hahaha touche

What’s this got to do with the price of fish !

A lot of businesses offer early bird discounts. It allows them to plan accordingly.

Huddersfield will want a rough idea as to how many are attending so they can roster enough zero-hours stewards. They know Wiganers are tight (just like them) and wont want to pay extra, so by hiking the price up (or discounting if you prefer), they'll have the right number of staff on duty.

So which is it ?
Are they giving a discount? In which case their normal price is sky high
Or
Are they hiking the price on the day? Which is what the thread is about, I.e. they are discouraging people to attend on the day significantly.

As for staff, seriously?
If wigan sell 1000 tickets pre match do you think huddersfield don't want 500 turning up on the day (possibly another £10,000 in the kitty) just so they know if they have to put an extra 1 or 2 teenagers on £20 for the afternoon on the hot dog stall.

Put it up a couple of quid, fair enough to encourage early sales.
But £4 per ticket discourages people to go on the day IMO.
It's up to them what they do, but I'm not going to praise then for doing it as the only people that suffer are the fans.

Agreed £4 increase is a lot for people having to live of small company pensions !

You just pay the cheap rate and I'll top it up when I get there! May as well carry you on a Sunday as well as Monday to Friday!

How much do Wigan charge for away fans?

For me £24 is a tad expensive but whether its £20 or £24 does it matter?

Is £4 going to stop you going? Or will it be another excuse for the ever increasing book?

Challenge cup final tickets and grand final tickets are on sale now at a far cheaper rate than they will be in July and October respectively. Should this be allowed?

I doubt Very much 500 wiganers are going to just decide to rock up on the day regardless of the price. Most wiganers, if they have any sense, will buy tickets through their own club as it benefits their own club.

You are aware Wigan also do this- with discounted tickets available up front on Groupon and wowcher.....

There definitely won't be if they're being charged 20% more on the day.
However my riginal response to a Wigan poster who said it was cheaper than Wigan, in short it isnt
And it definitely isnt if you go on the day.

Also my 2nd response was aimed at the poster whi said it helps Huddesfield predict how many are coming.
False economy
There used to be a strong away day pay on the day culture, but put prices up significantly and it will discourage those who may decide to travel on the day (taking into acount weather, they may have kids playing junior rugby Sunday mornings etx.).
I picked an arbitrary figure of 500 which isnt unrealistic in my opinion, but if its 100/200 or whatever the point is we wonder why people/crowds arent travelling but charge people more on the day. Dont forget they're also charging their own fans more.
Yes other clubs do it, a couple of quid then maybe fair enough, £4 a ticket for say a family of four is significant.

Its huddersfield choice and that's end of story.

Your clubs choice to do what it wants

PS
Good luck getting tickets for the game at our place on either of those sites.

Last week you were telling people who to support and this week how much to pay to a game

Concerning stewarding as long as a stand is open it needs a full compliment of stewards

Good- I take it they’ve given it up - it caused chaos the last time a bunch of hudds fans bought on Groupon. They weren’t expecting away fans to get them and couldn’t cope with the concept- couldn’t decide where we were allowed to sit......

Well it wouldn't have been in the away end as we don't open it when the following is so

Strange that
Because of it was in the south stand, you could have sat anywhere you want in the South stand.
If it were the east or west tou would have sat where your ticket told you to sit.
Cant see how complicated that is?

What actually happened?
I'd love to know, most have been chaos???

Anyway, one day we aspire to be a club that can win our first 3 games and be as well run as yourselves.

I blame IFL

Ah well there was the problem. We couldn’t go in the away stand although we wanted to (not sure why not) - was put in one of the side stands- but our tickets didnt have seat numbers on- we were told to sit anywhere in the stand-which we did- a big group of us all from the same coach all sat together - but then people with tickets kept coming and complaining we were in their seat. Folk got peed off with being moved several times- it all kicked off- in the end the stewards relented and allowed us in the away end as they couldnt cope.
The point is- wigan has had discounted tickets- they didn’t expect away fans to take those up though..... I’m sure there’s a rule about not charging away fans more.........

You couldn't go in the away stand because we don't open it for the 12 of you. All tickets at Wigan are produced with a seat number including those in the unreserved south stand. The cost to sit in the south and north are the same. If you sit in the east, you pay a higher price for a better view.

i was one of those too and the away stand was open and we did end up getting put in there we had a decent away following back then though as we were doing pretty well there were quite a few giants fan bought off groupon so were quite a few to move and the stewards panicked as wigan fans were spitting pie crust everywhere

Mist have been like hell on earth!
I mean, if Wigan fans had bought those tickets they would have had seat numbers on, you know, like most tickets usually do.
But you lot, oh dear, having to look at a seat number and then find your way to that seat number, and then, well, I can only guess at the horrors you went through.

Seems strange how at nearly every match I go to in the east I see at least a few fans from the away team in there and they dont seem to have any issues?

Anyway, if any Wigan fans are reading this
Rest assured, when you get to Huddersfield today I'm sure that theyll have it organised much better than we do.
I suppose anyone wanting to make their minds up today can understand now where their extra £4 is going to.
It must be so a chaperone can guide you to your seat!

we didnt have seat numbers on just the groupon tickets and it was the stewards who told us we can sit anywhere clever clogs

I never told anyone who to support, I told them who they couldn't support.

So you bought tickets for the east stand, and they didnt have seat numbers on?
Wow, that's ridiculous!
And quite rightly, as I would, you assumed, because a steward in a yellow jacket told you, that you could sit anywhere?
I mean, if I get a ticket for your side seats today, I wont, but just say i did, i wouldn't expect season ticket holders from Huddersfield to be sat in any seat I wanted to go in.
Youd think youd just be able to sit where you wanted wouldn't you?
I mean you've paid extra like I would have to do today,sorry no, you bought them cheaper I forgot.
I mean you would have noticed when you bought them that they had no seat numbers on, that's strange, because when I pay on the day today I have to pay £4 more and guess what, I dont get to pick my seat because I remember that it's likely ST holders will already have bought them.
How do all our cash payers on the day find a seat?
Phew, must be hard work, but then again that's why we charge them more!
Oh no, hang on a minute, we dont, we charge them the same price, and they work out who's sitting there by, actually looking if anyone is sitting there.

Maybe that's why you dont bring anyone anymore
It must have put you guys off for life!

Jesus christ, go and have a cuppa tea and get your feet up for a bit.

Was a hundred still waiting to get in after the kick off today. But i am confident they wont have sat in anyones seat when they got in as you could have had a row each.