Re: Bringing the cash in : Mon Dec 04, 2023 11:34 am  

Jukesays wrote:

Noel Gallager 18th July
The Lathums 19th July

Onwards and Upwards !!!!

Yeah good news.
Might take my grandson to Lathums.

Re: Bringing the cash in : Mon Dec 04, 2023 1:19 pm  

Great to have a few gigs announced. Wonder what the scope would be on getting a Haigh festesc festival at Robin Park

Re: Bringing the cash in : Mon Dec 04, 2023 6:09 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

It would be interesting to know. Whatever the set up is, you’d imagine it’ll be a money spinner. This is a smaller scale but I remember Lancashire turning themselves around from struggling financially, to making big profits on the back of them starting to host concerts. We’ve been making losses these last few years and even if we can just get back towards sustainability, that would be fantastic.

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Re: Bringing the cash in : Fri Dec 08, 2023 2:40 pm  

More issues on the blue side of town. United fans have been given the East Stand for the upcoming FA Cup match which has enraged a lot of Latics fans on social media.

Re: Bringing the cash in : Fri Dec 08, 2023 2:59 pm  

MattyB wrote:

More issues on the blue side of town. United fans have been given the East Stand for the upcoming FA Cup match which has enraged a lot of Latics fans on social media.

It'll just be the vocal minority that are still miffed that a "thugby mon" has control of the club.
It's a bit like when our HKR play-off tickets went straight on general sale, loads of moaning about not being able to get their own seat when everyone new the ground would be half empty.
Wiganers are tight as cramp, fact, there's no way on god's earth that 20k are going to turn up on a Monday night for a ridiculous 8.15 kick-off time, might as well try and get as much out of Utd fans as they can.
MD isn't going to run either club like DW did with Latics and supporters are just going to have to get used to that.

Re: Bringing the cash in : Fri Dec 08, 2023 3:20 pm  

I knew this was coming from the loud minority. A guy has come in and saved the club from oblivion and wants to try and get it towards self sustainability. As I pointed out to a couple of fellow Latics fans on social media yesterday, who claimed the Monday night game against Man City in 2018 sold out, it did not, there was 19,200 on, including a full away end. I would say the crowds have gone down slightly from then, so there is no reason to believe more than the 14,000 or so home fans that turned out that night, will turn out for this.

The crowd should now get up towards 22-23k IMO and maybe even sell out (United are a bigger draw) and that will bring in a lot of extra revenue, that is much needed. The loud minority moan that they’ll have to move seats, well surely just having a seat to move to and a team to watch should be enough?! Talk about ungrateful!!

Re: Bringing the cash in : Fri Dec 08, 2023 7:16 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

I knew this was coming from the loud minority. A guy has come in and saved the club from oblivion and wants to try and get it towards self sustainability. As I pointed out to a couple of fellow Latics fans on social media yesterday, who claimed the Monday night game against Man City in 2018 sold out, it did not, there was 19,200 on, including a full away end. I would say the crowds have gone down slightly from then, so there is no reason to believe more than the 14,000 or so home fans that turned out that night, will turn out for this.

The crowd should now get up towards 22-23k IMO and maybe even sell out (United are a bigger draw) and that will bring in a lot of extra revenue, that is much needed. The loud minority moan that they’ll have to move seats, well surely just having a seat to move to and a team to watch should be enough?! Talk about ungrateful!!

It’s disrespectful to not inform the fans that this was happening. The club hierarchy have been shamed into making a statement off the back of people kicking off over it on social media. I’m grateful to have a football club to support as well as the rugby and I’m pretty sure if it had been handled more sensitively then I wouldn’t be as annoyed as I am now.

Re: Bringing the cash in : Fri Dec 08, 2023 8:39 pm  

It's absolutely lovely watching them cry.

They've literally got a billionaire owner, who saved them from oblivion, but are crying because the clubs now making sound commercial decisions. Go figure that one out. Apparently the fan group said they should be consulted? Why? So they can be told it's happening face to face?

The bitterness doesn't have any limits either, there's even some tools crying on Twitter because we've got an Xmas tree and they haven't.

Re: Bringing the cash in : Fri Dec 08, 2023 9:33 pm  

DannyT wrote:

It’s disrespectful to not inform the fans that this was happening. The club hierarchy have been shamed into making a statement off the back of people kicking off over it on social media. I’m grateful to have a football club to support as well as the rugby and I’m pretty sure if it had been handled more sensitively then I wouldn’t be as annoyed as I am now.

I don’t really get it mate but I’m not that attached to a seat I guess. It’s unreserved in the South for the rugby and I just sit wherever I buy a ticket when I go to Latics games. It’s kind of ironic that every time I go and watch Latics away from home some bug*er is sat in my seat Never known a fan base as bad with allocated seating.

I’ll be honest, I think there’s a feeling growing with some Latics fans that Danson has bought them as a safety net for the rugby and this hasn’t helped that but the blokes a billionaire, not an idiot. He wants both clubs to be as self sustainable as possible. The PR with this is something they’ll hopefully learn from going forward but I can forgive them, certainly far more than I could forgive that moron Talal and his promises of blue seats.

Re: Bringing the cash in : Fri Dec 08, 2023 10:03 pm  

Im sure the 14 fans from the East stand can be easily moved to the West for the Utd tie