Quote ="jaybs"What a load of whining rubbish, as I have said on the Quins Site, I have paid £24 for a stand seat at Knowsley Road and then have to fight to see the try line and a dirty window at the end of the stand, that I don't think has ever been cleaned does not help!
I agree it is wrong to not offer a ticket for the League game only, but there is not that much difference in price, sad to read though the parochial sad shouts of I hope Quins fold! - every club has it's problems, 8,000 plus at Knowsley Road while just down the road the same night in Wigan 15,000 plus and it is a smaller town, so don't preach to other clubs, I live in the Borough, can you tell me when you last saw a poster advertising a Saints game?'"
It was your choice to pay £24 for a seat. You could have paid £18 to stand or even a couple of pounds less if you had booked tickets in advance.
St Helens has a population of just over 100,000 while the Wigan borough has just over 305,000. Proportionally you would expect them to get a bigger attendance, but as a % of population, St Helens are better supported (10% as opposed to 5%).
Our average attendance last season was well in excess of 10,000, one of the criteria for Franchise I believe, and has steadily increased over the last 5 years.
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