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How we get there, I don’t know
How we get there, I don’t care
All I know is we are on our way.Mods, may I suggest this thread is removed. Whilst I’d happily read in the WEP about Bullitt being charged and convicted for hate crimes and homophobia, I’d not like to see it linked in any way to Jay and John who developed and own this fine site for Wiganers across the globe.
I agree with you Donny that in terms of value for money, football matches are pretty expensive, but as others have said the sad fact is that Wigan’s geographical location and economy means that the club are swimming against the tide to get bums on seats. Even £10 for the Crawley game saw fewer than 3000 home fans prepared to shell out, and the majority of them would have been Season Ticket holders. The club have two options – higher ST costs and lower matchday tickets, which is a gamble, as the increased ST price would put the cost out of reach of a chunk of the support, meaning that unless the team is flying, they will probably find something else to do on a Saturday afternoon. The other is to make the cost of a ST cheap, but alienate the casual fan. Its a fine line.
Maybe the mods should run a poll along the lines of:
Which option do you think will bring in the higher revenue over the season:
1. £375 Season Tickets and £20 pay per game.
2. £249 Season Tickets and £25 pay per game.Very true Mutts but doesn’t stop £27 being a rip off and the main reason why we won’t attract anymore than 8000 home fans and a limited amount of away fans paying on the day on Saturday.
Twenty is more than plenty.Donny, if your theory was correct, where were these people for the cup tie with Crawley – I believe it was a tenner that day.
Give JJ & DS credit for following a pragmatic business model. They are not after attracting thousands of new fans this season – but they know that if they charge £25 for a match-day ticket, then they can charge £25 for an away supporter. They base their business model on selling season tickets at the maximum price they feel they can get away with.
Take Saturdays game for example. Bradford sell 3500 tickets at £25 – takings = £87500. They sell 3500 at £15 – takings = £52500. Do you seriously think that 2350 extra Wiganers will show up and make up the £35000 shortfall?
It was £28 for me at Peterborough in September. It didn’t put me off going, nor did it put off the 500+ other Wiganers.
Away fans who can make it will travel to the game regardless of the cost. Home fans have the option to pay dirt cheap prices up front in the form of a Season Ticket. Even at £249, they represent a huge saving on matchday prices.
Why only the first 100 sign ups? Make it 500 its hardly going to be a full house against the cod men!Edit..I see that prat is still dicking about with the karma!
You seem to have gone from -90 to positive territory in the space of a day or two – that is some “dicking about”…
But of course, you weren’t bothered about it the other day were you? ;)
How ironic, coming from the Wigan Evening Post multi-alias troll who spent his days agreeing with himself on the comments section! Bullitt, Stey, Ronnie Brocoli to name but three.
That said, clearly you are arsed, otherwise you wouldn’t be on here whinging whilst most others were at Remembrance events paying their respects.
The club shouldve issued a stub for ALL attending supporters at the Crawley game…but even that wouldnt have worked.The club know who their ST holders are.
The club know which of their ST holders purchased a ticket for the Crawley game.There would be no need to issue stubs, vouchers, golden tickets – it will all be on a database. Some clubs have a loyalty points scheme where ST holders get a point for every away game and all cup games with more points equalling first call on tickets. However, the clubs who operate it do so because demand exceeds availability every game. It would be costly and time consuming to employ staff to trawl back and retrospectively issue points for one game.
Taking the above into consideration, a ballot is the fairest way – as long as two tickets are set aside for your SLO’s who do a fantastic job on your behalf.
She hasn’t yet got what she wants:
1. Sampson sacked – check. Eventually after 3 investigations, they turned something up to get rid of him.
2. Compo. Check.
3. The total support of her former team mates. No check.
It could be said that 1 & 2 would always come eventually if she shouted long enough. Sampson would become a scapegoat and the rich FA could afford a pay-off. However the fact that her former team mates have not yet changed their stance suggests that there is more to Aluko than meets the eye.
As much as I deplore racism, I’m now starting to hope some journo turns up something on this woman and see how publicity-seeking she is then. Probably about as much as Max Clifford was when the tables were turned.
I’m pretty sure the burger vans are private vendors and have ball all to do with the club. It was obviously going to be a paltry crowd like many in this round and maybe they thought it wouldn’t be worth their while so didn’t bother.There’s two potential reasons.
Firstly profit margins. The burger vans will know how many they sell on a match day, and will calculate it against the footfall (attendance). If the footfall reduces by 66%, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the burger vans overheads fall by 66% – it still costs the same in fuel, generator costs and staff wages to bring a van from wherever to the DW and position it for 2-3 hours. Maybe when they did their calculations, it just wasn’t financially viable.
Secondly, notice given. Remember this wasn’t a pre-planned league fixture, and the companies may have already planned to operate somewhere else that day. These vans are used across the North West, not just at the DW for 3 hours every other Saturday.
The first team squad has five goalkeepers listed:
Walton
Jones
Sarkic
Lavercombe
EvansThe U18 Squad have three goalkeepers listed:
Roberts
Perrin
McGaugheyHow many of them are unavailable next weekend?
Many years ago, Mr Ricketts & I used my mum’s family railcard, having cottoned onto that one adult could travel at half price and 4 kids could travel for £1 each. We ran a “trip” to Plymouth for 3 others who got on as kids and charged them about £15 each, which was still way less than it would have cost them by coach or train as individuals.
The £45 we took paid our trip, lunch, and admission to Home Park!
