Some of you maybe interested that Travelzoo is currently offering tickets at £14 Adult, £5 Child.

Sales going well then....

Be surprised if this tops 15k. No idea why, but 11k for the opening game v Leeds sets a benchmark.

My response on a thread on the Wigan board a couple of weeks ago


21k against Cronulla 2 years ago
Somewhere within reach of that would be very good

I think its time Wigan followed the examples set by Hull, Widnes, Leigh and Huddersfield in closing off sections of their stadiums.
Wigans crowds these days dont justify having all 4 stands open in a 25k staium.

Hull aside, the rest have poor attendances and so can condense everyone into a stand or 2. If you close the Boston Stand you close an 8k capacity and force those into 5k + 6k capacity stands - the game at Leeds wouldn't have fit in the South/Springfield Stand combined. If you close the Springfield Stand you lose all the corporate/pricier seats.

I've no doubt they have considered it as it contributes to larger running costs but even a poor Wigan crowd wouldn't really fit in the other 2 (assuming they keep the away fans separate).

Thank you very much for this

Wigan have on occasions closed the "Away" stand due to small numbers of away fans.
No chance they will currently consider closing the other 3 for exactly the reasons you state - Plus they have sold seasons tickets for those exact seats

Would it be plausable to allocate the end 3 blocks of the boston stand for example to away fans and close off the traditional away stand? Id imagine that would be ample for the majority of games with the exception of Saints, Wire and Cas

It looked shocking on tv on friday and the atmoshere came across as terrible as well (i apreciate it may have been better and just come across poor on the tv). I just cant see any justification at all in opening 4 stands when the stadium is more than half empty

Look to be yes. The East and West Stands (touchline stands) are looking pretty full, with just some tickets in the top corners and the South stand has less then 500 left this morning, which now looks to be less then a couple of hundred going off the E-Ticket site.

The cheap tickets are for the North Stand which is usually the away end and it will clearly be a tougher sell.

There will be over 20,000 there which will stack up pretty well against most WCC crowds.

I agree it looked awful, and the atmosphere at the DW is poor even when it's a much higher crowd so it's not just a tv illusion. The obviously solution as you say is close the North Stand but then you risk it putting away fans off. I know for me I love being at away games behind the sticks. With Wigan their attendances aren;t quite poor enough for this. Ultimately, they need a more suitable stadium as DW is not fit for purpose based off current crowds and it's always been dead from an atmosphere perspective.

A small allocation of tickets were released on promotion, here’s an update looking at our official site: East stand sold out last night (full price). South stand (less than 200 left) - prices at £27 adult West stand (less than 800 left) - prices at £30-33 adult North stand (less than 1500 left) - prices at £23 adult. https://www.eticketing.co.uk/wiganwarri ... Index/1934 So looking at that we are around 22k+ with four full selling days left. An attendance that 95% of clubs in our sport would find impossible to achieve in their home ground or neutral stadium.

A small allocation of tickets were released on promotion, here’s an update looking at our official site: East stand sold out last night (full price). South stand (less than 200 left) - prices at £27 adult West stand (less than 800 left) - prices at £30-33 adult North stand (less than 1500 left) - prices at £23 adult. https://www.eticketing.co.uk/wiganwarri ... Index/1934 So looking at that we are around 22k+ with four full selling days left. An attendance that 95% of clubs in our sport would find impossible to achieve in their home ground or neutral stadium.