I wouldn't be too sure about shifting lots of tickets for the final, I think one thing is very clear to anyone outside of Red Hall - there are far more important things to buy and keep within a family budget this year than tickets to a rugby game and the same will be true of the final - the sport is in danger of out pricing its core market, but it won't be the first to go down that road.

I agree with McF most have not had a salary increase for 2/3 years and inflation at 5% compound. Whatever spare there was is likely to be needed foe essentials such as food. Wait until the utility bills hit home - GH should doing some early selling of season tickets it could be tough come January.



One thing is for sure premier league soccer will not suffer - how people can afford it in the numbers that do constantly amazes me.

One thing I'd suggest that helps is that in a lot of cases, football tends to be attended by a bloke with a group of mates. Far less families go to football matches which makes it more affordable to go.

There is still a big % of families including kids who attend these games. It seems immune to the recession.

I've asked on my IF form for lower tier tickets. Last year paid £18 (through some school up near Skipton) and the view was superb!

I thought writing something extra on the form, for which there was no box, may be too much to handle for the ticket office. So I decided against doing so.

Never had a problem with it in the past. Theres a few instructions on my form. One of which, use the £20 which my customer number is in credit by, against the cost of the IF form. We'll see what we end up with....

You will end up with this:

I'm expecting something like that. Will just have to keep an eye on the mobile/email to see if there are any problems. Although, I cant see how hard it may be.



Still they did a great job on getting me a refund on my 'extra' ticket for this Sunday.

O/T - Did you look at the RLY car?

I've always put lots of instructions on my IF forms and more often than not they've taken notice including getting as near as dam it same seats/row etc for our repeat Grand Finals

You're excited by this aren't you?



No matey, i'm out of the office all week (in Malton on audit...borrrrrrrrrring), should be in on Friday though.