Our attendance wasn't really 10006 though, was it? 9006 flashed up on the screen and then 10 minutes later it was 10006. I know which one I believe was the true figure.

They shouldn't IMO.

We already get discount for pre purchasing before early bird deadline day, discount for tickets compared to paying on day, free cup game and priority for any play off and cup games.

I'm happy to pay the going rate for the play off games.

Let be honest, if the club were to offer discounted play-off tickets in the season ticket price it would all get averaged out when calcualting the price you pay. The result would be people will be whinging about it if the club only played in one...or god forbid No!.... home play-off games, People buy season tickets because it offers good value for money in their opinion as it currently stands. Extending the benefits to the play-offs will not make commercial sense to the club.

I thought it had said 9000, thought I needed my eyes testing. Probably fiddled the figure as it would've been our first attendance (for a SL game) below 10,000 this year.

For this weeks games.

Wigan V Catalans. - SL game 13,134 (Some on the Wigan board are predicting 8,000! Surely not?)

Huddersfield V Leeds. - SL game 10,428 (Giants have some generous offers. Family of 4 from £30 and under 12's get in free)

So the fact that we're now into knock out territory should mean better attendances yeah?

Should do but Wigan fans might expect to get through and save for the semi final like some Wire fans did against Huddersfield last year. Expect a good attendance for Huddersfield against Leeds however as it could go either way.

Wigan's attendance will be low. A lot of them won't be happy with the extra match thanks to a defeat, and will save their dough for Saints away and the final should they progress. Catalans will obviously not have a big travelling support so a four figure crowd is inevitable there I think.

Huddersfield V Leeds should be five figures easily though. Both sets of fans should be as up for that one as us and Wigan were for our Challenge Cup match.

For both sides it could be their last game of the season and not too far for the travelling support.

From the Wigan board.

"5693 unavailable seats as at tonight. I'm not sure if thats how many have been sold, or whether some of those seats were never available.

Its hardly an inspiring figure, even if all those seats were actually sold. The take-up of Saints tickets in the latter half of the week was pretty poor, so even an 8,000 crowd may be optimistic"

just over 7 thousand..disappointing really considering leeds filled the away end..be lucky to see 10 thousand at wigan on sunday

Wire v Huddersfield, same stage last year 8,050.

Nuff said, and there will be less Catalan fans at Wigan than there were Hudds fans at at Wire.

The top eight system as is in place doesn't work.

Shocking that. How tight are Huddersfield fans? They only pay around £80 for a season ticket dont they? Then barely turn up for the play offs. There was 10,428 for the game 2 weeks ago with i presume alot less travelling support.

But Wigan are the biggest RL club in the world aren't they?

So last nights game was 25% down on the SL game. Wigan V Catalans looks like being a bigger reduction. 13,134 for the league game. Looking like 8-10k for Sunday. Not good.

Its not that the top 8 doesn't work, its the ticket pricing that doesn't work which is the RFL's fault as it sets the ticket prices

The real flaw in terms of ticket sales is the fact that some teams may have to play three all-pay games on the bounce. We see in the Challenge Cup that the pay culture is not really there (and we also see it in certain FA Cup, Carling Cup and RU Cup games too, so it isn't just a RL thing). At least the Challenge Cup is quite spread out though.

To expect people to pay decent amounts three or four weeks running is too much. If Wire win next week, this will have been a very expensive 4 weeks for many fans.

True Dave, if you factor in Wembley, it's an expensive time of the year.

Should be thankful that the prices are nothing like in football.

And don't forget we are all having to renew season tickets in the next few weeks, I am a pensioner and at a guess it will cost me £700 over the last few weeks for the two of us and the next few weeks if we get through to the final a lot of money. Yes of cause I will go to all the games but I must admit I did think about going to the first play-off or not but I went because we were getting the LLS. Having supported Wire since 1975 could not miss that no thought at all is given to the fans, it is all take take take and sooner or later it will come back to bite them.

Sorry for going on a bit but hate clubs and the Rugby League just assuming fans are going to keep on paying look at the prices for the final I will be going if we get there but feel it is a rip off. The whole concept of having so many games close together needs looking at no point in having games that are meaningless when even the losers go through

You say that, but when it comes to games outside of regular Season Ticket games, even Football clubs provide offers. Man City v Villareal in the Champions League has a pricing structure of:
Adults: £25
16-21s / Over 65s: £15
Under 16s: £5

For a Wire playoff game, it costs £7 more for kids (to stand).

For FA/Carling Cup games, Man Utd charge kids a tenner for anywhere in the ground. It looks like the same structure is in place for Europe.

It is not very often we can complain about pricing for RL events, but these playoff games are wrong, no matter what people say.

Group stages of Champions League are alot cheaper then the later knock out rounds.

The play-offs is suppose to be the most important part of the season in rugby league so its no suprise tickets are not dropped in price

And while people like you have this opinion (and the clubs and RFL) the grounds are sply populated.

It's okay being stubborn over pricing, and if the RFL/SLE are happy with the money they are making (feasible) then fair enough, but based on the way the RFL like to stage big games in small grounds to look good to sponsors and viewers, I suspect they probably aren't overjoyed.

The Grand Final and Challenge Cup finals are classed as probably the most important games in the British RL calendar, but the RFL sell tickets cheaper than this for those games, can you explain why that may be?

People like me?

I haven't a clue why they sell final tickets cheap (actually thought they were the same unless you buy cheaper early tickets)

I not think theres much wrong with the prices around £20 to see my Rugby team play when its £40 most of the time for football seems ok but maybe its just "me"

Apologies, 'people like you' sounded worse than I meant. It was meant as 'people with your opinion'.

You can get tickets to the CC Final for a tenner on certain promotions, or as cheap as £21 as standard.

You can get GF tickets as cheap as £16.

You can get G4N Final tickets for £20/10.

I personally don't disagree that £18 is too expensive to watch my team, but clearly people can't justify the cost. People wouldn;t pass up the opportunity of seeing the team lift the LLS without a good reason, and whilst I don;t find the adult tickets too bad, I think the kids prices are crazy tbh.

'Round 1'

2009 -26.9%
2010 -17.2%
2011 -29.6%

'Round 2'

2009 -16.2%
2010 -18.4%
2011 -24.5% (1 game only)