ticket sales going well,over on their board it states it could pass the 22,000 mark already!
Wire will take 5,000,leaving them to take 17,000+.
Less than 12 months ago they didnt sell their allocation for the cc semi at widnes sending quite a few hundred tickets back thus helping wire to take a few more coach loads to widnes..
it really does suprise me just how fickle their fans can be at times seeing as they are obssessed by home and away crowds..

To be fair to Wigan it's like that with all teams.

Just look at our away support now we have won the CC. Also look at Bradford now, there fans have somewhat dissapeared due to failure to deliver success.

got mine the other day! its about time we stuff them!

dont think it'll sell out, its on tele in 3D



however im still going, 4D is better

3D is so overrated.

Andy Yet your the one raising a thread about crowds saying you will bring 5k before you've even sold them!
There are so many things wrong with this post I don't know whether to laugh or cry!

PS

About 1k to our place last year! Now that was Fickle!

And why was that?

Two weeks prior to Wembley and a week after the SF.

And yet we still made more noise than your lot.

Your average is way up on last season and you took 100 to Bradford and Hull last year and this year is a different story, that is fickle.

We were bottom of the league and still getting huge crowds and big away numbers. How you can call Wigan fans fickle is beyond me.

Yea 3D is Poop

As I said before success brings in fans.

30k to Wembley but we struggle to sell out a home game.

We didn't take too many more to Hull this year



Wigan fans are great, Warrington fans are great. That's it in a nutshell for me. Your point about being bottom of the league stands up well IMO; you were averaging around 16k for home games that season and you sold out the West Stand at the HJ aswell as taking big numbers elsewhere. I do not begrudge Wigan a sellout crowd whatsoever. It took you a long time to generate the sort of crowds at the JJB/DW that you did at Central Park for a variety of reasons. Going to the DW is beginning to feel like going to 'Wigan Away' again, I really like it as a modern stadium; the atmosphere is crackling at times and while it will never be CP, of all the new stadia, it is by far my favourite.

bitter much?



How about praising the club for putting our sport out there in a massive advertising campaign? We have the best marketing team in Rugby League, we got 18k against Harlequins, no other club in Super League could manage that.

Good Post. Hopefully this won't finish up being the usual Warrington/Wigan 'my dad's bigger than your dad' thread. Both Clubs are currently bdoing more to attract support than most of SL. It never ceases to amaze me that Clubs like Salford never seem to try to generate support. It should be a great night.
Apart from Wilderspool, Central Park will always be my all time favourite ground. It just 'was' Rugby League.

I reckon Leeds or Hull could if they discounted the tickets against Quins as much as you did for their home ties against them. Although your marketing is good you aren't the club who wins the best community based club each year. I forget which club wins that award. Reducing prices to put bums on seats is hardly straight out of Saachi & Saachi's main think-tank is it ?

However, I do love sticking it up the noses of Wendyball fans when they go on about the Latics and their Premiership status. I may be off the mark but I reckon the Pies get a bigger home attendance than their land lords which reflects well, not just on Wigan RL, but on the sport of Rugby League.

Great post.

I can praise Warrington for their crowds and their awesome away support but how anyone can say Wigan fans are fickle is beyond me.

Warrington need to extend the HJ so they can really go to town on marketing the big games. The Wigan game earlier in the year could have got 16k and it will be the same for the Saints game later in the season.

We need to sell out the HJ on a more consistent basis before looking to expand to be honest. Two sellouts per season isn't enough.

Sell outs will happen once we become a sucessfull team over a period of time.

And until then, we don't need to expand the stadium IMO.

Spot on.

If the team can stay at or around the level that you've been at this year then within 2-3 years you'll be selling out a lot more frequently than a couple of games a season. As much as it pains me to admit it, I've enjoyed watching Wire this year, some of the attacking play has been very easy on the eye.

If you take Bradford's crowd differences from 10 years ago to today, you can easily see Wire steadily starting to fill the ground to the point where talk of expansion is a viable option.

I agree with your second comment re sticking it up the Latics, but you've missed the point with your first comment. Wigan would normally get 12-14,000 for a Quins match. If they sell 5,000 tickets at £10 each to two large companies who then give those tickets to their employees, then everyone gains. Wigan get £50,000 extra that they wouldn't normally get for a Quins game and will probably gain a few new fans.

I may be off the mark but I reckon you're wrong about that.

Wigan Athletic average around 18500.

thats because we played you at widnes like a week befor and beet you so dont start with fickle fan remarks from a team that gives a cc semi final tickets cos they cant sell them all

we took 40k-45k