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    At the utter bullshit like this.

    Looks like the Warriors PR team are back from their end of season break.

    Seriously, they should. Set the media straight once and for all. Obviously there are the know-nothings, unnamed (i cant think why!?!) know-nothings in this case, who wont ever change their spots…….

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    The pie capital of the world appears to savouring a resurgence in popularity of the famous ‘cherry red’ filling!

    When Wigan Athletic gained Premier League status, the appetite was for blue and white as football rode the crest of a wave.

    But the tide has again turned and all the ingredients for the balance of power to swing back to the oval-ball game are very much in place with Wigan Super League’s top dogs.

    The proof of the pudding will be seen in February when 24 hours after Manchester United’s visit to the DW Stadium, champions Wigan Warriors will stage the World Club challenge.

    A clash with the Aussie champs is expected to be a 25,000 sell-out – overshadowing United’s visit for a high profile Premier League clash.

    Plenty of Reds are likely to swell that crowd to a degree, but, generally, Latics are struggling to pull bumper crowds.

    And club bosses cannot do much more – Latics have the best deal in the Premier League for season tickets and they are a fine welcoming club. Yet an upturn in fortunes for the Warriors has clearly swung the balance of interest.

    Wigan is a town hit hard by recession and the people possibly only have enough cash to support one club.

    Warriors are already reporting season ticket sales ahead of the new season.

    And a sizeable crowd even stood out in the pouring rain for an open training session ahead of the grand final.

    It has been said many times that rugby league is a religion in Wigan and the Warriors fans certainly had their prayers answered last season.

    They hold the bragging rights – and have more bums on seats.

    Fortunately for Latics, last weekend’s derby with Bolton attracted the highest attendance of the season at the DW.

    Liverpool are next up so the coffers will be further boosted but an empty stand for the mid-week Carling Cup clash with Swansea confirmed Latics support levels are limited.

    Swansea brought more than 4,000 fans from the valleys – a display of support that must make the Latics envious.

    In Super League, clubs like Salford relish home games with Wigan Warriors because they know a huge crowd is guaranteed. Warriors fans have again come out of the woodwork and are marching as a force.

    Latics rely on their loyal die hards and still have plenty of support outside Wigan.

    Maybe former Latics supporter Barry Knowles, a Wigan lad, hit the nail on the head when he said possibly more people would watch Latics if more local lads were in the team.

    Latics have become a league of nations squad under Roberto Martinez whereas Wigan Warriors have again nurtured home grown heroes in plentiful supply

    http://menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening … _their_own

    edit:- cant believe it took 3 hours 59 minutes for this to get linked to from RLfans :o

    #49510
    AbramLaticAbramLatic
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      Shall we go through that article, bit by bit….no laughing in the corner fellow Blues.

      Clash with Aussie champs expected to be a sell-out…….swelled by neutral RL fans, no doubt (there’ll still be 3k+ empty seats)

      Warriors reporting record ST tickets…..their crowd/tickets sold info, generally lies firmly in the “fiction” section

      The open training session….it was ferkin free, if they’d charged £1 they would have had 10 people watching

      Swansea’s support….yes, superb effort, of course we’re all really jealous of a championship team getting 12,000 at home (around the top of CCC) bringing 4k for their cup final

      Salford are guaranteed a huge crowd……I bet the fixture had about 3,500 thousand on last season

      The Barry Knowles opinion….has anyone heard him say that or seen it quouted anywhere?

      Local lads v league of nations….yes we’d like to see local lads in our team but….Richards, Barrett etc, very local them lads

      2 final things about the article…RL fans coming out of the woodwork, well they’ve got that right. Whoever wrote it is so keen to big-up the eggmen has’t put their name to it

      #49511

      They’re right about the home grown players though.

      And while our manager ignores the likes of Moses and Watson, our very poor record at bringing through young English players in general will continue.

      #49512

      It doesnt even say they are reporting record season ticket sales just that “Warriors are already reporting season ticket sales”

      Well course they are, they went on sale 2 weeks ago. I dont really get that point at all.

      #49516

      How can you compare a regular league fixture (Latics v Man U) to the (not really the) World” Club Championship, aka M62 Corridor v SE Australia play-off? The latter is the equivalent of Latics playing River Plate in the (real) World Club Championship. You’d like to think it would be full to be honest, though as someone has already pointed out, the gate will have to be helped by plenty non-Wiganers.

      #49531

      Written by Neil Barker by the looks of it if you go onto the Rugby League homepage on there.

      Didnt he used to cover us for the M.E.N, and didnt his dad play for us ? I wonder who pisseded on his chips.

      #49533

      I can see the chubsters now reading it and nodding their heads, Then again your average tubby would only read the rugby evening post that’s wrapped around their chips!

      #49538
      tiniMartin
      Player

        Didn’t Fulham used to have crowds not as low as ours but quite low around18,000 average? I think once we start winning a few games, if we can maybe get to the final of a cup competition people will come out to watch us.

        #49639
        Anonymous
          I can see the chubsters now reading it and nodding their heads, Then again your average tubby would only read the rugby evening post that’s wrapped around their chips!

          the chubsters did indeed nod untill page two of the thread

          When this bombshell it them :mrgreen:

          Having said that – not been for a while but I reckon they are doing far, far better than the Rugby at getting the 10-20 age bracket into their games that we are. I’d bet the average age of a Wigan Warriors supporter is way higher than that of Latics. Perhaps the Rugby side should be worried that its support base is getting pretty old

          #49643
          Vat69Vat69
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            How can you compare a regular league fixture (Latics v Man U) to the (not really the) World” Club Championship, aka M62 Corridor v SE Australia play-off? The latter is the equivalent of Latics playing River Plate in the (real) World Club Championship. You’d like to think it would be full to be honest, though as someone has already pointed out, the gate will have to be helped by plenty non-Wiganers.

            Agree.

            You can bet your bottom dollar that the ground would be swarming with replicas from the likes of Keighley Cougars, Huddersfield, Bradford, etc. That’s what happens in Rugby League.
            However, wouldn’t it urinate on their chips just a bit if we got to the Carling Cup Final, which is scheduled for the same weekend, playing at Wembley in front of a 70,000+ crowd? (I think we’d get around 25,000 tickets for it)

            Our P.R. team could learn a lot from the rugby. As soon as their season was over, season tickets were being advertised and pushed. We struggled to get our replica kit out in time for our season. (For me, the new season kit should be released in June or July. Give the fans some chance to wear the bloody thing in what summer we have,or on their holidays, rather than releasing it in August. Before you know it, winters on the way and it hardly gets worn) Mind you, this kit is awful anyway.

            DO WE HAVE, a P.R. team? I’m not sure.

            #49659
            Having said that – not been for a while but I reckon they are doing far, far better than the Rugby at getting the 10-20 age bracket into their games that we are. I’d bet the average age of a Wigan Warriors supporter is way higher than that of Latics. Perhaps the Rugby side should be worried that its support base is getting pretty old

            Football will always attract the younger age bracket. It’s the sexy, high profile, fashionable sport, played globally by good looking athletes who date models and pop stars. It’s loved by the rich and famous, and is the subject of Hollywood movies. Of course young people are going to be drawn to it.

            Rugby League, no matter how it is dressed up, will always be the poor relation to Union, and is seen by most of the country as a tough (but entertaining) game played in Northern mining towns by men with quaint accents and names like Bernard and Amos.

            Ship a thousand people from overseas into Wigan each week, and see which sport they’d rather watch. Or maybe, as the writer of the original article suggests, Wigan is indeed turning back into an RL town. If so, what a secular, out of touch, fickle little town we live in.

            Or more likely, another few seasons at the top end of the football ladder, and we’ll have a decent young fanbase and the RL can clutch at their grubby little straws whilst staging their Interplanetary Rugby League Challenge Trophy at Leigh Sports Village.

            Amen brother

            #49661
            Anonymous

              The latics are now bearing fruit from the first wave of young supporters from the jumior latics launched in the late eighties earlier nineties it will take a few years yet to get to a fan base of 15 to 20 thousend currently on a core fan base of 10000 imo but one thing for sure we are in a better position now than we was in the late nineties

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