18000.

I expect the away end to be totally full as usual.

15,575

Judging the queues down there today, I don't think it's going to be a poor attendance. I reckon it'll be 18-19000 ish which is good for play off standards.

Would be a tremendous effort. Wigan's crowds are fabulous and a real credit to the club.

Then again, it is a lot easier to brainwash stupid people

absolutely, this game is huge, the week off prior to the next game (likely to be against saints) would be fantastic. just refer to the wire/wigan game for how crucial a week off can be.

although we managed it last year so no reason we can't play every week and still win the grand final

The fact that the playoffs (the so-called pinnacle games of the season) are played in front of significantly lower crowds than regular season games is a real problem for Super League.

The RFL should introduce a policy that allows all ST holders to purchase playoff tickets for half price. Rewards fan loyalty and gives an extra incentive to buy season tickets in the first place.

I dont know how anyone can call this game pointless! If we win on Sunday our route to the final could potentially be:

Week 1: Saints (H)
Week 2: OFF
Week 3 Saints (H)

As opposed to if we lose:

Week 1: Saints (H)
Week 2: Catalans (H)
Week 3: Saints (A)

I know which one I prefer the look of. I don't think we will make the final if we lose this weekend.

They should just be cheaper, £10 ish for the first and second round would generate sellouts, its terrible PR for RL when the stadiums for playoff's are half full.

Who sets the price for playoff tickets, the club or the RFL?



That's a very tough run in, We need to win this week for me, aswell as the week off doing us a world of good, it could be near impossible if we lose and the results go as i expect.

Finishing top probably will reap its benefits this year looking at how the table has panned out.

The players had a rest last week.

Dont worry....ive had a vision....

Wouldn't Saints have the club call if that happened? Surely they'd pick Leeds instead of us and make us face Wire? Unless it doesn't work that way.

Saints can only get club call if both us and Wire lose this weekend.

Correct.

Oh yeah, I read that completely wrong.

I don't think anyone should underestimate the importance of a week off.

Conserves energy
Less likelihood of injury
Less likelihood of suspension
More training time

The play-offs are totally flawed if round 3 is exactly the same as the top two round 1 matches. This is garbage planning.

Yup. Yet more rubbish from the RFL.

Last year when we had the week off we stuttered the week after and lost.

This year we NEED the week off to refresh the bodies (some of which are clearly battered and bruised) ready for two big knockout games.

Come on people since when has any Wigan v Saints game been pointless, id take a win even if its a friendly played at sherdley park. Attendance should be very good i think im sure we`ll come over in numbers, of course a week off is ideal send the others to knock hell out of each other then hammer the winners, whos gona win sunday Wigan of course, we will take on Catalans then back to Wigan, cos Warrington wont have the bottle to play us, Who will win the game in 3 weeks Wigan v Saints Come on we arnt gona go a full season with out beating you.

This, without a doubt. From the wire game the other week it's clear that the 3 extra games from last year in the WCC, cup semi and cup final have caught up with them (though I would definitely take this position every year to be competing in those games in the first place!).

Massive effort needed on Sunday to get the 2nd week off and I'm sure the lads won't disappoint!

Agree.

Last year we'd had enough weeks off to stay fresh on challenge cup weekends and having to play Hull KR in week 2 of the play offs helped us get rid of some rust.

This year we've had no breaks and due to the WCC and the exiles games our lads have had to back up a couple of times. The full squad could do with a week off as a couple look a little jaded.

We really could do with a win on Sunday.

In Australia it's 1 v 8, 2 v 7, etc. I don't know what happens in subsequent rounds but maybe this would be better. It does seem ridiculous that we all know that Wigan will play Saints twice.

Yep, it's certainly a foregone conclusion you would hammer Catalans if you lose to Saints, given the beatings you dished out in the league fixtures.

Oh.

Ticket sales for the game have started off very well at Saints. The first allocation for the game was sold out by 11a.m. on Monday and another allocation had to be brought over from the DW. Granted the first application may have only been about 1000 or so but if sales continue as they are then we should bring quite a few. When all is said and done the game is Wigan V Saints.

Looking at eticketing theres a hell of alot of ST holders not bought their seats before the deadline. There's around 9K been sold so far for the home stands. That includes any seats that were on general sale. Its hard to judge but I can't see another 10k tickets being sold before Sunday. Ill go for an attendance around 14-15k.