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Post subject: Re: Rugby Fans are brought up better Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 2:36 pm
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M22 WOODHOUSE PARK wrote:
According to Chief Superintendent John Graves of greater manchester police Rugby fans are brought up better than football fans.He said: “Rugby is a friendly sport and I think that stems from the way that the fans are brought up.
Is he right?What a ridiculous thing to say. So, if you are well brought up you prefer rugby?
I have always thought the main difference between football and rugby fans is that rugby fans, on the whole, love the sport more than they love the club they support, while football fans, on the whole, love the club they support more than the game itself.
Football is far more tribal and covers the whole country. RL is primarily played between similar communities who are all based in one part of the country. In terms of its spread, it is no different to village cricket. There is less violence at village cricket than there is at RL matches (I have witnessed many incidents myself).
Maybe village cricket fans are brought up better?
How very true :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: can’t argue with that mr mut tag!
Leave him a be now, I think the little chubster has got his tail firmly stuck between his legs.
Great day of sport in prospect. First the best supported team in Wigan taking on arguably the form team in the EPL. Win lose or draw should be a fine feast of football.
Get home have a bit of tea and settle down to watch curling from Inverness city ice rink. B)From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!First the best supported team in Wigan taking on arguably the form team in the EPL.Fulham – 19284 – approx 500 away fans. 18784 home fans
Everton – 18759 – approx 5000 away fans. 13759 home fans
Dress it up whatever way you want, but the FACT is the best part of 5000 home supporters went AWOL today.
Care to explain where they were Fatty?
Leave him a be now, I think the little chubster has got his tail firmly stuck between his legs.
Great day of sport in prospect. First the best supported team in Wigan taking on arguably the form team in the EPL. Win lose or draw should be a fine feast of football.
Get home have a bit of tea and settle down to watch curling from Inverness city ice rink. B)The question is I presume when will the chubster crack up he must have at least three or four acounts he wi;; crack up in due course
No, the question was “Where did these 5,000 fans that showed up for the Fulham game go to yesterday”?
Face facts – you have about 13,500 fans who will turn up to a league game if they have to pay (either cash or via a ST). Of those, less than half will turn up when the game is not part of their ST allowance.
Pretty much the same as Wigan Warriors.
No, the question was “Where did these 5,000 fans that showed up for the Fulham game go to yesterday”?Face facts – you have about 13,500 fans who will turn up to a league game if they have to pay (either cash or via a ST). Of those, less than half will turn up when the game is not part of their ST allowance.
Pretty much the same as Wigan Warriors.
Yes but Wigan Worriers are a massive world name,the biggest rugby league club in the world who play in a `Rugby Town` (if you believe them dickheads who watch their games from the pub).
Whilst Wigan Athletic are a `little tinpot football team` from a rugby town!
Summert doesnt quite stack up ere!
First the best supported team in Wigan taking on arguably the form team in the EPL.
Fulham – 19284 – approx 500 away fans. 18784 home fans
Everton – 18759 – approx 5000 away fans. 13759 home fans
Dress it up whatever way you want, but the FACT is the best part of 5000 home supporters went AWOL today.
Care to explain where they were Fatty?[/quote]
I think you know the answer to this one unless you are even more moronic than many people here give you credit for. The answer is COST.
£30 a ticket for adults for one game and £20 for kids which is only £6 less than and the cost of a ticket to watch an ENTIRE SEASON of rugby league coupled with a restrictive database system means that it is difficult in both terms of access and affordability.
I’m not sure what leafy suburb you live in but you should read the local news and try and understand the hardship that Wiganers are suffering. Wigan Athletic fans are generally working class folk and youngsters who live in the town and are getting hit hard. Wigan Athletic do not spend a fortune on reaching out to the middle classes in Cheshire by advertising in between Corrie to drag posh folk in from out of town.
The Fulham game was lower category and had a two for one offer meaning that £10-£15 for an adult ticket meant there was a much stronger home take up due to better affordability for our young and growing support.
This is basic economics which you seem sadly unable to grasp.
It seems en vogue for you and your rugby chums to sneer at Latics for “only getting 18k on versus Man United” yet no credit given for 22k versus Wolves, West Brom. The bottom line is Wigan Athletic fans turn up to watch Wigan Athletic not the opposition, as and when it is affordable to do so.
We are not the team in Wigan who get 12k against the lesser teams and then 10,000 more come crawling out of the woodwork when it’s Saints or Warrington.
If tickets were continually priced at under £20 I think you’d find that the home support would increase gradually in line with the price reduction. As it stands £30 a ticket is hard to find with the likes of JJB, Rathbones, remploy all making redundancies off the back of hundreds of public sector job cutsand therefore many Wiganers are restricted to picking and choosing and attending those Category C games or games with special ticket offers.
Now that wasn’t too difficult to follow was it??
First the best supported team in Wigan taking on arguably the form team in the EPL.
Fulham – 19284 – approx 500 away fans. 18784 home fans
Everton – 18759 – approx 5000 away fans. 13759 home fans
Dress it up whatever way you want, but the FACT is the best part of 5000 home supporters went AWOL today.
Care to explain where they were Fatty?[/quote]
I think you know the answer to this one unless you are even more moronic than many people here give you credit for. The answer is COST.
£30 a ticket for adults for one game and £20 for kids which is only £6 less than and the cost of a ticket to watch an ENTIRE SEASON of rugby league coupled with a restrictive database system means that it is difficult in both terms of access and affordability.
I’m not sure what leafy suburb you live in but you should read the local news and try and understand the hardship that Wiganers are suffering. Wigan Athletic fans are generally working class folk and youngsters who live in the town and are getting hit hard. Wigan Athletic do not spend a fortune on reaching out to the middle classes in Cheshire by advertising in between Corrie to drag posh folk in from out of town.
The Fulham game was lower category and had a two for one offer meaning that £10-£15 for an adult ticket meant there was a much stronger home take up due to better affordability for our young and growing support.
This is basic economics which you seem sadly unable to grasp.
It seems en vogue for you and your rugby chums to sneer at Latics for “only getting 18k on versus Man United” yet no credit given for 22k versus Wolves, West Brom. The bottom line is Wigan Athletic fans turn up to watch Wigan Athletic not the opposition, as and when it is affordable to do so.
We are not the team in Wigan who get 12k against the lesser teams and then 10,000 more come crawling out of the woodwork when it’s Saints or Warrington.
If tickets were continually priced at under £20 I think you’d find that the home support would increase gradually in line with the price reduction. As it stands £30 a ticket is hard to find with the likes of JJB, Rathbones, remploy all making redundancies off the back of hundreds of public sector job cutsand therefore many Wiganers are restricted to picking and choosing and attending those Category C games or games with special ticket offers.
Now that wasn’t too difficult to follow was it??[/quote]
Sounds like a lot of contradictory bollocks to me
A lot of that applies to both teams. If all of you hate rugby so much and can’t bear to watch it etc etc then why do you all talk about it on a footy forum all the time. It is envy of the highest order. It is quite sad.
I wasn’t talking about rugby I was explaining why one Wigan Athletic crowd was higher than the other one and using the town’s sporting team as a comparison.
I didn’t start the thread, I was merely helping out our intellectually challenged friend with his whale sized chip on his shoulder.
Either way, I won’t be losing much sleep over the opinion of someone who is quite proud to announce that he doesn’t go to games yet still feels compelled to put the effort in to slag the manager off on a website.
I wasn’t talking about rugby I was explaining why one Wigan Athletic crowd was higher than the other one and using the town’s sporting team as a comparison.I didn’t start the thread, I was merely helping out our intellectually challenged friend with his whale sized chip on his shoulder.
Either way, I won’t be losing much sleep over the opinion of someone who is quite proud to announce that he doesn’t go to games yet still feels compelled to put the effort in to slag the manager off on a website.
Oh i do apologise. I wasn’t aware that it was mandatory to attend if you dare to wear the clubs colours. Unfortunately i have a life outside of football and it isn’t something i wish to spend the time or money on. I watch as much as i can of course but that stadium is lifeless and would depress me more if i had to watch footy in it again. I have been going for a long time and up until a couple of years ago hadn’t missed a home game in years. Been all over the country watching them too but i personally now prefer to watch on the tv. Doesn’t make me any less of a fan, I can do as i please, I still buy the tops, i still have the tattoo, I still buy the dvd’s and i still jump up and down when we score. How and where i do it is my business. I have as much right as anyone to air views. If tactics were wrong or referee, a bad miss etc etc i will say so. I don’t need permission to speak my mind.
So based on that very long winded theory, the DW will be packed to the rafters for soccer matches if tickets are either free or very very cheap.
So based on your theory of it being a cost issue, we can look forward to a 20,000+ crowd for the visit of Bradford, when tickets are just £10 for adults and £5 for concessions. With it being half-term, you cant even use the “school night” excuse not to be there!
a rugby league fan talking bout attendances :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: . stop trying to divert attention away from worryers failings in a so called rugby league town.12k in your biggest game of the year (3k leeds)care to explain that little gem. 7k for your big play off match ……..your last 2 games of the season attracted the same as ONE wafc match.care to explain that little gem????
Whilst your hear, over 5k empty seats at your big grand final yesterday. don’t use the old “big screen” excuse, you’ve already used that this season!
dying village game, that’s already a laughing stock to the nation. if i wanted to watch a “brutal” sport, i’d watch the UFC. If i wanted to watch an end to end high scoring extravaganza, i’d watch basketball
rugger “poor mans union” league doesn’t enter the equation. like it doesn’t for the majority of the worlds population…..
from a worryers fan site :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Would you follow Wigan Rugby Union?
~Yes of course i would and its about time we did that and left RL. We need to stop being so anti union its the future and sorry to say this its union we all will be watching in 10 years time or less. League is on its last legs.Its superior in all departments now on field and off.
How very true eh lotp……..care to post any facts/figures about that piece of damaging, honest, from the heart view then mr lotp????
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