Quote ="Roonaldo6"And each of those clubs over the years (although Wigan moreso this year than previous) have supplied a product to the paying support. That product been entertainment during match days.
The reason our paying support goes up and down is because we never actually deliver that product on a weekly basis. The amount of times the club have marketed something new to attract a big crowd only to see the team get walloped 46-10 or something will never keep those new fans. Over the past two years the quality and entertainment on the field has demised in a shocking way and thus our paying support still only sits around the 4-5000 mark at a push.'"
And yet when we got our first home play-off in decades, no-one turned up! Was this due to having a poor side - a side that finished 5th - or was it due to other factors, or even just lethargy?
The major factors in all this, IMO, is that the stadium holds us back - as a business as well as for licencing purposes. We need to get people into the habit of going to games and, again IMO, we have shown that the product on the pitch is just not enough whilst we remain at BV - and possibly not even then, but we have to believe that it will. In fact the reality is that we paid too much for the squad in 2009, got the result on the pitch (apart from the play-off game), but didn't get the result on the terraces. We then had to balance the books. The same has happened again in 2010 - except this time, circumstances have worked against us and the results have just fallen away.
We need 2 things to move forward - and 2 things only. One is new investors and the other is the ground. I honestly believe that we have a very bright future with them in place, but we have to ride this storm out first!
