How would they know?

Exactly. Thats why they can't do that. I paid on the gate at Hull. There is no fair way to do it. If your desperate enough you will get one though so stop worrying.

I would have said look at the sales records for each season ticket holder when they phone or supply tickets from away games for people calling in person.

Not ideal for those who paid at the gate I agree, but still better than the current system.

as mentioned there is no other way to do it. i have been running round like a blue @rsed fly tonight. I have managed to get Friday off so I can go for tickets. Down side to this is that I now have to work Sunday. It does say on the site that they expect to get a further allocation.

The majority pay on the gate for away games.

Category 1 fans first. Let the rest scrap over whatever is left

I have heard the capacity is 6,275, but I think the club arranged a safety inspection from the County Council to see if it could be 'upped' and are still waiting on their reply (bureaucrats !). Hence the lack of announcement over official capacity.

It's true our largest crowd was 1,809 against Doncaster last week, but that was our first game of the season and I'd expect a few 2,000+ crowds as the season goes on. I'd expect about 4,000 Barrow fans will attend the Wigan game though, given that many people still remember our great team of the early 80's, when we beat 'top' Division 1 teams regularly.

I can't believe Barrow are being slagged off for wanting to make sure that every 'home' fan gets a ticket first. In pure financial terms, do we give Wigan an extra 1,000 tickets (=£0) or try and sell an extra 1,000 locally (=£10,000+)?

When Barrow AFC drew Middlesborough away in the FA Cup this year, 7,000 Barrovians made their way to the Riverside Stadium, so I suppose in theory we could sell all 5,000-odd tickets not allocated to Wigan. I doubt it though.

Should be a cracking carnival atmosphere.

The article on the official site has now been edited: http://www.wiganwarriors.com/news_full.asp?newsid=4616 Quote:Wigan Warriors have initially received 1,000 terracing tickets for the Carnegie Challenge Cup fourth round tie with Barrow Raiders to be played on Sunday 5th April at Craven Park (3.00pm Kick Off). Wigan are expected to receive some further tickets in due course.

The article on the official site has now been edited: http://www.wiganwarriors.com/news_full.asp?newsid=4616 Quote:Wigan Warriors have initially received 1,000 terracing tickets for the Carnegie Challenge Cup fourth round tie with Barrow Raiders to be played on Sunday 5th April at Craven Park (3.00pm Kick Off). Wigan are expected to receive some further tickets in due course.

As you say we may not know the capacity of OUR OWN STADIUM but I guess its better than knowing the capacity of a rented stadium.



Seriously though I hope more than 1000 of you get tickets...............The Wigan walk wont look quite as spectacular with just 1000 of you leaving early

Not really considering you'll never be able to play at the top level ''IN YOUR OWN STADIUM'' as it doesn't meet minimum requirements.