Quote ="Bilko"The atmosphere at home games has been poor for a long while. To be frank, I think since a few got banned last year for the incident at Huddersfield. It was never great to be fair but their doesn't seem to be any leading voices these days. I think its generally the late teens/early 20s bracket that take up the singing mantra. We perhaps are lacking in getting this age group through the gate?
Doing the radio, in which we get the atmosphere in our headsets via the effects mic, I hear the atmosphere to greater effect and every big home game (Huddersfield x2, Leeds League Match late last year) I've done recently has sounded the same. Soon as the opposition takes a lead you can almost feel the hearts of every Wigan fan in the stadium sink. Its like the whole place gives up and awaits the inevitable big game defeat. Everything falls flat and I think it hinders the team badly. It puts weight on the shoulders of our team and lifts the opposition every time.
I wrote in the Evening post last month [url=http://wigan.rlfans.com/news.php?readmore=4148(click)[/url about how we haven't beaten a Leeds, Huddersfield, St Helens or Warrington at home in the regular season in a night match since June 2011. A long, long time now.
Even with day games thrown in we have a record of 6 wins out of 18 against those four sides at the DW since Madge arrived in 2010 and thats despite two title succession. So it isn't just a recent problem. One thing contributes to the other I suppose.'"
We beat Leeds at home in Feb 2012.
Not winning at home when playing the big teams isn't necessarily the problem. The problem is having no current area where 'singers' are likely to gather. If there was a definite area which fans bought into i'm sure the atmosphere would improve. The club tried to designate an area but this doesn't seem to have worked which suggests we need something more organic and fan led.
