Re: GF WIgan given West stand : Sun Oct 08, 2023 1:10 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

The RFL site was awful last night but you could (eventually) pick your seats. There wasn’t a great deal more than singles left down our end when I looked earlier but they do seem to open up blocks randomly, so worth a try.

Only singles in the West via the RFL. Obviously lots in the East and some higher up in the North.

Think I'll hold my nerve for now - usually there's a big rush for seats initially for finals but when it calms down you can always get hold of decent seats. If not and 20,000 Wigan fans have suddenly come out of hiding then fair enough - I'll sit with the French lads.

Re: GF WIgan given West stand : Sun Oct 08, 2023 1:31 pm  

MadDogg wrote:

Only singles in the West via the RFL. Obviously lots in the East and some higher up in the North.

Think I'll hold my nerve for now - usually there's a big rush for seats initially for finals but when it calms down you can always get hold of decent seats. If not and 20,000 Wigan fans have suddenly come out of hiding then fair enough - I'll sit with the French lads.

Serge from Parr, John Pierre from Castleford and Benoit from Leigh will be down that end. All good lads.

Re: GF WIgan given West stand : Sun Oct 08, 2023 1:39 pm  

All a bit chaotic down at the Stadium this afternoon. We turned up at 1pm and the queues was round the back of the North Stand. Kept hearing rumours that they only had 300 tix left. Queued up for 2h and they only had £85 tix left.

Staff wandered out from the ticket office to say there may be another allocation tomorrow, but couldn't guarantee it.

There will be 45k on next week and they'll be giving tix away by Thursday. Only the RFL could manage this so badly

Re: GF WIgan given West stand : Sun Oct 08, 2023 1:50 pm  

F***ing joke (System/Club/Both?).

Got to the ground at 08:45, because I wanted to choose the block that the tickets were in, and that was the only way to do it, according to Wigan's own release to the website..

Queued until 13:15, only to be told "There are only £85 or a few standing tickets left, and they'll probably run out before you get to the front." (I was about 20th in the queue by then).

Who "planned" this?
I believe that the RFL had a plan to only release tickets in the lower tier behind the sticks, and to hold back the upper tier until they sold out - because it looks better on TV to have a full lower tier).

But with the club opening up a free-for-all, rather than giving a few hours of priority to either/both ST holders and physical sales, they've vexed off a huge number of supporters today (the queue was still round to the NE corner, so probably a good 5-600+ fans still in it).

Why not release ALL of the tickets to Wigan, with the instruction to only sell from the lower tier block until that's gone, then switch to the upp;er tier block of tickets./

I'm going to wait for the next block to be released, but I'll now have to just take whatever I'm allocated online.

Thanks for wasting 6hrs of my Sunday, Wigan.
So much for us being able to "enjoy" going to a final.

Re: GF WIgan given West stand : Sun Oct 08, 2023 2:04 pm  

TonyM19 wrote:

All a bit chaotic down at the Stadium this afternoon. We turned up at 1pm and the queues was round the back of the North Stand. Kept hearing rumours that they only had 300 tix left. Queued up for 2h and they only had £85 tix left.

Staff wandered out from the ticket office to say there may be another allocation tomorrow, but couldn't guarantee it.

There will be 45k on next week and they'll be giving tix away by Thursday. Only the RFL could manage this so badly

Depressing to read as the sport can't afford experiences like this. Very rarely had positive experiences with RFL ticketing or the Wigan ticket office.

Re: GF WIgan given West stand : Sun Oct 08, 2023 2:13 pm  

... and now it looks like the RFL website has packed in too

Re: GF WIgan given West stand : Sun Oct 08, 2023 2:15 pm  

Sounds like Wigan were only given a 8,000 allocation today.

Re: GF WIgan given West stand : Sun Oct 08, 2023 2:38 pm  

I just managed to buy tickets for the SAF stand (needed 6 together). £40 tix and I sat there for the WC Final, so they're decent seats, but I'll be a bit fed up if there's a load of tix behind the goal tomorrow.

Always a bit wary about buying from the RFL as you can be surrounded by fans from anywhere. I remember a GF when my kids were little and they wanted to go home at half time (and we were winning) as we had a team from York on their annual booze up directly behind us and a team from Bradford doing exactly the same directly in front of us. Put two teams on the pop all day, sit in between them with your 3 daughters and imagine how it felt. There will be no neutrals on Saturday.

Its been a joyless experience today and has taken away all the excitement of Saturday afternoon.

Re: GF WIgan given West stand : Sun Oct 08, 2023 2:50 pm  

Crazy if we only got 8k! There will be a minimum 20k Emory seats, so why not give Wigan the full west end but stretch it right down both touchlines, towards the East? This is the RFL though, the same RFL that left the South Stand closed for the cup semi and put Wigan in the peeing rain, down the amateur standard away end, only to then open up the South Stand to KR fans, which was a third full.

Re: GF WIgan given West stand : Sun Oct 08, 2023 3:08 pm  

Queued up for 4 hrs and left without a ticket. After a lot of aggro with the RFL website eventually managed to get seats in the Catalans end behind the sticks. Never known a website so slow but I guess half of Wigan was trying to book tickets by then. There are obviously a lot of seats free at that end as I believe Catalans have only asked for a thousand tickets. The RFL recently told clubs that they were withholding some central funding from the clubs due to cashflow problems. Not surprising given that they cant seem to organise the distribution of tickets for one of their annual events that had been planned months in advance. The RFL must be the most inept sports governing body in the world.