Attracting people to the ground

I’m really not being argumentative here, but why is it that the ‘casual’ or ‘walk up’ fan should always be the one who gets a cheap deal, when the season ticket holders don’t?

Ok, S/T’s are cheap enough, we know that. But it just rankles that you get the deals where it’s ‘take a friend for a fiver’ when you know that your ticket has cost you more. It’s like you’re being punished for having a season ticket sometimes!

I think it’s about time the S/T holders were given something as a thank you gesture. Like now, coming up to Christmas. If they’d just issue every S/T holder something like a £10 voucher for the shop, it would be a gesture well received. And besides, most would buy something that necessitates extra money.

We WERE told a couple of seasons ago that we’d get something.

Advertisement on the bus the other night offering half season tickets for £95

And four game package for £60 games against Stoke,Villa .Aresnal and Newcastle come in handy over the christmas period

Some good points there, 1932.

In particular the fact that Latics are very defensive in the way the ticket office operates this ‘database’ scheme, in pretty much the same way clubs like United and Liverpool have a members database which you have to be on to even apply for tickets.

The difference being we don’t fill our ground, and the system we have must put a lot of people off, or at least make things more difficult than they should be. I’d suggest they scrap this system and get some stewards that are half decent. By that, I mean who are professional and organised. Not a bunch of Liverpool and Everton fans who turn a blind eye when their fans walk in the ground blatantly wearing their teams colours. (as the other night)

Make it blatantly clear on the T’s and C’s on the ticket that the stands are HOME stands, and anybody found openly supporting the visiting team in those areas, is likely to be ejected. I actually think the system is a ‘hangover’ from our spat with GMP.

As for other promotion in the town, I heard the details of the Christmas lights switch on yesterday. Some no mark girl who auditioned for X factor, Luke Marsden, that t*t who was on Big Brother (Milking it, isn’t he?), plus, and I quote “…players from Wigan Warriors”. Not a mention of Latics.
I wish the club would have a mad spell of ‘roadshows’ right in the centre of Market Square. Shove the club down the necks of people who normally ignore or even mock us. Shove two very big fingers up at them. Get the mascot there, facepaints and free posters for the kiddies, that kind of thing. The type of event that the rugby excell at.

Bang on Vat, the club need to ram it down peoples throats that if they don’t to the game, they’re missing out on the latest craze. A few posters about at the moment for the offer on the next 4 games which is good, hope they follow that up with the radio, papers, leaflet drops and free tickets to schools etc, maybe a tv advert (I know they cost) people in the granada area who haven’t thought of coming might just be amazed at the value.
As previous posts have said, a few wins would work wonders too.

The fact that many local establishments show live Premier League matches – including Latics – during home games doesn’t help either.

That’s a good shout regarding the students. Even if it’s a fiver a ticket and one comes along, it’s a fiver more than they would have received without the promotion.

I was speaking to the marketing manager from a football club a few years ago (and for the life of me I can’t remember which club it was) who marketed their club by asking people to choose them as their ‘second team’. Why not do that with students? The bug might catch, especially with the Scottish, Irish, Welsh and mainland European students who have no geographical affiliation to another English club.

GRANTed Griff, but I don’t need a LECTURE on it. I think we need to attract a FRESHER audience, and could do with getting a few more YOUNG ONES in.