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In order to allow the original thread to get back to what it was supposed to be discussing, I think a new thread is needed on this topic.

I do think that aboveusonlypie has a point, although he is being rather hardline about it. Of course you can be a fan without going to the game, there are a multitude of other ways to support your team.

In terms of Thursday night, let's make no bones about it, the attendance was shocking. 8.5k for a playoff game is abysmal. The club made it as easy as possible for fans to get to the game in terms of ticket prices and letting STHs claim their own seat all the way up until the day of the game.

That though, is slightly irrelevant when looking at what seems to be the two main gripes from people on here.

1. "Playoff games aren't included in my season ticket" - Why on earth should they be? If you support a successful team, you should expect them to be getting to playoffs and finals etc. Lord knows years of supporting Liverpool has taught me that. The club doesn't owe you a bean in this respect. Even if they did, the play-offs are an RFL event anyway so the clubs have little control over ticketing them. Despite this, they did us a huge favour by heavily subsidising Thursday night's ticket.

2. "I work on a Thursday night" - That's bad luck, but I don't think that applies to all 4-5 thousand that dropped off the attendance from the Salford game at the end of July or the Warrington game a few weeks ago. Either way, I think we need to look at how we get people to the game whether they work shifts or 9 to 5.

I think the situation will be a lot better next year. The playoffs will be meaningful from the word go, which should up the attendance. I know we all want the sport to grow, and playing in stadiums that are not even half full is going to go nowhere towards furthering that.
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we have fans from all over not just wigan, out of our party there were 10 that couldnt due to distance and travel and work alone.
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It's the last of year of it - hence it don't get worked up by it.

It's actually a terrific advertisement for the new structure. Only one playoff game max next year (for each of the 4 clubs that qualify) with big stakes.

RL fans do seem particularly reluctant to pay for games outside the season ticket though, whether it be cup games or playoffs. Why I'm not sure. Although one possibility is fans being asked to pay for match tickets for potentially four weeks in a row within the current playoff system. I'm not sure that scenario occurs in any other sport.
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Scouse Pie2 wrote:
In order to allow the original thread to get back to what it was supposed to be discussing, I think a new thread is needed on this topic.

I do think that aboveusonlypie has a point, although he is being rather hardline about it. Of course you can be a fan without going to the game, there are a multitude of other ways to support your team.

In terms of Thursday night, let's make no bones about it, the attendance was shocking. 8.5k for a playoff game is abysmal. The club made it as easy as possible for fans to get to the game in terms of ticket prices and letting STHs claim their own seat all the way up until the day of the game.

That though, is slightly irrelevant when looking at what seems to be the two main gripes from people on here.

1. "Playoff games aren't included in my season ticket" - Why on earth should they be? If you support a successful team, you should expect them to be getting to playoffs and finals etc. Lord knows years of supporting Liverpool has taught me that. The club doesn't owe you a bean in this respect. Even if they did, the play-offs are an RFL event anyway so the clubs have little control over ticketing them. Despite this, they did us a huge favour by heavily subsidising Thursday night's ticket.

2. "I work on a Thursday night" - That's bad luck, but I don't think that applies to all 4-5 thousand that dropped off the attendance from the Salford game at the end of July or the Warrington game a few weeks ago. Either way, I think we need to look at how we get people to the game whether they work shifts or 9 to 5.

I think the situation will be a lot better next year. The playoffs will be meaningful from the word go, which should up the attendance. I know we all want the sport to grow, and playing in stadiums that are not even half full is going to go nowhere towards furthering that.


I agree with point 2, the fact the Hudds game was on a Thursday may have knocked a few hundred off the crowd, but our home POs have been consistently low over the previous 5 seasons when they were on Friday night or Sunday afternoon.

With point 1 you're comparing football to rugby league there, and the two just don't compare. Premier league football teams know they can charge upwards of £50 a ticket and still get a full house. They also have loyalty systems in place for cup competitions where if you miss an unattractive early cup fixture you wouldn't be eligible for later rounds. Neither of those apply to RL.

The main flaw is the PO structure. Every Wigan fan knew last week that we were guaranteed another home game over the next two weeks should we win or lose against Huddersfield. With that in mind, a lot of fans clearly chose to miss last week's game and save the cash for the later rounds and potential GF. Even our semi in a fortnight will be lucky to get up to this season's average weekly round attendance (about 14k).

I agree about next season though. Only one game won't count on a ST, and that will be a semi-final knockout game.
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If a season ticket covered play-off games, and the club failed to reach the play-offs, would there be a case for some refund?
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Talking of playoff attendances, its a bit ironic that we got slated about our attendance on thursday night and yet it turned out to be the biggest attendance of the lot!
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I finish work at 7pm most nights and work in Warrington. I never miss a home game. That being said, I believe people should be entitled to spend their money how they see fit. If we get all the way to the final a family of four may have to spend almost £150 on tickets. That's a lot of money in a 3 week period.

Factor in cost of travelling to the ground, car park, refreshments and maybe a cheeky flutter it's a big chunk of change.

You also need to factor in the game essentially meant nothing. We all knew we'd get to see the lads again at the DW before the end of the season. If you had twenty quid for a ticket and no more, would you go for the game that mean nothing, or the knockout game? It's a no brainer.

I hate that some fans have a holier than thou attitude [not singling anyone out here] because they attend every game. Well done, your support for the club is commendable. But don't look down on others for not having the money, time or desire to go watch their team play.
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The sight of empty terraces at season ending playoff matches have for a few years been a source of embarrassment for the game (especially when on TV),also to a lesser extent the same applies to RL cup matches.
This weekend the matches have been attended as follows.
Wigan v Hudds 8652, Saints v Cas 7548, Wire v Widnes 7239 and Leeds v Cats 7112 which is abysmal.

I have been thinking for a couple of years of ways of incorporating playoff and cup matches into the season ticket structure and what I have come up with is only an idea which people may pick holes in, but it may be an idea that could be worked on.

Talking only now about Wigan my idea would be as follows, to start the system off look at how many matches Wigan have played at home in the Cup and the playoffs over a 3/4 year period and work out an average per season and if that average came to lets say 4 matches (just an example) use the following system.
Put a minimal increase on the season ticket for the extra 4 matches which would not have to be what the match day prices with a season ticket are now, because even when only getting 8000 in the present system the match day overheads will have been covered.
What I am trying to say even though the season ticket may break down to lets say £15.00 they could put the extra match fee to about £8.00 (to be debated) and still have more fans in the ground as well as show an increase in revenue.
Going back to the start when I said take an example over app 3/4 years, it could be carried on a rolling bass to cover for when you may have 6 knock out matches one year and maybe only 2 in another year, this is an idea which could be set up by other clubs and if thought out proper could at least make the grounds seem less empty and devoid of atmosphere.
Like I have said this is just the basis of an idea which could be worked on.
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I don't think incorporating playoff tickets into the cost of a season ticket will be too much of an issue from next season, as there will only be one semi final that doesn't count. It should have been looked into over the past 6 seasons that we have had this structure, however.

The RFL obviously decided that they would rather receive the revenue from 1/3 full stadiums with full priced tickets than try to offer discounts to get more bums on seats.
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The play offs have taken far too long, become boring and with a second chance factor have lost the "must see" tag!
It will be interesting to see the crowds next year when there's one play off game a season then the GF.
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