It'll be interesting to see how many season ticket holders renew. I think it might be a fair bit less than the 5200+ from this last season - but we'll get more paying on a match-by-match basis. A couple of factors that spring to mind.

Last season some of the prices were effectively give-away. Nothing wrong with that - we had an increased ground capacity of over 7000, and it made sense to get fans in, even if you didn't charge them very much. The coming season will have more "realistically priced" tickets.

The other factor is last season the fixture list was pretty much set in stone from the outset - apart from the 2 early home matches that were switched because of the water issues. So you knew exactly where you were. I suspect this season the games will be all over the shop, from Thursday to Sunday - so many people will think it makes more sense to just buy tickets for games you know you can attend. Which also makes sense, as it's not very good if too many people buy season tickets but don't turn up for the games (ok if you have lots of spare capacity, but not so good if you're near capacity on some games).

Due to nature of the game you can't have enough in your squad.
There will be a couple recovering from winter operations always is.
Then there will be a couple injured in the friendlies , hope not but generally all teams do .So while squad looks good on paper now , it probably be diluted a bit come February

Luckily we have a squad capable of coping with that scenario.

I agree.
And also the salary cap means you can't just have an unlimited squad.

Another happy problem with a large but quality squad is player want gametime. Some pretty good players will be sat in stands next year and the more players you sign make it even more so, it's a balance. Ste Mills said we are pretty much done, but also said any team that say they are completely done is lying! Personally I think player can drop out of favour pretty quick so if for example if Kruise Leeming doesn't like fact he isn't the chosen starter for Wigan and we have cap money we can swoop in!

I'm happy with ticket sales. Last seasons numbers included a lot of free junior tickets, this year they are having to buy them.