It's a shame that the South Stand singers don't sit in the back-middle of the stand like they used to do. Would be much easier to get WIGAN songs going than being tucked in the corner.

Exactly what I was going to say! Too difficult to get an atmosphere going from that corner, would be much better in the middle and also start songs that the majority of supporters know too! There were some cracking atmospheres in the early years of the Brigantes e.g. Saints away (at Widnes) in the playoffs, Saints Good Friday at home 2011 (farrell last minute try). The atmosphere is very poor these days, even in big games like Wire at home this year. I know S2 is a dedicated section to the Brigantes but maybe an idea to move to the middle, or at least some of them?

I know that the 'Wigan Way' flag was taken at the end of last season and is still out somewhere as were a few others that were stuck up on the walls of the South Stand. There used to be around 28 in the bag and we would pick 21/22 but there only seems to be around 20 nowadays and so we put about 15/16 up (usually 15 for symetry purposes)
which is the most we can realistically do with the timescale we tend to have and the fact that a large number of them need repairs/replacement ropes that we haven't had the time to sort out due to a number of things.

As JS put it, we're building it up for the business end of the season

I'm not being sour here, you deserved the win and all that, but there was no atmosphere from the Wigan fans today. I know people have been complaining about it in previous games, but I thought Wigan fans'd find their voices for today.

We were busy, albeit possibly temporarily, finding the top of the table...

Looks semi permanent at the moment....

Go Salford!!!!

Well done Salford!

Today has made a right mess of my predictions for the predictions competition

That's the trouble with these boring, one-sided games...



Seriously, though, I tend to agree with whoever it was that blamed the stadium. The acoustics are poor, for one thing - the atmosphere in the South was great, but I know from previous years in the East that the sound doesn't travel well outside the stand. All-seating doesn't help any, either.

I sit in different stands from game to game. I was sat in the West not far from the North (Saints) stand. I know you were making a lot of noise but even as close as I was it was not that loud. Sadly, the stupid infantile sang that I could hear reminded me of the worst of our young supporters. Noise does not travel around the DW. WWhen Wigan were singing / chanting you could not hear clearly and neither could you when Saints fans were singing. Why do Saints fans have to lower themselves to pathetic scummy songs / chants when they have a fantastic range of chants / songs. 'Oh when the Saint's' is not far behind 'Old Faithful' as a chant but you spent most of the 80 minutes opting for 'your mum, your dad' garbage.

P.S Do you remember when Saints were dominant in SL and Wigan fans would come on forums saying at least we out sang them. Desparate

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Some of us Saints supporters also cringe when our singers reel off their ensemble of scummy songs. It won't get any better when on the train in we had 10 year old kids copying the songs and their parents just laughed.

100% true. People think it's a crap excuse but it's true, you can have 100 fans in the North and they sound louder than the South because of the roof.

Tragic isn't it. Same with the Brigantes, that got hijacked by feral no marks. It's not like 'Oh when the Saints' is difficult to learn and it still sounds fantastic.

They were probably laughing at the fact it makes no sense whatsoever

Had to laugh at the banner they had showing the Latics logo and singing Wigan's turning blue.

Not bad them Saints fans really



What was the 'Pie Eaters' banner about? Is that meant to upset us?

its called SCOUSE sense of humour

oh i forgot they're not really scousers are they



perhaps they should worry more about the recent signings they've made, and how the team is in decline compared to the days of Wellens, Sculthorpe, Long, Cunningham etc etc, and not about something that most of us really arent bothered about

that was their attempt at some flags

one nicked from somewhere on the way into Wigan, and one that made me cry my heart out because it was so offensive

Saints fans don't need drums and flags.















A half back wouldn't go amiss though...

The answer then must be a new roof, or better still if Saints still have the one that blew off at there place they could let us have that.

We can't, something to do with the plastic roof allowing sunlight into the stadium and onto the pitch.

Why people continue to perpetuate and believe this utter bollox I will never understand.

The answer then is to move the away fans into the south stand then

That suggestion is pure genius, problem solved.