It is a farce , when I bought my tickets some time since we were told you got free upgrades with the 9s tickets if your team got to the final at Bloomfield Rd but if they were not in the final you paid £5 to upgrade.

Upon hearing it was almost full I rang the RFL yesterday for clarification on the availibility of upgraded of tickets if your team was not in the final.To begin with she told me we could only upgrade if there was availibility even if we got through to the final as they were nearly sold out. So I said "hang on you are telling people they will have free upgrade with these tickets if their team gets to the final so you`d better be saving tickets" She confered with someone else and said "yes your right but we are only saving tickets for the teams in final. All others it`s if there is availibility so to be sure of seats at the final I have had to book them on the phone with the RFL they arrived in the post today.

So if we get to the final I have wasted money on tickets , they should have done the 9s all at Fylde on one day and the other finals the day after. But as usual everything has to be as complicated as possible for anyone to attend.You see the ticket office opens at 12 pm sun at Broomfield rd and the 9s are playing Sun morning at Fylde can see it being a right farce.

surprised they not using edinburgh and cardiff on same day with their previous form.

another comedy at the RFL

if we had of beaten widnes you wouldn't be having this problem

Yes but , let's face it, the one and only reason for this pointless 9's competition is to artificially boost the attendance at Bloomfield Road for the final.





That's not to say Widnes, Barrow or whoever else had got there wouldn't have sold it out anyway but this way guarantees it. It could even mean that some of the supporters of the NRC finalists won't be able to get tickets.

Well I did realise this, my point is it is making it so dificult geting tickets plus the swoping of venues it`s like your having to jump over hurdles one by one just to go and support your team in whatever way at Blackpool.

I`ll make sure our players know it`s there fault then.

The whole thing is a complete waste of time especially with the france trip the week after.

Do your tickets actually say Halifax/Batley et al on them ?



If they dont what's to stop fans of other clubs claiming to be supporters of a finalist and getting tickets that you want/need



The matches on Sunday will be knock out so the first teams knocked out could nip over to Bloomfield rd and nick tickets earmarked for other clubs fans



I can see a dozen or so potentially very unhappy fans on Sunday

Yes each team have their own tickets.

Just to confirm - only the finals of the Trophy and Plate will be at Blackpool.



The rest of the KO stages are all at Fylde on Sunday, starting 10.30

i dont think they have sold as many tickets as they wanted to as you can now pay on the gate on saturday

Who`se staying overnight and where is everybody staying and going on the Saturday night?