Attendance Yesterday.

Preston are 21st in the Championship Attendance Table with an average home attendance of just 13624! They will more than likely move up one place to 20th after the final game but that is still piss poor seeing as they have been up near the play off places most of the season!

Right let me see if I’ve got this reet to appease the moaning gets on here.

You want

To pay no more than ten bob for your season ticket coz Mr Whelan keeps hiking up the prices the cad.

The club to sign players of the calibre of Messi and Ronaldo and pay them millions in wages but woe betide if they dare to put ticket prices up.

And now you want free buses on match days to take you theer and back.

If the club did all the above we would still get some moaning sod complaining about having to pay for his own beer.

Don’t think anyone was moaning DJ. Horc just put in a constructive suggestion to try and bring in some more supporters.

I remember having the conversation with JJ several years ago on what the best way to get bodies into the stadium was, the absolute answer was – WIN MATCHES – it is fool proof.

We do have some lad who moan for England I know horc isn’t in that category like ourselves he has been around the club forever and is in the appreciative section. I personally don’t think our owner and board could have done it any differently we kept costs low on ticket prices to attract more support so obviously couldn’t push the boat out for stellar players on massive wages without the costs being offset on to us the fans. I believe that Mr Whelan would have wanted the very best for Wigan Athletic and would have pulled out all the stops to get the finest players into the club but without putting us into any risk. His business acumen has steered the club into a position of relative safety whilst still being successful on the pitch. I can’t see how anyone can moan about the way the club has been run. Maybe I’m way off the mark.[/quote]

There are quite a few of us oldies left Nuneaton who remember how it used to be in the old days.
The main culprits are probably the newer fans who have been spoilt rotten with success upon success.
DW has done a magnificent job in raising the profile of this little club of ours, but that has raised the expectations of these fans and some of us at times and leads them to think it should always be like that and we have a god given right to it.
We as a club have to fight for every fan, and at the end of the day it is success that brings them in, a prolonged spell of success in the PL has ensured we are still attracting 4 times the average we did pre Dave Whelan, and if we can get back up to the PL more fans will come and more will get hooked like they have over the last 20 years.
The attendance against Wimbledon was something we would never have thought possible a few years back. Our largest league attendance only once went over 10,000 pre Dave Whelan and even with that the average over the season probably struggled to get over 3000.
Its an arduous journey at times being a football fan, but by the hell we are having more fun along the way than most.
Go through the other 91 clubs in the league and see how many have achived as much as us since 1978, some have had little or no success at all. We should all be as proud as punch about WAFC and shouting it from the rooftops.

Been worth it Ali it would have been easy for every single Latics fan to have been a glory hunter instead and boy has this club rewarded those of us who followed the heart and not the head. Our club is unique our journey has been unique and will continue to be so. It is a privilege to have been part of what has unfolded over the years and long may it continue. COYL

Come on lads, you are going all ‘Goole Away’ on us now!