That would be great but I fear our crowd will be dissappointing as it is a cup match with everyone paying (or do season ticket holders go for free?)

Season ticket holders are free. Hopefully most will turn up. (Who wouldn't want a free day out?)

Season ticket holders get in for free I think (that's what's happened the last 2 years anyway).
How many season ticket holders do Wigan have ??

Just under 11k. Hopefully a crowd of around 12.5k.

Will we end up having to go and collect tickets in advance?

Yes unfortunatly. I think you will be able to do it on the day though!

Daft idea, surely it would be easier for the electronic turnstile system to recognise the season ticket on entry to the Barrow game, just as it does for league games? Would save on printing out 10k+ tickets and serving customers at the ticket office.

That would be for the best but I'm pretty sure every other club had to go and collect tickets last year.

We had too as we were away. If we have an electronic system we should use it.

Hopefully we will but I remember a thread on the VT with other fans complaining about it! I hope I am wrong.

Either way I can safely say a sell-out will not be in question for this game

I'd imagine that the requirement to collect a printed ticket has something to do with the RFL wanting to know how many STHs take up the offer and attend the games (to determine whether it is worth continuing the scheme).

Finding out from each club how many free tickets were claimed from their ticket offices is probably easier than asking how many went through the turnstiles and then trying to find out and then subtract the number of paying match ticket holders from each club from the attendance figure.

3,500 hahahaha you cant even get 2,000 at home, dont be daft

The town's football club (Barrow AFC) average about 1,200. Last season when they played Sunderland away in the FA Cup, 8,000 fans made the trip over to the North East. The Barrow fans turn up in numbers for the big occasions. Even in the 2009 Championship Grand Final, Barrow fans easily outnumbered the Fax fans (the 2009 Final against Fax attracted 2,000 more fans than the 2010 final between Fax and Featherstone).

Should be a good occasion.

Exactly. The RFL pay a levy to the visiting club to make up for the loss of gate receipts and the bean counters at Red Hall wouldn't be too keen on paying out on the ones that don't attend (there are a suprisingly high number of season tickets that don't get used each week with people working etc).

im glad we got a home tie for a change

Would rather have got a home tie in the later rounds when we have to play the bigger teams.

With it being free tickets I would have rather had an away day!

CAN YOU use your season card for this game

No See leythermatt post above.

What is the likley day of the game as the tics are away fri/sun think it should be sunday to encorage more barrow fans to turn up and charge a flate rate of £10 enterance and £5 kids.

Fingers crossed for a Saturday 5pm kick off would be ideal but I doubt it!!!

If they want to maximise the crowd from Barrow, Sunday at 3 makes most sense.

Sunday sounds good if its nice and warm.

Beer garden weather I guess.

Could this game see the return of a certain man of steel?

Yeah your right, its just sunday games are a bit of a headache for us - wanting a Saturday is just pure selfishness on my part lol

Did anyone else receive a phone call today from our captain, informing us of the semi final against Warrington at Widnes and tickets are now available at the DW stadium. Either they are a bit slow sending this information out (over 12 months late). Or this years fixtures have been fixed and they have leaked the semi final info a bit premature