Tankhead12345 Posted September 10, 2018 Report Share Posted September 10, 2018 First game of the season for me. Looking forward to it How many do you think we will take up there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron-Bcfc Posted September 10, 2018 Report Share Posted September 10, 2018 400-500 would be my guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INCRED Posted September 10, 2018 Report Share Posted September 10, 2018 Won't be many as it's Friday night and on Sky. Do well to get 700 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brann-red Posted September 10, 2018 Report Share Posted September 10, 2018 500 ish definitely trying to go but timing is such a pain and taking kids out of school as they’ll want to go . Never been to Wigan either .. it’s great they’ve reduced tickets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted September 10, 2018 Report Share Posted September 10, 2018 Fairly tempted by this one- 11 quid tickets! New ground for me too. Problem is, last train out of Wigan back to Bristol seems to be earlier than end of game and coaches (as in National Express), less useful still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weepywall Posted September 10, 2018 Report Share Posted September 10, 2018 500 would be very impressive, fair play to anyone making that trip on a Friday night, last time I went there think we were stood on a grass bank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Born and Red in 82 Posted September 10, 2018 Report Share Posted September 10, 2018 Two of us travelling up from Trowbridge around lunchtime and staying over for the night in a cheap B&B a mile from the ground. Never done Wigan away and it's the only ground I've not done in the Championship! Still trying to come to terms with the fact that I'm paying to stay in Wigan for a night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BessexRED Posted September 10, 2018 Report Share Posted September 10, 2018 2 hours ago, weepywall said: 500 would be very impressive, fair play to anyone making that trip on a Friday night, last time I went there think we were stood on a grass bank. Nah it wouldn't, 500 at £10 a ticket is less than most clubs would take in this league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coxy27 Posted September 11, 2018 Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 11 hours ago, BessexRED said: Nah it wouldn't, 500 at £10 a ticket is less than most clubs would take in this league. Most clubs in this league don't have to travel 200 miles to get to Wigan. Most clubs also won't play them on a Friday night. There's so much more to it than the price of the ticket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan Posted September 11, 2018 Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 12 hours ago, BessexRED said: Nah it wouldn't, 500 at £10 a ticket is less than most clubs would take in this league. It’s certainly less than the likes Villa, Birmingham, Leeds, Wednesday, Derby etc would take in the same circumstances but then they’re all bigger clubs than us and located closer to Wigan. We don’t pretend our away support is on par with those clubs. The game is televised on Sky, travel options are limited to the roads if you come back on the same night and we’ve got West Brom away a few days earlier. For some of us who work that will probably mean arranging time off twice in one week. I think we’ll do well to get 500 there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cider-manc Posted September 11, 2018 Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 25 minutes ago, Coxy27 said: Most clubs in this league don't have to travel 200 miles to get to Wigan. Most clubs also won't play them on a Friday night. There's so much more to it than the price of the ticket. Exactly... Do people really think that Preston, Blackburn, Wigan and Bolton would take thousand of fans to each other if they weren't half an hour down the road and they had to take time off work to travel 200 plus miles with no trains home available? Wigan is £15 in black cab to Boltons ground! You couldn't get a black cab from Ashton gate to the mem for that price! I'm not saying we have the same levels of support as the big clubs in the division such as Leeds, Villa, boro, the Sheffields, etc. we are nowhere near some of them. But compared to most in the division we do alright when the distance and cost is taken into account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted September 11, 2018 Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 Not done Wigan before- does anyone know what parking provisions are like? Also, do stewards make people rigidly sit in their seat their ticket number is on or is it more flexible? Understand the away end is reasonable size and we won't sell out- fully understandably for all the reasons stated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BessexRED Posted September 11, 2018 Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 5 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said: Not done Wigan before- does anyone know what parking provisions are like? Also, do stewards make people rigidly sit in their seat their ticket number is on or is it more flexible? Understand the away end is reasonable size and we won't sell out- fully understandably for all the reasons stated. Nope, tickets are unreserved so stand wherever you like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted September 11, 2018 Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 15 minutes ago, BessexRED said: Nope, tickets are unreserved so stand wherever you like. That's great news- thanks. More clubs should take that approach- unreserved seating in away ends unreserved seems like common sense to me tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron-Bcfc Posted September 11, 2018 Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 22 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said: That's great news- thanks. More clubs should take that approach- unreserved seating in away ends unreserved seems like common sense to me tbh. Clubs don’t because that means you cant sell 10% of the seating, as is the case in the unreserved corner of the Gate. For Wigan the away end holds what 5k and we won’t get anywhere near to selling out so it makes sense. Pretty sure Wigan aren’t allowed to sell the whole stand anyway even if they wanted due to a design fault where the concourses are too small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted September 11, 2018 Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 1 minute ago, Aaron-Bcfc said: Clubs don’t because that means you cant sell 10% of the seating, as is the case in the unreserved corner of the Gate. For Wigan the away end holds what 5k and we won’t get anywhere near to selling out so it makes sense. Pretty sure Wigan aren’t allowed to sell the whole stand anyway even if they wanted due to a design fault where the concourses are too small. Ah yeah, the 10% rule... Sounds like a rule that should be applied case by case- in short maybe 90% of the capacity or less can be unreserved, or maybe to play it safe, 80% of any given away end. Shouldn't be a problem a week on Friday though, sure the back will be accessible enough- can't see a huge away contingent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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