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I really hope the Wigan v QPR game takes place on 27 Aug at 3pm so that the millions of worldwide fans can watch it on their TVs.
I wonder if there are any plans to change the kick-off time for the QPR (H) game on 27 Aug?
I guess we’ll find out in a couple of weeks.
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I suspect this is the point where someone will remind us all that if you travel to a rugby match as a home supporter from outside a 5 mile radius of the DW, then you shouldnt count towards the crowd figure.
So they should 6 miles down the road hardly jet lag job is it :roll: :roll: :roll:I’ll remember that statement for the forthcoming short trips to Bolton, Blackburn, Liverpool, Everton, Man City, Man Utd.
They’d be fools to display their colours in that s4!t hole, but they have (yet again) sold their entire ticket allocation, despite it being on TV. Remind me how many times you sold all the larger allocation of tickets for an away game last year.
Fact – The club didnt even have the confidence in their fans to ask for 2800 tickets at Stoke.
we didnt finish 4th bottom :oops: :oops: :oops: [link2:h9ypu1mu]THICKEGGCHASERGETSFACTSWRONGAGAIN,http://www.englishfootball.info/premierleague/table/%5B/link2:h9ypu1mu%5DI never said you did. However, can you honestly say you were not celebrating like there’s no tomorrow on 13 May 2007?
[link2:h9ypu1mu]THICKMODWITHFANCYGREENWRITINGGETSFACTSWRONGAGAIN,http://www.englishfootball.info/premierleague/table/index.php?season=2006-07%5B/link2:h9ypu1mu%5D
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Its a matter of opinion.
Some people would think your wife/girlfriend/boyfriend was pig ugly, but it doesnt make them right.
Darkest hour ? How do you explain this then ?http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/in … age_id=152
7,216 against Huddersfield/Sheffield ?
8,268 v Halifax ?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.
I suggest you have a look at the size of the crowds in late 2006 Griff – in what was unquestionably the clubs’s darkest hour since the switch to summer rugby:
23 Jun 06 – Warrington (16103)
7 Jul 06 – Wakefield (13686)
14 Jul 06 – Salford (13630)
4 Aug 06 – Catalan (12647)
18 Aug 06 -Huddersfield (14092)
1 Sep 06 – Bradford (15830)
15 Sep 06 – Hull (16554)Now, call me a cynic, but these crowds increased significantly from early in the season, and over the last 5 years have stayed pretty constant. The increase in crowds also co-incided with DW’s decision to massively hike the price of attending a premiership game in Wigan after your hugely successful 1st season.
I put it to you that your missing fans from 2005 had been alienated by DW and have never come back.
So, 13,000 home fans turn up to watch a minority sport against a pit village side.
Remind me how many home fans turned up to watch you play Blackpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Man City & Man Utd last year.
World’s most popular sport (except in Wigan). :lol:
They’ve fallen into a black hole.
Albeit a much smaller black hole than the one holding the 6,500 that didnt turn up last season to watch the Latics against Man Utd compared to a couple of years ago.
You’ll be lucky to get £6 million for him. The clubs that can afford him and his excessive wage demands aren’t desperate to pay silly money right now.
You’d be better off hanging onto him until January and take stock. If you are looking safe, then get whatever you can for him. However, if you are down the wrong end then keep him for the season and maybe he’ll single-handedly keep you up again – well worth losing him on a free if thats the case.
So London Crusaders, or whatever they’re called this season, only had 1200 of their own fans turn up to see them play the biggest Rugby League team in the world ?Yes. Its sad. Just like only 12,000 home fans turning up to watch Wigan play the worlds most famous football team. Or 10,000 turning out to watch them play the then current champions last August.
Has anyone asked if London deserves Super League Rugby yet ?If you are asking me then the answer is “No”. But despite their low crowds, they acquire enough points on the pitch to be above more established sides. I know there’s no promotion & relegation, but a side who finishes half-way up the league (in any sport) will not be jettisoned just because their crowds are p1$$ poor.
If usual standards is selling thousands of seats en-masse to a corporate then I feel for you. Uncle Dave will be no more soon, and how will you survive then with little or no income, huge expenditure and thousands of empty seats?
Sounds like good business to me – Its just a bigger version of “3 for £12”, “2 for £20” or “BOGOF”, which I seem to remember being offered.
Maybe they should follow the lead of the blue third and give them away – it even appears freebies were around for the West Ham game.
(No doubt the Mods will come along soon and erase all reference to the Latics ever having given out free tickets)
On the field, usual standards are still there – we won 38-6 yesterday to hit the top of the league, just in case you missed it.
And about 3,000 made the trip to London.
