Thankyou in advance but I meant the Leeds game

oops sorry

Perhaps we should bill it as 'The Forthcoming Massacre'.

Would that get the crowds in, do you think?

Got my letter and phone call. Pretty good offer, I like the polo shirts.

Given that we got massacred at home by Hudds on your birthday last year, this is hardly a good omen...

A polo shirt is no incentive at all. A discount voucher for the Wigan RL shop would have been better.

And why is Leeds classed as :15zclbtethe :15zclbteBig One? It's not and never will be. Artificial marketing hype is always transparent.

Marketing should be aimed mainly at the less attractive games anyway, when the only plan at the moment seems to be to give away tickets. The Celtic match this Sunday will see a very poor turnout of paying customers.

I am not as delighted as some on here with the marketing effort at Wigan. They have still not tackled the basic need to inform the general public about :15zclbtewhen

It's a marketing campaign, pure and simple. It doesn't matter if both teams aren't performing, that probably isn't factored into it, due to how long these things take to organise.

What is factored in, is the attendance figure that will appear in news reports. It looks good for the club and good for the game.

Great idea.

When the club say want to set a new Super League crowd record, they are looking to smash the record crowd for Leeds at the JJB.
Im sure they would love a sell out but I think they are hoping for probably around 18 or 19k.

its gonna be hard to fill the ground for that match because its the start of the wigan holidays where crowds or usually down ,but good luck Mick and your team in trying. Can't be there myself because the wife's dragging me off to the carrribean for a couple of weeks.< please let there be sky tv>

Good idea, hope it succeeds. I'll ask about 4 people tonight.

we got 7 at our house



im a bit sceptical as if we are still playing then , like we are now, its going to be difficult to get anyone but diehard fans coming.
and if leeds are still losing i cant see many of them coming over either, especially if its on sky.

they arnt trying for a stadium record btw, i believe they are trying to break the record for warriors v rhinos games................at the jjb, dw, or whatever it'll be called then



and if i put them stickers in my car folk will think we are going to blackpool pleasure beach.
i think they could have come up with a better name tbh.

How dare the club show any imagination or initiative!


The Saints game was always going to get a much bigger crowd than the Leeds game so in trying to push the game in the summer they'll get two close to sell out crowds rather than one possible sell out and a big crowd.

I hope the friends people are thinking of taking will still be friends after the event as it seems a quick and sure way of people thinking you must be mad to watch this lot and to bring me along as well, get real.

Not really. My Geordie mate has been to Wigan a fair few times, over the course of two seasons, and I think he's only seen us win two or three times.

He's also been to Leeds twice with me as well and we've lost both there. He still keeps coming back because he likes the whole buzz of it!

Your absolutely spot on once again! Do Saints Fans never get anything Wrong?

PS

Could you give us a few ideas on how you go about Marketing the club and getting such vast numbers through the turnstiles!

Thief!!!!!

Look

I think we all knew Noble planned entire seasons prep around wigan peaking for games against leeds but i didn't realise your marketing had cottoned onto it as well.

I think this is with reference to the likely final scoreline

I think this is a good idea, especially if it gets a few new people through the door..although let's face it if we put in a rubbish performance, they're unlikely to come again, but that's not the fault of the marketing team.

I think the fact that you get a free 2010 season ticket if you buy the most tickets is pretty good, they should have hyped that up a bit in the text, it's somewhat lost in the 6th paragraph.

Anyway I'll be putting the sticker up in my car, it's not going to do me any harm and it might win my hospitality at the match, which would be great.

As others have said, the reason they didn't do this for the saints match is because they already would have expected a big crowd, so it would have been a waste of time.

I swear some people will complain over anything - you're offered something for nothing ffs

The negativity from some does my head in, the club just can't win.

Id happily stick the sticker up in my car...but is it going to come off easily when I get back from the game after being killed by Leeds?

Very good point. Its been gettin worse for the last 6 months.

Although I have known you to complain about blue cola bottles before now

12,300 wasn't that bad.

(I realise 500 junior rugby players were there too)

Which is 3000 fewer than the club were hoping for pre season as it was billed as a community day with a number of initiatives.

had remembered that but didnt want to bring it up