Re: 2015 Attendance Thread : Sat Feb 14, 2015 12:36 am  

It took us over 3 hours to get to Wigan tonight the M62 was a crawler lane all the way!

Re: 2015 Attendance Thread : Sat Feb 14, 2015 12:55 am  

14,100 at Headingley, IIRC that's about 300 down on last year too. Partly due to the rain and small away following.

As above, that's not a criticism of Widnes. I go to few away games myself for the same reason.

Re: 2015 Attendance Thread : Sat Feb 14, 2015 2:19 am  

Managed to get to the KC this year but there weren't many of us, I had to book time off work and leave at 4 just to get there at 7:45!

More would go if it wasn't on Friday nights all the time but I understand that's the FC fans' preferred day.

Re: 2015 Attendance Thread : Sat Feb 14, 2015 2:54 am  

Regarding the travelling thing and M62. Looking at the Thursday night fixtures they've tried to be as sensible as possible. First two weeks they've had teams from 'over there' playing each other (wid/wig & sal/sts) and the next one is Leeds/Hudds. Looking at more of them then quite a few all-West Yorkshire clashes and West (wrong) side of the Pennines clashes too. Some exceptions inevitably really like Wakey vs Wigan on a Thursday night at one point but on the whole not too bad.

Re: 2015 Attendance Thread : Sat Feb 14, 2015 8:24 am  

Why's the M62 an issue, I was under the impression with the amount of criticism Leigh get that fans travelled everywhere by Train.

Re: 2015 Attendance Thread : Sat Feb 14, 2015 9:43 am  

glow wrote:

Why's the M62 an issue, I was under the impression with the amount of criticism Leigh get that fans travelled everywhere by Train.

It has been known that Leigh station has been full to overflowing at times

Re: 2015 Attendance Thread : Sat Feb 14, 2015 11:19 am  

glow wrote:

Why's the M62 an issue, I was under the impression with the amount of criticism Leigh get that fans travelled everywhere by Train.

Re: 2015 Attendance Thread : Sat Feb 14, 2015 12:06 pm  

Well something of a pause after last weeks increases. Looks to be more of draw back this weekend.

So on average we are probably about even's from where we were last year.

Re: 2015 Attendance Thread : Sat Feb 14, 2015 1:12 pm  

meast wrote:

It took us over 3 hours to get to Wigan tonight the M62 was a crawler lane all the way!

over 3 hours

the M62 was a shocker lastnight but i did it in 1hr 25 from ainley top. set off at 6pm

Re: 2015 Attendance Thread : Sat Feb 14, 2015 5:25 pm  

we set about half 3 with the intention of getting to wigan early and getting some grub away from the ground, by the time we had crawled into wigan it was well past 6 so we decided to just to the red robin.
we must have hit the worst of the traffic as it was around 4.30-5 when we hit manchester