Re: World Club Challenge - Wigan v Penrith : Sat Jan 13, 2024 11:12 am  

NSW wrote:

Think a lot of the fan base are more likely to go with it being at the familiar DW and in the town of Wigan.

I kind of like the idea that some people will miss out on tickets. Asking mates for any spares, maybe even touts haha.

Makes it an occasion

Definitely will be an occasion:

A 22k crowd made up of mostly Wigan fans.
Saturday 8pm kickoff under the floodlights.
Probably a firework entrance.
Pre-match band to get the crowd warmed up.

Cannot wait!!

Re: World Club Challenge - Wigan v Penrith : Sat Jan 13, 2024 11:26 am  

MattyB wrote:

Pity the stadium has a reduced capacity as I feel we could have achieved full 25k sellout.

It is and hopefully they can maybe squeeze a few more in here and there but it’ll look great and be a fantastic occasion regardless.

Re: World Club Challenge - Wigan v Penrith : Sat Jan 13, 2024 11:43 am  

NickyKiss wrote:

It is and hopefully they can maybe squeeze a few more in here and there but it’ll look great and be a fantastic occasion regardless.

Hopefully they can manually replace broken seats into one area in the stadium (and section it off) and release more tickets over the next few weeks. I suppose it depends how many broken seats there are, is it dozens or is it hundreds?

Re: World Club Challenge - Wigan v Penrith : Sat Jan 13, 2024 12:08 pm  

Official twitter account just announced 22,000 sold.

Taking into account the corporate allocation doubt there is more than 800 to 900 left on general sale

Re: World Club Challenge - Wigan v Penrith : Sat Jan 13, 2024 12:45 pm  

Feel the club have really turned it round with getting involved in the community and the attendances are showing that.

Obviously the team doing well and the Field/French effect but a lot to do with Matty Peet imo.

Leigh away last year last game of the season had a huge away following.

Good Friday sell out.

Hull KR playoff game and Warrington CC game had brilliant atmospheres and good attendances for non ticketed games.

Massive following at Old Trafford.

Season tickets up on last year.

And now the WCC will sell out 6 weeks in advance.

Well done to all involved

Re: World Club Challenge - Wigan v Penrith : Sat Jan 13, 2024 1:02 pm  

MattyB wrote:

Hopefully they can manually replace broken seats into one area in the stadium (and section it off) and release more tickets over the next few weeks. I suppose it depends how many broken seats there are, is it dozens or is it hundreds?

Maybe Danson and co will be able to fix the issue in time and we see some more tickets made available a little later.

Re: World Club Challenge - Wigan v Penrith : Sat Jan 13, 2024 2:04 pm  

MattyB wrote:

Hopefully they can manually replace broken seats into one area in the stadium (and section it off) and release more tickets over the next few weeks. I suppose it depends how many broken seats there are, is it dozens or is it hundreds?

That's what they've done
And it's hundreds not dozens

Expect capacity to be around late 23s to 24k

Re: World Club Challenge - Wigan v Penrith : Sat Jan 13, 2024 3:25 pm  

RobRiches wrote:

That punctuation and grammar made my eyes bleed! Jesus. Did you even go to school?

You really are a tedious little t*t

Re: World Club Challenge - Wigan v Penrith : Sat Jan 13, 2024 5:28 pm  

MattyB wrote:

Definitely will be an occasion:

A 22k crowd made up of mostly Wigan fans.
Saturday 8pm kickoff under the floodlights.
Probably a firework entrance.
Pre-match band to get the crowd warmed up.

Cannot wait!!

Yeah, get Richard Ashcroft to do a pre-match gig.

Re: World Club Challenge - Wigan v Penrith : Sat Jan 13, 2024 5:29 pm  

Jukesays wrote:

That's what they've done
And it's hundreds not dozens

Expect capacity to be around late 23s to 24k

Mike Danson is a smart cookie.