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Sorry for any upset Landgate don’t mean to be nasty but like bob when i have not took my medication i get all angry and say things, ADHD hey!
And as for the Thugby heads coming on here go and watch your push and shove and stay off our site or i tell you what i am gonna kick off me.
See forgot take my pill again counting to ten! forget it i cant do it beat it Rugby heads!! :evil:
There’s a max of 20’000 home fans at the DW and there was about 16’000 against Fulham last season, when there was only 11’000 against Pompey.
What’s the difference I hear you shout, the kick off time. Night matches never attract that many supporters and that’s been the thing for years.
Now, a 3pm kick off can only muster 12’000 home fans.
I’d like someone who doesn’t come now to explain themselves.
Rant over ..
I suspect if the game was the culmination of a season which saw Latics win the league and be presented with a trophy then ALL the seats would be sold.
What you seem to be saying is that despite enjoying your best night in about 15 years, your lot still can’t be @rsed filling all your seats.
Sun May 8 2005. Wigan v Reading. The most important game in Wigan’s history as a victory would secure promotion to the premiership.
Attendance 19662.
Empty seats – approx 5500.
Kind of blows your theory right out the window….[/quote]
I suspect if the game was the culmination of a season which saw Latics win the league and be presented with a trophy then ALL the seats would be sold.
Specifically which bit of the above part of my post were you struggling with?
Not the brightest, are we?
Well, as your question was so hypothetical I chose the closest thing the Latics have ever come to lifting a trophy. I suppose I could have quoted the 12181 that turned up to see the Latics against Arsenal in their first (and only) semi final of a major cup competition, but as no trophy was presented, I thought of the Reading game.
However I note that when you last won a league title, 12537 turned up to watch Wigan v Barnsley on 3 May 2003 – I presume that was the day the trophy was presented. Or maybe it was against Oldham when the crowd was 12783.
I’ll also assume for the likes of BOTM that both the East and North stands were closed on police advice so that he can claim it was a full house.
Anyway, back to the present day – how many home fans will be there:
a. On Saturday.
b. At home to Man City.:roll:
… but as no trophy was presented, I thought of the Reading game.I don’t think you really thought at all, did you?
As for home fans a the next two games. Couldn’t care less. I’ll be there, that’s all that matters to me.
You, however, seem to be obsessed
Thugby had 13000 on one week
17000 for hubcap celebrations surely not bandwagon jumpers :shock: :shock:
I suspect if the game was the culmination of a season which saw Latics win the league and be presented with a trophy then ALL the seats would be sold.
What you seem to be saying is that despite enjoying your best night in about 15 years, your lot still can’t be @rsed filling all your seats.
Sun May 8 2005. Wigan v Reading. The most important game in Wigan’s history as a victory would secure promotion to the premiership.
Attendance 19662.
Empty seats – approx 5500.
Kind of blows your theory right out the window….[/quote]
If I remember rightly that game was played when the club (on police advice) still used the east Stand to house away supporters
If I also remember rightly all the home tickets sold out several days before the game coz I remember a few people on this board moaning that when they turned up to buy tickets they’d sold out – despite the club telling them for days that they needed to buy their tickets as soon as possibleAnyway, so the long & short of it is Mr Pies that despite that day having less available seats for the home fans for that Reading game Latics still managed to get a bigger crowd than the rugby’s game last week
So what exactly was your point?
I’d like someone who doesn’t come now to explain themselves.Rant over ..
This one always gets my goat so just let me tell you now sonny jim I have no need to “explain myself”
I started watching Latics part-time in 1987 & full-time a couple of years later. Up until the last few years I’d bust a gut to get to as many games as possible & not having a season ticket was unthinkable. In those 23 years I’ve been to around 70 odd football league grounds & can remember being one of about 20 at Hartlepool to watch us lose 4-3 (3-0 down after 10 minutes, pulled it back to 3-3 & then lost it in the last minute) & I sat in miles & miles of M6 traffic jams to arrive 30 minutes late at Hereford in 1994 in an away following of about 50 for Graham Barrow’s first game in charge. I’ve also travelled from Aberystwyth to Leek on a Friday afternoon to watch us draw 2-2 in an FA Cup game. I got laid off in February 1997 & didn’t get another job for 6 months but i didn’t miss a game in that period including having to beg, steal & borrow to be able to go to Torquay for the weekend for our promotion party!!
I could go on & on for hours with similar stores as I’m sure could many who you are now asking to “explain themselves” & I reckon the amount that I’ve spent doing this runs into thousands upon thousandsBut for the record I went to watch 2 Latics games last season (Hull in the cup & Arsenal in the league) & I’ll probably do a similar amount this season. The 2 other lads I used to go home & away with are doing the same & we have absolutely no need to explain ourselves to you or anybody else. Cut us open & we bleed blue & white but neither of us can get to as many games as we used to – through choice as much as circumstance
People have a million & one different reasons why they do or don’t go to games & its up to no-one else to judge those reasons. If they go great, if they don’t its their loss (or not judging from some of our performances over the last year or so!!!)
Well, as your question was so hypothetical I chose the closest thing the Latics have ever come to lifting a trophy. I suppose I could have quoted the 12181 that turned up to see the Latics against Arsenal in their first (and only) semi final of a major cup competition, but as no trophy was presented, I thought of the Reading game.However I note that when you last won a league title, 12537 turned up to watch Wigan v Barnsley on 3 May 2003 – I presume that was the day the trophy was presented. Or maybe it was against Oldham when the crowd was 12783.
I’ll also assume for the likes of BOTM that both the East and North stands were closed on police advice so that he can claim it was a full house.
Anyway, back to the present day – how many home fans will be there:
a. On Saturday.
b. At home to Man City.:roll:
I like how on Saturday evening, you was posting under this name. then with consummate ease you logged out and then a minute later it was dodi posting :roll:
Nobody cares about attendance! I don’t anyway!For someone who doesnt care you have made an awful lot of posts on this thread.
Ah well of bed now with my Ladies, will have good think about this empty seats issue in my sleep i have got some ideas like.
Perhaps if we play one half football then one Rugby that might get few more fans in?
Or put a show on then footy?
Have a disco one half then footy?
MMA or cage fighting one half then footy?
Miss Wigan parade one half then footy?
Family fun half such as traditional games sack race egg and spoon then footy?
And as extra income when play away let people camp in ground in tents or caravans. I love caravans me honest they are great for family holidays.
Few ideas there to think over hey. :roll:
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