Hey, if they can do it, why not us?

Thanks for your concern.

I actually agree.

Me too. The club should be ashamed.

Me too.
They should put the price up for South Stand tickets to £21.

Well I can't imagine that went as planned, especially after having to search for and reopen an old thread.

Think what you want and what I'd expect from yourself and Wigan peer.

I remembered this thread because I have been vocal against what Hull have done (and have been doing for a number of years with higher food and drink prices) on ticket pricing. In fact I was purposely not antaganistic towards Wigan in my post accepting that the price is still favouable compared with most in Super League however the policy of charging more for away fans stinks to my mind,

As I say such practices are not what I believe rugby league's core values are about and going from the views of Wigan fans such as Bilko were on Hull last year I thought its worth a revisit now Wigan are following suit,

When you put things into perspective, liverpool fans protested at nal the other night for having to pay £62, it's £52 at city tommorow, I know it might be wrong what clubs are doing, but it's hardly a "rip off" is it? Football fans are up against this every other week, believe me, I'm one of them!!

The North Stand was a quid more last year as well.

HTH.

At a fans forum or shareholders meeting a couple of years back IL was asked why we (Wigan) couldn't charge the away fans the same as we are charged when we go to their ground. Now to me that would be a far fairer system, but he said it wouldn't be really practical.

did anyone ask why?
what would be difficult?

Wigan charge away fans 1 pound more in the north than the south and this is done because we sometimes shut the north stand to not well attended teams (huddersfield, London, Catalan, Bradford, Crusaders recent examples) for cost reasons and house them in the East Stand. Thus the prices are the east stand prices, ensuring every away fan here is charged the same. It's been the case for couple of years. It's not ideal but at least our reasoning has logic.

Can't really argue with that I guess.

Price of away fans seat Warrington v Wigan last season £26.50.

Exactly. I paid £25 at Stoke last week which is considered cheap. Chelsea on Saturday is £47 for an absolutely woeful view. Liverpool charge £42 for a seat that isn't even in line with the pitch.