Well I don't know what happened but we nearly had a fight or several in block E232 over a total farce with seating/ticketing.

Thankfully we took our seats in row 23 early or we may have found someone else in them.

I don't know what went wrong but it all started when a big group behind us kept going to the steward complaining about their seats for some reason.

As more and more people arrived they started finding people in their seats. The steward copped out and told people to sit wherever they liked!

This culminated with people turning up at kick off time or just after getting very ed off to find people sat where they should be and I witnessed some very, very angry people ready to fight it out!

God knows what happened to the stewarding but it had vanished and while some senior bloke turned up later (too late) but it could have got very nasty.

Thank god you found something to moan about DaveO...

I hate DaveO's pessimism but he's bang on here and I'm onto the club and rfl Monday
Wasn't stewards fault though
They said they had messed up the ticketing and double printed seat numbers
I was on row 23 but had to sit else were on there as some one was in my seats because someone was in there's and so on FARCE!!!!
Why did I que up for 2 hours on a Saturday morning at 9 to pick my seats and not get them to then miss kick off for all the commotion
God help the World Cup if it's organised by the rfl

<shrug> If me posting what I did has given you the chance to post that (I am sure you could not wait) has made your evening, I am very happy for you.

Sorry if it put a dampener on your evening, i did not mean to trivialise your problem...

We were on row 23 as well. Seats 14 and 15.



Got mine off the Internet so wonder if that was a possible cause of the double booking? I was asked if I was in the right seats by someone. Just glad we were already seated.

If you want anyone to confirm your story with the club, send me a PM.

Same thing happened in E230 as well lots of stewards in orange jackets and police. People were actually stood in the alleyway at kick off 15mins into the game a police man came and moved them elsewhere.

Not sure what seats we were in just got told to find some on same row

Which was bound to cause problems when the late comers arrived. I hope it didn't spoil your evening.

We were struggling to get to seats stewards looked at tickets and said there is a problem seats are already taken find one if you can. Something went wrong and it could have caused a lot of problems.

Nearly did close to us just around/after kick off. Not good enough.

Ask for a refund if you missed part if the match because of the RFL's fault. If this happens in the RLWC to newcomers they won't return.

Same with us, a group of 4 people turned up and produced identical tickets to ours. Thankfully they were reasonable people and went to discuss it with the Stewards.

Shocking from the RFL to get something as basic as ticketing wrong.

He clearly has a problem with some of us on here. I notice in his retraction (something he is forced to do quite a bit) that you didn't get the apology despite being the thread author. I simply don't respond to him any more, and life is a bit more beautiful as a result.

Lol

Well here is another post you don't need to respond to... And I'm so sorry that some people lack a sense of humour...

My family and I where in Block E230 Row 22, seats 71-76.....the problem we had was that seats numbered 73-76 didnt even exist!!! We collared a steward and he said to sit in any seats on our row. I explained that this would cause issues later and he said to send them to him if it did. Any way angry man turns up later, not happy we were sat in his seats (rightly so), sent him to the steward, steward sits him some other seats, 10 mins later and this guy has someone in his face re the seats!!! Not good enough, more pee'd off the fact we were sold tickets from the Wigan ticket office, that were phantom seats!! What would have happened if the game was a sellout?? Where would we have sat?? Again when you queue up for hours and get your tickets, only thing you should then have to worry about is getting there!!!

Matt

I was in your block too row 19 it nearly got angry with some people getting really annoyed hence the bouncers present and the 2 coppers.

Sounds like it was on par with the fiasco of getting a train home from Victoria!

I was in e230 as well, I got on 20 mins before KO and saved 7 seats for our group as there was already folk sat in them and the stewards mumbling something about ticket master. Fortunately a combination of some pretty foul trumps after a pre-match session on the real ale and a steward stood on the end of the row kept our pews til everyone showed up but it looked a mess in general.

I got my tickets via the Wigan web site off Ticket Master and was asked by someone was I in the right seat so I assume they had duplicates for ours. Being an IT person all I can say is ticket master must have a totally rubbish booking system designed and implemented by a bunch of rank amateurs if they can't avoid the double booking scenario.

Bring back the terraces

I emailed a complaint to the rfl this morning as I experienced the same incident. 20mins we had to stand up as no seat was available. I have now received a refund on my tickets.
What a slack setup !!