlands you'd have booked your train, coach and/or hotel long ago. So we are reliant on the Londoners for any walk-up crowd.

Has it been advertised that you can pay on the day? If not, then there'll be very few as most people would assume you'd need tickets for a major event.

I saw / heard reference to c.73,000 this morning but that was nothing official - probably some journalistic guess.

I thought that but when the camera pans during the national anthem it will look full

Top tier holds just short of 40k and almost half sold so I'd be guessing at 68,000 for tomorrow

haven't seen anything, but they are advising that you can print your tickets at home.

Not sure Wembley can handle cash sales at the Turnstyles, from memory its all electronic? but surely they can arrange or tickets to be sold from the ticket office or a stall on Wembley Way.

No, it costs more to steward and open services.

I've never known a set of supporters worry so much and go into so much detail about attendances. I'm sure no other main sport gets worked up in the same way (football, union, cricket). Why do you all care so much?? Is it an inferiority complex?

I think fans like to see the sport do well, you know with 3 pro clubs in administration, no major sponsors and very little money...

It's a passion to see the sport succeed and grow.

Yes we feel inferior. Most fans on this board have a chip on both shoulders about some element of RL. My two chips are the amount of moaning and slagging off of players. However in this case I think we are nearly all excited that maybe, just maybe people are finally catching on to our great game. Amazing what being back on Saturday afternoon FTA TV can do!

looks like another batch of tickets have gone on sale for the Final, its surely got to be the longest 'almost sold out' event in history! as soon as they get close some more tickets crop up from somewhere