I was going to post something simmilar regarding ticket sales are they struggling to sell tickets with them being advertised on the club website as crinbo pressies

Not far off five figures sold and it's still very early for it yet, considering bigger priorites are season tickets, christmas, stuff like that.

I had real issues trying to book 4 adults and 2 seniors, via the Wigan Website. I jumoed on the RFL website and got them sorted no bother.

Not the first time i have had problems with official website.

They need to have a look at really. They lost out on a few quid last night.

So you're telling me Leeds had only sold 2500 tickets by December and 27000 showed up?

Jog on mate.

I must admit I am surprised that the Wigan public aren't rushing to get their tickets for this one. I'm not having a go here, as I'm really looking forward to this match, but me and my mate thought this would be a nailed on sell out, regardless of price, owing to Wigan's current popularity and history in this "competition".

Plenty time yet - people have season tickets and Xmas to pay for first...oh, and new home shirts of course.

How do you know they're not?

What were you expecting - a sellout to be announced two months before the night of the game?

No, why would you think that? For a club famous for its excellent support, in perhaps the most interesting WCC for some time, I would expect more than figures to be limping towards the 10,000 mark, and to not have desperate, and IMO, inaccurate, comparisons to Leeds' figures from last season in order to justify this.

Thats what I was told.

I think it's pretty accurate myself, Dave

Not sure how the computer booking system takes account of actual sales as against generally ticket availability, for example those tickets sold via the RFL,but having just booked another 6 there seems to be less than 15% availability in the North, West and South stands and not a lot more in the East. Maybe Wigan aren't shouting about it becauuse they don't need to?

It doesn't give much of a representation of sales as the RFL have been allocated most of the North but they will show as 'sold' on the system.

Any idea on sales through the RFL to non Wiganers?

Not many the last I heard but I'd expect it to pick up soon. I think neutrals might be torn between the Magic weekend and the WCC, to be honest.

If I was a neutral I'd be going to the Magic Weekend rather than the WCC tbh

Half empty stadium with an overload of meaningless games or a game between the two best sides in the world? No contest IMO.

Let's hope we get a few (thousand) more thinking along the same lines!

If anybody is like me, I've not even thought of purchasing tickets over Xmas for a game that is two months away.

Now that the hectic holiday period is over, I'll be looking to purchase my ticket within the next week or so.

Exactly the same. We'll be getting our 7 tickets this week and i'd imagine there will be plenty of others with the same mindset.

I dont know if the ticketmaster stadium map is right but its showing about 4000 left

It isn't. Pretty much all the ones in the North have been given to the RFL and are shown as sold. I think sales are starting to approach 10k but it's apparently way more than Leeds had sold this time last year.

That sounds more like it

Same for us. Also got family in Boston coming accross with it being such a huge game even though they havn't been for 5 years. I would imagine many will buy tickets that didn't even attend the GF.

Still not sure of a sell-out though, too many people will be happy watching on tv due to the ticket price.

Leyther_Matt will know ho many have been sold. Hopefully he will post up some figures at some point.

I don't know how many have been sold at the RFL but they hadn't exactly had a rush the last I'd heard.

Exactly. The RFL have gone way over the top with ticket pricing. They should have learned from the 2009 Four Nations. Empty seats at both Doncaster for England v France and at Wigan for England v Australia.