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I don’t know where you get this “myth” from. Your FA Cup win gave you worldwide exposure – nobody doubts that.
However, face facts. Your crowds are likely to average 25% less this season. You’re now a mid-table championship side who barely get a mention on 5 live and feature for about 30 seconds on BBC1 sometime around midnight – long after Hull City, Fulham, Crystal Palace and all those other well-known clubs.
Supporters of Wigan Warriors have often been accused of living in the past – isn’t that what you are doing now?
Now, why don’t you just forget about the rugby team in Wigan – rather like C&W have forgotten there is a soccerball team. I cant remember the last time there was a mention of you on there.
Strange how the article never mentions that last Sunday saw the lowest league attendance at the DW for over 7 years, despite it not being on TV, and being one of the warmest September afternoons for ages.
Come on it’ll be ace watching in the sunshine and it will solve the world cup problem.Are you sure about that? It seems that 6,000 former Latics fans found something else to do on a sunny day today.
My brother went to Slovenia recently. He flew to Venice and then drove, as the cost and timings didn’t work for him. He said it took about 3 hours to reach his destination from Venice airport.
Several low-cost airlines fly to Venice. Ryanair also fly from Stanstead to Trieste (even closer) on Wed 11, returning Friday 14 Dec for around £65 return.
Good luck in finding a cheap way!
A question and I really don’t know the answer to this…Have WAFC players paraded the FA Cup around the pitch at a Warriors home game ? Genuine question ! If the answer is yes then how well were they received and if not, why not ?The answer is no. The first Warriors home game after the FA Cup Final was 28 Jun, by which time the manager and 7 of your cup final squad had left the club. I guess the remaining players were on their summer holidays by then.
To have the likes of Owen Coil, James Peach and Grant Halt parading the FA Cup round the DW now would look a little silly, seeing as they had no involvement.
However, I think it would be great if both trophies were on display as the teams came out on Friday – if nothing else, it would give the city of Hull something to aspire to!
The rugby play at home Friday night is what he was on about and the weather forecast is pi$$ing down so them fork men have there work cut outNot really. Its almost a week until Wigan play Leeds.
Mutty reckons its Friday neet. He said something about when the teams come out on Friday!Yes. Get yourself down on Friday. Kick-offs 8pm.
Rugby League is a minority sport in Wigan these days,whether you like it or not.Nobody disagrees with you. Football is definately the live sport most watched by the population of Wigan.
But a fair percentage of them choose to watch other clubs than Wigan Athletic. Even more so now you are hosting Doncaster & Yeovil rather than Man Utd and Liverpool.
did the Latics parade the FA Cup around the DW Stadium at half time at their game after our FA Cup victory.
If so was the reception as good for the Latics as it was for them?The first home rugby fixture after the FA Cup final was 28 June, so no they didnt. The manager had quit by then and those players that hadnt followed him out of the door would have been on holiday.
Even if they did, it wouldnt be the same having Owen Coyle and all the new signings parading a trophy that some other bunch of players won.
That said, I think it would be a great idea to have both trophies on display as the teams come out on Friday.
our average currently stands at 14 300 ish a raise of 3000 on the average we had last time we was in this division with other more big fixtures to come i’m sure we will manage to stay at that level or maybe increase it5 days ago you said:
I am confident that the average will be around 16000 this seasonSo which do you think it will be – 14300 or 16000?
1700 represents over 10% less – I hope you are not responsible for producing the financial plan wherever you work!
I look at this way our previous record attendance against Doncaster was 5834 tonight it was 14374 a significant increase one may say
I look forward to this rationale come Sunday as to how you will justify a “significant increase”.
When Wigan and Middlesborough last played the crowd was 16806.[/quote]
14333 – I await your “positive spin” on this one with baited breath….
Mutty’s agenda always revolves around a morbid fascination with attendances. I’d like any random Latics fan to explain why he loathes all Wigan RL and wouldn’t want them to win at Wembley (just a couple of sentences will do, nothing too taxing). Curious, that’s all. Ta :)Something to do with the then chairman of Wigan RLFC not allowing Latics to play Liverpool at Central Park sometime in the mid-late-80s. Central Park didn’t have segregation and the game concerned was taking not long after rioting Liverpool fans had caused several deaths at a European Cup final.
I don’t have a fascination with attendances – I only bring the subject up when someone here pokes fun at a rugby attendance. For supporters of a football club who claim to not care about their attendances, it seems to happen an awful lot though!
You are right – it was a crap game. Just as the FA Cup Final was a crap game. And there were empty seats, just as there were in May.
However the facts are that Wigan now have two of the oldest sporting knock-out trophies in their possession – something never done before and probably wont ever happen again.
Well done Wigan!
Correct, but nobody gives a fuck about one of them.[/quote]
Course they don’t. Your crowd last Tuesday and the lack of press coverage shows that.
