: Thu Jun 25, 2009 7:52 am  

any ideas what part of the ground widnes will be occupying?

: Thu Jun 25, 2009 8:48 am  

Pepe wrote:

What if you don't have a car and the arranged trains to Blackpool are full?

I'm OK I've got both a ticket and a car, but others may not be so lucky.

Get a normal train?

: Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:29 am  

This is great news. 1500 in a day

The cup final has come at a great time for us, and hopefully the crowds will be boosted for the rest of the season to push for the run-in. Who said RL was dead in Widnes? More hibernation.

: Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:31 am  

Just heard I secured a ticket this morning.

: Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:37 am  

From Offocial Site

First allocation sold out

Widnes Vikings have sold their initial allocation of 2,800 tickets for the Northern Rail Cup Final against Barrow on July 12th at Bloomfield Road.

A second batch of 687 tickets, for the uncovered stand, blocks S, T and U are due from the RFL at lunchtime today priced £12 and £5. This is likely to be the final allocation we will receive.

: Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:47 am  

Only 687 more to come? That's a shame as the interest has been through the roof. Hopefully more will become available in the coming week. Will be great if we can get another 5000 plus down to Blackpool

: Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:00 am  

The Original Redviking wrote:

From Offocial Site

First allocation sold out

Widnes Vikings have sold their initial allocation of 2,800 tickets for the Northern Rail Cup Final against Barrow on July 12th at Bloomfield Road.

A second batch of 687 tickets, for the uncovered stand, blocks S, T and U are due from the RFL at lunchtime today priced £12 and £5. This is likely to be the final allocation we will receive.

Missed out on the covered stand by about three places in the queue. Got my tickets reserved for the other stand anyway.

: Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:06 am  

Good news on the ticket sales, we know what having a big following did at Halifax, hope to make this even better with hopefully around 4.5k Widnes fans.

Tickets will be made available, the ground is a Championship football ground now so it has to hold quite a few, and it's very rare this final is sold out.

: Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:33 am  

AJ Viking wrote:

Good news on the ticket sales, we know what having a big following did at Halifax, hope to make this even better with hopefully around 4.5k Widnes fans.

Tickets will be made available, the ground is a Championship football ground now so it has to hold quite a few, and it's very rare this final is sold out.

Only holds c9,000 but the problem is with the RFL holding back tickets for the dozens of people going to the Nines

As far as I'm aware, it's only been a complete sell out when Cas played Hull KR.

: Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:07 am  

I fear that if it is declared sold out until the week leading up to the final when a couple of thousand tickets are made available again, we will once again see empty seats despite demand outstripping supply.