Im just wondering why have they moved it from the north to the south stand ?

Nando's, oh aye!

The South Stand is a better venue as far as seating and stage facilities are concerned.

Eh? I've been to every fans forum and all have been under the South Stand...?? (Other than the first one at Deanery High School)

Tomorrows event should have been in the North and then was changed to the Suth yesterday.

I think he's asking why was it changed yesterday for Wednesdays event?

JS,
I can't be there tomorrow. If possible can you ask the question re scouting for players outside RL as I mentioned on page one of this thread.
Cheers.

I will add it too my afore mentioned 10 questions regarding Variety Packs of Cereals!

Ah reet, cheers. Thought I was going mad!

Phil

honestly....i was in the lotto office when he was , and Keith Mills was calling him BILL.
Keith knows everyone who goes in there by their first name, so either
1. its BILL
or
2, Keith called him that to keep from PHSL

Lets call it evens and leave it at Phil........its funnier

Well it depends doesn't it. If the communication coming form the club is sanitized and scripted it just looks like they are treating the fans better but if they have their own agenda and stick to it then the fans forum is a PR exercise which there is nothing wrong with provided you recognise it for what it is.

That said I think the club will listen where it think it is "safe" to do so. For example opinions were asked for about the new club web site content but try and have a searching discussion about the Hock situation and I doubt you would get very far. All the stuff you really want to know isn't really for public consumption now just as it wasn't decades ago. The difference is within the marketing side IMO where the club is open to suggestions but the nitty gritty stuff like contracts and signings are just as off limits now as they ever were except when spoken about in general trams where the obvious gets stated (we will sign a top class player if we can fit him under the cap just about sums it up).

As to what went on decades ago there wasn't the Internet and it really was a different era with different expectations. That said whenever I bothered to contact Mo over anything I always got a reply. We also had people like West working behind the scenes before he became coach and he could not do enough to help so it wasn't all bad. It just wasn't as professionally run in terms of the marketing but of course the first steps toward the modern Super League "experience" we have now that raises our expectations of the club off field as well as on field and all that this entails were instigated by Mo.

Dave

I'd like to know if there are plans to market the club in Liverpool and other surrounding big cities. It's not hard to see that Liverpool has a big appitite for sport, admittedly mostly of the round ball type, but still surely this can be exploited. I mean, I've had a season ticket now for the past 5 years so surely there must be other scousers who are willing to give RL a try but have never really known its existance despite it being on their doorstep. Plus, I just hope we get the extra support before those over the hill do

Very good point. I think this tends to get neglected because of the prevelence of the round ball game but, as you say, many people are interested in more than one sport! Despite it's popularity football isn't for everyone anyway and there must be loads of people for whom SL would be their first sport if they got to experience it.

Could somebody who goes tonight please post the salient points after the forum. IIRC at the last forum someone produced very good summary (Berts medal?)

Thanks in advance.

The decades I'm writing about are pre Mo's days.

As for a management with an agenda, of course they have an agenda, you can't run a business without one.
Questions about signings and discussion about players and their contracts then confidentiality comes into it. Contracts are of course contracts of employment. It's right that they not be discussed at Forums.

The whole way the club is run is massively different than it was. For the better too. I like the forums but don't expect too much "inside" info as then it wouldn't be inside but the opposite.

I agree that they are all part of the marketing package being run by IL and the club. That's what makes Wigan RL the best marketed club in SL by a very long way.

Just a thought but the Wigan club may have already been thinking about this:

Seeing as we recently linked up with the Coventry Bears, maybe for one of the games this season Wigan can offer all season ticket holders of the Bears a discounted match ticket and travel package giving them a chance to showcase the Super League in Wigan.

Im just brainstorming really, but it would be a good way of getting some new fans to the game and could be a way of widening Wigan's fanbase even further.

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Season tickets? Do Coventry Bears supporters even have to pay admission to watch games?

Actually Scrap that...

Do Coventry Bears have supporters?

I dont know to be honest, I cant imagine they would have many season ticket holders if thats the case. It was just an idea, it could be open to all fans. Point I was trying to make was that it would be a good idea to try and get more fans from the Midlands, whilst they have this link with the Bears.

Im sure something will happen with kids who play rugby league down here too, as in a day trip to a Wigan game and tour of the stadium.

Coventry IMO is one of the best places to market RL in the Midlands.

Have I missed something?

at this rate we might get snowed in there tonight

Whelans probably got the place stocked up with air beds, blankets and food parcels just incase we do get snowed in.........................he'll be able to sell them at extorionate rates then

New Thread for post fans forum discussion.

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Well if you are I am not being funny but I see even less point in the comparison. It was a different era with different expectations.

IMO Wigan have always been a progressive club. We have suffered the odd blip every now and again but if you look back over our history for the majority of it we have been very innovative in various ways often leading the way forward.

We may well be about to do that again under IL but I don't think it's fair to slag off what happened before based on what is going on now. We should be pleased that we look like a modern club up with the expectations of the current generation(s) of fans (and fans forums are part of that) but decades ago this sort of thing just wasn't on the agenda and the fact the club was a run as it was just wasn't different than any other club at the time.

Dave