Hello.

Arriving just in time for the final (anyone would think we planned these things!) are some great quality flags. See the pictures below!

Large flags are priced just 5 pounds or 3 for 10 pounds

Car flags are 4 pounds or 2 for 6 pounds. These are great quality and guaranteed not to break off while you’re driving (unlike the last lot we had!)

If you’re driving make sure your car is dressed for the occasion! If you’re on the train or coach flags will be available on board…

Well that’s it. All 600 seats on the Rugby Special from Eccles to Blackpool have been sold out and there will be no more. Ever. None. It is the longest possible train Northern Rail can fit on the station at a 600 capacity and we’re delighted we managed to fill it so as ever thanks for your tremendous support. It’s the equivalent of around 15 coaches, plus the coach that’s also going along with everybody driving, it’s going to be a special day.

If you are on it it’s going to be a day to remember. Reds’ merchandise will be on sale on board.

Next stop, Hogwarts. All aboard etc…

Steve will be here shortly to tell you about new flags and car flags that have just come in in the nick of time…

It’s Cup Final week and tonight’s Rugby Roundup will be concentrating on next weekend’s action in Blackpool.

Guests in the studio will be Forever Reds’ Paul Parkin and Reds’ star Lee Jewitt.

So for an hour of rugby natter, humour and grand music, plus interviews with Shaun McRae and whoever else we can get our hands on tune in tonight 6-7pm, 94.4 FM, Salford City Radio, or you can listen online at www.salfordcityradio.org.

Send in your emails wishing the lads luck to studio@salfordcityradio.org and we’ll read out what we can.

Don’t forget the show is also repeated at the same time on Friday.

Cheerio:-)

At the time of writing there are just under 50 tickets remaining of the club’s allocation, and they have been selling quickly all day. There is currently no opportunity to pay on the day, and we will not be receiving any further tickets from the RFL, so if you do not buy your ticket from us very soon indeed then you are going to be out of luck.

There are also less than 30 places remaining (out of 600) for the Express Train to Blackpool so if you want to get on that you had better hurry too! There are a small number of coach places remaining too for those who would prefer not to spend the whole day in Blackpool.

It’s been a pleasure to sell these tickets to so many excited Reds fans, we’ve met many new faces along with plenty of old, and everybody at the club looks forward to sharing Sunday with you all. It should be a great day.

As you will have noticed www.reds.co.uk is back online. We believe the reason we had to take it down at server level originally was due to a Denial of Service attack which is basically a hacker using a script requesting pages that do not exist every 1/10th of a second running up a huge bandwidth bill.

Good old the internet eh?

Hi folks..

Massive annoyance at our end. The official website www.reds.is currently offline due to server difficulties at our provider’s end that has meant it has had to be temporarily switched off.

I’m waiting to hear from their tech people with a view to resolving it but as yet it’s out of our hands.

This blog address will continue to operate as it’s hosted elsewhere so please feel free to pass on the details to anybody and we will update our Northern Rail Cup ticketing news running.

Apologies,

Paul

Firstly, apologies if you were caught up in the long queues at the ticket office tonight trying to buy cup final tickets - the Ticket Office staff did a fantastic job under pressure, but unfortunately the numbers buying did mean the wait for some was a little longer than we would have liked.

Of course, it is a nice problem to have.

We have now sold out of our original allocations and are well into our final additional allocation. Blocks L, K, J, H, G & F are completely sold out, the only blocks now with tickets remaining are C & D behind the goals, and there are limited numbers remaining in each (from memory I think block D is also almost sold out now).

The train and coach travel also sold very well tonight and both are well on the way to sell outs.

With the success of the tickets and travel, as well as a thrilling win, I’d say tonight was a great night for the club all round. Hope you are all looking forward to our next game in Blackpool next weekend!