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Always been the case. The sooner they make a “European Super League” and leave the rest of us to it, the better.
With this fella in charge we will be safe, no worries! The whole dynamics of the team look totally different and with the players we have reckon we’ll finish mid table, comfortably.We’re starting to get the results that our performances deserve.
Sorry egg lad but you obviously wasn’t at Goodison in 81 because we took quite a few more than 5000 that day. It isn’t the point anyway. In FA cup games away clubs get a percentage or the capacity those are the rules so the problem to me is who decided we got only 1900 initially in a stadium of 78000.I struggled to get there what with not being born ;)
I doubt the club basis its business on what we did 36 years ago though thankfully.
I don’t get all this ‘run the risk of Utd fans in our end” lark. We are not the only club to ever have played at Old Trafford, how does every other club manage to ensure the tickets go to their fans?There are no more Utd fans in Wigan than there are in any other local town or none local town for that matter, so how is it that in Wigan the Utd fans would get the tickets and not Latics fans?
Considering that sides always take more fans to Old Trafford than they actually get at home (or have ever had) I would suggest that there are quite a few in there who are only there because it’s Utd.
We average around 9K home fans and I would imagine that the majority are ST holders. We only take around 1K to away matches though and have never taken more than 5K I believe. Why on Earth would we ask for 7, 8 or even 10K tickets?? We could ask for none and would still get the gate receipts as Utd would fill them no problem.
Personally I think the club have done it right in asking for a realistic number that is sold to Wigan ST holders and doesn’t end up on general sale to anyone or even worse get sent back. Wiganers aren’t exactly known for paying out for tickets especially when we’re expected to get stuffed.
The one thing I would criticise is that it should have been 1 per ST holder unless they have been stringent with the booking histories because there will be plenty who are on the system that have been to 8 home matches and none in the last four years. (well, and one friendly)
You only have to look at the pubs when they are on TV to know that this town is full of Utd fans and the last thing the club wants on national TV is for us to look like Milwall did at Wembley should some Utd fans jump up in the Wigan end. The history is certainly there which is why the booking system, and the netting was brought in.
The club can’t do right for doing wrong though sometimes. Had they asked for 10K and sold 5K then everyone would be asking why they got that many and we would never sell them etc etc. They’ve looked at the fact that we have taken more than 3K to Old Trafford so why would we start now???
Whatever happened to the old fashioned way , club gets percentage of tickets sells as many as poss sends those not sold back for home club to sell on. Simple.
That would be far too simple Nuneaton.
There is no reason why we coulldn’t have taken 7000 tickets from them, put them on sale until Saturday evening and sent the remaining ones back on Sunday for Utd to sell the following week.
Who knows, we may have sold them all anyway with the way the original 3000 were snapped up.[/quote]Run the risk of Utd fans in our end then which is obvious that we didn’t want.
Wasnt great last time out and wasnt the only player to fall out with Rosler.
Joyce managed him at Utd and was successful so who knows??
Try sending it to the club instead of on hereNot sure what can be done about it now, but yes probably better to contact the club or Jason/Ian the SLOs to bring up at their next meeting with the club.
Even non league clubs would ask for and take over 5000 to United. We do it everytime, scrambling for tickets, can’t cope.
And how many of those ever watch said non-league club again or indeed ever have?
We do it because we want to ensure that genuine WAFC fans get to watch the side and not day trippers or Man Utd fans.
Fair play to the club.[/quote]
you are clueless, they only originally had 1900[/quote]
Which is 900 more than our average away following.
They say money goes to money.
After Bolton bottling it against Palace it means Latics game against United is now on TV. Apparently this is United’s 56 consecutive game in the competition that has been televised.
That is some run….
Let’s hope they don’t make it 57..[/quote]
They will make it 57. Next years 3rd round.
Even non league clubs would ask for and take over 5000 to United. We do it everytime, scrambling for tickets, can’t cope.And how many of those ever watch said non-league club again or indeed ever have?
We do it because we want to ensure that genuine WAFC fans get to watch the side and not day trippers or Man Utd fans.
Fair play to the club.
Plenty of non Utd fans watch their games in the hope they lose.
If they didn’t get the best figures then they wouldn’t have been on 55 (soon to be 56) times in a row in the cup.
They have still paid good money to show the FA Cup so won’t want people watching something else.
It’s just the advertising side they won’t be bothered about whereas BT will charge to advertise during the game.
They are the biggest supported club though so you would imagine that viewing figures would be higher for their games.
Yes the BBC don’t have to worry about advertising but they still need viewing figures.
