77000 it says on radio

If true, then that's disgraceful - what with it being more than the capacity of the Millenium Stadium or Murrayfield.

Can't be done, the RFL have a long term contract with Wembley Stadium Ltd, 30 years or so.

Stop moaning. It was fine- there were a few empty seats at the bottom, quite a few on the top deck and the middle deck was reserved for Club Wembley holders, who are all football fans. Still a lot of people there.

Who cares what the attendance was, it was a great final!

Difference between "near full" and "half full" was about 5000. Either get to Specsavers or remedial maths lessons.

Sporting Life website gives the gate as 76560.

Should have turned your volume up then. For once the BBC took their microphones to the game. Sounded great here.




Then take into account that Club Wembley has 15,000 seats.



At last some sense

I think you've missed the sarcasm in my post.

Looks like it

It's the biggest RL attendance this year, and people are on about scrapping it?

I respect people's opinions if they apply common sense, but comments like that are just idiotic. The crowd was poor for a cup final, yeah. But it was bigger than any other stadium in the country can hold so it was justified. And we're in a recession.

It was poor, but some people need to get a grip.

Was it? Paid more attention to the game myself, which was great to watch. The first half was non-stop attacking rugby. The second was all about defence.

Didn't hear a peep out of the Huddersfield fans.

Can I not watch the game and take not of the crowd at the same time?

Don't be asking me for permission. You do what you like petal.

Can't resist can you????

I wasn't asking for your permission. I just find it daft when people churn out the same old "I didn't notice the crowd, I was too busy concentrating on the game" line, when it is quite easy to notice the crowd at some point whilst concentrating on the game.

And there are plenty of breaks in play for me to be able to look around the stadium. Not to mention being able to look around before it actually started!

So be as patronising as you like, but your the one that wants to avoid talking about the crowd on a thread about... the crowd!

You really think 76,560 is poor?
Press boxes weren't full and god knows how many Club Wembley seast were empty.

Where did I say I didn't notice the crowd?
What I actually said was that I paid more attention to the game than the crowd. Please don't tell me you did the opposite.

I think it's a good crowd considering the sporadic "stop start" nature of the competition - spread over months and months of the RL calendar and for a competition that's supposed to be dying on it's ass. The BARB figures will also be interesting compared to previous years - there was quite a bit of TV advertising for this final last week.

This is nonsense. As much criticism as these get these are tickets that we wouldn't have sold otherwise. Without Club Wembley this crowd would have been nearer 70,000.

......................... and the match would have been played at the Milennium Stadium.

Whoooosh!
We're not talking about the seats that were taken. Some of the empty seats seen on television were in the Club Wembley section. Simple as.

You have seriously got to be kidding. I'm no fan of the Wire, but they must have had well over 30k fans there and the noise they made was phenomenal. I've been to a lot of CC finals going back to the 1970s and the Warrington support equalled or bettered anything that (say) Saints, Bradford or Leeds ever mustered.

The crowd was higher than any CC final away from Wembley, higher than quite a few of those in the 1990s (eg Saints/Bradford in 1996, Sheffield/Wigan in 1998, Wigan/Saints in 1991 plus others.)

62,000 for Saints Wigan at Murrayfield was much more embarrasing.

It didn't look amazing on TV because the gaps were in noticeable areas but it wasn't a bad crowd by any stretch of the imagination.

There are always going to be gaps in noticeable areas, because of club wembley. And if the people round me are anything to go by (including my kids I should say), at any given point during the match there's about 10 000 people nipped off to the loo or queuing downstairs for food & drink