Re: 2017 Season Tickets : Mon Oct 17, 2016 6:01 pm  

MattyB wrote:

SKY seem to have a tradition of ensuring the SL champions are televised at home as their opening game of the season.

Definitely would be a large crowd for that one I reckon. I think Leigh would sell out the North Stand with ease, with maybe an extra section in the West/East corner. 22k+

Will our first game be a round 3 or 4 game because of the WCC? I'd expect that and then Leigh as "round 1" the following week.

Re: 2017 Season Tickets : Mon Oct 17, 2016 9:38 pm  

A good pressy from the club that over 300 season tickets sold on the first day, largest number ever.
Hope the good sales continue.

Re: 2017 Season Tickets : Tue Oct 18, 2016 1:59 pm  

Wigg'n wrote:

Will our first game be a round 3 or 4 game because of the WCC? I'd expect that and then Leigh as "round 1" the following week.

It is likely that round three (Feb 24-26th) will be just the two games featuring the four not exempt from the Challenge cup fifth round (Leigh, Leeds, Huddersfield and Salford) plus the WCC (either just us or including Hull and Wire).

So we will start round 1 on Feb 3rd along with the other 11 teams like last season.

Re: 2017 Season Tickets : Tue Oct 18, 2016 3:12 pm  

Aboveusonlypie wrote:

It is likely that round three (Feb 24-26th) will be just the two games featuring the four not exempt from the Challenge cup fifth round (Leigh, Leeds, Huddersfield and Salford) plus the WCC (either just us or including Hull and Wire).

So we will start round 1 on Feb 3rd along with the other 11 teams like last season.

I thought I read somewhere that Superleague was starting a week later in 2017 to allow an International training camp with Wayne Bennett.

Re: 2017 Season Tickets : Tue Oct 18, 2016 3:26 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

I thought I read somewhere that Superleague was starting a week later in 2017 to allow an International training camp with Wayne Bennett.

Shouldn't it be starting early to accommodate the World Cup? Especially if there's to be a friendly in the middle of the season as he wants (and the nonsense that is the WCC).

Re: 2017 Season Tickets : Tue Oct 18, 2016 3:42 pm  

If there's going to be a friendly, then it should take place between the regular season and the super 8's, along with the Challenge Cup Semi Finals.

Perhaps giving fans 3 weeks notice of the super 8 fixtures may increase the attendances, which were definitely down on the regular season fixtures. It would also give some of the players a bit of a break, which may help both club and country come autumn.

Re: 2017 Season Tickets : Wed Oct 19, 2016 11:49 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

I thought I read somewhere that Superleague was starting a week later in 2017 to allow an International training camp with Wayne Bennett.

I think I may have read the same thing. Of course that would allow the NRL based players to take part before that competition starts. I think the problem for Super League would arise about where to fit the extra fixture in. It woulds have to be before the split into eights. The suggestion mooted was have two weekends like the Easter weekend. I imagine that would go down like a lead balloon!

Re: 2017 Season Tickets : Fri Dec 02, 2016 12:50 pm  

Ticket sales are doing very well 7500 up to now and more to come before Christmas.

Re: 2017 Season Tickets : Fri Dec 02, 2016 10:01 pm  

Ashton Bears wrote:

Ticket sales are doing very well 7500 up to now and more to come before Christmas.

Good stuff- hopefully we will get it back over 10,000 this year.

Re: 2017 Season Tickets : Sat Dec 03, 2016 12:55 am  

Decent news. On the club questionnaire, I answered my biggest concern as the falling attendances year after year (and no obvious effort to reverse it). We need to hit 10k S/T again, the South Stand was embarrassingly empty at times last year.