You could call that one the 'Reasonably Big One' as a little build up to the 'Big One' known also as Wigan vs Leeds.

Touche. Not a bad one for you that!

Can't believe the over reaction to this news.

'Not going to renew my season ticket'
'never going to travel' from distance to watch Wigan again'
'who do the club think they are treating us like this'

Step back and take a look at yourselves.
Calm down and look at the positives for once.
This is the first salvo in trying to make the back end of the season a memorable one, get behind the club and support what they are trying to do.

As a Salford fan, I know all about "Hype that ends up being a damp squib", take the big announcement a few weeks back that ended up being Weller Huaraki ffs
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SL as a whole is suffering with attendances dropping across the board...
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Look on the brightside, your team is still well supported, what we would give to have a fair % more

The over reaction is ridiculous. Disappointing that the 'big announcement' wasn't a signing but that was obvious after the 2nd tweet. The back room staff must wonder what the hell they are dealing with sometimes with some of our fans.

They are dealing with customers and people who pay their wages.

Spot on, and that's the only reason I gave up on a Season Ticket (many) years back.
Since then, like EW said, I just got out of the habit of going due to arriving home from work too late for evening games, (bloody Thelwall ) in order to then get into town by public transport. (RL game = a scoop or two before the game, and several more after it )

But the reaction to them trying to generate a bit of coverage is ridiculous. One cryptic tweet followed by one that was blatantly obvious is was "The Big One 5", and some of our fans have blown up to riduculous proportions because it wasn't that we're signing half the Queensland team. The club got it wrong IMO, but the massive over-reaction by some is cringeworthy to say the least, and has only happened because of people's unrealistic expectations.

I actually agree with you, the club has got it wrong on this occasion however as someone said "there's no such thing as bad publicity"
Its definitely got everyone talking whether it be for the right or wrong reasons.

So the prize for this 'big' game - two league points?
If only the players had taken Sunday's game against Bradford seriously!

Cynical barsteward aka pizzaman.

Whoosh! Straight over my head that one, at least you got loads of laughs from everyone else

I understand that the club want to generate publicity and try to get more fans through the gates, but they have had offers now for almost half of the home games at least. As a season ticket holder, this infuriates me as it ends up costing me more for the season ticket as it would if I just bought tickets on a game to game basis. The club are aware that this is annoying season ticket holders but they just don't care. What is the point in a season ticket??