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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.
And of course, the additional revenue from 4500 Villa fans coming to the DW instead of 250 Fulham fans.
On the same subject, Worriers are now in the quarter finals. Just think the amount of games we played in to reach the quarter finals of the FA Cup.Two less cup games next season when we will be a dream 3rd round away tie for lower league clubs like Sunderland.
Meanwhile, whilst DW and the Hong Kong Set do their very long, slow dance, the rest of the world is moving on. Contracts need to be re-negotiated, new players need to be identified and signed and those who run the club on a day to day basis need to plan for the Championship, particularly with regard to what the operating costs and budget will be.
Obviously, they’ve not heard about the takeover, lol.I’m sure they have. This takeover is now 3rd behind Eastenders & Coronation St in “longest running saga”. Why is it that a takeover of Sunderland is done and dusted within a couple of days, yet this one has dragged on and on and on?
I’m beginning to think that one party is trying to screw a bit more out of the other party and it will all end in tears. I hope to be proved wrong, but DW does not have the funds needed to subsidise a successful championship campaign.
I doubt the likes of Leeds, Villa, Derby, Middlesborough and whoever comes down from the premier league will be parking the bus when they visit the DW – and why would they?
I suspect Cook’s success next season will be measured on how he gets his team, most of whom couldn’t hack it two years ago, to grind out points away at clubs who have better players, bigger crowds and more experience.