Quote ="Teddington Wire".....let the "told you so's" begin www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... ckets.html Saturday's Carnegie Challenge Cup semi-final between Warrington and Wigan at Stobart Stadium, Halton, was today declared a 12,975 sell-out.'" The only people who can say that is the RFL. They selected a stadium and it sold out hours before kick off - clearly the perfect choice and demand pretty much matched supply. Seems like the RFL might no more about running a sport that a bunch of amateurs on a message board. Who'd have thunk it?

Quote ="Teddington Wire".....let the "told you so's" begin www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... ckets.html Saturday's Carnegie Challenge Cup semi-final between Warrington and Wigan at Stobart Stadium, Halton, was today declared a 12,975 sell-out.'" The only people who can say that is the RFL. They selected a stadium and it sold out hours before kick off - clearly the perfect choice and demand pretty much matched supply. Seems like the RFL might no more about running a sport that a bunch of amateurs on a message board. Who'd have thunk it?

But the argument goes that maybe if they'd aimed higher with a bigger stadium, they would have sold more tickets. Look how successful Wembley semi finals have been in football.

If Warrington were at Wembley for this semi I can guarantee we would have sold more tickets than for Widnes.

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It still wouldn't have been the correct decision - an equal part of the equation is cost. I suspect we would have sold more tickets but I'll also guarantee that they'd have sold nowhere near enough to make it financially viable. The other point of course is that Wembley itself has a lure and neither team has played their in years. Wonder what the crowd would have been if we played it at Ewood Park? Bout 13k I expect.

For Warrington and Wigan, a ground of around 13k was ideal in 2004. Turns out it's still pretty much ideal in 2009.

Our biggest crowds in recent times were when we were 6 points clear at the BOTTOM of the table, so that blows your thesis out of the water

my lad is not attending for that very reason. i've bought him a season ticket just in case we get to wembley

Not interested in the Challenge Cup then are you?

they'll be there mate trust me

where did you get them stats from?

Thin Air Possibly????

Then you're both wrong, which is why it was held at the stobart and not the galpharm.

Not even a sell out is it? 12,975 it holds 13,500

BBC will need some space to stick their green box.