Well done Widnes, in fact well done to a lot of clubs, strong demand for Super League in the heartlands

Should be another good year at Wigan, the marketing team are doing some good stuff as usual.

First game you can bring a friend for free with a season ticket, this is against Hudds. Expecting 18-19k.
Second game against Leeds could reach 17k.
Game against Wire will be around 20k again due to the raised profile of that game.
We will have the 'Big one 4' which will have tv adverts etc. promoting the game, sure to be over 20k
Finally we'll have a game which will involve selling the North stand to local businesses, this has brought in 19k the last 2 years.
Saints game won't be as big as last season though. Sell-out last year but the game this season is the last of the regular season, the crowd will take a huge knock unless we need to win to lift the shield of get in the play-offs (god forbid).
Finally we will have one game linked to the Wigan festival of rugby where the thousands of kids competiting will all get offered tickets, this usually puts quite a few on the gate as well.

Will have sold well over 10,000 season tickets before the start of the season. The figure given on the e-ticketing system (which people have been quoting from) does not include the 700+ hospitality seats in the west stand, they are not shown on the system, there is a huge gap where these seats usually are, along with the boxes etc. adding all of these in will give a number around 10,500+ I reckon.

Wish I could say the same about Salford

. Would be great if we could do some of the stuff you listed there, but it boils down to money which isn't in great supply at Salford to say the least.

I've heard 8000 as a target/breakeven number, although what's actually meant by that, I don't know. I think, even with the new stadium, we'll struggle to improve on attendances last season. Might push 8-9k for Wigan/Wire etc, but I reckon it'll be 4-5k on average. Most people in the surrounding areas don't know when/who the first game is. There should have been a big marketing push after last season had finished, but there's been virtually nothing. I think leaflets are going out next week, but the week before the game might be too little too late I think.

salford have radio ads on real xs cant ignore them encouraging people to go see the brutal balet that is super league

great news from the clubs here, Saints, Wigan, Bulls and Leeds to top 10k season tickets, most others up too.
Easily the best supported season in superleague IMO

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Those are all fantastic initiatives and Wigan and should be applauded.

Other than the TV advert none of it costs the earth. The typical Salford excuse of 'we don't have the money to do it' just doesn't cut it IMO.

If we had a bit more money, we could get a better marketing team and maybe do some things like Wigan. Saying that, they've done alright for the first game after today's announcement, hope it's not all our eggs in one basket though. We've probably got more competition (as in other forms of entertainment in general, plus football of course) in the surrounding area than anyone, barring London. Coupled with 30+ years of pretty much dross on the field, we're never going to have great crowds.

Cas have today announced on their Facebook page that they have sold 400 more than the previous year's figures. Given we usually sell 3.5k, this is very positive news.

So this is where we stand from what people have said, very positive i'd say!

Super League:

Bradford 10243
Cas 3900 UP
Catalans ?
Huddersfield 6300 UP
Hull 9000
Hull KR 5500
Leeds ?
London ?
Salford ?
St Helens 9500 UP
Wakey 4500 UP
Warrington ?
Widnes 4500 UP
Wigan 10100

Championship:

Sheffield- Record Sales

do wire not exist