This season, the most expensive seat at Wigan is in the West Stand at £22, you can also pay just £18 to stand in the South.
That is why I think it is important for Saints to get it right !!!!

Wigan play in Wigan. It's full of extras from Bioshock and you are forced to watch a team cheat and bully their way through games with no thought to entertainment only to breaking as many rules and regulations as possible.

At Saints next season we'll be able to sit in a brand new seat, in a seat no other person has ever sat in or will ever sit in for many years and cheer on the boys whilst supping a pint of the finest tasting Saints Gold. It's no comparison.

If any Saints fan has read this and the thread about our finances, get down to the Hotel and get your season ticket purchased. Give up a meal a day if it helps from a financial perspective.

After reading your replies and the thread about your Finances, it wouldn't surprise me if you are the idiot running the marketing of the club !!!
With that attitude it will probably be that a number of the seats NEVER get used full stop.
This season you can pay on the day for £22 at St Widnes or £25 on the day anywhere in the North or South. As I said earlier, your season ticket price for next season in the North and South Stands £290 works at £22.30 per game.
Either the prices will go up even more for next season or you are a fool to buy one as its cheaper to go and buy a ticket for each game.
If you think that Saints will get 13k home fans every game at them prices, you are in cuckoo land and will be in even more financial trouble !!!

Prices are frozen from this year, so there really isn't a problem is there. We only get 6,000 because it's in Widnes. I'd love Wigan or Wire to play there for a season, you'd get no more than we did. There is ZERO walkup, as it's a walk from St Helens to Widnes and there are very few who buy individual match tickets either as they don't drive.

We'll get 13,000 average at the new pad EASY.

I doubt all the West stand will be season tickets, some will probably be kept back for match day purchases. Those tickets and the East stand will probably be around the £22 mark for advanced purchases as will the family seats. Then £25 ish for advanced tickets for the North and South stands. I don't think those prices would be unreasonable or any different than you would expect to pay at most grounds now.

Wigan represents the best value tickets no doubt, but at Leeds its £27 and even £30 for some of the Carnegie end!!

I think for the standing terraces it is going to be £20/21 match day (based on full price season ticket £17.30 a game) but lets face it the away end is only likely to more than 2/3 full twice a season, maybe three times if Widnes travel well.

Saints need to ensure the North, Family Stands and West get as close to selling out as possible as it would represent up to 9,500 tickets. It already appears at least 2500 tickets have been sold in the North (not including those in the unallocated sections), the West is likely to go well as it is the only home standing and the family tickets represent fantastic value.

Really it is as much up to the St Helens public to back the club in 2012 as there are very good prices for season tickets all payable by monthly direct debit too. £18 a month for 13 home games at early bird prices standing or family seating, in fact it is only £18.70 a month for 1 adult and 1 child standing or seated in family area! That is just £17.25 per game for an adult and child to sit down.

They've shafted families a bit IMO with the placing of the family areas. I had an Under 5's ticket for my daughter last year in the North stand. Now they are only free if in the family areas, which are right in the corners of the South stand.

That's not exactly family friendly shoving small kids in the worst view possible. Now, having got the bug a bit it's more likely that she won't see any games at all.

I thought that as well. Why not have the whole of the North Stand as a family stand, seeing as the South Stand is exactly the same price as the North?

I don't think there'll be a bad spec In the place.

So you'd choose to sit right in the corner then?

It won't be an obstructed view, but it's the worst spec in the stadium.

So can anyone tell me what the difference is between the South and North stands? (Aside from the obvious)

I was expecting a similar arrangement to Widnes, one of them having expensive seats and largely empty for most games and the other being cheaper and mostly full?

The only difference I can see is that only the ends and the front 7/8 rows are available, the so called premium seats half way line / higher up appear to be reserved for the suits, whereas in the North there was the pick of the views (well there was hardly any left in the central blocks now already)

Sat in similar positions at Wembley and O/Trafford,werent a problem.

Why do you need a "family area"
Why not do as we do at Wigan and just have an offer on tickets for families, with pricing to suit kids ages?

We do. The only difference in the designated family areas is that they're cheaper and under 5s in those areas are free.

You can still get a family ticket in the North and South stands, outside of the family areas.