Re: Championship Shield Crowds : Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:01 pm  

Are the club doing a mini-season ticket for these? I could look at the website I suppose.

Re: Championship Shield Crowds : Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:16 pm  

MicktheGled wrote:

The venue for the final or date hasn't been decided yet.

The RFL will announce the date and venue on completion of the playoffs. Last year it was held in Widnes, but with four Yorkshire sides occupying the top four spots, it'll probably be at London Skolars.

Edited for accuracy

Re: Championship Shield Crowds : Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:39 pm  

HXSparky wrote:

Scrap the £2 additional cost for buying on the day and you might get more "floaters" decide to turn up. As has been noted above, it's probably more about the principle rather than the actual 200 pennies.

Absolutely. I understand the principle of trying to get people to buy in advance, but we don't do it for season tickets, yet do for the matchday? I always think it puts off those who want to see what the weather's like before coming, and when you have a stadium as open to the elements as ours, we probably get more fans doing that than most clubs.

Re: Championship Shield Crowds : Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:42 pm  

HamsterChops wrote:

Absolutely. I understand the principle of trying to get people to buy in advance, but we don't do it for season tickets, yet do for the matchday? I always think it puts off those who want to see what the weather's like before coming, and when you have a stadium as open to the elements as ours, we probably get more fans doing that than most clubs.

You mean they will wait to see if Hell has frozen over?

Re: Championship Shield Crowds : Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:44 pm  

rugbyreddog wrote:

You mean they will wait to see if Hell has frozen over?

That's more likely than a week at Odsal without some bad news lately.

Re: Championship Shield Crowds : Thu Jul 28, 2016 7:20 pm  

debaser wrote:

Are the club doing a mini-season ticket for these? I could look at the website I suppose.

the website says they might do an offer like buy three get the fourth game free or something like that.

Re: Championship Shield Crowds : Thu Jul 28, 2016 7:22 pm  

In all honesty, I think the crowds will be pretty much the same as they've been all season.

Mainly as I'm pretty certain that about 90% of the home crowd are season ticket holder and they get counted if they turn up or not

Re: Championship Shield Crowds : Thu Jul 28, 2016 10:47 pm  

MicktheGled wrote:

The venue for the final or date hasn't been decided yet.

The RFL will announce the date and venue on completion of the playoffs. Last year it was held in Widnes, but with four Yorkshire sides occupying the top four spots, one must suspect they'll choose a West Yorkshire venue like Featherstone or Leeds.

Thought they had scrapped the finals day completely - I was under the impression all individual "finals" (as was last year) would be this year at the homeground of the highest ranked competing team.

Re: Championship Shield Crowds : Fri Jul 29, 2016 4:29 pm  

amberavenger wrote:

Thought they had scrapped the finals day completely - I was under the impression all individual "finals" (as was last year) would be this year at the homeground of the highest ranked competing team.

I've emailed the RFL awaiting a reply.

You may be right but I was led to believe that the Championship Shield would be played before the League One Grand Final.

Just think that we've got a potential away trip to Toulouse next year.