How much do you think it costs the club to transform the hall into the fan zone? Manual labour laying the floor, movement of tables and equipment & stage. Cost of the heaters, gas to heat them. It all needs paying for.

It's likely there's more cost to transform the fanzone than the stadium company have for the South Stand bar.

There's where your extra 20p/50p a pint goes to.

Hopefully lots more people start moving out of the awful South Stand Bar and into the Robin Park fan zone.

I've not managed to make it in yet as I barely make kick-off times but I'm guessing there are no tables/seats for older folks to sit down?

I for one think it's a great move it's got atmosphere and I don't mind paying a bit extra as it's going into the club.Lets hope we get a good summer so we can get outside, it can only be a winner.

Few tables and seats in there yes. It's not as high quality a venue as the SS comfort wise but feels more like a pre match venue and the staff seem capable of pouring two drinks at once.

Sadly, there are some things that have been brought across.

And another thing to moan about thrown in? Bargain!

What are you referring to? The cliques?

What cliques?

Think he means your last sentence
Talking about sadly there being some things that have been brought across.
I thought the same as the other poster.

Went post-match last week and enjoyed it. It was really busy for a Thursday night. Good to have local bands on and a nice atmosphere. The Q&A session with Burgess and Bibby was a good concept but extremely cringeworthy - I’d prefer having a professional doing the questioning, someone like Joe Mills etc (appreciate he may not be available). Drinks and food wise, glad they’ve adjusted the pricing.

Can’t wait for summer when they can open up the doors to the pitch and have some reserves, U19s, or women’s games on

That pretty much nails what I was referring to

I agree about the woman who does the interviewing of the players post match. She is cringey as hell, assuming she's one of the Riversiders women who decided to get up and have a go a few years ago and nobody has told he'd to get off yet? Agree it needs a professional in there, you can even see it in the players faces.

Also.... Love him to bits but please bring someone else out than Greg. He's a legend, passionate (and usually p***ed ha) but it needs mixing up.

Lets get Gilly down, Hanley even. Promote it well up front and the place will be packed.

We were there on the first night at around 5:50pm and the place was more or less empty. All the decent seats around the stage area had reserved signs on them and despite the room being empty we had to pull seats together and sit in a corner around an old oil drum . I don't really mind the price of a pint as long as its decent as the club benefits . I do mind the the fact that decent tables are reserved and the rest have to make do. We are all Wigan fans , first come first served should be the rule .

Regards EW

I was thinking about going pre-match tomorrow, but think I'll swerve it after reading all of this.

It sounds like the south stand bar, with all the bad bits brought over, in a sports hall with more expensive drinks.

I knew the riversiders would wreck it.

To be honest pre-match is good. Defo worth a trip. Live music and busy so has a good vibe. It's only post match where it goes a bit 'Riversidey' it doesn't help as only around half as full, might be more in this weekend as its Sunday afternoon still.

Who's putting out the 'Reserved' signs on tables? The Riversiders? I knew they'd strangle the idea at birth. Biggest set of rockets going