Are you going to get of your arris and go to the game?
Or just whinge and moan like you normally do!!!

Pleasantly surprised at the attendance tonight. What happened at the Wakefield game to attract 4000 less?

There’s been a huge presence of children and parents from amateur clubs in the South Stand in the last two games. They’ve given clubs tickets to sell to kids for next to nothing I believe and that’s really bumped the crowds up. In the short term it’s very sensible and fair play to the club for trying to get people back in.

Retro game for Leeds a week Wednesday with all tickets £10/£5 for adults/kids reflecting the price of a ticket in 1995.

It’s good work that. I know we want crowds to come back in numbers at full price but I think they’re going the right way here by firstly getting people in the ground for this season and hopefully they can then take some momentum in to the season ticket sales for 2022.

I agree 100%

But

The moaning has started already !!!!
You can guess why!!!

You knew it would. It’s basically like a season ticket holder saying ‘I’m happy to let the club wither as long as I get my value for money’.

i've just posted something similar on Warriors fans

Midweek game, no school following morning for the kids. Appreciate that some if not all adults are working and may need to get up for work etc, but ideal situation as we need to get people back into the ground. i would go as far as giving every local kid playing for a club a free ticket & £10 adult, and admit them all into the north stand and fill that with local rugby league playing kids and parents

There are plenty of floating fans out there, whether they have had a season ticket or not previously doesnt matter, just try to attract them back to the game and hopefully convert them into season ticket sales next season

I've managed to talk two of my mates into coming. They are exactly the type of casual fans that's the club are looking to attract.

Well done to the club. You won't please everyone, so it's all good.

I think it’s a great idea to be honest. Get all those nostalgic fans who’ve lost touch interested in coming back and bring along new fans with the cheap prices. A short term loss financially for a long term gain

Just about to book South Stand tickets for the Leeds game. Is it un allocated seating or will we actually be sat in the seat numbers we book? Just checking as there's a large group of us going and want to make sure we're together

It’s un-allocated mate

Belting

Thanks

For old times sake can I have me dad lift me over the turnstile?

The gang of four would have collectively hoisted you over back in the day. Things ain't what they used to be you know.

My old man still hasn’t forgiven me for the time I was 5 and he told the guy on the turnstile at Central Park I was 4 and I started shouting he was lying and I was 5



Bloke just said “you could kill kids, throw him over”.

Great days

Am discustard.

That’s tickled me that has. That’s a proper old grudge. My Dad still had it in for me for a while because at Wembley in 1998 I mis spelt Gary Connolly’s name on an old bed sheet, holding it proudly as the Wigan coach drove in and the look of utter bewilderment on Connollys face. He reckons I put him off



So 1998, I apologise. For context, I was barely 9 years old!

He wheels it out a couple of times a year that one



Fair old nightmare that 98 final. We missed the train home to put a top hat on it.

Is being sarcastic now part of the education system in Wigan.

or is just confined to those who think they are smart s?

Both. Ian Lenaghan introduced it mate.

No he didn't
The gang of 4 did

Uncle Mo started it with his "Theyre a lovely little club comment" and it started from there. One little throwaway comment like that and nearly 35 years later we all still at each other.
Jack Robinson joined in but went too far when he tried to sue the Wigan observer to try and fraud money for damages out of them for the non Neil Cowie transfer.
It was a joke phone call that got out of hand, you know "were selling Neil cowie to Leeds and its all off now because of your article so I want 100k off you" type thing.
He was being arcastic but then went through with it and before you know it everyone's in court all lawyered up. U mean, its not like we were drowning in debt etc at that point which ultimately led to the sale of central park etc that made him do it, honest (oops there i go with it now).
Sarcasm gone too far.

You would have thought Robinson would have learnt his lesson after the gene miles, Andy Gregory and John dorahay fiascos.

You know, thinking you can replace players/coaches with cheaper versions and still carry on winning.
Maybe thats where leneghan is going wrong?

Maybe he's listened to Ruddy Duck and thought yeah, let's do it like the gang of 4 did, replace great players with cheaper bargain buys? So maybe this is all Ruddy Ducks fault?



Oops, there i go again, sarcasm, or is it????

You missed out Whelan doing the same thing during his period of ownership while trying to make his beloved Latic's the biggest club in Wigan and the town of Wigan into a football town which included building a white elephant stadium with a too large a capacity of 25,000.

Yes, the club and the game of Rugby League should be worried when the Latics can draw in a crowd of 10,000 plus for their opening home game with no excuses being made by their supporters that the size of the crowd being affected by Covid19/Indian Variant which has been the case with some of our supporters about our attendances.

More to do with financial the state of the club and the level of the game in general.

Would we be the same as Latics if our club nearly went to the wall .We did when we thought we were going to be relegated .Football has a lot more publicity than RL its just come back off a European final with loads of hype.

As a Latics fan myself I don’t think it was that great a crowd tbh. The clubs nearly gone to the wall and is being rebuilt and there’s an excitement from the fans to see what is pretty much a full new team. The first game back comes at a time where all restrictions on crowd sizes have been lifted, unlike the rugby where they couldn’t just make tickets a free for all to start with. In those circumstances I think 10,200 was solid but not much more. Let’s put it this way, had the rugby club faced the same set of circumstances, I think there would’ve been 15,000+ on.

Ultimately that crowd at Latics tells us nothing about our own attendances.