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| Good Friday game at the DW will come closest.
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| Quote ="THEOriginalWire"i think last year both your game with saints and your game with us were near?? iirc we were above 22k and saints was 21+, if there was a way to increase those gates then you wouldn't be too far off!'"
Yeah, 21-22k plus. 24k+ gates are rare though.
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| Quote ="MattyB"Yeah, 21-22k plus. 24k+ gates are rare though.'"
very, but maybe its worth say first 1000 tickets 25% off? something to break that barrier!
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| How did you get on with the Quins/Heinz game wasn't that a high one ?
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| Quote ="THEOriginalWire"very, but maybe its worth say first 1000 tickets 25% off? something to break that barrier!'"
Just remembered - due to unallocated seating in League matches, 10% of the North & South Stand seating must remain empty. There is over a thousand seats to knock off straight away.
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| Quote ="Yed"How did you get on with the Quins/Heinz game wasn't that a high one ?'"
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| Quote ="19 Leagues"18k'"
See considering Quins don't bring anyone, marketing like that will bring full houses when most of the other clubs come, i really like IL if only he'd been in charge of the RFL instead of Quins or Wigan.
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| Quote ="Yed"See considering Quins don't bring anyone, marketing like that will bring full houses when most of the other clubs come, i really like IL if only he'd been in charge of the RFL instead of Quins or Wigan.'"
I doubt Heinz/Worthingtons would buy their loyal workers 5k tickets for most matches.
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| People have literally been brainwashed into thinking that being born in Wigan gives you an inbuilt gene making you want to leave the game early. Wigan are no different to any other club. Its just that Wigan get higher attendances so obviously the same percentage leaving at other clubs is bigger with Wigan.
Its now just become an urban myth up there with nobody in Manchester supports United. Have you ever worked or lived in Manchester? Everybody in the entire city seems to support United.
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| Quote ="Dougy"Have you ever worked or lived in Manchester? Everybody in the entire city seems to support United.'"
Apart from those who support City
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| Quote ="Dougy"People have literally been brainwashed into thinking that being born in Wigan gives you an inbuilt gene making you want to leave the game early. Wigan are no different to any other club. Its just that Wigan get higher attendances so obviously the same percentage leaving at other clubs is bigger with Wigan. '"
That is exactly what my brother has been saying ever since this topic kicked of ages ago. Its only noticed because Wigan have bigger crowds than most (all last season) other clubs and thus is a bigger percentage.
Jealousy or what, as most other clubs could never get close to us, attendance wise in a year of Sunday's let alone a month of
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| Well it took me over five minutes from hearing the final hooter to getting from my seat down to the top step of the concourse steps, so it couldn't have been THAT empty.
From my block in the South Stand, I literally saw less than fifty people get up and leave in the final few minutes of the game.....considering that section had over a thousand people in there you can't grumble.
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| Quote ="Dougy"People have literally been brainwashed into thinking that being born in Wigan gives you an inbuilt gene making you want to leave the game early. Wigan are no different to any other club. Its just that Wigan get higher attendances so obviously the same percentage leaving at other clubs is bigger with Wigan.
Its now just become an urban myth up there with nobody in Manchester supports United. Have you ever worked or lived in Manchester? Everybody in the entire city seems to support United.'"
True but I just make humour out of it. Like last year I tweeted "Hull fans are doing the Wigan walk" that night we spanked them 46-0.
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| A little ironic really for opposing fans to set standards for Wigan fans ..... take Wire for example .... the Warrington directors realised that the club has a small fan base so built a ground with a small capacity.
For the sake of the wider game I just wish fans from some of these other clubs would do a Wigan Walk and actually pay to go into a stadium. The game would then be in a far healthier state .... instead we have two clubs recently in admin., a club in our capital city which rarely draws a crowd above 5,ooo and a derby match between Saints (GF finalists) and Wire (Challenge Cup holders) which just broke into a five figure crowd.
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| Quote ="Wadski"As you say 'a small number'. That's not a Wigan Walk!'"
well 10% of 1000 is 100??????
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| Quote ="19 Leagues"Good Friday game at the DW will come closest.'"
That depends how saints are doing IMO. They won't fill the North stand. Would have sold out last year if they had brought the 6k they brought in 2005.
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| On countless occasions since the fifties I have experieced great pleasure from THE SAINTS STAMPEDE.
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| Personally, I think we're giving this Wigan Walk thing more credit than it deserves.
It was a myth invented in the correspondence pages of the RL press back in the 1980s, when jealous idiots - mainly in Yorkshire - sat in run-down stadia every week, surrounded by empty terraces, watching a set of useless, unfit pillocks tottering around on poorly maintained pitches (mind you, at least they had brass bands to entertain them at half time).
Every time they played Wigan, they were massacred. They also had to endure the taunts of a massive travelling army of cherry and white fans. They had absolutely nothing with which to oppose us, hence they made up LIES like the so-called 'Wigan Walk'. Unsurprisingly, given the equally parochial mentality of many of the game's administrators and those working in the press, the lie was taken up at semi-official level until it became a fully-fledged urban myth.
Wasn't it at Cardiff a few years ago, when the Sky commentators made great play of 'Wigan fans leaving early', when all their cameras had caught was ONE MAN in a cherry and white shirt, standing outside the stadium on his mobile phone? Pathetic.
I've seen fans charging out of grounds well before the final whistle, from Wilderspool to Thrum Hall to Headingley to Wheldon Road. I attended a match at St Helens in the mid/late 90s, when Wigan were so dominant that Saints fans were streaming out BEFORE half-time, and the Micron video of that game offered proof of this.
We shouldn't even give such nonsense the time of day.
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| That must be time we beat them 65-12 in thier backyard
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| Quote ="those were the days"That must be time we beat them 65-12 in thier backyard'"
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was. Every time Wigan got the ball, they seemed to score.
I remember Eddie Hemmings commenting on what an awesome clash it was between Connolly and Matautia. Yeah ... right.
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| Not sure how anybody could have walked off on Sunday. The lads deserved a full stadium applauding them for their efforts against a top top side. Saying that, st george deserved more credit for their part in what was a great game.
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| Quote ="Cruncher"Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was. Every time Wigan got the ball, they seemed to score.
I remember Eddie Hemmings commenting on what an awesome clash it was between Connolly and Matautia. Yeah ... right.'"
Come on now.
The warm up was pretty even.
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| My late grandmas brothers (Blans) played for Wigan in the 40's and 50's and she went to every game
to watch them play. she always left before the end and it was a standing joke with us for years because
quite often Wigan would be losing and she would get off home, and later that day find out that they had actually won.
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