2016 Season Tickets : Mon Oct 12, 2015 6:55 pm  

Interesting reading the small print re what you get , " All Super League and Super 8’s games at the DW Stadium "
So presume anymore games in London town it's get your hands in your pocket .

Re: 2016 Season Tickets : Tue Oct 13, 2015 8:10 am  

5% increase for ours. Why?

Re: 2016 Season Tickets : Tue Oct 13, 2015 12:26 pm  

I've not dug out last year's receipt yet, but this looks like something north of a 10% hike for us Westys. Gonna have to sell some jewellery.
Has an explanation/excuse for this increase been forthcoming from anywhere ?

Re: 2016 Season Tickets : Tue Oct 13, 2015 12:46 pm  

Got to pay for those London games somehow. Oh and Wigan TV, because it's sooo worth it.

Re: 2016 Season Tickets : Tue Oct 13, 2015 1:42 pm  

Inflation? I think season tickets are great value for money, especially this year with the super 8s

Re: 2016 Season Tickets : Tue Oct 13, 2015 1:44 pm  

Yeah, inflation, which is currently - 0.1%......

Re: 2016 Season Tickets : Tue Oct 13, 2015 2:01 pm  

Inflation may be low but wages haven't kept pace with the cost of living since the banking crisis.

For example-
in 2009, qualified nurses earned £28,028 a year (12 months to March 2009).For their wages to have the same clout as they did in 2008 - they'd need to be earning £33,065 now. In 2014, nurses earned £30,782 a year (12 months to March 2014). So they are a stonking £2283 less well off than they were in 2008.

In a town like Wigan £250 or thereabouts for a season ticket is still a big ask for most people.

Re: 2016 Season Tickets : Tue Oct 13, 2015 3:28 pm  

I'm sorry, but who on earth has taken that photo of Billy Boston for the season ticket T&Cs banner on the club's site?! He looks like something just crawled off the set of the Walking Dead.

I will be renewing, but there's a trend here I'm not that impressed with:

• Way above inflation increases. Why?
• Have walk-up prices gone through the roof too?
• With the car park I'm now over £22 per game, add fuel & it's pushing £30
• "The Club reserves the right to move home games away from the DW Stadium".
• Super 8s exempt from "Ticket Exchange". Probably a repeat of this year, but still don't like it.

I suppose this all comes from the marquee-signing costs, which was always going to come straight down to us. But an increase like this needs a proper explanation rather than the like it or lump it approach: however glossy it looks on the site.
(and please, get a better picture of Billy)

Re: 2016 Season Tickets : Tue Oct 13, 2015 3:48 pm  

CyberPieMan wrote:

I'm sorry, but who on earth has taken that photo of Billy Boston for the season ticket T&Cs banner on the club's site?! He looks like something just crawled off the set of the Walking Dead.

I will be renewing, but there's a trend here I'm not that impressed with:

• Way above inflation increases. Why?
• Have walk-up prices gone through the roof too?
• With the car park I'm now over £22 per game, add fuel & it's pushing £30
• "The Club reserves the right to move home games away from the DW Stadium".
• Super 8s exempt from "Ticket Exchange". Probably a repeat of this year, but still don't like it.

I suppose this all comes from the marquee-signing costs, which was always going to come straight down to us. But an increase like this needs a proper explanation rather than the like it or lump it approach: however glossy it looks on the site.
(and please, get a better picture of Billy)

Where does it say the Super 8s are exempt from the ticket exchange? They weren't this year, our group exchanged 2 for the Cas S8 game and 2 for the Hull S8 game because none of us went to the London match.

FWIW, I agree with everything else. The club aren't doing enough to get the 2,500 or so fans who no longer regularly attend back IMO and in turn a growing number of people are getting more and more disillusioned and finding reasons not to attend. A price drop, or at least freeze, wouldn't have hurt this year.

Re: 2016 Season Tickets : Tue Oct 13, 2015 4:27 pm  

WARRIORCRAIG wrote:

Where does it say the Super 8s are exempt from the ticket exchange? They weren't this year, our group exchanged 2 for the Cas S8 game and 2 for the Hull S8 game because none of us went to the London match.

in the T&Cs

The exchange must be made in advance of missing a game and is eligible for a ticket in the same seating area of the DW Stadium at another game during the regular Super League season

I'm taking that to mean the Super 8s are excluded. Especially as they make a deliberate distinction between the 11 "regular" home games and the 3 or 4 afterwards.
If this is the case, and it's new for next year, then they must have recognised that due to the very unpredictable scheduling of the last set of matches, loads of people can't make it and would ordinarily want to switch. And they've taken steps to prevent it, which is more than a bit cynical IMO.