They haven't sold 25,133

That's the stadium capacity with all seats available



It's around 24k currently

On the rare occasions the stadium is filled, I always think the club needs to find ways of trying to capitalise and attract some of the casual fans back. Maybe hand out some flyers for a ticket deal for the next home game around the stadium or some season ticket info etc.

We play Huddersfield the week after, so that would be ideal because we’re likely to go from 24,000 to around half that without a fair push.

It would be very interesting to know how many neutrals are attending (or non Wigan fans I should say)



To see a side like Penrith live and in the flesh is a big draw for a lot of RL fans so I would imagine there’s a decent amount.



I saw a Saints fan on Twitter that said he personally knew 21 other people going to the game who aren’t Wigan fans. FTV is another example bringing 5 mates with him.

A fair chunk would be neutrals I'd imagine. The demand for tickets has been unprecedented in the history of the fixture (for games not involving the larger city of Leeds).

Really tough to put a number on it but when we play Saints on a Good Friday, that brings out lots of casual fans but even then, it’ll only sell out in the week of the game and with 5,000-6,000 Saints fans helping. I do know a few casual Wigan fans who are going who don’t even bother with Good Friday/Grand Finals, so there’s clearly a big appetite for it in the town. I’d imagine there will be a couple of thousand neutrals in the ground on the night.

About 3/4 of N2 disappeared in one go, be great if Penrith have organised a fans trip and they're all together in that block

A few of my friends from Rochdale are going to the game. If anything, a couple are Hornets fans. They just like RL in general.

Does anyone know what the capacity has been set at for the Penrith game?

The end blocks of E/W never went on sale, can't see they'd be where they put corporate guests and likewise with the bottom 1/3rd of N1/S1. taking a guess I reckon 23.7k

Heather Small-30 min set before kick off.

Russell Watson (The Voice)to perform Jerusalem then both National Anthems

Fan village open all day with past players etc



Not bad,not bad at all.

So looking forward to this.

Do you know if the fan village will show the Saints game on telly?



Is it worth a visit over just heading to the pub?

I think it will be shown as it is on Sky and as there will be a few neutrals at the game.Would make commercial sense (beer sales etc).

A great starter before the main course





Will try to find out mate.

The Saints game is on BBC I believe.

I seem to recall them putting internationals on when they've had the bonfire nights (not been to them myself), so there should no reason why they won't put the Saints game on if it's on the BBC. I might go to the fan village but will probably see what the weather is like. If it's not clever and you can't get outside I can see it being uncomfortably busy in there. If we get a day like today then it should be fine and you can come and go as you please.

Even better, although it does say live on Sky at 5-30pm.



Anyhow I would think the game will be shown.

Might have a couple of spare tickets. My mate has now got an op the day before. The other ticket is a consession for 60+ year old. Not sure if that can be changed to a full adult. Will know tomorrow for defo.



Be just me on my own now as I don't want to miss it!!!

Has anybody got their E-Tickets yet??

they should start rolling out soon, the confirmation of sale email says if you've not got it the week before the event to get in touch, so no panic yet

Confirmed coverage on the Beeb

Video of Rads chatting to Bryan Fletcher yesterday about the WCC and a few other bits.



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Enjoyed that.



He was a bit of a character was Fletcher, one of those players you wished had joined Wigan earlier in his career but as long as a player had played SOO Maurice seemed open to bringing them to Wigan.



Rads not giving much away by highlighting our pack as well as Field & French.

Looks like Sam Eseh picked up an injury today so thats four forwards unavailable. Looks like it's between Chan, Cooper and Hill for the final bench spot. Everything crossed we can get through the Cas game unscathed.

I did wonder if selection today was a nod to next weeks team (and then potentially the Penrith team) with Harvie Hill not playing. He’s been excellent in pre season and looks in fantastic shape. I’m expecting him to get a spot on the bench next week and if he nails it, he could keep a spot for Penrith and that would be huge for him.

Maybe that is the way to go. In an ideal world it would be Cooper but it feels early - we'll probably know which one Peet plans to go for when we see the Cas line up.