RFL sold 3000
Halifax 3000
us 2700
just 300 left, RFL arent printing anymore so its looks like its going to be a sell out

Top effort, get them snapped up folks!!

Cant wait now, its going to be awesome

well that can't be right as fax have been given 3,300 www.halifaxrlfc.co.uk/article.php?id=5242 and the capacity for the final is supposed to be 9,000, that link is from last thursday

well that can't be right as fax have been given 3,300 www.halifaxrlfc.co.uk/article.php?id=5242 and the capacity for the final is supposed to be 9,000, that link is from last thursday

Quote ="horseyfax"well that can't be right as fax have been given 3,300 www.halifaxrlfc.co.uk/article.php?id=5242 and the capacity for the final is supposed to be 9,000'" All ' rounded ' figures HF , either way only around a few hundred left

Quote ="horseyfax"well that can't be right as fax have been given 3,300 www.halifaxrlfc.co.uk/article.php?id=5242 and the capacity for the final is supposed to be 9,000'" All ' rounded ' figures HF , either way only around a few hundred left

great effort from both clubs anyway, really looking forward to it

Great effort from both clubs.

Top effort......roll on next weekend - cant wait now

Can none of the East stand be opened for use ?
I know theres work filling in the South East corner of the ground but didn't realise the capacity had been cut by so much for this match.

Put the cameras in that stand so they TV viewers dont realise its empty.

They'll be in East & West.
Seems a shame though if we end up with people not being able to get a ticket when both clubs could do with the money and the ground will have a complete stand empty (its capacity is 16,000).
In fairness to the RFL its only once gone over 9,000 when Hull KR played Cas back in 2005 so they probably never thought they'd need to ask that if it started to sell well could extra capacity be found in the East Stand of the ground.

Either way, its a very good effort by Leigh and Halifax to sell so many so quickly.

im picking up 3 tomorrow, for my sister! Well done to all involved

Yet you can still buy tickets tonight direct from rfl website in blocks c,d and f ( fax end behind posts ) even though fax have offically announced on thier site they now have all remaining tickets from rfl, and blocks in our end !!! Not quite adding up the rfl wouldnt be telling little white lies would they and maybe not as close to a sell out has we are being led to belive ????

I often criticise the RFL, but fair dos to them over this. None of their employees has enough fingers to be able to count to 9,000 on, as far as I know!

(no comments about Widnes fans please

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It's a great effort by the clubs but poor from the RFL as we will yet again have another sell out occasion played out in front of vast empty spaces. A bit like when they sold out the four nations final 2 years ago only to have the entire top tier of the east stand at elland road empty. Another 10 days to go between ourselves, fax and the Rfl if we sell 33 tickets each a day then we will have 10000 tickets sold.

I dont see how you can blame the RFL for this at all.

As soon as something goes wrong, or in hindsight could have gone better, its not, by default a cock up by the RFL.

Simple Jimmy 16k seats, and we have 9k sell out 19 days before the event only the RFL can achieve this. I'd also imagine on most sporting events the 10 day run up is the most active selling period along side the first few days of sales

Do you in all honesty believe that this game would `ve achieved a 16K sell out?.........

No but it's obvious we can sell more than 9k so why stop???Basically so far we have just sold a little more than our average crowd I'd expect us to at least sell 3.5k and fax the same. Disappointing that the Rfl have capped this crowd at 9k

Is it the RFL or the Blackpool club/authorities that has 'capped the crowd'?

Not too sure it`s the RFL who have set the limit on the crowd, maybe Blackpool are doing refurbs to increase their capacity. If we achieve 9k this year won`t that be a record?

That was my take on it Fred.

all we can do as clubs is sell out our allocations! if people are locked out its the RFL that look daft, i for one would quite enjoy seeing them redfaced again.

10 days left and not many left by all accounts! gonna be awesome!

Not sure but I'd also be amazed if that temp stand holds 7k so the Rfl maths are as the franchise system!!

It is a tough one, I can fully understand the RFL expecting 9,000 to be a realistic target so if BFC told them that there was a crowd limit they probably thought it would be ample as over 9,000 hasn't been reached since Cas played Hull KR.

The down side is its looking increasingly likely that the record gate for this fixture could have been broken and both Leigh , Halifax (and the RFL) could have made a few quid more !
The week before usually sees a big surge for games such as this (underlined by the fact Leigh have started selling merchandise, people are talking about it etc, etc.).
Without looking in the ground I've no idea what work is going on , however AFAIK the work is in our stand (Jimmy Armfield South) and the South side of the East stand as they are 'filling in the corners'.
I presume there must be other work ongoing as otherwise they would surely have sold any further tickets in sections of the East stand nearer the North side of the ground.
The temp East stand is not what many people think, indeed it was fit for Premier league football so is a lot better than the last time we visited Bloomfield rd !