The game will sell itself - set up for an absolute classic IMHO.

Yeah it should just be saints v wigan/leeds/bradford every year then











The challenge cup is an event that sells very well to the RL community as a whole and doesn't need to be sold. Think they'll be a lot made about none of the supposed big 4 making it for the first time in 20 odd years.



Funnily enough this is the first time I've not already got tickets as I was fed up of watching saints there and didn't want to go and put up with their crap.

Are we having a sweepstake on how long before they show Colin Welland in the crowd

Yes, to rugby league fans. But AS I SAID IN THE OP, what about the general public?



Or don't you care?

sour grapes me thinks

Isn't he dead?

You think wrong, as well as being very predicatable.



I think it's quite clear from my posts that I care about RL as a whole, and care about selling our game as a great product.



Sadly, a lot of you don't seem to give a shiit.

I think the fact that Warrington and Huddersfield have made it to the final will help boost the competition. The fact that the final is the first since 1998 not to have at least one of Wigan, Saints, Leeds or Bradford in will help reignite interest for many fans of other clubs. There is now a real reason for them to believe they can do the same. This could well result in a boost in attendances for all rounds next season as the cup will be seen as a more winnable trophy.



Forget the BBC promoting it, they didn't promote the earlier rounds so I don't expect too much promotion for the final.

You did not make it clear that you were not on about ticket sales because you were talking about the RFL. The bbc could market it with adverts but the RFL can do nothing about that.

I know what the origional poster means. He is not refering to existing RL fans but how are the RFL going to sell the game to those outside of it.



I honestly means no disrespect to any team but living down south i have first hand experience of this. When asked where i am from, i respond Wigan, they then say you must be a rugby league fan then. They continue to tell me everything they know about RL which is usually Martin offiah, elery hanley, shaun edwards and a rivalry with st helens. Very few have heard of any other team.



I can't answer the origional post just trying to help others understand it.

Aye the general publics heard of Amos Roberts havent they? and your other famous players ?........on the other hand Matt King, Adrian Morley Lee Briers everyones heard of them........ household names ....nay superstars



no disrespect to huddersfield, but they have more famous players than Wigan



And Saints V Wigan wembley finals only sell out because Neutrals watch in numbers.....



in a final that doesnt involve Saints or wigan the number of neutrals drop because not one single wigan or saints fan will turn up as a neutral because they are the filth of the rugby world and care only about their own grotty little clubs and couldnt give a toss about the wider game.

I think you are the one thats being predictable. I understand what you are getting at but you could have put it in a less insulting way. Time you took your rose tinted glasses off Warrington are not a small team or a corrie chracter as you put it and Wigan are no longer the force to be reckoned with. In the last 10 competative matches we have beaten you 7 times. Anyway Si Moran can just bring some of his famous friends to fill it up ha ha