You couldnt make it up!

Hardly a dark hour when that season, they won 24 games out of 28 and finished top of the league. In 2000, gates of 10,000+ were still quite rare. The sale of Central Park and the switch to summer rugby alienated quite a few Wiganers.

You completely missed the point, as usual. Or chose to ignore it. Warrior’s crowds increased significantly over the latter half of 2006, when they were facing relegation. At the very same time, Whelan hiked the cost of watching Premiership football to £35 a ticket. People voted with their feet, turning their back on an over-hyped, over-priced product played by foreign merceneries (remember Camara & Chimbonda?). They have not been seen at a football match in Wigan since.

I doubt next season will be any different – sub 15K crowds, with only one stand full being the norm. Enjoy your premiership season where success is defined as finishing 4th bottom.[/quote]

we didnt finish 4th bottom :oops: :oops: :oops:

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He isn’t saying we did. He’s saying we would deem that a success as it keeps us up and we would be happy with that.

The 40% of fans thing on the website is from a questionnaire that was online and sent to ticket holders (they have to be fans that attend games already of course to get the second one). Not every fan will have completed this. I didn’t, my parents didn’t and nor did anyone I attend home games with who all hail from Wigan. Not exactly a true report really. BTW – did you know that 66% of statistics are made up on the spot?

On a lighter note, how come when Wigan RL advertise outside the town and bring in extra fans this way it’s seen on here as a bad thing and yet we have threads congratulating the WAFC marketing team for advertising in and around Preston?

Both sides average around the same number of home fans and for a smallish town with two teams in the top division of their relative sport that’s something to be proud of. I didn’t exactly get my wish last year, but hopefully on August 13th I will when a big win over Norwich will see WIGAN occupy top spots in both the Premier League and Super League. I await the day the road signs are changed to read ‘WELCOME TO WIGAN – HOME OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE AND SUPER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS’

I never said you did. However, can you honestly say you were not celebrating like there’s no tomorrow on 13 May 2007?

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:roll:

Hardly a dark hour when that season, they won 24 games out of 28 and finished top of the league. In 2000, gates of 10,000+ were still quite rare. The sale of Central Park and the switch to summer rugby alienated quite a few Wiganers.

You completely missed the point, as usual. Or chose to ignore it. Warrior’s crowds increased significantly over the latter half of 2006, when they were facing relegation. At the very same time, Whelan hiked the cost of watching Premiership football to £35 a ticket. People voted with their feet, turning their back on an over-hyped, over-priced product played by foreign merceneries (remember Camara & Chimbonda?). They have not been seen at a football match in Wigan since.

I doubt next season will be any different – sub 15K crowds, with only one stand full being the norm. Enjoy your premiership season where success is defined as finishing 4th bottom.[/quote]

I didnt miss the point or ignore it, I simply responded by blowing your very insular little theory out of the water

Which is the more reliable data ? The data you provided, over a 3 month period, or the data I provided over a SIX YEAR PERIOD. Here it is again:

1977 – 4699
1978 – 5544
1979 – 4505
1980 – 4665
1981 – 4744
1982 – 5497

I think you’ll find that over a short term 90% of the fans purchase their season tickets at the beginning of the year, hence why Derby still continued to get 30k every week despite getting barely 13pts. Dare I say as well that in the short-term, fans would rally round a relegation battle. In case you havent noticed Wigan Athletic’s average was considerably better from Feb – March 2011 than it was for the 6 months prior

Unfortunately for you, the above is irrefutable evidence that when Wigan Rugby suffered a sustained period of mediocrity and ultimately relegation, the fans deserted in their droves. This is fact, you can see it above, everyone can see it and unless you accept this as fact then there is really no point in us continuing

Wigan Athletic, despite fighting relegation for most of the past six years have maintained an average of 16.7k-20k whereas when Wigan Rugby where faced with a sustained period of fighting relegation from the top flight their crowds deserted them plummeting to under 5k

These are all facts, please stop arguing & claiming I’ve missed the point. I have absolutely got the point and rammed it home to you in language that you can understand perfectly. You are wrong and everyone can see it. Now go away, youre just making an even bigger fool out of yourself.

Yet the fact remains, egg chasing is sh*t.

Support a decent sport.

I do mate. The Wigan Warrington game on Sat will far surpass any other game in any sport this year imo.[/quote]

Big statement Egg mon as it’s only July

Indeed some wench got a biffing last time :shock: