I do get the feeling that the club generating extra cash is the name of the game this season. The more events at Robin Park throughout the year the better, tonight is the Pre-season Party, on Sunday the players led by Sam Powell will walk from Robin Park to the DW pitch.

Another legends night has been announced with Jason Robinson, I've been to the majority of these and the first few they organised were to a smaller crowd in a room upstairs, now attracts 200 supporters and sells out rapidly (the Pat Richards one did anyway). More of these are planned I expect, it's a great way for the club to make extra income, full bar, merchandise as the club shop is open, lottery tickets... etc.

Corporate dining is now booked and paid for through the club website, along with extra packages for birthdays... Etc. allows the club to take a %.

I do agree we should go further, not sure they would allow Wigan A team in the Championship but a couple of clubs from the women's comp has started to pay their players (and rightly so), I feel the club should push season tickets, match day pay on gate to attract more supporters to our club.

After the absolutely amazing response the wheelchair comp received in the World Cup it would be typical rugby league to allow this ride of enthusiasm from first time watchers to simply fade back to obscurity (lots of celebrities and sports people from across the country were raving over it). The club does have a wheelchair side, how many would pay to go and see a few games? I know I would.
The problem we have is there is no arena locally big enough to fit 2-3k supporters I don't think, maybe they could have some games in summer at Robin Park in front of the main stand, set up with flooring over the running track and pitch? I don't know.... I'm just rambling now.

Sorry could you clarify this? What do you mean by swapping tickets?

If you couldn't make a game, you could swap your tickets to a different game later in the season. We used to do it regularly. Meant that we could bring friends/family to the game we could make. You can't do it now. No big deal, but it was a factor in us deciding top get season tix from a price per game point of view

So my understanding is that if you cant make it to a game (holiday,illness,cant be d etc) you could give the ticket to anyone later on to get in free but you could also use your ticket aswell,that doesnt make commercial sense as it isnt the clubs fault that you are missing a game but the club gets stung for £28 upwards.

Commercial risk that probably didn't work so is no longer available.

We now have memberships where people can pick and choose.

Your understanding is wrong. You couldn't let someone else use your ticket. It was cancelled for the game you couldn't make and you got extra tickets for a different game. It's no big deal. I just thought you could still do it. The person I spoke to at the ticket office said they stopped it last year. It must have been a real sphere ache to manage so it's understandable that they've stopped it. It just tips the value of getting a season ticket over the edge for us and it will be a membership net season