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place in grand final between top 2 in the attendance table (albeit a pointless one inc teams that get 1k,2k 6k on). Anything less than 19k is a joke. I heard they’ve already used the “flooding @ saddle” excuse already. :huh: :huh:
Why can’t they just admit that, like 95% of the uk population, no one is interested or cares
sirdave, remind me how many showed up for the only major football semi final to ever be played at the DW?
The other 8500 that have attended in the average of over 16000 this season probably didnt turn up because it was a meaningless game.
If you look at cherry and white, there are endless posts on there saying what a crap system these playoffs are – how they reward mediocrity and create meaningless games.
Last nights game gave the winners a week off before they play a more “important” game – hardly the stuff to get 16000 out of their armchairs and down to the ground. Frankly I’m surprised that over 7000 bothered!
Unfortunately, the blinkered view of the RFL is that these play-offs work – the top sides probably dont want them in as much detail, but as the majority can only aspire to finish 6th, then the top 5 will always be outvoted.
Now Sir Dave – explain the logic in why so many are boycotting a trip to old trafford at £45 a ticket, when it only costs £5 to get there, yet will go to London, when the ticket is £20, but travel is £50.
IN REALITY –less crowd than wafc v wolverhampton few month ago,
less crowd than wafc v newcastle few month ago,But almost 2000 more than the visit of the Champions of Europe for the opening premier league fixture, and over 5000 more than for the visit of Stoke. Strip out the 5000 Chelsea fans and the 3000 Stoke fans and the home crowd was about 14000. Hardly something to shout from the rooftops about. And I see the Buy one, get one free offers have started already!
they lost,and….Wigan Warriors didnt have anything to play for as they’d wrapped the top spot up.
they have a player banned through assaulting someone!!!!!!!!as opposed to a player being banned for spitting in an opponents face.
they did the “wigan walk” before the presentation,That was the St Helens fans you cretin.
#RUGBYTOWN???????????Well, thats what Chairman Dave said on BBC 5L when interviewed after the Stoke Game – just before he broke into some song with Stuart Hall. Maybe you could put it down to a “senior moment” though
http://www.wiganwarriors.com/WContent.aspx?id=7095&type=news
and in the spirit of co-operation, I would like to put my thanks on record to DW for his support of Wigan Warriors, particularly over this fiasco.
Good luck in your last two games latics.
LOTP – Over & Out.
There is too much knee-jerking and twisting going on over on C&W even for an egg-chasing fan like me. Some people seem to have it as a foregone conclusion that the tie will be elsewhere – I’m ashamed to say that I get the feeling these pillocks want it to happen just to hate DW.
I’ll reserve judgement, but I’d be surprised if Wigan v Saints isnt at the DW on 12 May – as Landgate has said, there’s no rule to stop it.
In the summary of televised fixtures, there’s no mention of where Catalan v Warrington is being played either.
Blackburn & QPR will go down IMHO. Wigan will win at Ewood Park next week to send Blackburn down. Bolton will get enough points from WBA & Stoke to survive. QPR might win at the weekend, but they wont win their last game too.
38 points will be enough to stay up.
I noticed that too – always goes to ground when the Mags get beaten.
Well done on retaining (bar a disaster) your place in the top flight – maybe next season, your players might remember that the season starts in August, rather than March, and give you a boring last 6 games full of mid-table mediocrity!
I reckon 38 points will be the safety mark this season – as for who goes down with Wolves – my money is on the loser of Blackburn v Wigan + Aston Villa, who weren’t on the choices – I cant see them getting more than 1 point from their run-in.
Egg, you are talking in facts, and whilst you are technically correct, you’ll get little support from the regulars on here, who “need” someone to hate.
Sadly, no other football club in the area cares about them enough to hate them – even the PNE board was cheering a Wigan win on Monday, as it sent “Bast**d Rovers” (their words) closer to the CCC.
Until the fans of another football club can change their ethos & culture to that of hating Wigan Athletic, we will be left with the status quo of the 1000 or so fans from the 90s hating Wigan RLFC another 3000 hating them for “some reason that they are not quite sure of”, and the rest not really bothered about rugby, or followers of both sports (like yourself).
(Congratulations on the win on Monday by the way – now dont F*** it up in the next 4 games!)
Far from being cringe-worthy Yosser, it’s rivalry, and every club does it.Liverpool do it with Everton, United with City, Blackburn with Burnley etc. Unfortunately, our biggest rivals are a Rugby League team as there are no football teams – not even Bolton – who consider us worthy of their main focus of rivalry.
Bang on here fella. Wigan Warriors’ rivals are St Helens & Warrington, and rarely if ever do you see their message board even mention football, such is their lack of interest in football. Its sad that in such a footballing hotbed as the north west, the fans of Wigan Athletic cant find any football club’s fans that can be bothered to be their rivals, so they have to choose another sport.
How many Wigan RL fans would travel to London for a Monday night game and pay Arsenal prices for a ticket?Seeing as two hundred travelled all the way to the south of France at 5 days’ notice for a televised play-off fixture a couple of years ago, I would say a Monday night trip to London would be quite well attended.
Which is more home fans than turned up for the Wigan v Notts County FA Cup game.
Remind me of the scores in the two games?
Looking forward to seeing a packed visitors end at the Emirates tomorrow night….
Egg – You need to remember what the title of the thread is, who started it and why it was started, then ask your mates why “only” 13,000 home fans showed up for their biggest home game of the season, compared to “only” 13,500 home fans for a minority sport played by drug-fuelled cave dwellers representing a handful of pit villages along a dirt track that straddles two large northern counties.
34yrs a loser – It will be sub-10K, but I am confident more home fans will turn out than they did for the Wigan v Hull City FA Cup clash, or the Wigan v Notts County FA Cup clash. Possibly 6,000 will show up, which dwarfes either of those home crowds.
So all of the 3000 “missing” fans were U11? Or do they all come from a single-parent household where the parent couldnt go either?
These continual excuses for non-attendance are pretty sad, to be honest. Why not face up to the fact that there are about 12-13,000 core home fans, and any others are only there because they have been given a free ticket?