Are we having a game where we sell a stand to business again : Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:25 pm  

Does anyone know if this will happen? Seemed to be a good idea last 2 years for the quins game, and though we didnt do it for quins this year I expected it to happen with one of the other smaller teams.

It seems a sensible thing to do as the away stand now will just sit there empty for all the remaining home games bar salford, or will have 60 fans in it like cas brought in the week.

The other thing is that our average attendence is now set to fall and so could do with a boost. The remaning 4 home fixtures are all against teams with little away support, and less home fans will turn out as they are less attractive games - Without any marketing I think we will only get around 13-14k for these fixtures which will drag down our 17k average.

Why dont the club do it against bradford, which could hopefully draw a crowd similar to the huddersfield game.

If we had that, with say 17/18k on against crusaders to hopefully see us lift the league leaders shield we could try and hold out for a 17k average this season which would be a teriffic achievement for the club.

Re: Are we having a game where we sell a stand to business a : Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:00 pm  

gerr'emonside wrote:

Does anyone know if this will happen? Seemed to be a good idea last 2 years for the quins game, and though we didnt do it for quins this year I expected it to happen with one of the other smaller teams.

It seems a sensible thing to do as the away stand now will just sit there empty for all the remaining home games bar salford, or will have 60 fans in it like cas brought in the week.

The other thing is that our average attendence is now set to fall and so could do with a boost. The remaning 4 home fixtures are all against teams with little away support, and less home fans will turn out as they are less attractive games - Without any marketing I think we will only get around 13-14k for these fixtures which will drag down our 17k average.

Why dont the club do it against bradford, which could hopefully draw a crowd similar to the huddersfield game.

If we had that, with say 17/18k on against crusaders to hopefully see us lift the league leaders shield :PRAY: we could try and hold out for a 17k average this season which would be a teriffic achievement for the club.

We got 18k in last year to see us lift the hub cap against Bradford without even opening the North Stand for them

Re: Are we having a game where we sell a stand to business a : Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:18 pm  

dirtbag83 wrote:

We got 18k in last year to see us lift the hub cap against Bradford without even opening the North Stand for them

If I'm right, we didn't sell the whole stand to a business but we did sell a whole load of tickets to Heinz. I think we should definitely do it again but it's finding a company that's big enough.

Re: Are we having a game where we sell a stand to business a : Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:29 pm  

justarugbyfan wrote:

If I'm right, we didn't sell the whole stand to a business but we did sell a whole load of tickets to Heinz. I think we should definitely do it again but it's finding a company that's big enough.

That was for the St Georges game last year against Quins. With the recent industrial action at Heinz I doubt the management will be in as generous a mood as they were last year. Heinz have been a close partner with Wigan rugby for years though. They sponsored the scoreboard at Central Park IIRC

Re: Are we having a game where we sell a stand to business a : Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:30 pm  

The one last year wasnt with Heinz - It was only the first year with Heinz IIRC, last year they just sold blocks to local businesses at discounted prices I think - therefore they could do it again surely?

Re: Are we having a game where we sell a stand to business a : Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:33 pm  

We need to do this again... got 19k ish for a quins game.

Re: Are we having a game where we sell a stand to business a : Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:02 pm  

justarugbyfan wrote:

If I'm right, we didn't sell the whole stand to a business but we did sell a whole load of tickets to Heinz. I think we should definitely do it again but it's finding a company that's big enough.

your not

Re: Are we having a game where we sell a stand to business a : Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:23 pm  

Pieman wrote:

your not

Why am I not? We didn't sell the stand to a whole business we sold a lot of tickets to businesses.

Re: Are we having a game where we sell a stand to business a : Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:24 pm  

justarugbyfan wrote:

Why am I not? We didn't sell the stand to a whole business we sold a lot of tickets to businesses.

we did sell it to heinz, who in tern gave it to employees and families.

Re: Are we having a game where we sell a stand to business a : Sun Jul 10, 2011 9:53 am  

You can always rely on Google

""Wigan Warriors are delighted to announce that 14,000 tickets have already been sold for the St George's Day home game with Harlequins which takes place at the DW Stadium on Friday 23rd April, 8pm kick off.

The Club are well on the way to breaking the biggest home attendance against Harlequins of 14,977 which was reached last season. The North Stand is already just about sold out with partners Worthington's and Heinz purchasing over 4,000 tickets between them.

The Club will be announcing a range of special activities ahead of the fixture and at half time in the next week to mark St George's Day.

Speaking about the sales, Chief Executive Mick Hogan said,

"We are delighted that the local business community and our fans have purchased tickets in such high numbers for this game. We will be celebrating St George's Day and we have a number of special activities planned for the evening. With two weeks to go to the game it seems certain that we will have our biggest home attendance for a game against Harlequins.""