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those are kids who have paid around £23 for the whole season
But isn’t that the perfect definition of a growing fanbase?
Kids turn into adults and these aren’t giving allegiance to United or Liverpool.It is – as long as that fanbase is actually growing in a larger number than the adults who are sacking it off. I suspect that the kids of 2005/6 through to 2012/13 have been turning into adults who find something else to do on a Saturday afternoon.
As someone “ITK”, are you able to tell us how many the number of junior season ticket holders has grown by over the past 3, 4, or 5 years?
thier buying a football club with a growing passionate fan basegrowing passionate fanbase – Really?
Did you read the report where it says we have between 6,000 and 8,000 ST holders? That’s over half what it was a few years ago. And despite the smokescreen put out by some posters on here, a fair proportion of those are kids who have paid around £23 for the whole season.
I don’t think this group are here to chuck money around and buy us a place in the premier league like DW did.
We need a reality check here. Cook parked the bus because we were away to a well-established Championship side and a point was probably the best we could expect from Norwich away. We are still a yo-yo side and despite having a good start, IMHO, anything above 14th place would represent a good season.
Could be better than tonight.Hopefully, you’ll make your home debut at a tenner. :)
Bristol City took 1812 to WBA last night, so I’d be disappointed if less than 1,000 made the trip.
9712 for me. At a tenner, if it doesn’t beat the Hull game then Wiganers are officially the tightest sports fans going.
includes 677 from Rotherham.
I’m shocked – I thought that we’d shifted 9K season tickets. I’ll have to revise my guesses.
I agree that its a huge chunk of income, and on the face of it appears very unfair. However, I would be interested to know two things before deciding which side of the argument I reside:
1. Does the dual purpose nature of the DW mean additional charges or would they be the same if you had one or 100 events at the DW?
2. When promoted to the Premier League, were our rates increased straight away, or did we have a few years of paying League 1 or Championship level rates?
I for one support the club’s ticketing policy. £28 for the visit of Sheff Wed may put off a couple of hundred Wiganers, but the visiting fans will happily stump up £28 and I’ll guess they will sell out (4500+).
If we’d charged £25, then it may have generated another 100 Wigan fans, paying £2500 in total, but the £3 difference on the price paid by away fans would result in a loss of £13500+ and an overall loss of £11000+. A drop to £20 may result in 500 extra home fans (£10K), but a loss in revenue of £36K on the away fans. The more it is dropped in price, the bigger the shortfall. Wiganers are tight and even if you made it a tenner, you’d need an additional 8100 to show up to make up the difference!
As others have said, if you don’t like the matchday prices, get a ST – but only if you can make enough games to make it worthwhile!
The old red seats that are turning pink are being replaced by the new Sunderland owners.
I hope when our ownership saga is finally completed that our new owners replace the fading red seats with nice new blue and white ones.You are not kidding with the word “saga”. The takeover at the Stadium of Light was done and dusted in a couple of weeks, the old guard swiftly moved on and a new broom sweeping clean. Meanwhile, we sit in limbo, not knowing why its dragging on – and this is a club that has just won its division FFS!
As to the seats at the DW – if the new owners got 20,000 bums sat on them every home game, they’d need changing much quicker due to wear and tear.