Attendance 3700 for a one club genuine quality player.
Both teams with near full strength line ups.
What’s happening at Wigan people ?

It's a preseason friendly in freezing temperatures in the middle of January on a Sunday afternoon.

You’ve already asked the question on another thread, why open a new one, are you wanting some brownie points?

I think that years of inter breeding and the death of whippet racing has dislodged our ability to be think and act properly. Please send over a few thousand of your lads to impregnate our girls and get us back thankfully onto the straight and narrow road.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I look forward to more our your insightful comments and your impeccable use of the English grammar

It's worth remembering that some families struggle throughout January after the expense of Christmas & New Year (still a good ten days before some people get paid again).

I was lucky to be one of the 3,700 there BTW.

The standard of opposition over recent years and lack of away support also contributed.

After seeing pictures of the crowd, I cannot understand how the crowd could be as low as 3,700 when it looked like the 6,000 plus West Stand was over two thirds full.

Did not stop those who made the effort or even those shopping in the town centre.

And it was not just a friendly, but a testimonial for one of the loyal players of the club.

As for freezing temperatures, nothing compared to the many matches when games were played in the Winter, even before, during and after Christmas.

Hate to think how many today would have coped with the inclement weather of those hard days!

No doubt many many of the crowd had the same problems, but they made the effort.

Wow!

I've no problem with people stirring the shoite but when they do they should expect that some of the shoite if they stir frantically will splash into their eye.

I thought this. There was at least 4,500 in that stand yesterday looking at the photos.

It is not the first time that attendances for non season ticket games have had a lower attendance figure announced than what appeared to be actually in the Stadium.

Why give out lower attendance figures which only make the support of the club look poorer than what it might be at a game?

We were there and estimated well in excess of 5,000.

I don't know why you're all bothering. It's a Leeds fan trying to get one-up.

Time was when they used to measure their superiority over us by how many more cups they'd collected. These days they must cut their cloth accordingly.

Only the same as giving out crowds of 10,000+ on a Thursday night when there's about 6 on

If the seats have been sold, the seats have been sold. No point wishing it was otherwise.

They only started getting decent crowds when Leeds United went to pot and got relegated to the championship,hopefully they will go back to the football when they get promoted back to the premier league

Leeds Rhinos, like Wigan and other clubs like Hull FC & HKR, St Helens, Wakefield Trinity etc had big attendances at the time that Leeds United were a top club in the then first division of football.

I'd rather have lost of people watching rugby rather than football. The last thing we need is any RL club losing fans.

I was not having a stab at he Wigan support by the way.
I think the Wigan supporters unlike most other teams fans tell it how it is and are decent rugby league supporters.
My point was that it seemed a very small crowd for such very good loyal Wigan player against an almost full strength leeds team a lot of the Wigan better players leave for more money.
Then come back when they find out that the grass is not greener.
Maybe the game was not marketed very well.

i'm sure Liverpool v Man United had an effect. but yeah, the stand seemed pretty full.

If indeed, Liverpool v Manchester had any effect on the game, it is no excuse for non attendance in this age of being able to record games on Sky and the BBC.

Crowds these days are also not helped by clubs themselves doing LIVE screening of games on their own TV system, like that of Liam Farrell's Testimonial. which did not help ticket and programme sales.

Why attend a game if you can watch it live on TV is the norm for many now!

That is a good point. Live screening of a testimonial match must have some effect on the attendance and therefore depriving the player of receipts he would normally receive. I wonder if the club donate some of the money they take from tv subscriptions for the game?

Especially streaming a home game