Our average attendance last year was one of the highest we have had, even including the glory years, so the amount of people watching Wigan isnt a concern. Grand finals always attract way more supporters than other games. A rough estimate was that we took 30000? to old trafford, over 20000 have been sold so far for Sunday, granted not all from Wigan. Maybe some dont want to pay or cant, for a ticket that is in some areas, nearly twice the price they normally are at the DW. Though i would be more than willing to pay for a WCC ticket every season

Your cup form is good, you should easily replicate that in the league, but you never do! Why can't you follow that up now, in arguably a bigger competition? That's surely a worry isn't it?

You took 30k to Wembley but had less than 10K HOME fans in the ground yesterday...thats surely a worry isnt it?

They would have had a lot less than 10,000 home fans because they were playing Hull K.R.

They usually bring half a million.

well well, seems ive caused a stir on here purely by sharing my opinion on why the RFL haven't sold enough!


as for this, we finished third in the league last year, and had a poor run in the playoffs, to even think you had a point there is laughable!


No

Next????

im not disputing that fella, i agree with what your saying, honestly! if only the rest of your fans had as much sense as you do!



heres the answer to your question.....


yesterday was a home game after a very poor opener, a lot of our "glory hunter" fans wont have bothered! simple as!

id be more fearful that your glory hunters arent turning up to see a game of such great magnitude rather than ours not turning up to see HKR!

This isn't the RFL's fault mate. Seventeen years since our last WCC appearance and we couldn't sell out. Think you should be looking closer to home if you really want to blame someone.

I disagree in the sense that 7:15pm on a Sunday Night is a flap time to be playing such a big game. It is the worst slot they could have picked. Saturday Night 6pm ish and I reckon this game would have already be pretty much sold out already. Finishing about 9:15pm neutrals have to get back to Yorkshire, Cumbria wherever near to 11pm with work next day! It's idiotic!

Thats what we get for selling our soul to the devil but saying that all previous WCC have taken place at night

Would that not be down to Sky though? One mate who is a season ticket holder is unable to go as he'd have to leave five minutes before the end to get to work.
Will that many really be coming from Cumbria? It's a sad day when you're relying on Yerkshiremen


Agree 100% that a Saturday evening kick off would have been ideal but as I've said I'd say that wasn't the RFL's decision.
Managed to get the Monday of work so I'll be making the trip over from Catalonia.

Well in fairness to the RFL they were stuffed by Latics playing on the Saturday but did it have to be so much set in stone that it got played this weekend?

Bang on. I reckon any reasonable kick off time on a Saturday would of sold out by now. Friday night would have probably sold better too imo.

Probably not many will come from Cumbria because it's on a Sunday. But if it was played on a Saturday I think far more neutrals would flood here. I mean I remember going to Leeds v Canterbury on a Friday Night at Elland Road in 2005 and stayed over in Leeds City Centre, I certainly wouldn't have done that on a Sunday Night!

We weren't the ones waving a 'Challenge Cup' flag at Cardiff.
We weren't the ones singing 'Wem-ber-ley, Wem-ber-ley' also at Cardiff for most of our match, even though it was a non Challenge Cup tie.

cos you didnt win at wembley last year,


are you trying to tell me that you didnt sing about being champions??? and you have that flag with the challenge cups on at every home match! so dont come like you dont do it too!

Why is anyone still bartering with this Wire and ruining the thread?

just like all the rest of them...booooooooooooring!

Why sing Wemberley at a Round 1 Super League game.







Like I said earlier on another thread. This is World Club Challenge week, thanks for your interest but Wire fans need not be interested in what Wigan are doing,

But because WE ARE WIGAN they are interested in what we are doing. They will all be tuned into the tv on Sunday to watch us, once again, challenge for the title of world champions

Last three in Leeds at the same time on a Sunday have had 33k, 32k and 28k there so we need to look a little closer to home for me. The fact we can't sell it out when it's even on our home ground is poor for the so called "best fans in the world". The last time a club was allowed to play it on their home turf there were 37k on - Wigan 1987.

THANK YOU!

no well be tuning it to see ST george, dont forget you arent playing yourselves, as much as youd love to do that every week!

Why not have this thread/comments after sunday,when we know the attendance!The amount of time wasted arguing about things that haven't happened yet is unbelievable.

For what? Doing in two lines what you couldn't do in 10 pages of tediously trying?

We didn't have to pay Double for our regular spot, you could pay on the day and we don't live in a city of a Million people (Not sure if there was a Recession in 1987 so I won't throw that into the pot?).

Maybe we should have done an RFL and held at a small stadium like Wire and got a Lovely Sell out for the cameras and patted ourselves on the back that we "Sold Out"?

As for being "Piss Poor", IMO you couldn't be wider off the mark.

Leeds = CITY
Wigan = Town

IMO Wigan have done their fair share of promotion for this game.. Can the same be said for both Sky and the RFL??

Not IMO.