I am dragging along (not literally) 6 that don't normally go to away games. You might be surprised at the level of support on Friday. We have just outsourced our IT at work and one guy is coming from Delhi!!! First taste of Rugby League

"Anyone who has purchased tickets for this game through the Groupon offer will be sat in allocated seats in blocks ES1 and ES2 of the East Stand and will not be transferred to other areas of the stadium."

If there is an emergency then the club need to know how many people are in each stand, therefore, they can't just shuffle people from one stand to another willy nilly.

How do the likes of kr, Cas and wakey go on "in an emergency!"

I don't know, I give up.

I would hope that on the day for those two blocks they just make them unreserved and the stewards tell Giants fans to go in ES1 and the Wigan Fans in ES2.

Will make for a better atmosphere for everyone.

No issues about H and S as there will still be the same nos in those blocks and the fact you could not book an individual seat but were allocated one would make it fairly equitable.

Do you get prawn sandwiches with these £8 tickets??

There's alot of griping about seat allocation here, if you wanted specific seats then I'm afraid you have to pay the going rate, to bleat on here about £8 seats not being where you want them is pathetic!

Prawn sandwhiches are reserved for those who can afford the expensive seats, i am just bringing my Brown Sauce sandwhich

Dont think anyone's bleating as such really, i'm certainly not at that price - just wondering if it was going to be possible thats all .

I doubt it would be possible because of season ticket holders with reserved seats, There wont be many but that end is cheaper for season tickets as opposed to the half way line so there are a few there. In theory it wouldn't be a bad idea though.

Playing devils advocate here. Yeah it might seem an easy solution putting one set of fans with these vouchers in one block but it wouldn't work as the stewards wouldn't know who's who as not everyone stands out as fans of the team they support. Also they can't sell every seat then revert to unreserved seating given that a certain percentage of seats need to be left unsold in an unreserved seating allocation. The other thing the Wigan ticket office weren't to know how many from Huddersfield would've taken up this offer so again they couldn't have said which rows or blocks to put aside for Huddersfield callers.
As for putting Giants fans from the east into the North they wanted the east stand filled which is why they allowed this offer, the North already has another offer so again they don't know the take up of this. Also if the Giants are telling them they're taking 2000 there without these groupons added they certainly won't allow for transfers.

still cant believe we are taking around 2000, the examiner must have that wrong, would love to see it mind

It won't happen, but I expect some idiots to arrive at the stadium expecting this to be the case and causing arguments with stewards / other fans.



I think the fact you've paid buttons for your allocated seat makes it fairly equitable.

i would hope that if there was 4 seats near most of the giants fans and those seats are occupied by neutrals or wigan fans that if i asked them politely they might swap seats with us and let us sit with our own fans.
if not then i will just be annoying people by singing and shouting for my team



we are on row R so fairly low down, there will be lots behind us i imagine?

im in east stand and couldnt care less who i'm sat with as long as we win, i knew when i bought cheap tickets would probably be sat with wigan fans so cant complain tbh.

Our tickets have not arrived so looks like we will be queueing up at the ticket office to sort something out

Bummer durham! Ours were posted Friday afternoon and arrived Monday morning.

exactly.

Only took 10 mins or so to get moved stands. Not sure anyone comes out of it with much credit but a shame Wigan did not forsee what might happen 2 weeks ago but there you go.

I don't really think they could have done anything much sooner to be fair. The north stand could have had people paying on the night so I'm pretty sure they will have needed to wait for kick off and make sure there'd be room to move how ever many people went across for health and safety. The North was pretty busy tonight and it's not allowed to be filled as its unreserved. I guess it's not as clear cut as it seems.

Good following from you tonight although I think the 2000 estimation was a little bit off the mark.

well done the £8's on getting moved, i want a refund on my £21!!!!

Me too but having said that it was worth every penny to watch the C&G do the double on the pies

You do? Wow, you did we'll to spot all the giants fans and count them all amongst almost 20,000!
Due to wigans allocation of seating we will never actually know- how convenient for those that like to knock our support.

it was pretty farcical, giants and wigan fans mixed in 2 stands, surely its just easier to reserve a section for away fans?

saying that most of the wigan fans turned into empty seats by the end, the ones who stayed know what a home game is like for us

Wigan should do the decent thing and for everyone that paid 21 quid they should refund the 13 quid difference to the Giants.

how many do we think from giants lastnight, 800-1000?

very good support from wigan 19500... great crowd