behind the posts for me... shame we are all not sat together. eddie and stevo will take one look and ask where are all the giants fans?!



will have to make ourselves heard and the ones side on shouting forward!!!!

salford had a few behind the posts and in the britannia stand yesterday too.

I'm thinking these will all be full Daz- 576 groupons bought in second allocation not sure how many in the first but if similar I reckon over 1000 should fill those two blocks!

6 of us in ES1 no idea where.
have to wait for tickets to arrive.

what a fookin shambles. seems like they have allocated the seats as people phone up with their vouchers.

4 wigan, five Giants 3 Wigan two giants, 6 Wigan then next row two Giants, 5, wigan, 6 giants etc..

Busy night for the stewards methinks.

I remember last time they didn't open the away end and put us all in with the Wigan fans there was all sorts of arguments between fans due to seating.

I remember that no real trouble but lots of arguments that could have blown up.

i remember it being unreserved though last time so not sure what has changed.

I think that was part of the problem Daz- tickets had seats allocated but was actually unreserved, caused a few arguments I seem to remember as people couldn't sit together.

When it comes to the Away end they probably just allocate seat numbers for the sake of sales purposes,The north and south are unreserved but the east and west are allocated seats. Might not suit everyone but that's just the way it is. I've taken up the groupon deal too but left it late to book so got seats on the back row. I'll be honest I didn't actually know both sets of fans where being put in the same blocks as I probably wouldn't have booked it otherwise. Not that I'm saying you are trouble makers or anything, It just isn't the same atmosphere when you are mixed and it only takes one idiot..

It looks like those blocks are sold out aswell now so hopefully everyone will just sit in their allocated seats and not cause bother over it.
See you all on Friday!

robbo, they haven't put anyone anywhere, the groupon offer was available to anyone as far as I could see, even though probably aimed more at wigan supporters but who can blame Huddersfield fans for taking up this offer?

im sure there wont be any problems,but if the wigan club suspect that problems might arise then im sure there will be enough empty seats to offer giants fans the chance to go in the north stand.

Thats not what I'm saying, I don't blame Hudds fans at all for taking the offer up, Infact I think it's only fair that the groupon offer is open to both sets of fans. Just personally I don't like being mixed and a bit of foresight from the club could have made it a bit better for everyone and would save all the Huddersfield fans being split across 2 stands when the north probably wont be anywhere near full.

agree with the last bit but don't understand why you don't like been in a mixed stand?
that's how it should be in RL.

I just don't want to have "fartown" yelled down my lughole for 80 minutes

Only joking, Just because of some thing's I've seen in the past, Off course the probability is nothing will happen and I know Hudds aren't that type of club. But in what could be seen as one of the biggest games of the league this season emotions will be running high and it only takes one idiot to say/do something to ruin it.

then that's where the stewards will have to do their jobs
and also other fans to police themselves, it isn't football mate and yes you get the odd idiot but knowing our supporters,if one person steps out of line they will be pulled up over it.

no problem being in a mixed stand but it is nice to know you can move if you want to.
If you are with decent fans to enjoy the game it is fine but Being stuck with 6 drunk scrotes at the side of you might be too much

maybe in hindsight when it became obvious lots of Fartowners were buying these tickets Wigan could have allocated a block to each set of fans?.

The traffic problem has been sorted, extra lane under the bridge that caused the bottleneck. Heinz as part of their sponsorship deal have bought most of the seats in the North Stand (behind the posts) They do this one game every year and allow former workers to purchase them for £5 each.

Travel safely and enjoy your night, but not too much.

Sounds a bit of a fiasco. You pays your money you makes your choice as they say

There was a similar situation when Crusaders played their last SL game, then the away end was Heinz and Group On and the Cru fans were officially where the Group On Tickets are for the game on Friday. Even the Crusaders fans who ended up in the "away end" were not allowed to move to where the bulk of the away support was.

so let me get this straight,
blocks 1 & 2 in the east stand will be a mix of wigan and Huddersfield fans?
the north stand will be a mix of wigan and Huddersfield fans?

The North Stand is the designated away stand.

Correct.
The North stand though should be segregated as half of the stand has been closed last few games, Huddersfield will get one half & Heinz the other half.
Huddersfield away support is traditionally poor with only Catalan & London bringing less fans so for the Huddersfield club to be given North stand tickets is progress and Wigan would have expected the Huddersfield away support to have purchased their tickets via their own ticket office.
Wigan will have then got Groupon involved to try and fill out the East stand with tickets intended for Wigan fans as Huddersfield had their own allocation for the North.
So there will be a mix of fans now in the North end of the East stand near the big screen.

Bit naive of Wigan to presume that at £7.50 each some of our fans wouldn't be buying the groupon deal and pay £21 instead. Surely they would have expected that a national deal like this would have attracted visiting fans to the price too.
And for what its worth i'e been in the North at Wigan about 5 times so its not unusual for us to be in there.

I remember you thinking our support was traditionally poor a few short years ago and failing to open the away stand- which ended up with an extremely cramped section of the crowd and extremely busy stewards as they attempted to sort our the arguments that broke out over seating. You have since opened the away stand for Huddersfield- which you haven't done for other teams so your suggestion that we bring the third least number of fans is quite frankly trolling poop- but if it floats your boat...

The dealings I've had this week with Wigan ticket office is also quite frankly the least helpful and least knowledgeable (or contains the biggest liars) of all of those I have had to deal with over the years, (I've attended over 50 different stadia in the years I've been following Huddersfield through their many divisions) so it doesn't surprise me in the least that they don't have the common sense to make things easier for themselves by allowing away fans with east stand tickets to go with other away fans in the north stand- after all according to you we bring less than 200 fans in total anyway!

Didn't we have 500 last season in the North stand??? First game of the season as we got a few Wigan fans saying so as well as confirmation from the gate ticker! So where this poor attendance comes from is bewildering as we beat a few teams in terms of away attendance there! In fact we've had 3 seasons of decent following by our and their standards.

ES1 and 2 are sold out bar 1 odd empty seat, however there are plenty of seats in blocks ES3/4 so being a Wigan fan i'll gladly move there if they allocate me some crap seats.

Very much looking forward to this one though, should be a good atmosphere in the East stand... Will look strange with ES1 & 2 sold out when it's usually empty!!