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He's says he's quoting what the examiner says, if so then surely it's the examiner who's looking daft.

Has anyone with Groupon tickets actually asked Wigan if you can swap stands rather than guessing? Just give them a ring and ask.

Already have since they refused to do the kids junior swaps for east stand- a resounding no!

Yes, i sent them an email and got a reply saying:

its on page 44 of the exmainer top left. 'fans will be out in force' is the headline.

'around 2000 fans ready to make the trip'

was abit surprised to be honest myself!

well I hope that is true!
but on Monday the club said we had sold just over 200 , so must have been a massive surge since then!
we will still get slagged for our crap support though!

Well if there are 200 in the away end and 1800 in the group on section i will be happy ( although as i understand it each block only holds about 600 so we will be sitting on each others knees).

I don't care who's knee I sit on as long as we win

As much as i want the win i would not want you sitting on my knee !

Me either !

The East stand is, and always has been, reserved seating. If everyone sits in the seat they've been allocated and doesn't get too giddy, there won't be a problem.

I am dragging along (not literally) 6 that don't normally go to away games. You might be surprised at the level of support on Friday. We have just outsourced our IT at work and one guy is coming from Delhi!!! First taste of Rugby League

"Anyone who has purchased tickets for this game through the Groupon offer will be sat in allocated seats in blocks ES1 and ES2 of the East Stand and will not be transferred to other areas of the stadium."

If there is an emergency then the club need to know how many people are in each stand, therefore, they can't just shuffle people from one stand to another willy nilly.

How do the likes of kr, Cas and wakey go on "in an emergency!"

I don't know, I give up.

I would hope that on the day for those two blocks they just make them unreserved and the stewards tell Giants fans to go in ES1 and the Wigan Fans in ES2.

Will make for a better atmosphere for everyone.

No issues about H and S as there will still be the same nos in those blocks and the fact you could not book an individual seat but were allocated one would make it fairly equitable.

Do you get prawn sandwiches with these £8 tickets??

There's alot of griping about seat allocation here, if you wanted specific seats then I'm afraid you have to pay the going rate, to bleat on here about £8 seats not being where you want them is pathetic!

Prawn sandwhiches are reserved for those who can afford the expensive seats, i am just bringing my Brown Sauce sandwhich

Dont think anyone's bleating as such really, i'm certainly not at that price - just wondering if it was going to be possible thats all .

I doubt it would be possible because of season ticket holders with reserved seats, There wont be many but that end is cheaper for season tickets as opposed to the half way line so there are a few there. In theory it wouldn't be a bad idea though.

Playing devils advocate here. Yeah it might seem an easy solution putting one set of fans with these vouchers in one block but it wouldn't work as the stewards wouldn't know who's who as not everyone stands out as fans of the team they support. Also they can't sell every seat then revert to unreserved seating given that a certain percentage of seats need to be left unsold in an unreserved seating allocation. The other thing the Wigan ticket office weren't to know how many from Huddersfield would've taken up this offer so again they couldn't have said which rows or blocks to put aside for Huddersfield callers.
As for putting Giants fans from the east into the North they wanted the east stand filled which is why they allowed this offer, the North already has another offer so again they don't know the take up of this. Also if the Giants are telling them they're taking 2000 there without these groupons added they certainly won't allow for transfers.

still cant believe we are taking around 2000, the examiner must have that wrong, would love to see it mind

It won't happen, but I expect some idiots to arrive at the stadium expecting this to be the case and causing arguments with stewards / other fans.



I think the fact you've paid buttons for your allocated seat makes it fairly equitable.

i would hope that if there was 4 seats near most of the giants fans and those seats are occupied by neutrals or wigan fans that if i asked them politely they might swap seats with us and let us sit with our own fans.
if not then i will just be annoying people by singing and shouting for my team



we are on row R so fairly low down, there will be lots behind us i imagine?