Re: Ticket sales for friday : Fri Mar 25, 2011 8:29 am  

Galloping Ghost wrote:

Let's hope the game matches the general publics enthusiasm.

Agreed.

The two last year were both fantastic games and great adverts for Rugby League in general.

More of the same please.

Re: Ticket sales for friday : Fri Mar 25, 2011 9:10 am  

EastStandFaithful wrote:

I hope you enjoy the game and shout for Wigan - which stand are you in?

Sorry im in the Wire end and will be shouting for Wires! Sure i will have a great time. If you see some person walking around the stadium with a Crusaders shirt on and you think '' who is that idiot''. That likey to be me!

Re: Ticket sales for friday : Fri Mar 25, 2011 10:30 am  

GouldyCrusader wrote:

Sorry im in the Wire end and will be shouting for Wires! Sure i will have a great time. If you see some person walking around the stadium with a Crusaders shirt on and you think '' who is that idiot''. That likey to be me!

i guess ur right you must be an idiot haha

Re: Ticket sales for friday : Fri Mar 25, 2011 10:34 am  

GouldyCrusader wrote:

Sorry im in the Wire end and will be shouting for Wires! Sure i will have a great time. If you see some person walking around the stadium with a Crusaders shirt on and you think '' who is that idiot''. That likey to be me!

Just don't be stuttering , that annoys me "cru cru crusaders"
"Wi wi wire"

Re: Ticket sales for friday : Fri Mar 25, 2011 10:39 am  

MadDogg wrote:

I'm over the moon with how things are going with crowd figures - the sales and marketing team really have done a sensational job over the last few years. Everyone knew the potential was there, it was simply about realising it. Around 2000-2002, people seemed to have fallen out of love with the club and struggled with the idea of Wigan having a new home after Central Park.

The big drop was before that really, and before we moved from CP - I think the switch to summer rugby, coupled with our falling performances, had more to do with it. We dropped from 14k+ in '94-95 to only 8k+ in '97.

There's a graph somewhere (might be on Bilko's site?) that shows it very dramatically.

Re: Ticket sales for friday : Fri Mar 25, 2011 11:03 am  

IT looks like a crowd of 21,000! so lets hope the game matches the crowd

Re: Ticket sales for friday : Fri Mar 25, 2011 12:40 pm  

21486 is the current total (assuming Wire sell their North stand allocation which is a fair assumption). Good weather today and building anticipation of a big game should see further sales right up to kick-off. This is heading for >22k easily, and possibly >23k. People are buying tickets as I post. For the first ever I have encountered a slow response to the Wigan online ticketing system which states that the response is slow due to the number of people using it and hence puts you in a queue.

This should be a great game whatever the result and with a big and vocal crowd all seen on Sky this should be a certain winner for RL. Bring it on!

Re: Ticket sales for friday : Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:16 pm  

1923 tickets remaining.

Re: Ticket sales for friday : Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:19 pm  

What was the attendence for the Big One 2? 21k?

Re: Ticket sales for friday : Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:20 pm  

Wire_85 wrote:

What was the attendence for the Big One 2? 21k?

22,701.

Pushing it to beat that.

Wire are bringing more fans but that marketing campaign is more directed at the home fans so the Wigan ends were pretty full.

This proves why perhaps the wire game shouldn't be chosen as the big one. This is the third 20k plus crowd since 2007. If both teams are playing well it draws a big crowd.