All depends on what capacity they have confirmed, I think.

The problem is that Barrow ground has a capacity of around 6,600.

Wigan are entitled to 30% of the tickets, which is circa 1,980 tickets.

Why have they only been given 1,000?

Who's fault is that? It certainly isn't Wigans.

Iv just been and put myself n 2 on the waiting list

I know the guy who got the big block of tickets (it was eighty odd) and to be fair that same group are at EVERY AWAY game.
I have to be honest I would much rather they got their tickets than people who are only interested because it is free.


There is no simple solution, other than not doing such a stupid promotion again in the future.
Is our product so bad it has to be given away?
NO
So why are we?

This pot of money that is being wasted in this way could surely have been better spent.

simplest solution is to do what Liverpool used to do in the 70s (may still do it).......give out a numbered voucher with every ticket.
the ones with maximum vouchers got priority, then downwards etc...making it that fans who went to most games got priority on cup and euro games .

I been saying this since the draw was made them who have been hull on a friday nite let them have first say or put them on sale on a sat when a very high percentage are not at work.

Its in the Evening Mail today that currently the Capacity for Craven Park is 4300, early next week it should be getting upped to 5400. Then if various safety requirements are met thet hope to get it upped again to 6275. It seems they are waiting on the Cumbria County Council.

But they sell out away trips every week. This kind of situation off memory hasn't arisen for Wigan since 1995 when we drew Batley.

Comes back to the same repeated point. I paid on the day at Hull so how would the ticket office know I went?

Just been to pick my tickets up for the Barrow game.

Asked to see my season tickets (no problem), then had a 5 minute argument with him, as he insisted that the ticket office kept the season tickets till after the Barrow game !!!

He had to go and see someone before he agreed to had back the tickets.

Simple question, just what kind of idiot are they employing there.

All computerised now, they can keep a record of away attendances against people's 'client code' from their season ticket.

They should say if this situation arises in the future, people with away attendances will get priority. That will encourage people to pre-purchase tickets for away days - which is a good thing because a % of pre-sold away ticket revenue goes to Wigan.

Despite the relative merits of the 80 people that actually received those tickets, it doesn't make it right that one person is able to do it. What was stopping someone who hadn't been to an away game all season from doing exactly the same or worse just because it was free and they decided to get a group of fans together to make the trip?

The club has failed in its duty to allow all season ticket holders a fair opportunity to gain a ticket under the promotion in view of the allocation being limited, by not imposing a limit of tickets being obtained by individuals and has further ripped off fans who couldn't get to the ground by using an 0871 number for sales.

I'll be there, even if I have to buy a ticket from Barrow, but in doing so I will actually be more than £30 out of pocket in trying to obtain supposedly 'free' tickets to the game, only to then in the end have to pay anyway.