Re: Semi Final v Salford : Wed Jul 26, 2017 6:49 am  

Sadly, Wiganers have a long standing reputation of not turning up to sporting events when they have to put their hands in their pockets. Its not just a rugby thing as the football crowds for cup ties drop by over 50%.

Disposable income in Wigan is not as plentiful as some of the other northern towns/cities.

Re: Semi Final v Salford : Wed Jul 26, 2017 10:19 am  

Your talking sh*** , so Wigan must have been a booming town in the 80, 90s when their would be 15,000 plus going to a challenge cup semi final

Re: Semi Final v Salford : Wed Jul 26, 2017 1:50 pm  

Wigg'n wrote:

Wouldn't surprise me at all to see only 3,000 Wigan fans there.

And will you be one of them?

Re: Semi Final v Salford : Wed Jul 26, 2017 2:33 pm  

you have to be realistic and factor in a potential Wembley trip, a potential GF trip (very potentially!!) and then we have the WC and now even the SL game in Oz early next year.

we aren't all on megabucks, I think its unfair to suggest we don't appreciate the position we are in, but we can't support them everywhere all the time.

I still maintain that home cup ties should be included free of charge on season tickets. ok you may end up "unlucky" and get two home ties but surely the club will still make more on the days than they do trying to flog these tickets. this then gives fans more money to play with when it comes to fixtures like this.

Re: Semi Final v Salford : Wed Jul 26, 2017 2:35 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

We are a strange bunch to be fair. We can take 2,000+ to the other side of the world, another couple of thousand to France yet at Leigh on a Thursday night we probably had half that amount there!

I can't see how it can be as low as 2,500 going off initial allocation but it wouldn't surprise me at all.

It's on the telly. Warrington town centre is hardly a bangin' metropolis. Our form has been sheeet all year. Recent performances have failed to inspire. Apathy & just being fed up with the lot of 'em has probably kicked in for a large number of casuals. School hols. Plus it looks like autumn has arrived early too.
All of which is bo11ox when you consider the Whinos/Ull fixture is reported to be a sell out.
We're an odd bunch.

Re: Semi Final v Salford : Wed Jul 26, 2017 3:03 pm  

proper-shaped-balls wrote:

And will you be one of them?

Yeah why?

Re: Semi Final v Salford : Wed Jul 26, 2017 4:19 pm  

CyberPieMan wrote:

It's on the telly. Warrington town centre is hardly a bangin' metropolis. Our form has been sheeet all year. Recent performances have failed to inspire. Apathy & just being fed up with the lot of 'em has probably kicked in for a large number of casuals. School hols. Plus it looks like autumn has arrived early too.
All of which is bo11ox when you consider the Whinos/Ull fixture is reported to be a sell out.
We're an odd bunch.

It's a semi final and even with all points considered, we shouldn't have an issue selling a good 7,000 or 8,000 tickets.

In fairness there's no confirmation either way in sales. We've had an extra allocation of standing tickets and I can't for the life of me think we were only given 2,500 tickets in our first allocation when we had two thirds of the stadium ear marked for us.

I suppose we'll see on the day but I've not seen any desperate pleas from players and staff for us to support the team like we had before Doncaster last year.

Re: Semi Final v Salford : Wed Jul 26, 2017 6:46 pm  

Limited tickets left in the South and East stands with some also remaining in the north is the word from the club about an hour ago. Also there will be no sales on the day which doesn't tally up with us having sold 3,000 or less.

Re: Semi Final v Salford : Wed Jul 26, 2017 6:49 pm  

Wigg'n wrote:

Yeah why?

Just wondered. Me too.

Re: Semi Final v Salford : Wed Jul 26, 2017 6:53 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

Limited tickets left in the South and East stands with some also remaining in the north is the word from the club about an hour ago. Also there will be no sales on the day which doesn't tally up with us having sold 3,000 or less.

Yeah, I heard that too. Not gonna be far off full, I'd guess, whatever the split between the two clubs.