Leeds Rhinos fans have the Fantastic Media Stand, St Helens have the Pink Link stand. However, the top tier of the Fantastic Media stand is closed, and the Britannia Rescue Stand (single tier down the touchline) is also closed (hold about 7k) reducing the capacity for the game to 14k!



Last time Leeds played Saints in the semi finals of the Challenge Cup the attendance was around the 19k mark FWIR.



Odd decision IMO.

Pushes all the crowd into the three sides of the ground that are visible from the broadcast gantry.



The problem is that when they do the pieces in the studio pre-match there's going to be a ruddy great empty stand behind them, likewise on any reverse angle shots or VR decisions.

And I bet it still won't sell out.







Great avatar pic btw.



Apart from the top left hand corner of it.

Southstand Sweepstake team for the World Cup

Oi, McKenzie.



Get your sh*t stars off our flag.

No wooden flagpoles or plastic poles over 1m in length either.

The RFL are clueless lol

Should open the whole thing and make it tenner a ticket.

This isnt some tinpot england international you know!

They should move both games to bigger stadiums and do the same thing. Double header!

Another great victory for the challenge cup. Why didn't they just stick it in a 14k capacity stadium then the fools.



P.S whats the reasoning for the cut?

Cost?

I'm sure they will open the other stands if needed. As for a double headed the BBC dont want it. They want one game sat and one game sun.

Doncasters Keepmoat stadium was brilliant in 2008, 15k capacity and packed to the rafters!

Pretty sure that the single tier stand down the side was initially closed for the Saints-Hull semi in 2005 and then opened to Hull fans after we had sold our other seats..which i presume is what they'll do here

10,000 attendance tops at the windy stadium and people will still struggle to park!

It's sad isn't it? I hoped for a sell-out.

One more reason why our sport is a laughing stock to other sports. playing a semi-final with a reduced capicity would have been better taking wire if they was scared of not getting a crowd.

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Surely they have reduced the capacity precisely because they don't expect sufficient demand to need all stands open. No doubt 25,000 "supporters" of the winners will be wanting tickets to the final.

The RFL should give us a bye to the semis every year and then there will be a big crowd

Jog on



HTFC averaged 17k a couple of seasons ago.

Yep, this is something that they have done for another couple of games, yet isn't it funny how people will ignore your post so that they can have a pop at the RFL.



If the capacity had been limited to 14k, there would have been an announcement, as the capacity would be 3/4 of the last time these met in the semi, so there would be a shortage of tickets.