Leyther_Matt

Wigan are basically moving back to where they were in 1999, only without the data built up over those years. The move to the (god awful) Future Ticketing was a legacy of (one of) the previous Latics ownerships going for the cheapest possible option having previously moved to Advanced Ticketing (who I believe have ended all sports contracts, so will leave Warrington and Leeds looking for replacements).

His father (Lord Hoyle) was previously Warrington chairman. Think he’s president or something along those lines these days.

Plenty of time to move it to somewhere bigger, now.

Doesn’t necessarily have to be the same units, but just figured it was a better use of the limited depth of space to pile on top of each other rather than trying to get any sort of terracing built there. Then gives free scope for something ‘proper’ behind the sticks, then.

Personally I’d think it’s worth exploring shifting the Benidorm flats on to the West side, using the space to spread out across the length rather than being necessarily quite so high as they are currently. Wouldn’t need to take up anywhere near as much space as a stand at that side and could give scope for an improved TV gantry, TV studio and of course extra corporate space. That would then leave the southerly end to build a decent sized covered terrace or seats which would arguably be a bigger capacity than the current Western Terrace.

I’d very much prefer that, yes. Which would make Friday nights ideal. Home or away.

Tbf I think that shows there’s absolutely a market for an afternoon game, but make it the exception that people with younger families make long term plans to attend rather than it necessarily being the norm purely because of archaic licensing laws. I know this will be controversial and isn’t necessarily something I buy in to in RL even though it’s been successful in The Hundred, but there may be a place for early evening weekday kick offs during the school holidays (possibly one for the Challenge Cup to avoid inconveniencing season ticket holders).

A year of watching on Sky to pique her interest and then fully bought in for 2025

Leaving aside the more than plausible argument that TV exposure does increase attendances, do you think those extra fans be anything remotely close to making up for the lost TV revenue? Honest answer, please.

You’ll know I’m saying this from the right place Dave, but why wouldn’t you take your 7 year old on a Friday night with no school the next day? Let's, for example, say a Thursday night and one game on a Friday night. If there are other games on the same night, that game will be available on Super League+. If you are a Sky Sports subscriber, you are also able to watch that game via a Sky Sports platform. Taken from the Examiner article. So it looks to me as though only non-Sky subscribers need to actually sign up to Super League+ They just piggyback on Sky so you would just get the two Sky games once the streaming kicks in unless you subscribed to Super League+ For the first however many rounds when they are split between the various ‘proper’ Sky channels, they will be available on Now TV.

Friday nights for me too. The trend over the last few years of more and more Saturday 3pm games during the football season has been a bugbear of mine.

That’s where the community club mascots sit etc so will likely be held off while they get final numbers etc. So might result in an odd few coming available but likewise might mean they aren’t included in the current sales. They did it for everybody in the away end. Not sure if it was the case last season though.

Tried exactly that at the HJ with a strategically placed chop suey roll in my inside coat pocket from Mike & Martha’s. Got patted down at the turnstiles and told I wasn’t taking it inside. Same thing happened to my mate as he was going through so we were both left scoffing them outside the turnstiles, which you can imagine absolutely nobody in the queue took the pee out of!

If it is the area at the front then I would imagine there will be a sponsors banner. If it is elsewhere then there’s a reasonable shout that it could be a block travel booking.

I went to Wigan v Catalans a couple of years ago and the East Stand concourse is immeasurably better than the North, with a couple of varieties of bars and food outlets, not too dissimilar to the HJ. North concourse is a nightmare for football (hence the capacity reduction), although the smart ones amongst us know to head downstairs to the Marquee at half time for a seat and a proper pint!

It’s generally only limited to 4,800 for football because licensing laws mean you can’t take beer to your seats so the concourses get very congested. With no such laws in RL, there’s half a chance they might get away with applying for a single game exemption from the SAG (which is the only way of getting to 25,000 capacity tbf)

John Woods, but I wasn’t old enough to truly appreciate him. Once I had a bit more of an understanding at 7/8 years old then it was Jonathan Davies, probably entirely thanks to that try against the Aussies at Wembley.

Except they aren’t free, and the FA are incredibly hot on WSL announced crowds being ‘actual’ crowds, so the sales figures are invariably much higher than the announced figure once non attending season tickets and the like are included.

That would be pretty tight because of the road, I’d have thought?

If it doesn’t breathe fire then I don’t want to know.

Leigh home shirts from 1998 and 2001. Both via Ukraine

https://www.eticketing.co.uk/po2/EDP/Event/Index/6

Cadbury’s will be glad to get the Milk Tray man back full-time, at least. Bring back Eddie & Stevo I say (which probably speaks volumes about Baz and Tez…)

Two tickets bought in the North Stand (old habits die hard) Interesting (to me at least) to note that they’ve effectively built a standalone Ticketmaster site rather than using the usual DW platform or even RL Ticketing