2233 left not including the North stand which means a crowd of 21227 if Warrington sell their full allocation in the North stand.

Should hit 24,000 by tomorrow, people buying tickets late, always happens. Am a crusaders fan, and i cant wait for the game, is guna be a classic, with a great atmosphere. First time watching rugby league in the DW as well.

I hope you enjoy the game and shout for Wigan - which stand are you in?

Fantastic response from you guys.





See ya there.

I wonder how many will be at Widnes tomorrow night? Personally, if I was a Saints fan I'd watch Wigan V Wire on the box...

East Stand 1 718 left
East Stand 2 174 left
West Stand 1 590 left
West Stand 2 698 left
South Stand sold out

2180 left in the Wigan ends (that means approx 950 sold today).

I'm over the moon with how things are going with crowd figures - the sales and marketing team really have done a sensational job over the last few years. Everyone knew the potential was there, it was simply about realising it. Around 2000-2002, people seemed to have fallen out of love with the club and struggled with the idea of Wigan having a new home after Central Park.

To go from the days of sub 7000 crowds 8-9 years ago to what we have now is phenomenal progress. I think the sky's the limit provided the club doesn't get complacent.

What an advert for RL tomorrow night should be. 22k+ crowd. Cracking atmosphere, if the antagonism (friendly banter) on these boards is anything to go by. I don't care if you all think Saints/Leeds is a bigger game. This is the big one for me this season. If you ignore the respective history of the two teams, then you will have a hard job arguing that there is a bigger game. We are currently the best two teams in the game, only time will tell which of us is the better of the two. I can't wait, or sleep.

Well done to both clubs for selling so many tickets.

Let's hope the game matches the general publics enthusiasm.

Edited for accuracy

Agreed.

The two last year were both fantastic games and great adverts for Rugby League in general.

More of the same please.

Sorry im in the Wire end and will be shouting for Wires! Sure i will have a great time. If you see some person walking around the stadium with a Crusaders shirt on and you think '' who is that idiot''. That likey to be me!

i guess ur right you must be an idiot

haha

Just don't be stuttering , that annoys me "cru cru crusaders"
"Wi wi wire"

The big drop was before that really, and before we moved from CP - I think the switch to summer rugby, coupled with our falling performances, had more to do with it. We dropped from 14k+ in '94-95 to only 8k+ in '97.

There's a graph somewhere (might be on Bilko's site?) that shows it very dramatically.

IT looks like a crowd of 21,000! so lets hope the game matches the crowd

21486 is the current total (assuming Wire sell their North stand allocation which is a fair assumption). Good weather today and building anticipation of a big game should see further sales right up to kick-off. This is heading for >22k easily, and possibly >23k. People are buying tickets as I post. For the first ever I have encountered a slow response to the Wigan online ticketing system which states that the response is slow due to the number of people using it and hence puts you in a queue.

This should be a great game whatever the result and with a big and vocal crowd all seen on Sky this should be a certain winner for RL. Bring it on!

1923 tickets remaining.

What was the attendence for the Big One 2? 21k?

22,701.

Pushing it to beat that.

Wire are bringing more fans but that marketing campaign is more directed at the home fans so the Wigan ends were pretty full.

This proves why perhaps the wire game shouldn't be chosen as the big one. This is the third 20k plus crowd since 2007. If both teams are playing well it draws a big crowd.

According to the Wire site its over 20k sold and we have very few left in the North but we have tickets for East as well.

Think my ticket was only a tenner for that, still great crowd without offers etc.

The first thousand tickets in each stand were all a tenner, so they gave the same offer to the away fans which is only fair IMO.

We could be looking at 4 maybe even 5 20k + crowds this season! Would be astonishing and unheard of in RL in Europe.

and yet, according to a contingent on here, its only wire fans who see this as a big game.

Wigan ticket sales would suggest otherwise.......

Only here cos it's Wigan.