muttywhitedog

For a mod, and a supposed supporter of both clubs, this is a bit childish. Has your account been hacked by Bullshit?

That looks very much like the ticketing website from the RFL – which sells neutral tickets.

https://www.eticketing.co.uk/rle/details/event.aspx?itemref=11163

Ignoring the childish mud-slinging further up this thread, I agree with Horc – admission fees are too high. However, unlike the greed league, the further down the pyramid you go, the more you rely on ticket sales to generate revenue.

The DW probably costs as much to maintain today as it would do if you were in the top flight hosting Chelsea on Sunday instead of Bury. The same goes for the cost of the training ground and all the other infrastructure that goes with running a professional football club. The only real difference in outcome is wages, and here is where it gets tricky.

The championship is littered with clubs who have ongoing parachute payments following premier league relegation. They have a head start over everyone else, and can buy up the best players. Newcastle did it last season. Villa are doing it this season. There is a ripple effect in wages. The likes of Bristol City want to keep their best players away from these Championship predators, so they offer them new contracts on bigger wages in an effort to stand still. If that doesn’t work, then they have a few quid to buy a replacement, and they look further down the league structure at the likes of Powell, Grigg, Morsey etc. Wigan don’t want to sell, so they offer them new contracts on more money, and Bristol look elsewhere. Wigan then keep their players (great!), but have just given them a pay rise and need to find the money to pay them.

Where does it come from? TV Money – no. It can only come from the only revenue stream available these days and that’s the paying supporter. However, there’s less of them year on year, so its a fine balancing act between squeezing your supporters for as much as you can without losing them. The cheap ST’s and the higher matchday prices seem a good way of doing this, and although £24 a game seems high, £200 or whatever it was represents a very low figure for 23 games.

What the owners are essentially saying is that if you want to watch the Latics, stump up £200 for the year and then we can jack the matchday prices up and get more money off away fans, who are effectively subsidising your very cheap Season Ticket.

Previous games would have been changed because there were 15,000+ home fans, and a fair percentage would have wanted to at least watch the rugby final on TV. By kicking off early, the Latics managed to retain that support.

Nowadays, you are down to the hard core support, the vast majority of whom would turn their backs on the pitch if the rugby final was played as a pre-match entertainment, so why would it need changing. Add to that the fact that an early/late/Sunday kick off would massively inconvenience 3000+ Pompey fans, and it makes no sense to lose a couple of thousand away fans to keep a couple of hundred Wigan fans happy.

I’m glad Bullshit took the “shut the fuck up” option.

The difference between Huws and Power being Huws had been signed from Man City and was a half decent player who could hold his own at Championship level, whereas Power had been signed from Tranmere, where he’d been relegated from league 1 to the conference in three seasons. This level of failure would suggest he was lucky to get another crack in the 3rd tier with Wigan.

As Power failed to make any impression in the Championship last season, what makes him think he’s worthy of another go this season?

Having a friendly the day after the Warriors played wouldn’t help either ;)

That said, think yourselves lucky the Warriors are having a poor season – there’ll only be three more home fixtures instead of five if they’d finished higher and got a home semi final.